At 15:13 31-5-00 -0300, you wrote:
>Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
> > I really hate it when in RPGs pictures are loaded whenever you talk to
> > someone. First disadvantage is that the music is interrupted, second is
> > that the spinning up of the drive will take time, independent of how
> > little data is loaded.
>
>Well, you can keep the drive spinning beforewards.
>Most Japanese games do this.
Ehm, this has another reason. The hook used for stopping the drives has
been overwritten (read: bend incorrectly) in order to stop it on the
non-japanese computers. Most Japanese computers stop the drive in another
way, such as some Sony machine do.
GreeTz, BiFi
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