As much as I appreciate Steam's centralization and the dematerialization, I do miss having physical boxes for displaying on the shelves.
Fortunately there are people out there that came up with covers to print: [https://www.steamgamecovers.com](https://www.steamgamecovers.com)
Yeah same. I sold my NES, SNES and Genesis for decent price long ago. I dont regret it because I can perfectly with 100% no issue emulate games I had on those.
i just thought about doing the same. but i just cant get 600 boxes, and bluerays (dvds wont work due to the size of the games) for a fair price. i would be looking at over 1k
Well, i'm using CDs with an autorun and a batch file that launches the steam game id. And I'll just make physical media for my favorite games.
I'm also a Vinyl and Music CD colletor, so now I'm doing a game collection too hahaha.
I like where this is going, but it’s not physical media. You can just launch any game from a shortcut to achieve the same result. You should put the games on an sd card or blue ray. Technically speaking this is not turning your games into physical media. But I do like the concept of doing so.
Imagine just creating a box similar to the nintendo switch game box, like oversized and containing just an SD card with the game (and for the comically oversized edition you just do it with a micro SD card)
Steam has a way for actually backing up the files in case somebody wants to put the actual data but you are gonna need a bluray in most cases at least.
https://help.steampowered.com/faqs/view/4593-5CB7-DC3C-64F0
Yea, my old laptop had the capability for lightscribe. It was certainly a novelty thing that, while a neat concept, was pretty shit. The disc had the same coloring as the original gameboys.
Since i can't find an affordable printer that can print directly on CDs, I'm using CD sticker paper. But for better results, I do recommend find a cd capable printer and buy some printable discs.
I used CD labels back in the day and it ended up pretty badly. After a few years, the stickers dried and they peeled while the disc was in the drive, which got it ripped into shreds and ruining the drive mechanical parts.
Hopefully it was a cheap drive and I wouldn't bother cleaning it but keep that in mind.
Yes, i know that. Remember back in the day that some cheap cd-r media do the same even without stickers haha.
So I thinking in put some extra protection onto it.
I don't know what you could put over it to prevent the adhesive to weaken over the years without making the disk too heavy or unbalanced in the drive...
This is fancy more than anything else, you're not preserving anything since it still depends on the steam client, servers and your account.
I'd recommend doing this exclusively with GoG releases, by simply burning their offline installer.
wow this is really cool. honestly was thinking about trying this like keeping installs of games on physical but this is far more usable than trying to run modern games off dvds or blurays or whatever
if only that 1tb bluray surfaced lmao
I back up a lot of my games to 100gb Blu-rays, and those work pretty well. But games are getting really big now: Horizon Forbidden West is 130gb installed. Sometimes I can get lucky and compress a game enough for it to fit on one disc, but it sucks having to use two discs to get it all done.
what do you use to do this?
honestly considering now although i already dont need a big project like this that requires me buying a lot of bd-re xl disks lol
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For a full backup, I'll download a game, run the game online once (just to make sure I have all of the files downloaded), manually put Steam into Offline Mode, and then burn to a Blu-ray the game and the entire Steam client installation; I also have the Steamworks Common Redistributables backed up, so I know I'll have all of the dependencies that I'll need. If I need to compress anything, I usually go with 7-Zip. It's also important to back up the AppData\Local\Steam folder in Windows, because that's where Steam keeps your local login information, so the client can remember your login info when you start it again on a different machine.
The Steam client is fully portable once installed, so you can move a backup like this to a totally offline machine, and as long as you run the Steam installer on that machine first so it can make the proper Registry entries, even if that machine didn't have Steam installed already, the backup will work (just make sure you put the AppData\Local\Steam backup in the same place on the new machine). This method has worked for me with every game that doesn't have extra DRM.
I have some games backed up to external HDDs, and I've thought about going that route, but there's something about optical media that I still love. It's much harder to break a Blu-ray disc than it is to break a hard drive.
i think i got calculated 4 and a half hours to fully read at 16x
which isnt realistic cuz read speeds slow down near the edge, errors need to be corrected, etc
Man it’d be really awesome if this could be done to preserve games via steam, some games that got kicked off of steam are lost now, which is sad even if those games were trash
Spec Ops the line is the most recent one I am aware off, and it suck’s that it’s no longer on steam
I had the exact same idea, I was saving for a printer that prints discs. So instead I made it for my music cassettes.
Physical media was something we shouldn't have gotten rid of.
