CSO format reliability

[solarnoise]

What is the general consensus on the CSO format?

For my backups I always rip to ISO then convert them, and don't seem to ever have problems. If the compressed image doesn't save me a lot of space, I will usually convert it back to ISO.

I haven't done this in a while though, do any of the games that came out this year have issues playing as CSO?

 

[MenaceInc]

All my games that I've backed up I've converted to cso and had no issues with including Dissidia. Haven't bought any new games in a while for the PSP though, Dissidia was the last I did.

 

[solarnoise]

All my games that I've backed up I've converted to cso and had no issues with including Dissidia. Haven't bought any new games in a while for the PSP though, Dissidia was the last I did.

Thanks menace... glad to hear Dissidia works, I've been meaning to pick that one up!

 

[MenaceInc]

Thanks menace... glad to hear Dissidia works, I've been meaning to pick that one up!

Just a word of warning, if you live in the UK or any PAL region, import the US version since the PAL versions require 5.50. Not a problem I guess for those on GEN but I'm sticking to M33

 

[Simon19]

CSO's are a right pain when it comes to ANY of the GTA games, they become laggy as hell on the compression level 9 and reder them virtualy unplayable in my opinion, plus youre only shaving off about 200 megs

 

[angelsniper45]

really? i never noticed any difference. Maybe a little lag here and there but, in general i back all my games up in CSO format.

Try using 6-8 for compression.

 

[january39]

He is right actually, i have noticed lag when using GTA in a CSO, there are occasions when the CSO is barely any smaller than the ISO on lots of back ups.

I always leave them as ISO.