Spectral Souls Load Time Comparison v4

This video shows the advantage of the Slim PSP's "UMD cache" feature, demonstrated with the game "Spectral Souls".

Notice how, while the first load of an attack takes almost the same time (with the Slim having a slight improvement in speed), the second time the game loads an attack animation, the Slim PSP loads much faster.

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[millgiass]

Why not instead of telling Idea Factory to "Please make More PSP games." Tell them "Please learn how to make a PSP game right." So we don't have to see these ungodly loading times.

[swift412]

The load times in Aedis Eclipse Generation of Chaos (US, 2007) are much shorter and less frequent than Spectral Souls and Generation of Chaos (2006).

[broodm]

@millgiass minor lags (you might not notice)

[millgiass]

@broodm I dunno what to tell you, I don't lag when I play off memorystick.

[broodm]

@millgiass how? i have a hacked psp (prometheus)

and there are even lags when i walk in towns

[millgiass]

@mark5573 Yes slim is faster than the fat. But it still takes forever. Hacked PSP all the way for this game.

[mark5573]

@millgiass Are the wait times faster on the PSP slim?

[millgiass]

@mark5573 Well the load times are REALLY slow. Thats not the worst part though theres a load time for every single character speaking every line of dialouge. There is a load time for each individual action, like 1 pick move, 2 walk, 3 select attack, 4 attack goes off. FOR EVERY SINGLE characters actions thats 4 load times. And if you string different attacks together theres a load time between each attack. It's real bad... but on my hacked PSP those load times blip by instantly.

[mark5573]

@millgiass How long are the waiting time? Is it longer than 4 seconds to load one page?

[xgamergage]

awesome video

and awesome video game

[Goutetsu13]

Yes. You would need to mod your PSP to do that.

[furix]

Usually, when I make CSOs the laod times are almost the same as the UMD itself, a bit faster maybe. Even then I still prefer using CSOs most of the time.

But, ISOs load way faster, I am not sure if I'd play this as a CSO or ISO, I haven't tested either yet.