@@dspivey_music tell me about it, they took several months past the deadline date to get it to me as well, ignoring my request for a refund. seems like they would have easily been able to refund my money considering how much more they got than they were asking for. Smh.
@@therealhatchet u entered a contract for them to build this thing for u, this is what kickstarter is for. if u invest money in a tech company and the concept fails u also get nothing in return. here at least u got ur ouya which u could have sold at launch for around a similar price. some kickstarters fail without returning any money, so yeah, the device wasnt the biggest success, but u buying it is ur fault not theirs.
I remember being so excited for the OUYA and had it pre-ordered for months in advanced. After several hours of frustration trying to get it to work with the emulators back then, I took it outside and smashed it into pieces.
They were popular as Kodi boxes when they first launched, I could see them continuing with that, but they would need upgraded internals to keep up with 4K and so on.
@@GeneralJameson It's not random. When connecting two complete statements with an "and" you're meant to use a comma. "Use it as an emulator" is its own independent sentence so a comma before the "and" is warranted. Disclaimer: It's been years since I've been in school, but I do remember this rule.
@@FirestormDDash - I always had iffy controller connectivity until I saw a post about that on one of the forums. Turned it sideways (with the top facing me) and everything improved, haha. --- Also, you can get them running cooler with even better controller distance if you run an ethernet cable instead of using wifi. --- Lastly, there's a few tweaks you can do if rooted for better performance.
@@ghosttheoremproductions5469 I actually got a firmware update on the controller a few months after I got my KS Ouya and it solved almost all of my solo player problems.
@@ghosttheoremproductions5469 It wasnt designed to be updated by the customer. Oof. Had to send back to tge company and pay shipping. But it wasnt smoke and mirrors so was worth it to me.
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@@flipannu1398 This is correct; however, generally or not. Whether or not he generally prefers physical media due to his state reason, it does not dismiss the validity that none of the games on that store would ever see a physical release.
You can "hack" the Ouya and instal Android 4.4 (or an more actual, I don't know), and turn that little console in a awesome "Emulator Machine", runs a tons of emulators, from 8-bit to some 64-bit consoles...
Really like how you've gotten more relaxed with your editing/recording. Videos are great keep it up my guy! EDIT: This thing looks pretty interesting tbh, I would like to see some home-brew content from you about it.
@@wattson3683 yeah. As in, even the video maker had bought an OYUA, during a period a bunch of TH-camrs where finding them for "cheap" and for cheap and making videos on the bloody thing.
I had an Ouya back in the day, and i still have it. It's been years since i played the thing, but i'll definitely hook it up one of these days, just to make sure that it's up to date, before the servers are shut down. Unlike seemingly everyone else, i loved my Ouya. It was a cheap device, and i think people's expectations were waaay too high. I got my moneys worth out of mine, because of just a few games. Primarily bombsquad. With a few friends, it was one of the most fun party games i've ever played. Essentially, you run around an arena with a character, picking up power ups and bombs, throwing them at each other, trying to blow each other up. It was absolutely hilarious! Hidden in plain sight was also really good fun. It was a big arena filled with NPC's, one player was walking on screen, trying to blend in with all the NPC's, and it was the job of the other players to try and find who was hidden. Also a hilarious game with friends. There were a few others as well, but many many hours were spent, and many great memories were had! :) Really though, all the games i played and really enjoyed, i think was party games, all of them. My console is the day 1 backer edition. I didn't back it, i never back any crowdfunding campaigns, but one went up for sale for a cheap price, pretty much days after the backers got them, and i grabbed it right away. Long before the actual retail versions became available. Anyway, i'm hoping that i can grab a bunch of controllers for cheap, when the servers shut down, because the one that came with the backer edition was just awful. And if the games become unplayable with the servers offline, then i won't feel bad hacking it, and putting a whole bunch of games on it. :)
3:10 i agree. i think the "Make" option thing is pretty cool. i never even heard of this thing before, so its interesting to see that they offered the "Make" thing to make your own games.
Just so everyone knows, Emulators aren't a "grey area". It's been ruled on and deemed to be not only legal, but good. A Judge in one of the cases actually said that "Emulators provide competition" and went on to say how important that was. Pirating ROMs is illegal, but Emulators are 100% legal. And ripping the data off of your cartridges is 100% legal, too.
