12th April 2003, 3:11 PM
Yeah, like I said I can only bare the loading when I turn on the PS2's quick load feature for PS1 games. Well, I only got it for FF4 anyway, so no biggy (the FMVs and various extra game data are nice though).
Another thing they have to reapply during each load is the stupid control change Square USA has been applying to ALL their RPGs since FF8. I mean, the original control style the Japanese versions have is FINE, why must they constantly switch the X and O functionality for the US versions?! Seriously, if the disk didn't have to constantly read from the edited text and edited button assignment files every single time something loaded, the load times would be as instantaneous as the Japanese version! Had they MERELY put the English ROM on the disk and did some minor translating of the "external" (outside the ROM) menus (and left the button assignment alone), the load times would be exactly the same as the Japanese game! That is to say, none except for the "external" menus (like the added save menu and the PS1 specific menus for other stuff) and the FMV starting, which were the things that took the least amount of time to load anyway. Lazy people... They actually made more work for themselves and in the end made a worse product than if they just thought for a moment... And it's not that they are lazy, no, they are just selectively lazy! The translated copy of FF4 is flawless loading. I mean, it's like they only cared about FF4 (except the memory card access is still very slow) and didn't really even try on Chrono Trigger.
Another thing they have to reapply during each load is the stupid control change Square USA has been applying to ALL their RPGs since FF8. I mean, the original control style the Japanese versions have is FINE, why must they constantly switch the X and O functionality for the US versions?! Seriously, if the disk didn't have to constantly read from the edited text and edited button assignment files every single time something loaded, the load times would be as instantaneous as the Japanese version! Had they MERELY put the English ROM on the disk and did some minor translating of the "external" (outside the ROM) menus (and left the button assignment alone), the load times would be exactly the same as the Japanese game! That is to say, none except for the "external" menus (like the added save menu and the PS1 specific menus for other stuff) and the FMV starting, which were the things that took the least amount of time to load anyway. Lazy people... They actually made more work for themselves and in the end made a worse product than if they just thought for a moment... And it's not that they are lazy, no, they are just selectively lazy! The translated copy of FF4 is flawless loading. I mean, it's like they only cared about FF4 (except the memory card access is still very slow) and didn't really even try on Chrono Trigger.
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