Making PSX roms take less space

[Nicky_S14]

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?

[ChuckyP]

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.

[Nicky_S14]

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.

[ChuckyP]

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.

[cyperghost]

@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

[XboxWin]

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

[Nicky_S14]

@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?

[XboxWin]

@nicky_s14 did you read that