Highly Compressed Ps2 Games Under 200mb -

Open world games (GTA: San Andreas) are impossible to compress under 1GB. Track racers? Easy.

Many commercial PS2 discs contained "dummy files"—gigabytes of empty padding. Developers added these to push game data to the outer edge of the DVD for faster read speeds. When you rip a PS2 game, you can remove these dummy files without losing a single frame of gameplay or a second of audio. A game like Ico (originally 3GB) can drop to ~700MB this way. But we need under 200MB, so we need more drastic measures. highly compressed ps2 games under 200mb

To hit 200MB, video files (FMVs) are re-encoded to extremely low bitrates (think 240p YouTube quality). Audio (CD-quality 44.1khz) is downsampled to 22khz mono or compressed using low-bitrate MP3. This is where the "loss" happens. Cutscenes become blocky, and soundtracks sound tinny. Open world games ( GTA: San Andreas )

Before we list the games, it helps to understand why these files get so small: Stream-Friendly Compression