Possible to compress The Curse of Monkey Island?

henrik_s · Post by **henrik_s** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:37 pm

Hi there, It's ages ago since I played COMI on my PC, but now I want to play through it again, on my PSP! The only problem is, it's too large, almost 1GB, I will be lucky if it even fits on my 1GB stick, but I have other stuff there too. So my question is, is there a way to compress it?

Thanks.

joostp · Post by **joostp** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:05 pm

Yes, it's possible to compress the music, speech and cutscenes of COMI, bringing the size down considerably.
When doing so I recommend using the 333mhz build of ScummVM for PSP.

As for how: I suggest searching the forums/website and/or use Google to find this out, as it's been explained countless times already.

henrik_s · Post by **henrik_s** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:37 pm

I got it working, from 1GB to 450mb! And I must say, it looks AWESOME! Fantastic job, guys!

It might run a bit slow at times, will it be smoother with the 333mhz version?

joostp · Post by **joostp** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:44 pm

Yes, see the other thread(s).

henrik_s · Post by **henrik_s** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:52 pm

You wrote in a thread that only compressing and copying 1 CD at a time would increase performance, why is that?

Thanks again.

joostp · Post by **joostp** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:51 am

You misunderstood.

If you only have a 512M card, playing the game uncompressed (i.e. 1 CD at a time) is (was?) better than squeezing both CDs on there with maximum compression, since some CPU power is needed to decompress the resources again.

Atleast this used to be true for the PSP port at the time, it since has been improved somewhat, and there now is an optional 333mhz build, so it might not make much of a difference anymore.