Posted Aug 06, 2006 at 11:55PM by Maricar V. Listed in: Homebrew Emulators, Nintendo 64 Tags: StrmnNrmn, N64, Daedalus R7
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If you've been lurking at StrmnNrmn's blog site last week to get the latest news on Daedalus R7, you might have noticed that there's no post since he squashed the nasty little bug that's causing Mario 64 to be unplayable - another cause for celebration after he achieved both the speed increase and an increase in stability on 1.00 firmware.

Well, his silence for the past few days isn't really a cause for worry. It just means he's hard at work with various optimizations for the N64 emulator for the PSP - and that could only be a good thing for all of us!

In his recent blog entry, StrmnNrmn said that while his main focus is on improving the dynamic recompiler, he's also looking at optimizing other areas that he considered fairly expensive. He's been working on the texture cache which is used to avoid  converting textures from the native N64 formats to PSP formats every frame.

StrmnNrmn said, "I made a couple of fixes to improve the hashing function which gives much faster lookups in certain situations (such as tiled backdrops). I also provided an option to change the frequency at which the texture cache checks for updates to the textures. Many roms look fine when this check is entirely disabled, and this can give quite a nice speed boost."

He's also done a couple of fixes relating to dynarec issue, but the major new development is on optimising for various situations where the contents of a given register is determined at the time the code is compiling.

We'll spare you the technical stuff (you can read about it in StrmnNrmn's blog), but what this all means is that StrnmNrman would be very busy for the rest of the week working on optimizations and features to implement. If everything goes according to plan, Daedalus R7 might just be released next weekend!


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   by The Hate (Unregistered) - 2006-08-06
 » God loves all

I agree with #12

but I must say one thing. God loves all. Whether Muslim or Christian or Jewish or Catholic even buddhist.

We all belong to him.

   by First (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » First

I'm first because I'm not 14 years old and don't live with my parents

   by THE HATE (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » NO COMMENT ....

your first because your a thirst bucket. Stop wasting a first post on stupidity. You sound like a *****in 14 year old anyway. Either way. When is the next download for the emulator coming. Don't post news and not release an emulator. It sucks getting excited for nothing.

   by finalfan (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » stop teasing

Whens it actually come out?

   by Coc (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » AWESOME.

This is great news. I'm looking forward to next weekend and being able to play Mario 64 without crashing every 30 minutes or so :D

   by First (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » First

Im 1st ..and yeah ..go away ..gangsta baby

   by da majah (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » sweet

nice good job strm i wish you the best

   by ScoreKeeper (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » god

Hey qj.

This is getting anoying.
You are posting too much Daedalus Information.
This is practically his site now.
He posts even a little bit of information and you all russing in excitement.

It will be a while before there is any "good" playable roms "constant 17- 22 fps""fact".

You do not need to post everybug fix, yes, I like to hear about major updates and realses bu not useless information.

ScoreKeeper

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   by pspizzle - 2006-08-07
 » to number 7

scorekeeper this is only annoying to you becuase you have nothing better to do but to surf QJ getting annoyed at every littl ebit of news that appears, I mean come on theres a *****ing war going on in israel, and you are worried that qj are posting a little bit to much about dadelus, how about they dont tell you anything at all about it.

   by me (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » nubmer 8

word

   by WOW A *****ING WAR IN ISRAEL ZOMG (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » Lot the whole world here about it!!!!!

What about the muslims getting *****ed in lebanon you ignorant *****, "Oh yeah, they're just terrorist bastards whom we need an excuse to kill"... More like genocide in Lebanon and soon all the other muslim countries in Asia...

   by nevercominghome - 2006-08-07
 » >> #7 && Other non-registered ignorant newbs.

I'm very sick of hearing about you *****s ***** and ***** about QJ posting news that doesn't appeal to you. Give me a *****ing break.

They are a great group that keeps you up to date on ALL of the latest PSP news.

R7 is going to be great, and to know that it may be coming next weekend really spikes my interest.

So to all you newbs who can't even bother to *****ing register and *****, go die. Because QJ nor I, nor anyone else give two cents about what you have to say.

K? THX.



And @@ QJ: Nice work on keeping us up to date on R7 and other great PSP news and staying active ^_^.

ILY. ♥

   by Grouper (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » wtf?

how about we don't get into politics in here, as it's actually one of the places i like to come to in order to have a break from recent political events.

as for Daedalus, i like hearing all the small fixes they make all the time. gives u something to look for.

keep it up Qj.

   by Feark (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » Really, if people dont want to read everything about this EMU, why bother to comment

or even read this "update"? Why not just... ignore it!

However, keep it up StrmnNrmn!

   by pspizzle - 2006-08-07
 » sorry number 13

Will leave the politics out! :-)

   by teh (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » # 12

# 12

dude if u dont care about wut dey sey den y r u complainin?? if u dont care.

   by dude who likes this emu (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » great job

this is the coolest cant wait for it to come out and it would be cool if we cuold get more save support so we can get farther in games

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   by Madonion (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » yay

Awsome! Cant wait :D.
shyt i got more problems in my life than to complain about how qj nicely updates every bug fix which i like, why cant they ;).

   by Yawn (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » Yawn

Let us know when the damn emulator works. We don't need to hear about every time the guy farts in bed.

   by van - 2006-08-07
 » yet another speed increase

well im really waiting for a MAJOR speed increase, cuz im desperate to play 64 roms on it!

   by lol (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » first!!

Im first, awsome.

   by beoches (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » I DONT CARE ABOUT THIS CRAP

JUAT GIVE ME THE FOCKIN EMU B4 I PLAY MY N64!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   by MiddleManiac - 2006-08-07
 » Go StrmnNrmn!!

Your my favorite psp developer!

   by RaiderX - 2006-08-07
 » 1.0??

is it faster on 1.0?

   by 1!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

^^^no^^^

   by MiddleManiac - 2006-08-07
 » not faster on 1.0

it used to always crash alot on 1.0, now it dosn't.

   by FloW3184 (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » Why keep you trying to play Nintendo on your Sony PSP?

has the PSP no good games? LOL
OK it is the only portable thing except a notebook that is able to emulate it at least partially.
This emu would be the only reason to buy a PSP if it would run fullspeed.

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   by Chunk (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » The Point is...

PSDONKEY was already running roms at 30 fps until this strernum guy hacked his code. I keep asking myself.. Why doesnt PSPDONKEY get the credit? he was forced to take a back seat to this sub uber faker. PSDONKEY is the real hero here. His test will clear. Sternum is a landis in disguise. Peace.

   by Dessy (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

^^ ban the guy above me for being a complete *****ing retard. Awesome news about the n64, it may never be full speed but i love hearing about its progress.

   by PSP Master (Unregistered) - 2006-08-07
 » @27

PSP has no good Games at all especially in the US... NO GOOD GAMES!! only in Japan there are a few Awesome Games and Europe too but Not US, we get the *****ty UMDs. So all we Fans can do is rely on Homebrew emulation and the the PSP worth while.



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