I bought it when it a few months after it came out, and I was quite pleased with it. Still have it. What surprised me the most was that almost everyone genuinely expected the graphics to be as the xbox 360. Much the console was destroyed by deluded gamers. It was actually a cool little thing that did what it was supposed to and opened up for lots of developers to get their small games out. So many good hours spent playing fun little games I would never even see on other stores.
This could still be a great moonlight gamestream machine... supposedly you can use third party controllers with this device... I would try to flash newer android or at least the play store.
@@dadgamer6717 Although its shut down, Everything including the marketplace are still propped up on legacy servers and still running. Simply put, the shutdown only halted the creation of new content and updates. You can still get on, login and download the apps that are still there, which theres alot. Sideloading requires no internet to the ouya at all, you can either connect a PC to your OUYA with a micro USB to USB cable and drag .apk files into it from a windows PC Or you can use a flashdrive or micro SD card to sideload. apk files.
You can take your Xbox Or Playstation controller, connect it via Bluetooth to your phone and there you go. Now you can play regular Phone games with a Controller.
PFFT Just tried to update mine, worked fine until the reboot, and now displays jumbled lines until it shuts itself off. Last day to update, and it bricks itself. Typical.
Mine overheated and has been a paper weight since. Very common too. Make sure it has good ventilation/airflow! And I have two controllers for it as well......
That is a very cool mini PC and they should release it as an open source emulator platform for a slightly lower price. If they remove the account requirement or make the account free then I am sure it might boost sales as a media box or emulation box.
I loved my Ouya. It got me into technology as a whole and I wouldn't have my job today if not for the Ouya community getting me excited for technology.
I believe there's a RetroArch build dedicated to Ouya, that's the first thing you should check. This might be the best budget SBC for emulation right now!
I had one at one point and after being disappointed with the stock library, I ended up sideloading stuff. Was okay for running the Android ports of the GTA and Sonic games.
Ouya was awesome :) I used mine as an emulator box before raspberry pi's etc took off :) No reason to use it these days but in its day I gave it plenty of use
I bought it at 40$ a few years back. The first one I bought wad a brick and I had to exchange it. I really hated the controller but it "did the job". The touch pad was cool. Some of the apps were really good like the weird work out apps. The puzzle games were good too. Clarc, knightmare tower, and Regan Gorbachaev and dubwars were just a few. The ouya really needed ongoing support. I eventually stopped using mine because the TH-cam app was abandoned and would only display in the top 45% of the screen. It doesn't even load the app anymore. If they werent going to keep up with it I ought not to as well. I keep it though because the premise was cool. A cheap console with short games to play And each game is required to have a demo, awesome. It was like having a cheap arcade unit in the home. Thing is it was just another fad like those arcade machines of old. It also ran terribly but the idea was there.
i was kinda impressed too, saw it on a tech magazine and i thought it was pretty cool. never heard of it again afterwards until i saw crowbcat's video on it.
I'm still sorta surprised it didn't succeed in a niche market. If it was more of a media center device for streaming, that could have saved it. I wanted one, just didn't have an HDTV at the time. Even now, my main HTPC is primarily for streaming and indie games on steam. I've completely given up on the main consoles and big game companies tbh.
I have one of these and I have NES, SNES, GB, PSX emulators on it and it works great. Also, I found out about updating it to Android Pie with Google Play Store on it with Lineage OS
I went to Best Buy and bought one for $99 right after launch. Back then it was nice having an emulator that connected through HDMI to my HDTV. That’s about all I used it for but it was a fun little device. Those controllers though...
You should have tried moonlight, maybe still sideload it and use it as a streaming box, nowadays I use my laptop as a streaming box on my living room, if the ouya can do it properly and I find it cheap enough I might give it a try.
If it could easily be done, this thing could make a nice alternative to DIY Raspberry Pi-based emulator boxes. I wonder if there if it could handle some kind of OS like Linux.
Ah man, I remember they hype this thing had online. Have you seen its "competitor", the GameStick? I have one laying around somewhere still I think lol...played it like once.
There's a lot of unique and charming games on Ouya, and most of them have free demos, so plenty to do on the console before you start paying for games. Don't miss Amazing Frog, Maldita Castilla, Super Crate Box, Towerfall, No Brakes Valet, Potatoman Seeks the Troof, I could go on..
