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Daedalus R11 is upon us

Posted May 06, 2007 at 06:21AM by Victor B. Listed in: Homebrew Emulators, Nintendo 64 Tags: StrmnNrmn, Daedalus, N64

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Daedalus is here! - Image 1

It looks like everyone's favorite Nintendo 64 Emulator is finally up with a brand new version. Daedalus R11 is here, boasting numerous changes and fixes that should improve performance on everyone's handhelds.

For those who haven't heard of it, Daedalus R11 is a Nintendo 64 emulation application for PSPs. Using Daedalus, you can play your favorite N64 games on the PSP, such as Starfox 64.

In any case, here are the changes for this iteration of Daedalus:

[*] Large overhaul of rom settings and preferences. All settings should now be persistant.
[+] Native support for palettised textures for faster rendering and less memory usage.
[+] Provided a fixed size pool for all texture memory, to limit memory usage.
[+] Expansion Pak enabled by default.
[!] Updated rom info database to include save mechanism for many roms.
[!] Fix memory leak in texture cache.
[!] Fixed conversion of RGBA/32bpp textures with odd alignments.
[!] Fix crash which occurred when recolouring textures in low memory situations.
[^] Large rewrite of texture cache to reduce memory usage and improve performance.
[^] Various optimisations to the way textures are looked up in the cache and installed.
[^] Optimise offsetting/scaling of texture coordinates.
[^] Improve performance of dynarec fragment cache and reduce memory fragmentation.

Strmnnrmn's left three different files for people to use though: Daedalus R11 versions for 1.00 and 1.50+ firmwares, as well as the source code for the release.

As always, feel free to show off your enthusiasm for Strmnnrmn's homebrew application in the comments below, and don't hesitate to drop him a line at his blog if you wish to thank him personally for another job well-done.

Download: Daedalus PSP R11 for v1.00 Firmware
Download: Daedalus PSP R11 for v1.50+ Firmware
Download: Daedalus PSP R11 Source

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by jas (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» dedu

1st wow

Re: Shyez - 2007-05-06

» Thank you

I know that some people are like "Wow another Mario 64 emulator" but I thank you Strmnnrmn for keeping this work up. It shows that you care about this community and our needs.

Re: Korax (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» Cheers

Thanks mate

Re: metalspector (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» Mario 64

To run it almost 100% full speed this are my preferences:

texture update check: disabled
frameskip: 2
limit framerate: no
dynamic recompilation: enabled
audio: enabled
adjust frequency: enabled

Re: its dklsfj (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» ksdjf

oh yea

moose#51@pspmod.com

Re: fatkoreanman (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» :D great

finally it's here...go to www.Myspace.com/DaedalusCompatibility

for a compatibility list XD

Re: PsPoPPer (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» actually

strmmn shud make a xbox emu

Re: Spetsnaz (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» Thanks!

Thank you for releasing the source code for this! I wish more emulator developers would do the same. Cheers!

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Re: Laurel (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» 1st guy sucks.

The first guy sucks fat greasy *****s.

ANYWAY. Finally, a Daedalus update! :D How does it run?

Re: Snipe (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» Daedalus R11 Rocks My Socks!

Man i love you! Keep up the good work! You have no idea how often i check this site waiting for a new version of this! :)

Re: MATT (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» THANK YOU!!

LOVIN THE PROGRESS! IT'S STILL NOT REALLY AT AN ENJOYABLE PLAYING SPEED BUT ONE DAY IT WILL HAPPEN.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

Re: IMCOOL (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» this sucks

No, offense, but this sucks, I think DAXs ps1 emulator he made is better. His emu works at full speed. Cant wait for a PS3 emulator though. Later this year maybe?

Re: Megadeth (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» wow

Re: IMCOOL (Unregistered) .....Are you Serious.....cuz if you are your retarted

Re: luizlizard (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» wtf imcool

imcool, i cant believe how uninformed or retarded some people are, the PS1 emulator was not made by dax, it's included in 3.00+, DAX just made it possible too put your own isos. And how the hell you think a PSP could emulate a PS3!!!!!!