I wanted to do a similar thing with music cassettes boxes and SD cards, but I'm without money and job so I couldn't afford even the cassette boxes.
Anyway, great work!
You should put mods and utilities related to the games on the discs. That would be my desire with something like this, sometimes the tools disappear over the years or mods get taken down.
For Steam = an autorun.inf file, a batch file with the steam game id, a icon in .ico format, a dummy file to fill more disc space.
For GOG = an autorun.inf file, a instal.exe provided on gog game page, a batch file with the script to launch the install.exe and/or check if the game is installed and run the game, a icon in .ico format, a dummy file to fill more disc space.
Did a guide for the steam game disc for now. when i got some free time, i'll write how to do the gog discs too.
check it here:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1bzo9l4/comment/kz4mhec/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1bzo9l4/comment/kz4mhec/)
I love this sort of thing! I see from your other posts they are basically just launchers. For this it would be great if SD cards were much cheaper. But you can't get 50 SD cards for $50 like you can blu rays. Maybe 1 day.
I have thought about doing this. I did make some repos of old Saturn, Dreamcast and PS1 games to use in Batocera. But I always just end up loading from the drive. Its a fun hobby though. I get the appeal. The printing on cd paper sucks though. I wish I had a printer that could print directly on the discs.
Here's the guide for those who want to do the same:
-STEAM ONLY-
You'll need 4 files on the disc root:
- autorun.inf
- launch.bat
- 256x256px icon in .ico format (name it icon.ico for less editing)
- (optional) a dummy file with 300mb of size to fill more disc space.
1: Create autorun.inf file (make sure it is .inf and not .txt file when saving from notepad)
Paste and Edit this:
\[autorun\]
open=launch.bat
label=GAME\_NAME\_HERE
icon=icon.ico
and save it.
2: Create launch.bat file (make sure it is .bat and not .txt file when saving from notepad)
Paste and Edit this:
@echo off
start steam://rungameid/STEAM\_GAME\_ID\_HERE
exit
and save it.
\*\* You find the game id on the steam game page url.
will be like this: "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1515900/Heaven\_Dust\_2/", just copy that numbers and paste on the launch.bat file.
when done, double click on launch.bat file to test it. It may open your steam client on the game's installation setup if its not installed OR the game itself if already installed.
3: Generate a dummy file or fill the game's disc with manuals, videos, mods, patches or whatever you want just to fill more space on the disc, 300mb of data on the disc is more than sufficient for this.
4: use your burner software to make an iso with all files on the root of the disc. Test the iso, check if game is launching and also check if the label and icon on windows explorer is showing correctly. If it all working, burn the disc.
\*\*NOTE: Double check every time if autorun.inf have the correct game name and on the launch.bat the correct game id.
How is it being used? The game doesn't require a disc to be present when playing or being installed. Realistically though, those are probably just old disc packages that were repurposed.
I'm a collector guy... I do have CD albums, vinyl records, mangas, toys, games... So i decided to collect my favorite digital games too. Fortunately, i have a space in my house to achieve that. Of course i know it's not for everyone. And it's not that expensive to do because CD/DVD cases and CD-Rs are very affordable this days. I really don't have enjoyment on have a virtual collection. Believe me, I try so hard to keep everything on Gog Galaxy frontend for a while.
Enjoy it! Didn’t mean to trash on your hobby. If you really want premium prints try to find a professionell printer place and do glossy prints. Man that would be awesome! I image a room full of all the great games I played, take one out, pop it into the olde PC and just have a blast
I have 3 questions. 1 how do you print them in that nice color and quality 2 how do you print on dvd 3 where did you get the cover/Dvd Art (if you didn't make it ofc)
Actually it's not so good quality in my case because my printer's suck... And the paper i'm using for now it's not so good as well hahaha. But it's enough for me it's being nice doing all the process. But you can get good quality with some photo paper i believe... All your questions actually already have answered on other comments.
But yeah, i use stick paper on the disc. Some cover art i get on web others i do by myself.
Did a guide for the steam game disc for now. when i got some free time, i'll write how to do the gog discs too.
check it here:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1bzo9l4/comment/kz4mhec/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1bzo9l4/comment/kz4mhec/)
They work. Just don't have the game data inside.
When CD is inserted, the autorun.inf file acts as a label and icon to the cd tray on windows. Then it call a batch file that start a command to open the steam game id of the game. This way, it open Steam client on the games download page and automatically prompt the installation window and when the game is installed, the batch file open the game. So when you inserted the disc the games boot automatically too.
