Crash Bandicoot had similar issues. The PS1 was designed to load about a megabyte at a time, in (charitably) several seconds, while displaying a static screen. It had no support for streaming data. So what Naughty Dog did instead was tell the BIOS to load the minimum page size, in the background… three or four times per second. This was about a thousand times more disc operations per hour than the PS1 was designed for. But the game looked so damn good that Sony went, okay, guess we support this now.
Crash Bandicoot had similar issues. The PS1 was designed to load about a megabyte at a time, in (charitably) several seconds, while displaying a static screen. It had no support for streaming data. So what Naughty Dog did instead was tell the BIOS to load the minimum page size, in the background… three or four times per second. This was about a thousand times more disc operations per hour than the PS1 was designed for. But the game looked so damn good that Sony went, okay, guess we support this now.