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A site for making physical releases out of digital games (i.pinimg.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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Yea, so this doesn't exist, but should it?

Think about:

  • TheMovieDB style identifiers with box art
  • Auto-generated and/or community created and upvoted DVD labels, case inserts, or USB/SSD stickers you can print yourself (no reason physical media has to be "round")
  • Automated scripts for generating local media savers/installers from GOG and Steam

This doesn't seem like a very difficult thing to create for the niche community of people that want physical copies.

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[–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

SSTech requires power to maintain cells.
What we need is liberated schematics Blu-ray burner+ readers, so you can burn even a small cast, and reread until your descendants^50^ make another copy.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Doesn't recordable optical media also have a pretty limited lifespan? Unlike commercially produced discs, where the pits are pressed into the plastic, CD/DVD/BD-Rs just have a dye that is made to change colour with a laser, and that dye degrades over time.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Even pressed discs can rot. Like many WB Blu-Rays were made with a faulty process and many will rot in the next few decades.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Not inorganic BDs.

    Whatever u do, never expose dyes to sunlight.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Huh, that's interesting. I already expressed my thoughts on consumers making their own physical media in another post (tl;dr: I don't think it makes much sense), but if there are recordable discs with lifespans comparable with pressed discs, maybe a print-on-demand service could be a solution for developers that can't afford to order a batch of a thousand discs and cases and rely on digital distribution because of that.

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