DIY Game Console Does It With Optical Disks

Optical media may be dead for video games on the big corporate consoles, but not in [Emmet]’s heart– or on his DIY game console , that he built specifically to use optical media. Not fancy blu-ray or newfangled DVDs, either, but good old fashioned CDs from the Orange Book. Yeah, he’s not fitting modern AAA flagship games on those disks, but the Intel N150 on the single board computer he’s using isn’t going to power through them, either.