Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: (no subject) Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:32:51 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 24 Message-ID: <35649D83.4117EEF2@mail.datasys.net> References: <6k1v27$4p29@chuka.playstation.co.uk> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 241.dialup.datasys.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) The newer systems take longer to boot because they do multiple liscence checks on the CD to prevent a CD Swapping method being used to play gold or international games. However, the Net Yaroze playstation only does one check, so it should boot faster than a new grey cosumer playstation, which does quite a few checks. West wrote: > > I was wondering is there a reason the Palystation takes so long to boot. Or > does Sony just wannna make sure you see their copyright sign? -- 'Darco darco@NOSPAM@bigfoot.com Please replace "@NOSPAM@" with an "@" to email me. UIN: 1454810 (You can page me at http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1454810) WWW: (sorry, page is down) Voria: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/voria PGPKey: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/pgpkey.txt "Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean that they are not out to get me."