This is crucial. Downloading copyrighted games that you do not own is illegal in many jurisdictions.
"The 450MB repack took 10 minutes to download. Extracted to 1.8GB. Played flawlessly on my i5-7th gen laptop. No crashes." – RetroGamer88 God Of War 1 Highly Compressed Iso
"Found a 380MB version but cutscenes were pixelated. Still great for speedruns." – SpartanRage This is crucial
"Most links are dead or lead to viruses. Took me three tries to find a clean one." – EmuNewbie "The 450MB repack took 10 minutes to download
Solution: Change Audio module to XAudio2 and latency to 100ms.
Some older games enter "abandonware" status, though this is a legal gray area. Archive.org sometimes hosts PS2 ISOs for preservation, but check your local laws.
Emulators like PCSX2 often load compressed formats (CSO, CHD) faster than full ISOs, and they take up less space in your ROM library.