DaedalusX64 Beta 3 released

[wethepurplepeople]

02-27-2011 11:29 AM · Post: #1 DaedalusX64 Beta 3 released

The DaedalusX64 team has released the Beta 3 version of their awesome Nintendo 64 Homebrew Emulator, Daedalusx64, and it comes with a HUGE list of changes. Actually, so many changes, I have to put it in a spoiler...

The Changes:

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Corn:
• Screen zoom (up to 150%) to get rid of black borders
• Show patch progress instead of black screen while patching (Corn/Salvy)
• Optimization/Speed-up in Dynarec/Loop Opt. and simplified the
• Fragment Cache Hash
• Z-fighting Fixed
• Faster D-list processing for a speed-up
• Faster N64 Fixed Point Matrix loading and other optimizations in rendering
• Added option to use Cover-Flow or Classic GUI
• Added battery info in pause menu (Salvy/psppwner300/Corn)
• 64 SaveState slots (psppwner300/Corn)
• New faster Double Display List processing
• 16bit screen rendering (Using dithering for smoother colors)
• Missing HUD(heart) fixed in OoT/MM
• Faster texture check/hash
• Faster audio conversion code and optimizations, fixed left/right sound swap
• New DMA transfer mode using VFPU
• Frame-rate limiter no longer stalls CPU
• Added more patches in OSHLE GU function library using VFPU
• Added Auto Frame Skip 1 & 2
• Added hacks for Wonder Project J2, SM64 stars blend, Kirby 64 in
• DLParser_S2DEX_Bg1cyc & copy
• Hack for alternative TLUT (MM, SSV, Animal Crossing, Sin and
• Punishment(Tsumi to Batsu) & Flying Dragon)
• Hack for Wipeout, F-Zero and RR64 to proper Z-buffer rendering of geometry
• When N64 uses Average as texture filter we do Bi-linear on PSP (Smooths Gex 3 and others textures properly)
• Fixed Model-view matrices for Gex games to render properly
• Added Blend Explorer now takes a selection from Combiner Explorer to test blends in real-time
• Set Prim Depth works -> SSV, Road Rash, Glover, Rayman 2, Donald Duck
• Insert Matrix works -> Kirby enemies and SSB animation
• Force Matrix works -> Tarzan, Donald duck, Rayman2 and Star Wars Episode I - Racer
• Proper texture loading -> F-Zero, Flying dragon (menus)
  Salvy:
• New home button library (works on newer FW's 6XX + button wrapper for easy usage)
• New blender using a 16bit hash
• Generic blend-mode (handles over 70% of all inexact blends)
• Reworked COP1 Unusable Exceptions ( Increased compatibility greatly )
• Added support for uCode tables and uCode definitions
• Added a more robust and faster uCode cache (All used uCodes are retained, to avoid unnecessary hashing)
• Reworked uCode detection (faster, and fixed several annoying bugs)
• Simplified greatly interrupts
• Implemented AI OS functions, also several fixes and optimizations throughout OSHLE
• Updated Audio code base to latest Azimer's plug-in (Salvy/Corn)
• Implemented several custom uCodes (Conker, GE sky etc)
• Recursive deletion + Reset settings/oshle cache
• Deprecated RSP LLE emulation from PSP build
• Properly transfer palettes to Video Memory after loading texture (Fixes annoying spots)
• Added Forced Filtering, can be changed on Global Settings (Salvy and Kreationz)
• Fixed memory region 0xA500 0xA5FF (Pokemon Stadium 1 and F-
• Zero(U) boot now)
• Panic Button -> L-TRIG + R-TRIG + START pressed for 2 sec (Salvy/Corn)
• Add compatibility for using gprof for profiling
  
  Kreationz:
• Update Screen only called once per frame (Fixes Flashing and Shaking)
• Updated clipping code to latest version from Irrlicht Engine
• Fix of IA4 textures (OoT's Trees for example)
• Fixed 4bpp texture padding
  
  Grazz:
• Implemented S2dex and Sprite2D
• Auto uCode detector (Grazz/Kreationz)
• Implement per game SaveState support
  
  Howard0su:
• Memory Access Optimization
• Move Video Memory and Graphics Context initialization into system.cpp
• Avoid strdup, use static array instead
  
  Other Devs and People that helped greatly:
• Added VFPU math (Zack/Corn)
• Several improvements in our makefile (Maxijac)
• Allows SaveState deletion (Maxijac)
• Various improvements/updates to roms.ini (Wally, bdacanay, Yamagushi and Destroyer5150)
• Cover-Flow Gui (Yamagushi)
• Recommended Settings (Yamagushi)
• Several custom blend-modes (Wally, Salvy, Kreationz, Corn, bdacanay, Darth_Sidious and NintendoBoy13)
• Added ability to delete ROMs to GUI (psppwner300, Corn)
  

And here is a teaser/Demo video for you to check out and enjoy.



And now that you know the changes, and seen the video you can download it!

Download: DaedalusX64 Beta 3

Source: QJ

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[sushistew]

02-27-2011 03:07 PM · Post: #2 RE: DaedalusX64 Beta 3 released

yay i love this, wish my psp's would work properly

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[Clarkie]

02-27-2011 10:33 PM · Post: #3 RE: DaedalusX64 Beta 3 released

Sounds interesting, what games can you play on it?

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[sushistew]

02-28-2011 03:08 AM · Post: #4 RE: DaedalusX64 Beta 3 released

any n64 roms u can find

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