It would be interesting to see what the Ouya is still capable of in 2019. Can it run Modern Combat 5's Battle Royale? In terms of Native titles, there is Ravensword, and also The Ball, a title that saw release on PC and runs on Unreal Engine 3, as one of the few Unreal Engine based first person titles of that time. It might be worth checking those out.
the main problem the Ouya had wasn't with the console itself really, the problem was competition. After the kickstarter other established companies decided to make their own versions. Madcatz made one and even the Nvidia Shield was pretty much just a suped up version of the Ouya, which is really shady as Ouya was already buying their Tegra chips from Nvidia. Ouya did attract a lot of indie developers in the beginning, but MIcrosoft and Sony both started their own "indie" divisions to court companies away from the Ouya. It's a fun littel emulation box and really these days it can be bought cheaper than a RaspberryPi and it includes a controller. FYI just about any USB or Bluetooth controller can pair with it as well. I always used PS3 controllers with mine. They also weren't bad for running XBMC / Kodi back in the day, but more current versions can run kind of slow today. I had a lot of fun dragging this over to my friends' houses and just retro gaming the day away. If they had advertised the emulators they would've been given lawsuits by all of the major game companies.
So its November and been 5 months after it discontinued being supported. What does it do now if you plug it in? Did you end up emulating this? Love a follow up vid
I was wondering if it would be possible to flash an entirely new firmware + OS on the OUYA. I'm not sure how Nvidia Tegras worked, but for Qualcomm devices there's an option called Emergency Download Mode which lets you flash firmwares/ROMs via a very low level method. You could probably make a decent Android smart TV with it if you could achieve that.
The 1gig of RAM is always going to hamper the performance of this thing with any half modern OS. 2 gig would have given it more of a chance of being useful.
I had one in college. I remember MANY great nights of my friends and I all syncing up PS3 controllers and playing Bombsquad. That game was the only Ouya game that really showed the potential of this thing. Other than that, it was a dud. Because of Bombsquare though, this thing holds a special place in my heart.
You might be pleased to know that the community has "revived" the ouya store. All it takes is dragging an ouyaproperties.xml file onto the console and boom! You're ready to go. :)
Friend : are you just going to get rid of that thing?
Me : *oUyA*
SbHbrbebjsd No.
HERO!!!
Works even better in german 😂
Me: you gonna say unoriginal jokes
You: oUyA
2013: ouya, I'll have one of those
2019: ouya, that's just a piece of trash
I was literally doing research for a video on this device. Stop reading my mind.
The real lowspec og is here 😍😍
OuYA
Cheap emulation box?
Hi
Ooo yaah!
Total OUYA sales have just risen by 100%
@Zuwth "Can you believe this cost me just 5 pounds?"
@@uncleurda8101 hes talking about the guy he purchased it from "this thing was $99 just not too long ago" pay attention.
@Zuwth 5 pounds dummy
@@NeedyBoBeedy in 100 years this will probably cost 500$ on ebay as a collectors item ;-)
@@checkanr138 yeah, because of inflation
A 5£ emulator sounds great to me. This thing will serve a better life dead than alive
lilkoolaidman93 ermm....it’s £5 not 5£ lmao
Just like the PS Vita
@@rjhsteel ???
@@abyssstrider2547 When it comes to currency the symbol goes BEFORE the number, not after.
@@DarrenMc That makes no sense, you don't say pounds 5 but you say 5 pounds
Soulja console:
*Finnaly a worthy opponent*
*Our battle will be legendary*
reddit moment
Soulya Bouy
@@irenesilvadeaquino5621 fax
Please can you review that vacuum cleaner behind you 🙏
Think it's a floor steamer rather than a vacuum cleaner, we have one very similar.
Robert Blow even more interesting. it hasn’t moved in months. With 80 likes the people have spoken. We want a review!!!!!!!
It really sucks lol
@DutchMercenary gaming it did????? NOO............rip
For 5 bucks this would be a reasonably priced doorstop
Its doorstopping ability is greatly overrated.
Every last issue you came across using this device was there since day one just an FYI
Wow that's unacceptable
@@dspivey_music tell me about it, they took several months past the deadline date to get it to me as well, ignoring my request for a refund. seems like they would have easily been able to refund my money considering how much more they got than they were asking for. Smh.