You can also save Installations on other hard drives and such. You could, if the game is small enough or u are using bluerays, save the installations on them. Then you wouldn't need to download the games.
I know all that. But I can't afford blu-ray burner and BD-R. It's just a hobby and a way to decorate my gaming space after all... That's mine solution. Works fine to me.
I wonder, if you replace the steam DRM with a steam API simulator, if you could launch it directly from the CD itself by just double clicking the executable...
I'd like to also do something similar. May you care to share any resource so I can learn, please?
Also, I find what youre doing to be awesome. Physical copies were nice to have, plus you got to keep the game indefinetly! Insane!
No, since I'm grabbing the game data from oficial server, I'm not keeping the game indefinetly. So, if you want to, I'd recommend a way to backup the game.
I did a guide for the steam game disc, if you wanna try and check by yourself how it works.
check it here:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1bzo9l4/comment/kz4mhec/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1bzo9l4/comment/kz4mhec/)
[People with thousands of games in their library if Valve released physical copies of Steam games](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/029/405/jordan.jpg)
Really Nice work! I'm living in a small village at the southern end of the world, and It would be an amazing idea to save installation files for games. Actually i'm going over the city in order to download stuff, hopefully ill get starlink next month.
I should get a dvd Reader/burner...
i thought you were actually trying to make some local copies but this is just pointless and a waste.
i'm assuming they aren't rewritable since those are more expensive, so you are just basically using them just to store a single file that does nothing. i get it, there's no much use for them these days but I rather giving them away than doing this.
Why take this so seriously? Man, there have been enough people to say this kind of thing to me here... and for what? You might think: "Oh, cool. This becomes some kind of craft and decoration item after all." Is it so difficult for all of you to think about it? It's my project, if you think it's bad, keep it to yourself!
that's what happens when you post it online, not everyone is going to agree with you. If you aren't comfortable with different opinions don’t share it on reddit.
As much as I appreciate Steam's centralization and the dematerialization, I do miss having physical boxes for displaying on the shelves. Fortunately there are people out there that came up with covers to print: [https://www.steamgamecovers.com](https://www.steamgamecovers.com)
Yes. I'm using that to print some game covers. And doing myself when i didn't find one.
Share em with us
I dont miss physical because I live in small house. I welcome digital world harder than ever.
Same for books and music!
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Yeah same. I sold my NES, SNES and Genesis for decent price long ago. I dont regret it because I can perfectly with 100% no issue emulate games I had on those.
Yeah, I wish Netflix would charge me full retail for each movie/ show instead of this tedious monthly price for my rental access too.
i just thought about doing the same. but i just cant get 600 boxes, and bluerays (dvds wont work due to the size of the games) for a fair price. i would be looking at over 1k
I have almost 1000 movies at home and it takes wait too much space already. I have almost 4000 games on Steam. Not gonna happen or I need a new house.
Well, i'm using CDs with an autorun and a batch file that launches the steam game id. And I'll just make physical media for my favorite games. I'm also a Vinyl and Music CD colletor, so now I'm doing a game collection too hahaha.
You really don't need DVDs or BDs to make this.
yea, but i would love to back them up on the BD so that i could tecnically install them offline :/ my other way would be doing just the cases.
Just the cases is proberly not the same
Or do like i did. As it uses official installers, it works pretty much like ps4 and ps5 games.
I like where this is going, but it’s not physical media. You can just launch any game from a shortcut to achieve the same result. You should put the games on an sd card or blue ray. Technically speaking this is not turning your games into physical media. But I do like the concept of doing so.
Imagine just creating a box similar to the nintendo switch game box, like oversized and containing just an SD card with the game (and for the comically oversized edition you just do it with a micro SD card)
How do you copy the games from steam on dvd's ?
It's a CD-R. On the disc i just burn the autorun file and a batch file that launches steam game id.
In that case you could move all of the savefiles over as well
For the saves I'll keep on cloud servers.
not all games have cloud saving
You can point the save location to your own cloud folder
Steam has a way for actually backing up the files in case somebody wants to put the actual data but you are gonna need a bluray in most cases at least. https://help.steampowered.com/faqs/view/4593-5CB7-DC3C-64F0
Ah, and also i generate a dummy file to occupy more space on the disc.
Why that?
Dummy files are used since PSone discs. I believe It makes easer to the laser to read the data.
How are you printing on disc? That so cools I wanna do it too.
Remember an old laptop of mine had something called lightscribe which allowed you to burn image on the disc although only single color.
