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Someone made physical media for their digital games. Do you find that cool, or just cumbersome? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/askgaming@piefed.social

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That person created NFC tags that can be scanned to automatically start a game when the tag is scanned.

The tag is added to a physical small box, cartridge-sized

Regarding ownership of the games files, they made a point about it at some point in the video, saying that they now only buy games from GoG to be able to just store the .exe files, DRM-free.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It was a bit hipster+nostalgia fun some 10 years ago (my friends made a shooter game on cartridge 2-3 y ago but it felt like too late. They had fun doing it so there's that).

My drop off old physical media was when I realised a CD holds like 12-20 songs. I can put 1000 onto a tiny 20€ usb stick. It's just too much hassle, IMO ofcoure.

Edit: played around with a rpi + camera as a jukebox with small QR code paper squares, disc photo on one side, qr code on the other, show it and the music plays. Fun to do but just not practical.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Music is a good topic they, that channel only has 2 videos, the second one being about using a dedicated music player ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EKV0oNN1Ak )

That player is 50 bucks, looks like a cassette player, has 8 GB of internal storage and supports SD cards up to 256 GB.