Yeah, I bought into the load time aguement for awhile too. Funny, because to circumvent to cramped space on catridges some games started to compress music and what not and it would have to be decompressed when different music and levels would load. What did this lead to--load time! Wipeout 64 was a good example of this. When I finally gave up and bought a Playstation I did notice load time with games, but it wasn't that bad. And when the games had better music and more levels then the N64 counterparts (anyone remember MK Trilogy?) and where on average half the price--come on, how can you defend catridges?