I don’t know exactly what you want but examples/v3/view/loader/scene-payload/scene-files-payload shows how to load an image early. In that example you could add in preload()
const img = this.add.image(0, 0, 'sonic');
because the 'sonic'
texture was already loaded.
Change the CDN script to https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/phaser@3.55.2/dist/phaser.js.