@@therealhatchet this is what sucks about Kickstarter
@@dspivey_music faccccctttssss
@@therealhatchet u entered a contract for them to build this thing for u, this is what kickstarter is for. if u invest money in a tech company and the concept fails u also get nothing in return. here at least u got ur ouya which u could have sold at launch for around a similar price. some kickstarters fail without returning any money, so yeah, the device wasnt the biggest success, but u buying it is ur fault not theirs.
Everyone: Surprised they only shut down now.
Sega: HOW COULD THIS POSSIBLY FAIL!?
I remember being so excited for the OUYA and had it pre-ordered for months in advanced. After several hours of frustration trying to get it to work with the emulators back then, I took it outside and smashed it into pieces.
well now it'd be pretty easy
I'd wager there will continue to be a homebrew scene for this even after the service has been discontinued
Homebrew scene is dying down. I'm moving on to the VCS when it releases
@@RideToHellRetribution best joke of the year
@@diablorojo3887 trying to think of where the joke is
They were popular as Kodi boxes when they first launched, I could see them continuing with that, but they would need upgraded internals to keep up with 4K and so on.
The ouya homebrew scene is doing quite good still I’ll recommend you check out Mvg video on it
just put custom firmware on, and use it as an emulator
Why the random comma?
@@GeneralJameson does that really matter?
@@GeneralJameson It's not random. When connecting two complete statements with an "and" you're meant to use a comma. "Use it as an emulator" is its own independent sentence so a comma before the "and" is warranted.
Disclaimer: It's been years since I've been in school, but I do remember this rule.
@@Charsept lol m8, I don't know y u do dis, yeah, I'm trolling, k, thanx, bai,,,,,,
@@Charsept it's an oxford comma, it isn't strictly necessary but isn't wrong either way
Raspberry Pi would be a better purchase these days, maybe you can review one of them?
RASBERRY PIE CAN RUN MINECRAFT
マッドルースター true but those devices haven’t been reviewed by Steve...would be much more entertaining than those other reviews
I think he did as his april fools video with the pot
Or was that someone else 😏
Raspberry Pi attach a rtx,then run the csgo
@@strahinjatopalovic2540 But can it run Crysis?
For better wifi and bluetooth controller connectivity as well as cooling turn the thing on its side. BIG improvement.
I... i might have to try this.
@@FirestormDDash - I always had iffy controller connectivity until I saw a post about that on one of the forums. Turned it sideways (with the top facing me) and everything improved, haha. --- Also, you can get them running cooler with even better controller distance if you run an ethernet cable instead of using wifi. --- Lastly, there's a few tweaks you can do if rooted for better performance.
@@ghosttheoremproductions5469 I actually got a firmware update on the controller a few months after I got my KS Ouya and it solved almost all of my solo player problems.
@@FirestormDDash - Huh. Not sure I remember their being firmware updates for the controller. I mostly used 3rd party controllers mind you.
@@ghosttheoremproductions5469 It wasnt designed to be updated by the customer. Oof. Had to send back to tge company and pay shipping.
But it wasnt smoke and mirrors so was worth it to me.
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"This is why I prefer physical release.". None of these games could have a physical release.
I think he meant it generally.
He said it sarcastically poopface
@@braedenbedford9055 This is incorrect.
@@flipannu1398 This is correct; however, generally or not.
Whether or not he generally prefers physical media due to his state reason, it does not dismiss the validity that none of the games on that store would ever see a physical release.
@@fordgtguy indeed it doesnt
99$ to play all your mobile games on a tv with a controller with last years best tegra hardware. I'd buy one today.
I like how you actually gave Ouya a chance, unlike most other people ho just start off the bat with memes.
You can "hack" the Ouya and instal Android 4.4 (or an more actual, I don't know), and turn that little console in a awesome "Emulator Machine", runs a tons of emulators, from 8-bit to some 64-bit consoles...
Can it play goat simulator
@@Daevoz No, but it can run Crysis
I remember I almost pre-ordered it. I had all my info filled in and everything but finally decided to wait. Good thing I did...
Don't pre-order. Anything. Ever.
@@misterx8448 That's the law in the book of buying things, everyone should know that
Put a custom rom on it and install Steam Link. Cheap Steam box for the living room right there.
