Loading Times
8 years ago
North Carolina, USA

Since I can't find any information anywhere on load time differences, I will be creating the information. Because I am completely new to speedrunning this game, I will test the loading times of my GameCube with and without a memory card and my Wii with and without a memory card. Keep in mind that there are different versions of both consoles I'm testing on so your results may vary. If this game is anything like WindWaker then I expect the GameCube load times will be faster.

North Carolina, USA

For my own convenience, I'm timing the loading screen of Offensive Driving 101 stage 1.

Wii without Memory Card: 6.43s 5.40s 6.71s 5.96s 6.38s 6.35s 6.36s 6.41s 6.18s 5.90s Average: 6.208s

Wii with Memory Card: 5.26s 6.48s 5.93s 6.48s 5.85s 5.93s 6.60s 5.85s 5.85s (cool) 6.39s Average: 6.062

So it would appear that load times are magically improved by having a memory card with a save file on it but this is (A) more than likely too small of a sample size and (B) more than likely mute because of extra text boxes and inputs due to the presence of a memory card or lack thereof. This is all of the timing I can do at the moment, GCN timings are coming soon.

North Carolina, USA

Eureka! When you don't have the memory card in, there is no autosaving! Autosaves seem to take about a second after each event which will really add up over a run. The game still prompts you to save your name when you break a record after an event but that's only one extra input and negligible extra time.

North Carolina, USA

I'm finally around my GameCube to do some testing so here goes:

GameCube without Memory card: 5.83s 6.66s 7.03s 6.98s 6.60s 7.00s 7.13s 6.63s 6.20s 6.58s Average: 6.664s

GameCube with Memory Card: 5.73s 6.70s 6.66s 6.98s 7.18s 6.66s 7.16s 7.33s 6.45s 6.45s Average: 6.73s

These times are much less consistent but slower nonetheless. It doesn't really matter to me because i can get better quality out of the wii and it's easier to capture but someone out there might care.

England

This is interesting, I have never used a memory card.

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