HDLoader Review

[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.

[seaneyb2003]

btw i got my hdd loader and all that 2day and i wacked in my 6 gb hd and it works with it. i loaded up vice city on it and played fine. I noticed a little yellow light flashing dont know what it is i think its the harddrives light. not sure???

[lufcfan]

It's a small light on the front of the mainboard which signals HDD Activity...

[HBK114]

For those of you who have already ordered an HD loader, what website do you recommend i buy mine from? I've heard of consolemaniac.com, and then some devio.com (?) website. Are those safe and fast?

[spedmetal]

Originally Posted by H|LLJD00

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

If you mean, can your game saves be saved on the HDD, the answer is no. But you can save them like you always have before when playing a game from the HDD, which is to the memory card.

[spedmetal]

Originally Posted by seaneyb2003

btw i got my hdd loader and all that 2day and i wacked in my 6 gb hd and it works with it. i loaded up vice city on it and played fine. I noticed a little yellow light flashing dont know what it is i think its the harddrives light. not sure???

Yup that’s what the yellow light is. When the PS2 is reading from the HDD or writing to it the yellow light in the grill area (LED) flashes. Looks like the PS2 is having a camp fire

[seaneyb2003]

yea lol thats the one. Where bouts is that coming from?