Stardust loading times?

[Cooljerk]

I have stardust and I'm trying to run it on my CD32 with an Analogic floppy drive. When I first boot up the game, I get the intro without any problems, but as soon as it's over (or I press a button to skip it) the screen goes black and stays that way. After a few moments, the loading light on the disk drive goes off and I get nothing. I've waited as long as 10 minutes before and it never advanced.

I have super stardust for the CD32 and it does the same thing. Do these games have ridiculously long load times or is something going wrong?

I don't know the answer about the loading time off these games on CD32 but well... to wait 10 minutes with a black screen means that yes at 100% your cds of stardust have some problems . If not and if this is the normal loading times, i sell my amiga and become a priest loool .

The floppy version have correct loading times by the way, i mean not enougth to order and eat a pizza hehehe .

[Cooljerk]

Ha, I figured the load times were long, but I'd always heard about the legendary load times of pre-90's computing, so i figured just maybe...

turns out, btw, that the stardust CD has a scratch in it, which I'm thinking might be the problem. I also read that the analogic floppy drive occupies a small bit of ram, which is just enough to make larger games like stardust not work. Bummer.

Yes it is possible, some games are using every bits of RAM to work. Try to unplug your floppy drive so to see what will happen . You can also check your cd version on stardust by running it on WinUAE. Ask here someone who knows the cd32 emulation with WinUAE, the last time i tried was many years ago.