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Playstation 2 games in 7z and ISO

rburggraf

By rburggraf
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Awakened Newbie

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Or you can convert your PS2 ISOs to .gz compressed files, which you can load directly in nightly versions of PCSX2, as described here: http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-New-ISO-compression-help-testing

You just have to add .gz to the supported extensions list in the HL module. Then wait a bit on launching each game the first time, as PCSX2 has to generate an index file. After that, they'll launch just as fast as uncompressed ISOs :)

Aorin Mentor

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Awakened's method can be the best for those who prefer not waiting every time you start a game, I use Gzipped Ps2 Isos and as he said, it only creates an index file the first time you run that given game, then the games will start without loading.

So you have a compressed ISO that sometimes saves you more than 1 or even 3 GB without waiting, but it's up to you, just my 50 cents.

justice999 Contributor

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Awakened's method can be the best for those who prefer not waiting every time you start a game, I use Gzipped Ps2 Isos and as he said, it only creates an index file the first time you run that given game, then the games will start without loading.

So you have a compressed ISO that sometimes saves you more than 1 or even 3 GB without waiting, but it's up to you, just my 50 cents.

Thanks for the info. How long does it take to load the game the first time? I'm reading one minute on internet, is it true? Can I generate index files for many games in 'batch mode'?

Thanks.

Aorin Mentor

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It takes a minute or two, it depends on the game size. But the point is that it only needs this first time you run that game, I let them hidden so they don't mix with the isos.

I really don't know if there's a way to create these indexes files all at once.

If you choose this way, think this: If you'd let them 7zipped you'd wait them to decompress every time, but Gzipped only once, so, even if no batch exist for this, the next time you run that game it will open immediately.

Well, that's my thoughts.

justice999 Contributor

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It takes a minute or two, it depends on the game size. But the point is that it only needs this first time you run that game, I let them hidden so they don't mix with the isos.

I really don't know if there's a way to create these indexes files all at once.

If you choose this way, think this: If you'd let them 7zipped you'd wait them to decompress every time, but Gzipped only once, so, even if no batch exist for this, the next time you run that game it will open immediately.

Well, that's my thoughts.

Yes I agree with you. Thanks.

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ChrisKant Enthusiast

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I can't get this to run smoothly. On Tekken the sound is awful-isos

that sounds not so good. maybe I should not start with the gzip action on my set

Awakened Newbie

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Awakened , how would one go about adding it the module , any help would be appreciated . Thank you .

 

I edited my previous post in this thread to correctly link to my post explaining how to do that (here). I guess forum link formatting changed with the new forums.

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