[loopj]

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

[arghwhat]

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]

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.

[Nevermark]

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]

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.