Steam Game Cartridges Are Very Cool, But Very Pricey

A PC gamer with a love of physical cartridges has built a unique game loading system for their Steam library. Upcycling some old 2.5-inch SATA SSDs, they built game cartridges for individual games, loading the game itself and a boot script onto the internal SSD so it boots as soon as the cart is plugged in.

Reddit user u/Jibril-sama wrote that they had a couple of used SATA SSDs, so they decided to make a cartridge system for their Steam games. In the short post, they showcase a number of cartridges they made, with a small SATA dock. To launch a game, they just plug the custom-made cart in, and the game reportedly starts up straight away.

u/Jibil-Sama told Tom's Hardware that the system runs Linux and Valve's Steam URL Protocol to navigate to the game's page or launch it as required.

"So basically: Plug in SSD > udev rule...

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