Samurai Shodown RPG Slowdown

[DeVante]

Hi.

I just wanted to know if it was normal for the battles in Samurai Shodown RPG to take so long to load.

Everytime I get a random battle, the red kanji appears on the screen, then takes what seems like 10~20 seconds to "cut in half" and load the actual battle.

Does this normally happen? Kind of annoying for every single battle to take that long to load. :/

 

[DeVante]

I came across this entry in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Shodown_RPG

It claims that the loading times are terrible for this game, especially the x1 CD-ROM equipped NeoGeo CD.

35 seconds to load each battle on that thing!