Is Duo's CD driver supposed to load this slow?

[Bekic]

Atfter every single level, 5-10 seconds? DD2 especially felt like it was taking forever while Cstöevania: Rondo of Blood somewhat less but stilll pretty long. All the cutscenes and music work as they're supposed and the caps have been recently changed so i don't that's the issue.

[esteban]

The load times vary by game + condition of drive.

Let's assume your drive is in decent working order...you will see a range of load times, depending upon the game. The only way to compare load times is to (1) compare the same game at precisely the same moments and (2) to measure things precisely with a stopwatch. Otherwise, your perception of time can be wildly inaccurate.

[Bekic]

What about your loadtimes, does it happen on some games that it takes as long as mine?

[Bekic]

2-3 seconds tops. None.

[Gredler]

2-3 seconds tops. None.

Is that what you expect, or the result? I haven't played a Turbo CD or PCE-CD but my Sega CD always had load times, and my Saturn, and my PS1. The GD and DVD drives barely improved that. Most disc based games today have load times too. N64 sounds like what you're looking for, Nintendo made it especially to counter this issue

[SignOfZeta]

In general I find PCE load times to be far more tolerable than, for example, a Playstation 1, 2, 3 or Portable.

There are good games for load time and bad ones, but an average game usually needs no more than 2 seconds plus seek time. The worst ones are anything with the Arcade Card. Filling up the thimble sized amount of RAM in the CDROM2 or SuperCDROM2 shouldn't take very long. I don't know WTF "DD" is but Dracula X should be only a couple of seconds. If it's longer than this, especially if it's inconsistently longer, you are probably having read issues.

If I were to allow my prejudices to speak for me, which I occaionally do, I'd suspect you are playing CDRs and your Duo needs glasses.

[SignOfZeta]

maybe play one of those laser cleaner discs with the brush on it?

Don't do that.

[Necromancer]

I agree it sounds like you're using CDRs.  If so, try a different (better) brand, burn slower, adjust the pots, or resign yourself to living with a system that won't play CDRs at all.

[GohanX]

That's my thinking too. The DD2 isos floating around the net load super slow probably because they are imperfect copies. Same with Drac X, a lot of bad isos out there.

[SignOfZeta]

CF2 is one of the slowest loading CDROM2 games.

[SignOfZeta]

I've been meaning to do that for about 15 years now.

That's my thinking too. The DD2 isos floating around the net load super slow probably because they are imperfect copies. Same with Drac X, a lot of bad isos out there.

Seriously, what is "DD" or "DD2"? Didn't you punks go to school? Abreviations are fine, but the first time you use the thing you want to abbreviate, use the entire thing. Abreviate as much as you want afterwards. In legal matters this is known as "letting people know what the f*ck (WTF) you are talking about."

Regardless, there is really no reason for bad images of PCE games to continue to circulate. Those should have been weeded out years ago. Learn how to pirate shit, if this is the case. I wouldn't assume it was a bad image though, it's most likely a bad burn combined with a very tired drive manufactured before the existence of the CDR as we now know it.

[GohanX]

Did you not know exactly what I was talking about? I don't feel the need to spout verbal diarrhea when I'm making a quick post in my phone at lunch.

[esteban]

I've been meaning to do that for about 15 years now.

That's my thinking too. The DD2 isos floating around the net load super slow probably because they are imperfect copies. Same with Drac X, a lot of bad isos out there.

Seriously, what is "DD" or "DD2"? Didn't you punks go to school? Abreviations are fine, but the first time you use the thing you want to abbreviate, use the entire thing. Abreviate as much as you want afterwards. In legal matters this is known as "letting people know what the f*ck (WTF) you are talking about."

Regardless, there is really no reason for bad images of PCE games to continue to circulate. Those should have been weeded out years ago. Learn how to pirate shit, if this is the case. I wouldn't assume it was a bad image though, it's most likely a bad burn combined with a very tired drive manufactured before the existence of the CDR as we now know it.

Double Dungeons 2
Dragon Double 2
Dangerous Liasons 2
Double Dragon II
Dubble Bubble

[wildfruit]

Double dribble?

[seieienbu]

Double dribble?

No, but the sequel would count.