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Thought of this because of the Sony announcement.
Would there be an easy way to make the game auto-launch if the card is inserted?
I dunno if you'd wanna waste a whole sd card for a single game when you could fit hundreds on it.
The Snes rom set fits in 4gb with room for saves. A 16gb card could likely hold NES, SNES and N64.
Not if were talking cyberpunk and such
In that case you'd want them on something faster than an SD card, or loading times would be brutal.
I play cyberpunk and similar sized games from an SD card on steam Deck. It's not brutal.
I looked but there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to do that in Linux. I was thinking a udev rule but it would be clunky since the low level details for media like SD cards aren't available. At best, maybe a generic rule that mounts it and looks for an
autorun.shor something, but that's basically reinventing Autoplay on Windows and would have the same security implications.I read Hack-a-Day frequently, and I've come across several projects that use NFC readers so you can tap a card to play specific songs or start playlists. Maybe something like that but launch a specific game instead?
e.g. https://hackaday.com/2025/03/31/a-music-box-commanded-by-nfc-tags/
I think you might want to have a look at a MiSTer fpga.
(it provides a very authentic experience and can launch games with tags if you choose so)