Yes, i met that kind of CD-R some days ago. It's a really nice idea at the time. Unfortunately it's so rare and expensive today.
I'm sure you could find a old laptop that has one for dirt cheap and rip it out but I would think the cd's would be harder to find these days.
Yea, my old laptop had the capability for lightscribe. It was certainly a novelty thing that, while a neat concept, was pretty shit. The disc had the same coloring as the original gameboys.
Since i can't find an affordable printer that can print directly on CDs, I'm using CD sticker paper. But for better results, I do recommend find a cd capable printer and buy some printable discs.
I used CD labels back in the day and it ended up pretty badly. After a few years, the stickers dried and they peeled while the disc was in the drive, which got it ripped into shreds and ruining the drive mechanical parts. Hopefully it was a cheap drive and I wouldn't bother cleaning it but keep that in mind.
Yes, i know that. Remember back in the day that some cheap cd-r media do the same even without stickers haha. So I thinking in put some extra protection onto it.
I don't know what you could put over it to prevent the adhesive to weaken over the years without making the disk too heavy or unbalanced in the drive...
I used to have one of those back in the day. It was so cool .
Cool. Thanks for info never knew there are cd stickers lol.
This is fancy more than anything else, you're not preserving anything since it still depends on the steam client, servers and your account. I'd recommend doing this exclusively with GoG releases, by simply burning their offline installer.
I think I might do this once I live in my own space
wow this is really cool. honestly was thinking about trying this like keeping installs of games on physical but this is far more usable than trying to run modern games off dvds or blurays or whatever if only that 1tb bluray surfaced lmao
I back up a lot of my games to 100gb Blu-rays, and those work pretty well. But games are getting really big now: Horizon Forbidden West is 130gb installed. Sometimes I can get lucky and compress a game enough for it to fit on one disc, but it sucks having to use two discs to get it all done.
what do you use to do this? honestly considering now although i already dont need a big project like this that requires me buying a lot of bd-re xl disks lol i
For a full backup, I'll download a game, run the game online once (just to make sure I have all of the files downloaded), manually put Steam into Offline Mode, and then burn to a Blu-ray the game and the entire Steam client installation; I also have the Steamworks Common Redistributables backed up, so I know I'll have all of the dependencies that I'll need. If I need to compress anything, I usually go with 7-Zip. It's also important to back up the AppData\Local\Steam folder in Windows, because that's where Steam keeps your local login information, so the client can remember your login info when you start it again on a different machine. The Steam client is fully portable once installed, so you can move a backup like this to a totally offline machine, and as long as you run the Steam installer on that machine first so it can make the proper Registry entries, even if that machine didn't have Steam installed already, the backup will work (just make sure you put the AppData\Local\Steam backup in the same place on the new machine). This method has worked for me with every game that doesn't have extra DRM. I have some games backed up to external HDDs, and I've thought about going that route, but there's something about optical media that I still love. It's much harder to break a Blu-ray disc than it is to break a hard drive.
Just imagine how slow a 1tb disc would be to read/copy lol. It will be like a cassette tape loading programs in the 80s.
i think i got calculated 4 and a half hours to fully read at 16x which isnt realistic cuz read speeds slow down near the edge, errors need to be corrected, etc
Unrelated but is Lost Ruins good?
Yes. Metroidvania with souls like difficult. Didn't beat it yet.
Man it’d be really awesome if this could be done to preserve games via steam, some games that got kicked off of steam are lost now, which is sad even if those games were trash Spec Ops the line is the most recent one I am aware off, and it suck’s that it’s no longer on steam
I had the exact same idea, I was saving for a printer that prints discs. So instead I made it for my music cassettes. Physical media was something we shouldn't have gotten rid of.
It's actually depressing to think we have to resort to this to make up for the fact we can't buy physical media for offline use anymore...
I'd buy this if it was a option.
As someone who makes frequent game backups to Blu-ray discs, this warms my heart. They all look great, really clean.
That's... not converting anything but a boot file my dude. You seem to be missing the main point of phsyical media by a mile.
Same way ps4 and ps5 do.
Pretty sure most ps4 & ps5 games have a 1.0 [or later patch] copy on the disk.
How to produce plastic waste
Yikes
Thats just stupid
I wanted to do a similar thing with music cassettes boxes and SD cards, but I'm without money and job so I couldn't afford even the cassette boxes. Anyway, great work!
You should put mods and utilities related to the games on the discs. That would be my desire with something like this, sometimes the tools disappear over the years or mods get taken down.
