I'm sure this behaviour is not standard or intended, waiting for a minute or two whenever I want to save is quite tiring.
it's standard and intended. Your games can't access your HDD natively. WHDload scans their output and puts it into somekind of buffer. Then is switches to OS (to gain access to HDD) and write the buffer contents to HDD.
try running the games from ram:. at least it makes the writing go much faster.:afro: