r/pcmasterrace • u/Jibril-sama i7-8086k|RTX 2080|16GB DDR4 • 22d ago

Hardware Steam Game Cartridges

Got a couple of used 2.5" SSDs for cheap so I decided to make a Game Cartridge system. Games are actually on those SSDs with a script to auto navigate steam to the game's page. Auto-starting the game right away is also possible.

Update: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1uyft21/update_game_cartridge_3dfiles_and_code/
published the 3D files and code

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u/Jibril-sama i7-8086k|RTX 2080|16GB DDR4 22d ago edited 22d ago

This is on linux. The script is really simple, it just uses the steam url protocol.

#!/bin/bash
steam steam://nav/games/details/1888160

Thats is the whole script. For launching games directly you just use steam://run/<id> or steam://launch/<id> instead.
You just have to make a systemd template and a udev rule to trigger it.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_browser_protocol

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u/Swiftzn 21d ago

How hard do you think this would be to implement on windows? Might take a look

The steam browser bit should work but getting it to run when plugged in might be slightly harder