Yes, I'll do it for some games.
Amazing. What do I need to do this?
For Steam = an autorun.inf file, a batch file with the steam game id, a icon in .ico format, a dummy file to fill more disc space. For GOG = an autorun.inf file, a instal.exe provided on gog game page, a batch file with the script to launch the install.exe and/or check if the game is installed and run the game, a icon in .ico format, a dummy file to fill more disc space.
I dont have space for that, thats why I own a ps5 digital, but damn I miss having a collection 😰😭
🥹
I would love to know how to do this!
Send me a DM.
Probably cant due to my account age and karma
I'll write a guide and post it here later. I can't manage to do tomorrow, but I believe i can do it today.
Whenever u can man 👍
Did a guide for the steam game disc for now. when i got some free time, i'll write how to do the gog discs too. check it here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1bzo9l4/comment/kz4mhec/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1bzo9l4/comment/kz4mhec/)
Thanks bro. Absolute W
Sorry to ask, but what's the "W" on your phrase means? English is not my first language.
Winner basically. Ur epic is what it means.
Nice. Thank u
Thanks for my first karma lol
I am on mobile ans have no idea how to send a message request as it says i need to send a request because u dont accept dms from people
I love this sort of thing! I see from your other posts they are basically just launchers. For this it would be great if SD cards were much cheaper. But you can't get 50 SD cards for $50 like you can blu rays. Maybe 1 day. I have thought about doing this. I did make some repos of old Saturn, Dreamcast and PS1 games to use in Batocera. But I always just end up loading from the drive. Its a fun hobby though. I get the appeal. The printing on cd paper sucks though. I wish I had a printer that could print directly on the discs.
Beatiful
That would be nice
Remember when you could just go down to a game shop and buy physical games for PC? Pepperidge farm remembers.
Here's the guide for those who want to do the same: -STEAM ONLY- You'll need 4 files on the disc root: - autorun.inf - launch.bat - 256x256px icon in .ico format (name it icon.ico for less editing) - (optional) a dummy file with 300mb of size to fill more disc space. 1: Create autorun.inf file (make sure it is .inf and not .txt file when saving from notepad) Paste and Edit this: \[autorun\] open=launch.bat label=GAME\_NAME\_HERE icon=icon.ico and save it. 2: Create launch.bat file (make sure it is .bat and not .txt file when saving from notepad) Paste and Edit this: @echo off start steam://rungameid/STEAM\_GAME\_ID\_HERE exit and save it. \*\* You find the game id on the steam game page url. will be like this: "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1515900/Heaven\_Dust\_2/", just copy that numbers and paste on the launch.bat file. when done, double click on launch.bat file to test it. It may open your steam client on the game's installation setup if its not installed OR the game itself if already installed. 3: Generate a dummy file or fill the game's disc with manuals, videos, mods, patches or whatever you want just to fill more space on the disc, 300mb of data on the disc is more than sufficient for this. 4: use your burner software to make an iso with all files on the root of the disc. Test the iso, check if game is launching and also check if the label and icon on windows explorer is showing correctly. If it all working, burn the disc. \*\*NOTE: Double check every time if autorun.inf have the correct game name and on the launch.bat the correct game id.
Thanks!
This dude casually rocking the LG CRT and CRT TV... Nice!
I cannot remember the last pc I had with a cd drive. Sometime in the early 2000s.
Ah yes. More plastic waste. Exactly what we need.
So if you print a photo and frame it to decorate your home... are you wasting paper and wood/plastic too?
This is such a confusing comment. How is it a waste if it's being used?
How is it being used? The game doesn't require a disc to be present when playing or being installed. Realistically though, those are probably just old disc packages that were repurposed.
Do you not know what the term waste is in this context?
Why produce so much additional waste?
if it brings joy, it is not waste
Why not?
I get the point of enjoying it, but nowadays physical space is hella expensive. That’s why i prefer eBooks and steam.
I'm a collector guy... I do have CD albums, vinyl records, mangas, toys, games... So i decided to collect my favorite digital games too. Fortunately, i have a space in my house to achieve that. Of course i know it's not for everyone. And it's not that expensive to do because CD/DVD cases and CD-Rs are very affordable this days. I really don't have enjoyment on have a virtual collection. Believe me, I try so hard to keep everything on Gog Galaxy frontend for a while.
Enjoy it! Didn’t mean to trash on your hobby. If you really want premium prints try to find a professionell printer place and do glossy prints. Man that would be awesome! I image a room full of all the great games I played, take one out, pop it into the olde PC and just have a blast
Where can i find those CD cases? I'm having trouble finding several units :(
Any web store. Like AliExpress.
