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pagejames
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_ 		27. February 2006 @ 09:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I've read somewhere in the forums (where I can't remember - these forums are so huge now) that you can't play games off of a hard drive (through the network adaptor) and be online at the same time. So a game like SoCom couldn't be played if it was backed up to the hard drive. But, isn't Final Fantasy XI - the only game for the official Sony hard drive - designed to be an online game? How does that work?
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lawcase
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_ 		27. February 2006 @ 10:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
FFXI still has to run from the disk itself...it just has additional things on the HD
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pagejames
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_ 		27. February 2006 @ 10:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So the game doesn't run off the hard drive, it just stores info. So the hard drive can be active at the same time as the network adaptor unless it's under the control of the exploit that allows you to run the games off the hard drive?

Thanks so much for posting a reply.
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spedmetal
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_ 		3. March 2006 @ 23:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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FFXI still has to run from the disk itself...it just has additional things on the HD
No your wrong once FFXI is installed to the HDD you dont need to have the disc in your PS2.

@pagejames

I see your confusion, however you must understand that when you are playing back-ups from the HDD with apps like Toxic OS, HDL/HDA these are not Sony made applications and they take over the network adapter thus disabling the NA for net use. When you are playing FFXI you are booting the game from Sonys HDD browser which is of course an official app made by Sony and you can still go online.
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pagejames
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_ 		6. March 2006 @ 04:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That was kinda what I was thinking. Thanks a million for helping it to make sense.

James
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