PCEngineFans.com - The PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16 Community Forum

NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion => Topic started by: storino03 on May 11, 2012, 05:24:58 PM

Title: Does using a System Card 3.0 (instead of 2.0) improve load times in games?
Post by: storino03 on May 11, 2012, 05:24:58 PM
Just wondering. Talking about regular CD games.
Title: Re: Does using a System Card 3.0 (instead of 2.0) improve load times in games?
Post by: Tatsujin on May 11, 2012, 05:27:34 PM
Yeah! It instantly turns your single speed into a 4x speed CD-ROM :D























unfortunately NOT :(
Title: Re: Does using a System Card 3.0 (instead of 2.0) improve load times in games?
Post by: storino03 on May 11, 2012, 05:57:13 PM
Yeah, I know that. I just read that it has increased ram. So it's probably just to allow Super CD games to run. :)
Title: Re: Does using a System Card 3.0 (instead of 2.0) improve load times in games?
Post by: BigusSchmuck on May 12, 2012, 08:43:59 AM
Quote from: storino03 on May 11, 2012, 05:57:13 PM
Yeah, I know that. I just read that it has increased ram. So it's probably just to allow Super CD games to run. :)

Unless its one of those cdrom 2 games that work either version 2.0 or version 3.0 then yes to a certain extent. If you really want to decrease those loading times I believe a gear replacement will help:
http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=10224.0
Title: Re: Does using a System Card 3.0 (instead of 2.0) improve load times in games?
Post by: vestcoat on May 12, 2012, 04:42:50 PM
Quote from: BigusSchmuck on May 12, 2012, 08:43:59 AM
Quote from: storino03 on May 11, 2012, 05:57:13 PM
Yeah, I know that. I just read that it has increased ram. So it's probably just to allow Super CD games to run. :)
Unless its one of those cdrom 2 games that work either version 2.0 or version 3.0 then yes to a certain extent.
No. Terraforming and Sherlock 2 are just normal CD-ROM2 games marketed as SCD's.
Title: Re: Does using a System Card 3.0 (instead of 2.0) improve load times in games?
Post by: nodtveidt on May 12, 2012, 06:22:01 PM
Quote from: storino03 on May 11, 2012, 05:24:58 PM
Just wondering. Talking about regular CD games.
No. At least not with the original CDROM hardware. The Duo has a faster laser sled and quicker spinup time so games sometimes start faster, but unless the sled has to move all over the place (like in games like Cosmic Fantasy 2 when it loads cutscenes), there's not gonna be much difference in load times.
Title: Re: Does using a System Card 3.0 (instead of 2.0) improve load times in games?
Post by: Tatsujin on May 13, 2012, 02:42:59 AM
(\__/)
(｡◕‿‿◕｡)