Like CJ says, HDDriver support is a tough call, because we know most of you are using the damend thing, so it'd be like we isolated ourselves out of the user base.... sigh...

Another idea would be to gut an already open source driver (e.g. Cecile) and hack our own hard disk dma loader, but after the first user that reports a broken partition I guess we won't be too happy about it :)

Lastly, given that we have sufficient mem, we could try using the 030's MMU to create a mem space that only the game (but not the OS + driver) will have access to, therefore no memory corruption. But this is all theoretical stuff, we need to learn some stuff about the MMU first to be confident. Anyway it sounds like a good idea for patching in general (I am getting tired making linkfiles all the time ;) )