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    Default FF Anthology - slow loading times?

    I hear a lot of people complaining about the slow loading times for this disc set (FF5/6). Just curious: Did you use the PS2's "fast load" setting?



    I did, and I did not notice any slowdown except during one instance (summonings). The rest of the time, the games ran fine.

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    Funny. Could have sworn it was a PSOne title.

    It's nice that the error's fixed on a PS2 but not everyone's playing it on one.

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    Okay.

    Well now that people know the PS2 fixes the problem, maybe they'll use that console instead.

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    I thought that FF anthologies was buggy on the ps2 and wasn't really compatable with it?
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    Yup ffv dosn't save right. The bug messes with the save screen, although rarely it displayes the save screen correctly. Oh I played ffvi on the psx and I thought loading times were fine. Better then chronicals at least.
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    There's two/three versions of it.

    The initial release had some problems playing on PS2- a lot of games that were ALREADY ports did. Same thing for GB/GBC games playing on the GBA.

    The rereleased greatest hits (and I want to say the later production runs of the original release too) have no problems of a major sort, but still have annoyingly long load times.

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    I bought the GH Verison not too long ago...seems fine for me on the PS2...the load time is there somewhat...but doesn't bother me
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    I have a original release FFA. Never ONCE had a problem with it.

    And yeah, it's a little slow in parts, but not bad. Chronicles is the same way.

    I never thought about using the Fast Load option, though, since that, like, NEVER works for ANYTHING..... x_x
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    I have the original release, and experienced the same save screen bug. It'll still save fine, but you have to kinda guess what slot it's saving too.

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    FFVI on FFA is just fine IMO. I didn't notice much loading time. Although FFC was PAIN. Playing Chrono Trigger.....

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    The loading times got annoying to me, I've been playing on my PS2. In Chronicals, going to the save screen in IV/II was a bear, and Anthology FF VI/III just loading up in general was annoying. I don't think either one was particularly better in loading than the other.

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    The Save Screen gets scrambled, but you can still save your game. I played from start-to-finish that way.
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