Certain games benefit more from compression than others. Games with lots of "Redbook" audio (CD music) or empty padding on the disc see the biggest gains:
: Modern compressed formats like .CHD or .PBP allow multi-disc games (like The Legend of Dragoon ) to be tucked away into a single file, eliminating the mess of multiple entries in your emulator menu. The Best Formats for PSX Compression psx games highly compressed
⏱️ : Click "Play" and the game starts immediately, bypassing the manual extraction phase. Certain games benefit more from compression than others
Post Title: PSA: You can play full PS1 games at under 100MB each I just set up DuckStation on my old Android phone with 15 compressed PSX ROMs. Total size? 1.2GB. Best find: Spider-Man (2000) at 68MB – runs flawlessly. DM me if you need a guide on converting your own ISOs to .pbp. Post Title: PSA: You can play full PS1