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To: David Howe who wrote (63277)	11/23/2001 11:24:10 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 74651

David, the hard disk is a nice feature; there are some games that really do need this, but of course even the PlayStation I had flash-ROM cartridges that you could save game states on. You don't need a hard disk to save a typical game state. You're right that you couldn't very well "start from ground zero" every time you played which is why you have been able to save game states in all consoles for years. Now I guess people can write games that have very big game states, but frankly that's not likely to happen, particularly because major games are all designed around the lowest common denominator. But keep those insights coming! Dave