The time doesn't double because the reading speed starts around 600 Kb a second and as the laser moves towards the edge it can go up to 1,600 Kb a second. For larger games like Grand Theft Auto 3 or GTA: Vice City that weigh in at 4 gigs, the ripping time extends to just shy of 23 minutes. If you chose to sit and watch, however, the ripping process takes about 14 minutes and 30 seconds for a 2 gigabyte game like The Mark of Kri (an excellent game, by the way) or Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (again, excellent). This takes some time so rather than sit around and watching the status bar crawl along, we recommend grabbing a snack at this time or taking up a new hobby. After that, the program rips the game to the hard drive. Installing games was a no-brainer affair of selecting the "Install" button and then punching in a name for the game. Once the menu screen has come up, the disc can be removed and a regular game can be placed inside. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After that, it was just a matter of putting the HD Loader disc in the tray and starting it up. We attached a 5400 rpm 40GB Maxtor drive to the Network Adaptor and slid both inside a PS2.
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