Sounds like you haven't had a good last 10 years.

on PSP there is an option for ps1 games called fast loading or something like that, I wonder if it would load any faster with that checked?

that's what you say now, just wait until you start playing the game and then you have a loading to open the menu and then another one when exit it. It's freaking annoying as hell and that's just the beginning... Each battle has a loading at the beginning and another one at the end. The game's a mess...

Peaceful_Jelly is 100% correct. As fantastic of a game that Chrono Trigger is, playing on the PS1 and having to wait more than 5 seconds for a battle to load kinda sucks the fun out.

Check this out to see what I mean.
http://www.lensoftruth.com/...

Would you expect anything less from Sqaure?

Actually, how much is/was it going on Ebay? Think I sold my SNES copy - with maps - for $70 back in the day.

Final Fantasy VIII is $15!!

Or it was when I bought it

"When you make a copy of a copy, sometimes...things um..."
-Michael Keaton in `Multiplicity`

The DS version was the load-free SNES version with boosted content, from catridge to cartridge. This PSOne Classic, however, is a port of a bad port, and it inherited some of the problems that plagued the PSX version.

I think the game should be a little less in price as well. Honestly, the DS version has been available for however long, and I can't condone priacy, but dude, anyone can get an SNES emulator and be playing this free -- without load times -- in 5 minutes. You need to dissuade people from pirating and entice them to buy your product. Square's marketing these days seems out of touch. No wonder the company posted millions of dollars in losses recently -_-

The load times must have been caching issues, etc, rather than due to it being on compact disc. If the load times were disc limited moving them to PSP/PS3 memstick/hdd would have sped things up and the PSP's fast loading mode would work.

Since the PS1 games run via emulation on the PSP/PS3, any code or architecture bugs will be present. The game should run *exactly* like the original warts and all.

I doubt Square has the original source laying around in a form where irt could easily be fixed, recompiled and remastered for a PSN release and even if they do, it's hardly cost effective.

It's on Steam, don't think they'll have another port unless it's a remake.