Lately there have been some great rom hacks for Super Mario 64, including:

Super Mario 64 the Missing Stars
Super Mario 64 Christmas Carnival
Super Mario 64 Star Road (just came out today!)

Each of these has problems running on DaedalusX64 which is pretty much how I want to play them cause it's pretty awesome being able to do Nintendo 64 games on the PSP at all. Anyway I am gonna give the crash info and stuff in hopes that the emulator can get fixed to run these.


Super Mario 64 the Missing Stars:

Crashes when you try to get on the roof of the house you start next to during the daytime, which is necessary to collect one of the game's 38 stars and win. I'm stuck at 37 stars and can't finish because of this. Here is the exception:




Super Mario 64 Christmas Carnival:

Crashes on first level load. Here is the exception:





Super Mario 64 Star Road:

Crashes on first level load. Here is the exception:


The readme.txt accompanying Star Road says that in Project64 1.6, the 'Default Memory Size' must be set to '8 MB.' My guess is that this has something to do with why the latter two crashes happen but I don't know enough about the inner workings of the N64 to know for sure.

Changing settings doesn't seem to make any difference.

This seems relevant http://www.forums.daedalusx64.com/viewt ... =45&t=3191

Came up with these new roms.ini entries. They identify the games all right but don't actually fix anything in terms of getting us past those crashes.

This looks relevant for the Missing Stars crash. viewtopic.php?f=12&t=989&p=12816#p12816

Made the change in HxD http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

CHKSUM64 can be found here: http://sites.google.com/site/awesomeluk ... le-cabinet

But it won't work on 64 bit systems so I used "The real n64 crc tool" http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6TU1CSB1

Doing the overwrite is not good enough, you have to update the checksum inside the file with this kind of tool.

Here is the updated roms.ini entry for the version of Missing Stars specifically hacked to work with Daedalusx64:



Haven't tested any of this yet. Going to now! Here's hoping.

OK after making the modification, Daedalusx64 still crashes at the same point in the Missing Stars with this exception:

Thank you for doing all this research!

I want to desperately play ALL these hacks on my PSP (love playing on the go)

Subscribed to this thread and waiting for any sort of solutions

Nerd, you can try report this star road's bug to Skelux on gbatemp or youtube.
Maybe he can fix it.

He can't fix it, it's a problem with the emulation of the game and the creation of the save.

It's a problem with Daedalus, and Skelux can only report it to the creators of Daedalus, like us.

Oh I see. Well, is there any info you can give us on whether this can be addressed in a future Daedalusx64 update?

I'm not part of the team or anything, so no, I can't give any sort of info.

I think these games aren't working due to memory leaks, which can be patched by Daedalus, or by editing the ROM (can't be done by the author unless they know exactly what the problem is)

i dont think so. any arguments?

I need the same help. This is the exceptions.. And gives me a headache ._. >:D

From what I hear, the devs don't really read the forums so I guess people have to bug them to get them to pay attention to this

We do read the forum but we also have lives so we cant reply on everything and/or commit to things just because someone asks for it. Its a free open project under GPL so anyone is free to try to fix the bug in the code them selfs.