This report analyzes the landscape of highly compressed PlayStation 2 (PS2) game releases packaged under 100 MB, covering historical context, compression methods, technical feasibility, common practices, quality and legal considerations, typical contents, distribution channels, and recommendations for preservation and ethical use.

This is an interesting topic, but there’s an important technical reality to address first:

: Many titles in the Sega Ages or Capcom Classics collections are extremely lightweight once removed from their disc-padding "dummy" files. How High Compression Works for PS2

: A popular bowling simulation often found at 84MB . How High Compression Works