--- title: "Someone made a system that loads their Steam games using floppy disks, and it's pretty genius" url: https://daily.dev/posts/someone-made-a-system-that-loads-their-steam-games-using-floppy-disks-and-it-s-pretty-genius-3p15jpse1 source_url: https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-made-a-system-that-loads-their-steam-games-using-floppy-disks-and-its-pretty-genius type: article source: "XDA Developers" published: 2026-08-06T07:18:55.533Z updated: 2026-08-06T07:35:00.951Z tags: ["steam"] reading_time: 1 upvotes: 6 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Someone made a system that loads their Steam games using floppy disks, and it's pretty genius **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 1 min read · 6 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hobbyist has built a system that uses floppy disks to launch Steam games, following a trend of giving digital game libraries a physical form. Each floppy disk corresponds to a specific game and triggers it to load, using some clever trickery under the hood. This follows a similar project where SSDs were fashioned into Game Boy-style cartridges for the same purpose. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Playing Factorio On A Floppy Disk Cluster](https://daily.dev/posts/playing-factorio-on-a-floppy-disk-cluster-ctegzeey3) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [TV Remote Uses Floppy Disks](https://daily.dev/posts/tv-remote-uses-floppy-disks-jphgjfbwe) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#steam](https://daily.dev/tags/steam) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/someone-made-a-system-that-loads-their-steam-games-using-floppy-disks-and-it-s-pretty-genius-3p15jpse1)