w00t! DC Half LIfe is avaliable!

yes i'm a little slow, but i just bought me a few burns of DC half life for £4 each from ebay. Finally i get to play the DC version! w00t

just a heads up.

YES! I just did the same. Fuck you Sony, we will not be denied. I see some idiot is bidding £30.50 for the same thing in another auction. There's one born every minute

I can see why they didn't release this turd.... Loading every few minutes, woohoo! wink

Ive payed for my copy too off ebay, i just wonder if it has mouse/keyboard cause ive never used my DC mouse??

about freakin time!
i knew it was a matter of time before it happened.
great!
i hope the load times are livable.
if its anything like soldier of fortune i ll have
to run home crying like a little girl

wink

Someone have a linky please...

Got mine for free. Well, the 30 cents the cdr cost, anyways.

rarehero:

i hope the load times are livable.
if its anything like soldier of fortune i ll have
to run home crying like a little girl

wink

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Oh man, it surely can't be worsr than Soldier Of Fortune, each level from the PC version split into 3 segments, with 2:30 loading times in each section. Makes the Neo Geo Cd look like it's running on plutonium it's that slow.

TWO MINUTES AND 30 SECONDS?!?! You cant be serious...

PS- anyone have an extra they might want to sell?

If anyone wants to burn me a copy I'll pay for shipping and the cost of the cd

this is kind-of a stupid comment.... would the slow load times be a consequence of the burn?

IE... a different disc... or the date not copying over right.... because it had some sort-of copy protection so when copied it makes the CD read on many parts of the disc to get info?

†B†V†

Your probably right.

Bluevoodu:
this is kind-of a stupid comment.... would the slow load times be a consequence of the burn?

IE... a different disc... or the date not copying over right.... because it had some sort-of copy protection so when copied it makes the CD read on many parts of the disc to get info?

†B†V†

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Actually, you're right to a certain extent:

GD-ROMs are pressed with the data starting from the outer-edge of the GD-ROM and it works it's way into the middle. CD-ROMs however, are either burned or pressed so that the data starts from the middle of the CD and works it's way to the outer-edge.

So, when you burn a DC game onto a CD, it is burned so that the data starts from the middle of the CD as opposed to the outer-edge. This creates longer load times since the DC GD-ROM drive starts reading from the outer-edge and works it's way to the middle.

To solve this problem, the method of burning a "dummy" file first was discovered. The dummy file's size should be the equivilant of the size of the game subtracted from the size of the CD. The dummy file is then burned to a CD first, followed by the game's data so that the game's data is on the outer-edge of the CD, thus shortening load times.

Although this method is effective, it still isn't perfect for some reason since no matter what, a real GD-ROM still always has faster load times.

Go figure.

Oh yeah, the reason for the ab-normal load times might be because this release of the game is a beta. Someone told me that there was a completely finished version (which is what I thought the beta really was, even though it is entitled "beta"), but it hasn't been cracked yet so it wasn't released. However, I can't confirm this.

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