Finally a reason to make a new post...a blank front page. >:-O
Autocrossed the Neon on Sunday again, and I'm still amazed at the amount of grip it seems to have. I find myself going into a turn thinking "there's no way I can take the turn this fast", and coming out thinking "I should have entered the turn faster". I don't know if it's the light weight (couple hundred pounds lighter than the Integra), the wider tires, or the fact that the tires themselves are newer than my old Victos. PAX'd a 951 with my best clean run; could have had a 966 were it not for a cone that jumped out in front of me (or behind me, as the case may be). One more summer event, then some new tires and back to the Integra for the fall.
Though I think I've told just about everyone that reads this already, I'm hoping to have HDLoader installed by the end of the week. The idea is that you can copy your PS2 games to a hard drive, thus reducing the load times by quite a bit. The software itself is $35, you can use any Maxtor hard drive (40GB+ suggested), and you need to have a network adapter, as that provides the hard drive connection. I picked up a 120GB drive at Fry's yesterday for $70 out the door, now I just have to wait for the software. This should be reason enough to start playing Tiger Woods 2004 again, as all the loading time on that was quite a pain. Only downsides are that (a) not all games work, but most do, and (b) you can't play games online when they're installed on the hard drive. Despite having a network adapter and a few online games, I've never played any of my games online, so that doesn't really bother me. ;-) None of the games I currently own are on the "don't work" list yet, either. Now if only the Xbox could do this, I might be motivated to play Top Spin again...
Posted by Ben at July 19, 2004 01:52 PM