: A late-cycle gem that refined the graphics and player animations.
Searching Google for "PS2 highly compressed GOW" is a dangerous game. Here is what hides in those files:
Many developers filled the outer edge of discs with garbage data (null bytes) to push game data to the faster-reading inner rings of the disc. Compressors strip this out. This is 100% lossless. Tools like or CDMage allow this without touching gameplay.