UMD Gen Optimize

[007]

What are peoples thoughts on using UMD Gen to optimize a ISO (removing pointless to contain firmware updates) If you optimize and it runs should be fine right?

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[jc_gargma]

For the most part, there is no reason not to. Plus if you do a dummy search to remove padding, it can be a good alternative for saving space without the lag of making it a CSO, as, depending on the game, this can save upto a few hundred MBs of space.
I optimize+dummy clean every ISO I have, aside from the ones where doing so breaks them. (I know of Disgaea 2, and Class of Heroes breaking from this.)
I found the best pattern was to Optimize, then Dummy Search, then Optimize again.
A useful idea is to make sure you have a backup of the ISO prior to optimizing+dummy cleaning, incase it breaks upon testing (since its more time-consuming to redump or re-NPD a game.)

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[rainof89]

I used UMDGen to downsize my games by removing content like

Daxter= 1.4gb
After removing other languages and update
Daxter around 700mb
No problems so far

Little Big Planet = 1.3gb (i think)
After removing all videos
Little Big Planet = 200mb
No problems so far

etc.

you get the picture. all remain in iso format. Got all my psp games on my 4gb memory card with room for emulators etc. UMDGen is very useful
for downsizing. Anyone tried DAX format?

[007]

Ya after some expirementing Im not fond of CSO anymore. going with optimizing and removing dummy. Thanks for the advice.

[SifJar]

Daxter= 1.4gb
After removing other languages and update
Daxter around 700mb
No problems so far

How do you know which language is English? Do you just extract the audio from each language until you find one in English and delete the others?

[rainof89]

Daxter= 1.4gb
After removing other languages and update
Daxter around 700mb
No problems so far

How do you know which language is English? Do you just extract the audio from each language until you find one in English and delete the others?

they were labelled

[dunuck]

I bucking hate FIXES , patches optimizations and the like, unless we are talking about Japanese games
I prefer original clean untouched ISOs (no CSO either)

So no thanks

[poisonedhrt]

please help when i optimize tekken 6 it wont load same with naruto ultimate impact "hoping for a quick answer"

[KillerM33]

i had the same problem when i tried to optimize tekken 6 on UMDGEN 4,maybe the only solution to this is to not fiddle with it at all

[SMOKE]

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