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Do old fashioned cartridges still have faster loading times than the newest systems that use laser disks?

Asked by RedDeerGuy1 (25136points) August 29th, 2024

I remember that I could play Super Mario Brothers one with no loading time; While PSP 1 games need to load up a couple of seconds, and also the Playstation logo.

I haven’t played much video game in years and would like to know if the new consoles have over come this?

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Yes. By far. This was the whole reason Nintendo stuck with cartridges on the N64 while the rest of gen 5 moved to optical discs.

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Zaku's avatar

Yeah. Cartridges don’t “load” much (if anything). They just power up and run startup routines. Their information is physically already there on the cartridge, in ROM.

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