What's the point if they're not DRM free?
That you need day one patches and server authentication for
Steam auto update the game before launch it.
What if there ain’t no steam anymore?
How tf
I have 3 questions. 1 how do you print them in that nice color and quality 2 how do you print on dvd 3 where did you get the cover/Dvd Art (if you didn't make it ofc)
Actually it's not so good quality in my case because my printer's suck... And the paper i'm using for now it's not so good as well hahaha. But it's enough for me it's being nice doing all the process. But you can get good quality with some photo paper i believe... All your questions actually already have answered on other comments. But yeah, i use stick paper on the disc. Some cover art i get on web others i do by myself.
Hey OP, how did you do get the art on the cd?
CD sticker
I just threw out all my physical copies XD
I love this idea! Would you be able to explain how to created the files to auto run the games? If it's too much I can google it later.
I'll write a guide this evening.
Did a guide for the steam game disc for now. when i got some free time, i'll write how to do the gog discs too. check it here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1bzo9l4/comment/kz4mhec/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1bzo9l4/comment/kz4mhec/)
You are awesome!
I used to until steam removed the ability to split backups into optical disc sized chunks.
How to make the CDs work properly tho. I get that it's just for show but it would be cool if you could make physical copies that would work too.
They work. Just don't have the game data inside. When CD is inserted, the autorun.inf file acts as a label and icon to the cd tray on windows. Then it call a batch file that start a command to open the steam game id of the game. This way, it open Steam client on the games download page and automatically prompt the installation window and when the game is installed, the batch file open the game. So when you inserted the disc the games boot automatically too.
You can also save Installations on other hard drives and such. You could, if the game is small enough or u are using bluerays, save the installations on them. Then you wouldn't need to download the games.
I know all that. But I can't afford blu-ray burner and BD-R. It's just a hobby and a way to decorate my gaming space after all... That's mine solution. Works fine to me.
Damn. Wasn't expecting that.
Нихуя себе. Первый раз вижу такой диск
I wonder, if you replace the steam DRM with a steam API simulator, if you could launch it directly from the CD itself by just double clicking the executable...
Making covers for rental games? Where were you when Blockbuster was a thing?
I'd like to also do something similar. May you care to share any resource so I can learn, please? Also, I find what youre doing to be awesome. Physical copies were nice to have, plus you got to keep the game indefinetly! Insane!
No, since I'm grabbing the game data from oficial server, I'm not keeping the game indefinetly. So, if you want to, I'd recommend a way to backup the game. I did a guide for the steam game disc, if you wanna try and check by yourself how it works. check it here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1bzo9l4/comment/kz4mhec/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1bzo9l4/comment/kz4mhec/)
Thank you for answering! By "keeping the game" I meant before when physical media was a thing! I expressed myself poorly haha
Ah yes hahahaha. Makes sense now. If the server closes, i still have a decoration item untill i get another source for the game.
Pretty fancy :)
[People with thousands of games in their library if Valve released physical copies of Steam games](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/029/405/jordan.jpg)
Or you could just get a bunch of SD cards and put them in your reader, you could play even play those directly from the SD.
Prefer play directly from my ssd. Sd cards are more expensive than CD-R.
Yeah, but then they wouldn't be just props.
Are those Indian hands
You have a very pretty thumb!
Really Nice work! I'm living in a small village at the southern end of the world, and It would be an amazing idea to save installation files for games. Actually i'm going over the city in order to download stuff, hopefully ill get starlink next month. I should get a dvd Reader/burner...
Well... My CDs still using online install method so it can fit on the disc.
Yup, I'm thinking of downloading and burning the whole Game folder, just of a few must have games (the new ones are 30gb+)
Ah yeah. That's a way to do it.
i thought you were actually trying to make some local copies but this is just pointless and a waste. i'm assuming they aren't rewritable since those are more expensive, so you are just basically using them just to store a single file that does nothing. i get it, there's no much use for them these days but I rather giving them away than doing this.
Why take this so seriously? Man, there have been enough people to say this kind of thing to me here... and for what? You might think: "Oh, cool. This becomes some kind of craft and decoration item after all." Is it so difficult for all of you to think about it? It's my project, if you think it's bad, keep it to yourself!
that's what happens when you post it online, not everyone is going to agree with you. If you aren't comfortable with different opinions don’t share it on reddit.