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Purely for aesthetics! It wouldn’t be the same without that iconic glowing disc slot.

• Nevermark 2y ago
  If you were selling these, the "goodies" would surely need a couple minified disks, for purely aesthetic reasons! Along with an "authentic" mini power "brick" wrapped around the middle of the USB-C cord. :) Very nice!
  • amlib 2y ago
    The disc could then just be a caddy for a micro SD memory card, which when inserted on the disc slot would promptly launch a game stored in there. Selecting games from a virtual library never has the same kick as when you insert a cartridge or a dis[ck] into a machine and have it boot from that. Edit: I also realized you may as well cut out the memory card and just have each "fake" disc encode (perhaps optically) a little ID which the machine could read (perhaps a cheap camera) and associate to a game already stored in the machine's internal memory.
• arghwhat 2y ago
  It's a lost opportunity that you didn't repurpose the CD drive opening as a full-size SD card slot! Nicely done regardless.
  • pavon 2y ago
    That would have been fun, but the SD card slot is in the same place as on the original Wii (behind the front flap), which also makes sense.