Super Mario 64 Star Road, Christmas Carnival & Missing Stars

Skelux · **Joined:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:53 am **Posts:** 4

Corn wrote:

Nice and thanks to take your time to join the forum and help make it work on DaedalusX64 emu as well.

One of the issues that has been seen is the "sloppy" NOP by zeroing only half of the instruction word.
When emulating it is very costly to check for (any) R0 register modification so therefore it is assumed to never change. A real NOP is what always should be used (0x00000000). Unlike real hardware a modification to R0 will propagate in the code. This is not an issue on normal ROMs since as far as I know almost all ROMs follow this convention (Jet force Gemini being one that dont).

This particular error is already fixed in the 0.4 Bug Fix patch and beyond. Now that the patch makes the game playable on PSP (and other devices), I'm interested in solving the more detailed issues which impact the game play.

Edit: I released an early version of my SMSR Light Edition patch, it may improve the speed of Super Mario Star Road on the PSP: http://www.mediafire.com/?zad8ar66o2hbnb3

Amin0152 · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:45 pm

But Skelux, in the SM64 Star Rod game, the game can't continue in the psp, because of the ''Retrio Remix Castle'' Crash (2nd boss world). And there are also 3 crashes that frezzes the game when loading to a new world. Please fix those bugs.

And the game does not save. Can you fix that two?

Salv-E · **Joined:** Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:07 pm **Posts:** 2896

Amin0152 wrote:

And the game does not save. Can you fix that two?

Like it has been mentioned several times in this thread, you must add SM RS to the roms.ini to be able to save..
Anyways roms.ini has been updated in the latest rev 755 with the entries of Star Road and Christmas Carnival, also the camera fix cheat has been added in Daedalus.cht.

Skelux · **Joined:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:53 am **Posts:** 4

Amin0152 wrote:

But Skelux, in the SM64 Star Rod game, the game can't continue in the psp, because of the ''Retrio Remix Castle'' Crash (2nd boss world). And there are also 3 crashes that frezzes the game when loading to a new world. Please fix those bugs.

And the game does not save. Can you fix that two?

Could you provide a better explanation of you bugs you have found, perhaps in a list? Also, If DaedalusX64 has a built-in debugger, maybe you could show me the details of what's causing the crash.

I'd also like to try and solve and graphical errors.

Amin0152 · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 4:23 pm

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Could you provide a better explanation of you bugs you have found, perhaps in a list? Also, If DaedalusX64 has a built-in debugger, maybe you could show me the details of what's causing the crash.

I'd also like to try and solve and graphical errors.

The crashes are reported in the fifth page in the bottom of this topic.

Skelux · **Joined:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:53 am **Posts:** 4

Ok, so it is this correct?

-Gloomy Garden crashes on entry
-Retro Remix Castle crashes on entry
-The second section of Bowser's Slippery Swamp crashes on entry
-Koopa Canyon crashes on entry
-I also noticed that black backgrounds in levels are not displayed correctly

I cannot test these, so perhaps you or someone else would be willing to help experiment with some possible fixes

Corn · **Joined:** Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:11 am **Posts:** 442

I have not had the time and pleasure to play other than running around in the starting point (which is an amazing feat you have done just there

) so I can't say much about the crashes but as far as textures goes I just want to point out that the PSP don't have a second texturing unit and double pass rendering has not been implemented. If you are combining both texture0 and texture1 it will *only* render texture0.

Amin0152 · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:31 am

Ya, that's all the crashes I found for this game. Thanks for checking Skelux.

Amin0152 · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:36 am

Yes, they realeased the SMSR Bug Patch Fix. Excellent work Skelux. Here's the patch.
But, you still didn't fix the important bugs. Will it be possible?

loveyy · **Joined:** Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:23 am **Posts:** 337

ok so i dont exactly get it?now if i want to play the super mario 64 star road hack with no problems(it saving properly and what not).
because people keep posting confusing stuff in this thread,and amin0152 just posted some bug fixing patch thingy,which patch should i patch the game with all of them?and should i do anything in daedalus roms ini?i dont get it im so confused

Amin0152 · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:32 pm

Oh just patch the one with the newest version which is 0.8. But remember that you need to patch that in a new rom of SMSR. The problem is you have to moddify your rom.ini so you can save automaticly the gmae instead of saveslot.
And Daedalusx64 i don't know much about cheats but can you put a cheat that can unlock the door of this game.

loveyy · **Joined:** Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:23 am **Posts:** 337

i dont really understand its confusing,so i should just download any version of smsr hack and just patch it with the patch u just mentioned and it should work fine?
and how can i modify my roms ini?

Amin0152 · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:06 pm

The SMSR Light Edition patch is improving speed of the game, but the texture is weird.

loveyy · **Joined:** Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:23 am **Posts:** 337

how can i update roms ini for super luigi 64(U)[!].z64?

Amin0152 · Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 3:46 pm

So skelux, can you fix the crashes that I posted? Keep it up with your good work.

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