Finally, im impresed with the progress of Daedalus, every release it's almost 15% faster! keep up strnm

Re: Drewford (Unregistered) - 2007-05-07

» uh oh

maybe I did something wrong, but the texture re-do thing screwed this up real bad. Mario 64 no longer shows coins or stars, and in Majora's Mask the actually game is messed up. yopu have ocarinas on all of your items, and you can play them. no health is displayed. you die and restart room after some cutscenes. also, the game freezes after you get magic power from the fairy. I know it has something to do with the no health thing. I tested Mario Kart and found when you get a star fire comes out the back like a mushroom. Strmn Nrmn, I think it may be from individual settings for each rom. check on that, it may become a serious probem in some games(the ocarina thing is pretty bad, and I'm sad about it freezing)

Re: stinky (Unregistered) - 2007-05-07

» wtf is nintendo 64?

what is nintendo 64? or wii, gamecube, DS Lite etc? are they some kinds of weird jargons that I never heard of? Can you play Mortal Combat, MotorStorm, Tekken, Need For Speed Underground and breath-taking fps games like I do on my PSP with these consoles?

by tps*****s - 2007-05-06

» nice

looking forward to testing it :D

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by TheAgent (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» cool

Just downloading now, too see if it will finaly load 007

by alexxx (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» yipie

2nd

Re: sync (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» ummm...

does it support sound now?

Re: HardC0re (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» @ sync

It supported sound a couple of releases ago.

by P$Player (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» ThankX

nice work..

by Whoopa (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» ...

*orgasms*

Re: jews suck (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» damn

***** im gonna hafta clean that

Re: jew (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» you suck

jews suck, your such a *****got *****

by THANK YOU (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» Well done

SWEET!!

by Theron (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» Speed

how fast is mario 64?

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Re: metalspector (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» Mario 64...

Plays like full speed and in some areas even faster than normal i you have frameskip on 2, but most games are still slow...

by SWEET (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» BLAHOOey

NICE MAN thankyou! hopefully majora's mask works well now!

by Atomic Celery (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» Eh...

Everything pretty much runs now.. or is suppose to.. the only game I couldn't get to work is Super Smah Bros.

Re: Atomic Celery (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» Oops

I ment Super Smash Bros.

Re: wooot (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» s

Super Smash Bros does work for me it run s on 16 fps woot

Re: pspforever (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» smash bros.

yup i get 16-17 without sound and about 15-16 with sound....now that i think about it super smash bros hasn't worked in the last 4 or 5 updates even though it kind of worked in the earlier releases...but now its getting their ;-)

by 13connor (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» go daedalus!

Im going to try out SSB

by devin (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» its good but

the emu is good but the only game that we can really play is still super mario 64. perfect dark doesnt werk and SSB is way 2 slow 2 play. i think the only games this emu will be good with are the smaller games.

by Majora's Mask (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» Does Majora's Mask Work?

Does Majora's Mask Work?

Re: Claudio (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» :)

yes it does :)

by Majora's Mask (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» Does Majora's Mask Work?

Does Majora's Mask Work?

Re: Uphill gardner (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» Clean your ears out.

Is there a fuc4ing echo in here or something? YES you drongo.

by ichigo (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» zelda

Majoras mask is slow and full of glitches.

by errr... (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» who cares?

if the frame rates are crap what's the point?

Re: luizlizard (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» ...

But it's progressing, if you see, every release it's way faster. Someday it will be at full speed, or at near full speed, just like SNES9x it took sometime but now most games run at full speed.

by hey (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» does this work

DOES GOLDENEYE Work!?!?

Re: q_dmc12 - 2007-05-06

» Try it

...and let us know ;-)

Re: no (Unregistered) - 2007-05-09

» no

no

by dark (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» sweet

great work on daedalus r11 strmnnrmn's this one is the best, can't wait for r12 will come out to be.

by DeAn89 (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» thank u

thx Strmnnrmn!

by Psilocybeing - 2007-05-06

» Nice!

Great work, thanks Srmnnrmn!

by NEOO (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» yes

banjo kazzoooie woorkks bbayhoooo!!

by NEOO (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» yes

banjo kazzoooie woorkks bbayhoooo!

by Shaka (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06

» OMG

WOULD YOU PEOPLE SHUT UP WITH THE THANK YOU!!! *****!!
ANd get to the POINT OF WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOES NOT!!! WOW! nothing HELPFUL for otheres.. SAY THANK YOU but DAMN ADD what you experienced using R11... Its ANNOYING to see 10000 thankoyou and no INFO!!

Re: GaveUpTomorrow - 2007-05-06

» Thanks :)

Thanks for R11 StrmnNrmn :D

Re: Shaka Blows (Unregistered) - 2007-05-06