From: weaponx013@yahoo.com   
      
   azmun wrote:   
   > On Apr 27, 2:00 am, Scott H  wrote:   
   >   
   >>       As far as understand it, the PS2 loads the games at the exact same   
   >> speed as the original Playstation for compatibility reasons, unless you   
   >> set the menu option to speed it up (which sometimes crashes the game).   
   >> If these games were loading at 24x, I would certainly not be getting 22   
   >> second load times on original PS games still.  Even with the option   
   >> turned on it only saves a few seconds.   
   >   
   > Hmm, after reading up on this some more it seems that we can't make   
   > any generalizations.  Improvements (if any) in loading times depends   
   > on particular games.  It ranges from same or no difference to much   
   > faster (perhaps reducing it by half even?).  So I wouldn't be   
   > surprised if that 22 second load times on PS2 might actually be more   
   > than a minute in PSX!   
   >   
      
      
   That's what I am trying to say, the PS2 doesn't affect all games even   
   with the option on, but it affects none of the games with the option   
   off.  I have my PS1 right here and I just plugged it in to confirm that   
   the load times are the same through it.  The PS2 would have produced   
   massive incompatibility problems if it was running its drive at any   
   faster than 2X.  The new speed option only introduces drive cache to the   
   equation (like the Saturn had), it doesn't make the disk spin faster as   
   far as I can tell.   
      
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