diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/irrlicht/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/irrlicht/default.nix
index bc3e1a20abba..336f446cdf10 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/irrlicht/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/irrlicht/default.nix
@@ -1,15 +1,13 @@
-{ fetchsvn, stdenv, mesa, unzip, libXrandr, libX11, libXxf86vm }:
+{ stdenv, fetchzip, mesa, unzip, libXrandr, libX11, libXxf86vm }:
 
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "irrlicht-${version}-svn-${revision}";
-  version = "1.8";
-  revision = "5104"; # newest revision as of 05-16-15
+  name = "irrlicht-${version}";
+  version = "1.8.4";
 
-  src = fetchsvn {
-    url = "https://svn.code.sf.net/p/irrlicht/code/branches/releases/${version}"; # get 1.8 release (same regardless of rev)
-    rev = "${revision}";
-    sha256 = "18xvlrjf113mphf29iy24hmrkh7xff6j9cz0chrxjqbr9xk9h1yq";
+  src = fetchzip {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/irrlicht/${name}.zip";
+    sha256 = "02sq067fn4xpf0lcyb4vqxmm43qg2nxx770bgrl799yymqbvih5f";
   };
 
   preConfigure = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/irrlicht/irrlicht-1.8.1-mesa-10.x.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/irrlicht/irrlicht-1.8.1-mesa-10.x.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e90ff36443a0..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/irrlicht/irrlicht-1.8.1-mesa-10.x.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-From 244d00280c1b082ca164f92337773e9e4e1a3898 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: hiker <henrichsjoerg@mgail.com>
-Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:13:03 +1100
-Subject: [PATCH] Applied patch from jpirie for fixing mesa 10 compilation
- problems.
-
---- irrlicht-1.8.1/source/Irrlicht/COpenGLExtensionHandler.h
-+++ irrlicht-1.8.1/source/Irrlicht/COpenGLExtensionHandler.h
-@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
- 	#endif
- 	#include <GL/gl.h>
- 	#if defined(_IRR_OPENGL_USE_EXTPOINTER_)
-+		typedef void (APIENTRYP PFNGLBLENDEQUATIONPROC) (GLenum mode);
- 		#include "glext.h"
- 	#endif
- 	#include "wglext.h"
-@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@
- 	#endif
- 	#include <OpenGL/gl.h>
- 	#if defined(_IRR_OPENGL_USE_EXTPOINTER_)
-+		typedef void (APIENTRYP PFNGLBLENDEQUATIONPROC) (GLenum mode);
- 		#include "glext.h"
- 	#endif
- #elif defined(_IRR_COMPILE_WITH_SDL_DEVICE_) && !defined(_IRR_COMPILE_WITH_X11_DEVICE_)
-@@ -48,6 +50,7 @@
- 	#define NO_SDL_GLEXT
- 	#include <SDL/SDL_video.h>
- 	#include <SDL/SDL_opengl.h>
-+	typedef void (APIENTRYP PFNGLBLENDEQUATIONPROC) (GLenum mode);
- 	#include "glext.h"
- #else
- 	#if defined(_IRR_OPENGL_USE_EXTPOINTER_)
-@@ -60,6 +63,7 @@
- 	#include <GL/gl.h>
- 	#include <GL/glx.h>
- 	#if defined(_IRR_OPENGL_USE_EXTPOINTER_)
-+	typedef void (APIENTRYP PFNGLBLENDEQUATIONPROC) (GLenum mode);
- 	#include "glext.h"
- 	#undef GLX_ARB_get_proc_address // avoid problems with local glxext.h
- 	#include "glxext.h"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/irrlicht/irrlicht3843.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/irrlicht/irrlicht3843.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c6e5b35f9e2c..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/irrlicht/irrlicht3843.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-{ fetchsvn, stdenv, mesa, unzip, libXrandr, libX11, libXxf86vm }:
-
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  # Version 3843 is required for supertuxkart
-  name = "irrlicht-1.8-svn-3843";
-
-  src = fetchsvn {
-    url = https://irrlicht.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/irrlicht/trunk;
-    rev = 3843;
-    sha256 = "0v31l3k0fzy7isdsx2sh0baaixzlml1m7vgz6cd0015d9f5n99vl";
-  };
-
-  patches = [ ./irrlicht-1.8.1-mesa-10.x.patch ];
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    sed -i /stdcall-alias/d source/Irrlicht/Makefile
-  '';
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    cd source/Irrlicht
-  '';
-
-  buildPhase = ''
-    make sharedlib NDEBUG=1
-  '';
-
-  preInstall = ''
-    sed -i s,/usr/local/lib,$out/lib, Makefile
-    mkdir -p $out/lib
-  '';
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    ln -s libIrrlicht.so.1.8.0-SVN $out/lib/libIrrlicht.so.1.8
-    ln -s libIrrlicht.so.1.8.0-SVN $out/lib/libIrrlicht.so
-  '';
-
-  buildInputs = [ unzip mesa libXrandr libX11 libXxf86vm ];
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/;
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.zlib;
-    description = "Open source high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++";
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 94b1c68804c9..4a6ebe7e59fa 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8438,7 +8438,6 @@ with pkgs;
   ip2location-c = callPackage ../development/libraries/ip2location-c { };
 
   irrlicht = callPackage ../development/libraries/irrlicht { };
-  irrlicht3843 = callPackage ../development/libraries/irrlicht/irrlicht3843.nix { };
 
   isocodes = callPackage ../development/libraries/iso-codes { };