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Longest loading times in a disc-based system?
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Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
Ha! There it is! That’s the exact video I remember too.
So, 5:30 ‘til first game. That feels like an age!
Noboru Wataya
Banned
And this was on a portable system. Imagine booting that up on a quick journey.
Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
Lol, I used to have a 5 minute bus trip to work, so I would have been shit out of luck.
Codes 208
Member
Nope. Meant before and after. Loading the game up takes a century especially on ps4 and xbox. But getting into games is very quick, loading screen included.
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brap
Banned
Ohhhhhh. Yeah that. Shit takes like 5 mins to load on pc for me.
Billy Awesomo
Neo Member
My vote goes for the Neo Geo CD
gingerbeardman
Member
Dreamcast Half Life is pretty bad.
Interestingly, a hacker called TuxTheWise figured out how to reorder the files on Dreamcast games to improve loading time. It is done on a game by game basis and he released them under the name DCRES (DC Resurrection) http://segahub.org/index.php?topic=6209.0
Interestingly, a hacker called TuxTheWise figured out how to reorder the files on Dreamcast games to improve loading time. It is done on a game by game basis and he released them under the name DCRES (DC Resurrection) http://segahub.org/index.php?topic=6209.0
stranno
Member
It seems its hard to track down any new info about this matter. I'm sure there must be even longer loading times than SOF, but probably from quite obscure games.
The longest single loading time in that video is 1 minute, not that much. And we are talking about UMD, by the time Devhook had already a few versions and you could just load the game from the MMC with like 5x faster loading times.
Playstation's Metal Slug: Super Vehicle-001 had worse loading times than that since the game just hangs in the middle of the action (even in the middle of one stage boss) to load stuff. Its quite weird but that could be another matter, weird-placed loading times, i've seen quite a few.
I already mentioned that game in the OP in first place. Not looking for games with lots of loading times. Its not Smackdown vs RAW for Playstation Portable, its just every single wrestling game ever for console, just a slideshow of entrances and stats crap, nothing new.
The longest single loading time in that video is 1 minute, not that much. And we are talking about UMD, by the time Devhook had already a few versions and you could just load the game from the MMC with like 5x faster loading times.
Already mentioned that too and, as i said, Samurai Spirits RPG has the longest loading times in Neo Geo CD, and they are not nearly as long as Soldier of Fortune.
Playstation's Metal Slug: Super Vehicle-001 had worse loading times than that since the game just hangs in the middle of the action (even in the middle of one stage boss) to load stuff. Its quite weird but that could be another matter, weird-placed loading times, i've seen quite a few.
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stranno
Member
Not that long but yes, 1+ minute to load the menu in a fighting game was just plain stupid.
I guess it could be related to uncompressed assets in order to make the game larger (for whatever reason).
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Mr Nash
square pies = communism
Skyrim is one of those games where it slowly adds up going into / exiting each cave or dungeon. The part I hated the most is when the image during loading was the spider and the camera was slowly zooming in on it. For some reason Skyrim spiders always gross me out.
Yagami_Sama
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For me is Samurai Shodown RPG. Back in the day, when I played it on Neo-Geo CD, took ages just to complete a battle.
Retro_Stew
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stranno
Member
This video looks fake as shit. I have played the GC version of this game and, yes, loading screens were quick, but we are talking about ~8-10 seconds, i have never seen a 1-2 seconds loading screens.
Maybe playing from SDGecko, but sure not from GOD.
AgentP
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So 65m years ago they started a backup on a 2005 PS3?
stranno
Member
For a big enough system backup, i think so.
ipukespiders
Member
I remember spending all evening typing out programs out of a magazine for my older brother on his VIC-20. Is that considered load times?
Heimdall_Xtreme
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This one was even bad for its time. As a kid, I always thought it was due to it being a CD game rather than DVD for the PS2. Considering how the game plays and looks, I really doubt that it was due to a hardware limitation, so I've always been curious why this game takes so long to load.
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KevinKeene
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Witcher 3 was terrible every time you died or fast-travelled :/
DynamiteCop!
Banned
Just Cause 3 doesn't count as "disc-based" because neither the Xbox One or PlayStation 4 actually reads the discs, they're simply an installer and access key. It's all HDD loading.
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Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
Not on PC.
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SLoWMoTIoN
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Thread says disc based system ofc nobodys talkimg bout pc jesus
Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
PC games aren’t released on DVD ROM?
stranno
Member
Of course i'm alking about games run from a disc (in consoles).
W3 is a DRM free game so you just install the game and you dont need the disc anymore, we are not living in nineties lol. Most people dont even mess with the disc, they just use the GOG code, its far easier.
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stranno
Member
Again, not talking about installation screens. PS3 is just too damn slow installing things in the HDD, not a game's problem.
Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
I think your thread title needs to be more specific. When you start going “oh, except that”, “oh, and except that”, there’s confusion.
How about “longest loading times in a disc-based system that isn’t a PC or a PS3 or (I’ll leave this blank until we get there)”?
stranno
Member
That is already clear in the OP.
And PC makes dont make sense since every single modern game runs from HDD.
Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
Don’t modern consoles have installation?
younGrandon
Neo Member
I assumed this meant load times AFTER the game was installed.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection on my XBone, for me.
Though, I feel slightly silly bringing up a game that took maybe 6 minutes to load a level. My friend and I wanted to power through Halo2 coop campaign on Heroic. We sat patiently for about a minute and then he just started showing me stupid stuff on iFunny for the rest of the time.
The first time you load a campaign in that game it takes awhile.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection on my XBone, for me.
Though, I feel slightly silly bringing up a game that took maybe 6 minutes to load a level. My friend and I wanted to power through Halo2 coop campaign on Heroic. We sat patiently for about a minute and then he just started showing me stupid stuff on iFunny for the rest of the time.
The first time you load a campaign in that game it takes awhile.
stranno
Member
I've seen a local multiplayer match and it took 2 minutes to load the map. Serious stuff right there.
Not the entire game i guess. Just Cause 3, for example, in Playstation 4 just install a 2-3GB patch.
younGrandon
Neo Member
Now that my mind is on it, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate took quite some time as well upon initial launch. I'd be sitting in that stupid, half-assed Animus, "you can control your character to pass the time" bullshittery for roughly two minutes on my XBone. I will admit that, since my phone can provide instant distraction to anything, I may not even notice extended loading times as much x.x
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stranno
Member
The XBOX CPS3 emulator (the first CPS3 emulator ever, some years before the first CPS3 emulator in PC) also tooked a lot of time to load the game. But, of course, it used cache, since XBOX only has 64MB of RAM.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Yes.
The discs are only used for the DRM .exe check once it's installed. Like how the PC did/does it.
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Airola
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I guess that is comparable to the install times in today's gaming
I did that too on C64. It was quite a thing to have a program code listing that had a typo somewhere but it was hard to know if the reason the program didn't work was because you made a typo somewhere or if the listing itself had a typo somewhere.
