Personally I’m working on a way to make cheap SSDs into cartridges for pc gaming. My goal is to build all the required directories and software onto the SSD so as long as you have the framework on the pc you can just plug it in and it will launch the game.
Tb drives may cost too much but crap 200gb drives are a dime a dozen.
Depends on how it loads the data. Most executables will load completely into the RAM during launch. But some parts of the game are only loaded when needed, like graphics.
Conversely though, most old games are small, and were designed around slow read write speeds. So most modern usb drives are fully up to the task, for older games.
Right now I use a sata dockon my desk that I picked up for cheap and I actually plan on making both a vintage console case for it and another for the sata to usb board that I gutted out of an external hdd. Also the other commenter made a great point about putting a hotswap port in a tower, that’s my ideal scenario if I can get a micro-pc. I salvaged an old pc years ago that had a WD My Passport dock in the case where a disk drive would go, I thought that would’ve been the coolest thing ever but it was obsolete before I got it.
It’s honestly prety great, my biggest issue is that I’m absolutely not a programmer so my current abilities are limited to what I can cobble together with settings and system configurations.
I’m working on learning though, eventually I’ll get it.
Personally I’m working on a way to make cheap SSDs into cartridges for pc gaming. My goal is to build all the required directories and software onto the SSD so as long as you have the framework on the pc you can just plug it in and it will launch the game.
Tb drives may cost too much but crap 200gb drives are a dime a dozen.
Would USB thumb drives be too slow?
Depends on how it loads the data. Most executables will load completely into the RAM during launch. But some parts of the game are only loaded when needed, like graphics. Conversely though, most old games are small, and were designed around slow read write speeds. So most modern usb drives are fully up to the task, for older games.
I was always told they’d be but honestly ive never had an issue with usb 3 or SD card. I’m doing SSD sata gives a really satisfying cartride feel.
Plugging something into a sata port usually requires taking the PC apart and restarting it doesn’t it?
Right now I use a sata dockon my desk that I picked up for cheap and I actually plan on making both a vintage console case for it and another for the sata to usb board that I gutted out of an external hdd. Also the other commenter made a great point about putting a hotswap port in a tower, that’s my ideal scenario if I can get a micro-pc. I salvaged an old pc years ago that had a WD My Passport dock in the case where a disk drive would go, I thought that would’ve been the coolest thing ever but it was obsolete before I got it.
I’m guessing they have some sort of hot swappable port, either external or built into case.
Have you already checked out kazeta.org? Sounds a bit like what you are trying to achieve.
I have not! I’m going to have to investigate this further but it may actually be a perfect solve for what I’m doing.
Sounds promising
It’s honestly prety great, my biggest issue is that I’m absolutely not a programmer so my current abilities are limited to what I can cobble together with settings and system configurations.
I’m working on learning though, eventually I’ll get it.
I have faith in you!