What's the point?

Mounty · 24 January 2013, 11:50

Can anyone tell me what's the point of WHDloading a game that's hard drive installable?

You just end up with a game that needs extra memory to run. Or am I missing something?

Bamiga2002 · 24 January 2013, 11:55

WHDLoad does more things than just make a game HD-installable. It also fixes bugs, adds hi-score saving, 2nd button joystick support and more.
There's more under the hood than meets the eye

Tiago · 24 January 2013, 11:58

Well i am sure someone will give you 100 reasons, but for me main reason is that
i get the packs with a lot of games and i just put them in the HD and they are ready to roll. I have a lot of memory to run WHDload so that's not a problem. But sure if you have only 2Mb, a lot of games will not run. You should have 2+4 Mb or more for whdload.

lilalurl · 24 January 2013, 12:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tiago

Well i am sure someone will give you 100 reasons

One cookie for whoever manages to do such a list

TCD · 24 January 2013, 13:27

WHDLoad also fixes incompatibility problems with faster systems.

daxb · 24 January 2013, 14:18

I would say it depands on. Some games will work better as WHDLoad install some not. With WHDLoad you loose multitasking without maybe not. E.g. Dune 2 is much faster (game speed, mouse speed). Under WHDLoad nearly unplayable. So you might install both versions of a game and play what do you like. At least compare.

Thorham · 24 January 2013, 18:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by daxb

At least compare.

Indeed. For example: Colonization runs perfectly fine from Workbench directly on a 68030, and because of that you get nice mode promotion to 31Khz screen modes.

rare_j · 24 January 2013, 23:18

Secret of Monkey Island is hard drive installable, but graphics are corrupted on 68020 and aga chipset.
Whdload fixes issues like this without having to use early startup menu or other degrader.

On the other hand, the settlers is an example of where its easier to use the game's own installer and manual protection, as the whdload version has issues and consumes huge amounts of ram.

So compare.

24 January 2013, 11:50	#1
Mounty Hardware Design Engineer Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: www.KMTech.co.uk Posts: 372	What's the point? Can anyone tell me what's the point of WHDloading a game that's hard drive installable? You just end up with a game that needs extra memory to run. Or am I missing something?

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24 January 2013, 11:55	#2
Bamiga2002 BlizzardPPC'less Join Date: May 2004 Location: Finland Age: 46 Posts: 3,210	WHDLoad does more things than just make a game HD-installable. It also fixes bugs, adds hi-score saving, 2nd button joystick support and more. There's more under the hood than meets the eye

24 January 2013, 11:58	#3
Tiago Registered User Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Estoril/Portugal Age: 47 Posts: 115	Well i am sure someone will give you 100 reasons, but for me main reason is that i get the packs with a lot of games and i just put them in the HD and they are ready to roll. I have a lot of memory to run WHDload so that's not a problem. But sure if you have only 2Mb, a lot of games will not run. You should have 2+4 Mb or more for whdload.

24 January 2013, 13:27	#5
TCD HOL/FTP busy bee Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Germany Age: 46 Posts: 31,730	WHDLoad also fixes incompatibility problems with faster systems.

24 January 2013, 14:18	#6
daxb Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 3,305	I would say it depands on. Some games will work better as WHDLoad install some not. With WHDLoad you loose multitasking without maybe not. E.g. Dune 2 is much faster (game speed, mouse speed). Under WHDLoad nearly unplayable. So you might install both versions of a game and play what do you like. At least compare.

24 January 2013, 23:18	#8
rare_j Zone Friend Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London Posts: 1,176	Secret of Monkey Island is hard drive installable, but graphics are corrupted on 68020 and aga chipset. Whdload fixes issues like this without having to use early startup menu or other degrader. On the other hand, the settlers is an example of where its easier to use the game's own installer and manual protection, as the whdload version has issues and consumes huge amounts of ram. So compare.

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