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    Making PSX roms take less space

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      Nicky_S14
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      Hi, how can I make PSX roms take less space? Roms such as Gran Turismo take around 400MB to download, and then uncompressing that in the system takes lots of space. I need them to be smaller in size - is there any way for this?

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        ChuckyP
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        My whole collection for PS1 is almost 800gb. I run it off of a 1TB external drive though so space isn’t an issue.

        If you only want a few games you can look into PBP format. It is a compressed version for use on the PSP (PlayStation Portable). I use these on multi disk games since you don’t need to change disks. Not sure if they are overall smaller in size though.

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          Nicky_S14
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          Alright, anyhow to compress it will greatly help me. Do you know how to turn the .bin and .cue files into the .PBP. If so... this will greatly help.

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            ChuckyP
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            I’ve never done it. I know there are tutorials available online. I just grabbed a few to replace multi disk titles off the Interwebs.

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              cyperghost
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              @Nicky_S14
              You can also search for "Pocket Iso" this will strip down some games.
              So you can make Tekken 3 from 600MB to 70MB
              But you loose Video-sequences and BGM

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                XboxWin @Nicky_S14
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                @nicky_s14 With PSX2PSP app, you can convert .bin/.cue in PBP

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                  Nicky_S14 @cyperghost
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                  @cyperghost said in Making PSX roms take less space:

                  @Nicky_S14
                  You can also search for "Pocket Iso" this will strip down some games.
                  So you can make Tekken 3 from 600MB to 70MB
                  But you loose Video-sequences and BGM

                  That's perfectly what I need, to compress the file. But I want to keep the quality, like BGM. I've heard of IsoBuster so I will do some searching around to get it how I want, but thank you for this tip! Is there an option to strip the game without losing quality?

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                    XboxWin @Nicky_S14
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                    @nicky_s14 did you read that

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