Homebrew dev hoopla with StrmnNrmn: a Daedalus R9 FAQ |
Ever since StrmnNrmn pulled a mighty comeback and revealed an agonizingly teaser of a changelog for the R9 version of his homebrew N64 emulator Daedalus, everyone in the homebrew scene has been talking about it. You gotta hand it to the guy: he has achieved audio support for the next version. And to top it off, he followed it up with a chart showing the speed boost framerates of certain N64 games.He's gotten a lot of feedback from people (including the usual "first postz!!1onezyeah"), and it goes without saying that some people have been asking questions about its development. For example, most have been asking about the possibility of moving the audio processing over to the ME, however he says he's not too familiar with the ME structure yet, so he's yet to look more into it.
He's also answered a couple of questions about an in-game menu, viewport scaling, and screen size ratios. To these, he answers with:
I'm currently working on the in game menu - this is the last main thing I want to squeeze into R9. With this you'll be able to change the screen size while the rom is running, as well as a few other things (toggle audio on/off, swap controls etc). I doubt that knocking the screen size down will help the framerate all that much, as the framerate is still largely limited by the cost of CPU emulation rather than rendering.
When asked about the possibility of incorporating frame skipping into the emulator, he says that with audio support functional, frame skipping makes that much more sense and that he might be able to pack it into R9. As for running Daedalus on 300mhz, it won't really matter since the numbers in the previous charts already show it running at maximum clock frequency.
With technical jargon and homebrew dev hoopla, we now introduce... the Q&A portion:
Are the rom files you are using zipped or unzipped? Will the extensions of the rom files even matter anymore?
I was using unzipped rom files. The extension shouldn't matter, provided it's recognised (.v64, .z64, .rom etc) Daedalus should always figure out the correct thing to do with a given rom. I suggest you use a tool like RomCenter to manage the naming of all your roms, and extract them to the roms directory on your PSP as required.
Will expansion pack be implemented in your blessed R9?
The expansion pack should already be supported: 'Expansion Pak: Yes' in the Rom Settings screen (just before the rom launches). If it's not working, it's a bug, and it'll be easy to fix.
Have you always been able to add audio support? Or did you hold it back because of the slow framerate?
I've been holding off because of the framerate - I just thought it would sound horrible. The framerate is still a limiting factor with audio support, I'll talk a bit more about this soon.
Is there any official way to support your work? Either through paypal donations or whatever?
No, not currently. To be honest, I'm a bit uncomfortable about accepting money for this. Financial reward has never been a motivating factor for me, I do this because it's an interesting project with lots of juicy technical problems to solve. If I was to ever accept donations, it would be for a specific goal (e.g. if I broke my development psp and it needed replacing, or to pay for hosting/bandwidth etc).
The best update possible for R9 is an icon for the PSP menu.
Yes, I know :) I do like the Pochi Style icons. I emailed him asking for permission to use them with Daedalus, if I get the go ahead I'll bundle them with R9 by default.
Time to notch those calendars, folks. Christmas happens on the month of hearts.
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Comments
first
yay! and first poster...shuddup
SECOND WOO HOO
third
Are you able to count?
aooo 4th :D:D:D :P
i cant wait, and seriously stop the "who's first" bs no one cares!
seventh WOOT lol
First post w00t
Thanks for the update old chap, keep up the good work.
laren to cuont poelpe, lkie hnostely....
Good ol' QJ with it's old news.
thirteenth
I admit, I laughed @ this.
so gay, u don't have somethin interesting to say?
anybody eaten ***** latey?
I sure did. yo momma's
um lets see.........................ummmm..........13th i guess. . . but i do really hope to see frame skip on r9 GREAT WORK MAN!!!!!!
14th!
can anyone tell me if there are any games playable on r8 or is it just a kind of proof of concept thing? i know i could "install" it on my psp but i really want to wait for r9 and i am just curious
btw i mean reasonably playable,not barely playable if your a mad n64 fan or sumthing :)
no they arent fun unless your a mad n64 fan or something ;] 15 fps is a GREAT game but R8 is not a proof of concept its actually the best emulater released up to date " feb 11th 2007 "
first!!?!?!!?!?! YA FIRST!
I can't wait! I was thinking this project was dead, but lo and behold, a kick ass update will be here shortly, with sound, playable speeds, a frame skip (maybe), and hopefully, an icon!
FIRST POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRST POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRST POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRST POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRST POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
25th losers up yours I WIN
woo!! will this work for 1.5??? I don't really know how to upgrade my psp to custom firmware so I don't wanna risk bricking it.... hope it does...
find out how to upgrade to custum firmware and do it and if you really tallented you brick it mine didnt brick so you have to be really stupid to brick it on top of that im half retarded and i still didnt brick it
your comment isn't as interesting...
Somebody go to this skiing place and steal the source code for the love of jesus...
9th w00t!!! (I'm referring to the daedulus version, not my post lol) Anyway, wasn't there another emu called monkeyballs or something like that...?
learn to spell lol
bout time they wrote a script that will delete any post consisting only of the word 'first' and '!!!!'
be waiting for it。
"can you spell?" zing!
My name is LOL
Stop! Don't open that door!
