Steam Deck Owner Brought Floppy Disk Gaming Back To Life, Sort Of
Remember a couple of weeks ago, when we reported on a gamer who transformed old 2.5-inch SATA SSDs into game cartridges? Well, meet the Steam Deck owner who gave the floppy disk medium new life. Honestly, it’s a…kind of, sort of situation with this, plus a pinch of “but why?” thrown into the pot. The […] The post Steam Deck Owner Brought Floppy Disk Gaming Back To Life, Sort Of appeared first on…
A few weeks ago, a gamer shared a unique idea for reviving floppy disk gaming, which has since taken an interesting form on a Steam Deck. BlackIceLA, a user on Reddit, created a project to implement a system similar to Zaparoo, but tailored for the Steam Deck. This system would integrate NFC, QR codes, USB drives and floppy disks into SteamOS, with game launch and quit functions occurring seamlessly.
To achieve this, BlackIceLA developed a plugin called "Decky Links" that detects these media types. Each floppy disk in their setup stores a Steam game URL, which when read by the reader, instructs the Steam Deck to launch the respective game located on the internal storage or a microSD card. Despite the innovative concept, the project carries a sense of indulgence, as the floppy disks store mere URLs, rather than actual game data.
The reader is connected to the lone USB-C port on the Steam Deck, and the storage medium has effectively become obsolete. The project remains a fascinating yet somewhat impractical endeavor.
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