Is the Monster.sou actually needed?

[Intrik]

I've been putting a few of my old games on my DS and I was wondering; is the huge MONSTER.SOU file is actually needed to make the game stable?

So far I've just tested Sam & Max without it and it's been working alright (I really don't care about having speech enabled) so I was wondering if I could keep going without the file on this and other games too.

[Badablek]

No, monster.sou is not needed, games work great without it.

BTW you can compress monster.sou to MP3 (.so3) or Ogg (.sog) to save a lot of space, and playing a game with speech is much better ^_^