FIRST POST!!11!!!" LOL Yeahh im cool *rolls eyes*
Goddammit stop taunting me with these updates!, Release R9 already damn you *shakes StrmnNrmn* Noooowww!
keneth was killed to mayby by this monster!!!!!!
cheers
My younglings, be calm with yourselves and your small insignificant PSP's. One day you will all realize that Mr. AleX never was; his fictional existance in short was for Sony's benefit and theirs alone. It was created by Sony to exploit the many dimensions of the PSP. The fictional character Dark_AleX and all its attributes were created for pure advertisment. Sony created firmwares and Dark_AleX for their own ambitious reasons; some being that they wanted little preteen children to mass themselves around the world of PSP, to sell, to obsess, to usurp, and assume they have overwhelming control around the technical language of cryptography. You've all been dooped, Mr. AleX has never been. Even the undiluted platinum mod chip was created by Sony themselves. It is all under thier control. You have all lost my dear mentally defective simpletons. Licensures or not, Sony only cares about one thing... Sales. Which you have all so ingnorantly helped improve. It has been fun my younglings, do keep in touch. You are all very very very special...
...first..w00t?!...blaaaa
DUde, are you on crack or something! what the hell are you talking about
FERST REPLY TO SECOND POST OMG OMG I BET EVERYONE LOVES ME NOW
WTF
These comments come together as one big argument lol. Yay not too long now. unless he goes on that ski trip before then.
I'm wondering if some games will work on R9 that didn't on R8 like Worms Armagedden. P.S. Has anyone notice tha almost every post has no stars on it. I smell a star spammer. I guessing I'll be a 1star soon too, WEE~~
I'm wondering if some games will work on R9 that didn't on R8 like Worms Armagedden. P.S. Has anyone notice tha almost every post has no stars on it. I smell a star spammer. I guessing I'll be a 1star soon too, WEE~~
first post! ya!
keep it up soon it will be perfect
When are they gonna release the damn good looking emu?
I havent owned a PSP game in so long. In fact I never have to thanks to BitTorrent. So whose being dupped now? Oh yeah thats right, Im also playing homebrew on it for FREE! Excuses while I go play Metroid Zero Mission on my PSP. ;)
FIRST TO AWNSER FIRST POST. BOOYA ***** YOU AMERICA.
nth!!!!11!1!!111oneoneelven zomg!!! w00t jou n00bs
lol.. so did i
this one better be good its about time this lazy hobo did some god damn work on his *****ing project. I mean, for christs sake hurry it up ass hole.... ur taking like 2 years just to get it up 1 fps.
NO NO NO IT GOES LIKE THIS: OH WELL IT SEEMS I HAVE BEEN FIRED WELL YOU KNOW WHAT AMERICA FUUCKKK YOOOUUU!
1st post!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111!!!!!!!!!!! lolrz!!!111!!!!
Whats funny is this guy can almost get N64 Playable at a reasonable framerate Sony Got Playstation working at a almost perfect framerate yet the geniuses cant even make a SNES emulator that plays games like Bahamut Lagoon,Star Ocean,Tales of Phantasia and Yoshi's Island at a reasonable playable FPS i just think its kind of sad on the dev's behalf
theres a 100% chance hes going to make it 1.5 enabled but seriously update to 3.10 oe a its easy if you really wanted to brick it you have to be mental unless you mess with the prx files of dont follow the read me text
this is great news for me my friends have been saying that mario 64 is slow on the psp but i respond with what does the ds have.......NOTHING on the other hand we can play psp games psone games and all of ds games and alot of homebrew and noe we get audio and better framerate support so now i really gonna rub it in there face!!!!KEEP THE GOOD WORK UP StrmnNrmn you rock
you neeed help man if you wanna talk down on homebrew and Dark_Alex then dont come to this website with it
he should release the source code so that people who are familiar with the ME can help out with it, 2 heads are better than 1 after all
47!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY NAME IS BORED
Eucharius is a conspiracy theorist crying Wolf or that the Sky is falling, although his rantings do make sence. I wouldn't discount the concept however. "The Art of War" engages in much of the same strategicle tactics. Creating non existent enemies to proliferate ones own base.
PSP Cannot Emulate DS but i think u meant GBA anyways which yes almost all GBA games can be played full speed on PSP
quote: "we can play psp games psone games and all ds games". DS games on PSP? Since when? I want some of what "Who" is smoking.
Ummm... He kinda already released the src. Daedalus is a Windows emulator, he just ported it. He was forced to release it.
*****ing xmas before we have this n64 emu its gonna be 40 years old!
these guys probably have their mum as theyre best friend or dont have any social life but pissing others off
i got my grammer wrong (i probably spelt grammer wrong) with theyre should be their. i dont wan't to be one of those dumbass's who spl lik dis u stupd 5hits
its to bad that you cannot run the roms on full speed. But it is cool that you finally achieved audio support!
hey joe you should upgrade there is a forum topic about upgrading to 3.03 OE-C but the concept for upgrading to 3.10 OE-A is exactly the same
this is going to be awsome. keep up the great work!
FIRST COMMENT!!!! WHAT NOW!?!?!?
this is definetly a must. get it now!!!
where do i place my src files on my psp please help :(
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