HDLoader Review

[johnjohn13]

thanks, lufcfan, Tyler


johnjohn13

[eakinsme]

my review on this product.. i just got my hdd loader in the mail a few days ago.. i went into my computer store yesterday and picked up a 160gb maxtor hdd(i know the limit is 127, but i figured for an extra $14 i may as well get 40 more gigs plus maybe 1 or 2 more games) what suprised me was that the format took only a matter of seconds(10-20) but it is all good!!. i am installing my 2nd rite now as we speak..as for the 1st(fifa 2004) its awesome..way faster and just amazing!!
GOOD JOB MAKERS OF HD LOADER!!

[seaneyb2003]

Wohhooo seaneyb is getting hdd loader. I just bought a ps2 that came with a network adaptor! so i be getting my hdd and hdd loader pritty soon Wheres a good place 2 get it in the uk? Divineo?

[lufcfan]

Divineo was great for me...

[seaneyb2003]

ok kool i take a look at that when my ps2 arrives. it has a slight problem that i can fix laser needs tweeking. It was a bloody good deal!

[lufcfan]

OK Cool. When I ordered mine, it came the next day...

[seaneyb2003]

Cool cheers guys i go look at that now just gotta get me a good hdd

[cyrax78]

For the few games that I've tried, Karaoke Revolution doesn't seem to work at all and some people on some other forums are having trouble with other games as well.

In response to Spedmetal, there was a post on consolenewz that had instructions on how to get a DMS3 to load HD Loader from the memcard, but the site seems to be down.

Also, HD Loader seems to report a size for my 60gb Maxtor even less than the bit/byte conversion.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, some games, like "everything or nothing" seems to load MUCH faster than the original while others like "transformers" seems barely any faster at all. I wonder why..

[TylerDurden]

Ok about the HDD size difference. Most of it is probably the bit/byte issue. The rest is more than likely data stored because of formatting. Like Ive said before, Ive never had a hdd that was exactly the size it says it is. My personal Seagate 60gig hdd is actually something like 54 gigs. I suggest we rest this case now.






Tyler!

[spedmetal]

Originally Posted by cyrax78

In response to Spedmetal, there was a post on consolenewz that had instructions on how to get a DMS3 to load HD Loader from the memcard, but the site seems to be down.

Also, HD Loader seems to report a size for my 60gb Maxtor even less than the bit/byte conversion.

Yes I did see those posts but I didn’t see that anyone actually got it to load from the mem card. I saw that they got it installed to the mem card but wouldn’t boot for one reason or another. I did see the one guy had an app that took the place of the explore DMS3 uses when booting to dev mode with HDloader instead which would be very cool. You could just boot your chip in devmode and boot HDloader right up first thing. However the link to the file was removed and like you said the site is down. consolenewz has been having real trouble lately.

Also I care not that they are doing this with DMS3, I would like to see the matrix team develop there own public version of an HDloader type app that could be loaded from the infinity’s dev mode.

[Warlock]

Just got mine today, Totally awesome. Man this is going to save alot of laser wear.

[H|LLJD00]

Can you save your game progress, like u do on the memory card.

[cragster]

well u culd alwayz load up hd loader insert a cd then swap using knife/card/flip top culdnt u? i dunno i dont got oine yet but some one else culd try

[lufcfan]

You need a PAL version.
You can get them still from www.chipspain.com

[smurf247]

i have recieved my hd loader this morning and it doasnt seem to work right because when i try to load up my hd loader it sometimes says please insert a playstation or playstation2 format but it doasnt do it all the time so what shall i do ive tryed my playstation 2 vertical and horizontal and it still doas it