Or wait for the steam link to go on sale and get it for $5
@@coolermonkey3549 SteamLinks hardware was discontinued.
And I never opened the box of mine which I have for...2 years?
@@Waldherz Can I have yours?
@@RokeJulianLockhart.s4eb2q No :3
Unless you live in Berlin, then I might think about it ^^
The ideia of running ps1 games is just amazing. I didn't think of that. It's basically a nano ps1. I need one of these things to mess around with
imo, root it & install google play store for this, then set up the psp & ps1 emulator for it.
Psp emu runs pretty bad on this best to get drastic
They shipped it with Poundland batteries, that says it all...
Really like how you've gotten more relaxed with your editing/recording. Videos are great keep it up my guy!
EDIT: This thing looks pretty interesting tbh, I would like to see some home-brew content from you about it.
Bloody hell.
Even you, Brutus?
"It cost me £5.00!"
Oh.
Ok.
Where did you get it for 5 pounds
Bro lol is this a reference to julius ceasar assassination?
@@BrotherShield the bloke on the vid.
@@wattson3683 yeah. As in, even the video maker had bought an OYUA, during a period a bunch of TH-camrs where finding them for "cheap" and for cheap and making videos on the bloody thing.
@@shocknawe i dont think a lot of people got your reference. Pretty clever tbh lol
Next can you do the Soulja boy game console?
I just wanna day that you’re a great TH-camr and you make amazing videos.
And I learn a lot about PCs in you’re videos
your*
^a friendly reminder
I had an Ouya back in the day, and i still have it. It's been years since i played the thing, but i'll definitely hook it up one of these days, just to make sure that it's up to date, before the servers are shut down.
Unlike seemingly everyone else, i loved my Ouya. It was a cheap device, and i think people's expectations were waaay too high. I got my moneys worth out of mine, because of just a few games. Primarily bombsquad. With a few friends, it was one of the most fun party games i've ever played. Essentially, you run around an arena with a character, picking up power ups and bombs, throwing them at each other, trying to blow each other up. It was absolutely hilarious! Hidden in plain sight was also really good fun. It was a big arena filled with NPC's, one player was walking on screen, trying to blend in with all the NPC's, and it was the job of the other players to try and find who was hidden. Also a hilarious game with friends. There were a few others as well, but many many hours were spent, and many great memories were had! :) Really though, all the games i played and really enjoyed, i think was party games, all of them.
My console is the day 1 backer edition. I didn't back it, i never back any crowdfunding campaigns, but one went up for sale for a cheap price, pretty much days after the backers got them, and i grabbed it right away. Long before the actual retail versions became available.
Anyway, i'm hoping that i can grab a bunch of controllers for cheap, when the servers shut down, because the one that came with the backer edition was just awful.
And if the games become unplayable with the servers offline, then i won't feel bad hacking it, and putting a whole bunch of games on it. :)
I also love my ouya I have a developer console (clear one)
3:10 i agree. i think the "Make" option thing is pretty cool. i never even heard of this thing before, so its interesting to see that they offered the "Make" thing to make your own games.
Just so everyone knows, Emulators aren't a "grey area". It's been ruled on and deemed to be not only legal, but good. A Judge in one of the cases actually said that "Emulators provide competition" and went on to say how important that was. Pirating ROMs is illegal, but Emulators are 100% legal. And ripping the data off of your cartridges is 100% legal, too.
Kevin’s review of the OUYA was downright hilarious
I bought it when it a few months after it came out, and I was quite pleased with it. Still have it. What surprised me the most was that almost everyone genuinely expected the graphics to be as the xbox 360. Much the console was destroyed by deluded gamers.
It was actually a cool little thing that did what it was supposed to and opened up for lots of developers to get their small games out. So many good hours spent playing fun little games I would never even see on other stores.
This could still be a great moonlight gamestream machine... supposedly you can use third party controllers with this device...
I would try to flash newer android or at least the play store.
You need to try Bombsquad.
Gather a few friends and run it.
This was the only thing I real play/played on this console and it still is great fun
That thing is One of the best Android games, heck, we play it a ton in the TV
You're bringing out alot of your personality in these lastest videos, which is amazing. Keep doing you 👍
yo love your content man ive been here for 3 years and its been a blast !!!
Mannn I love the OUYA. The SLI RTX 3080 ti with intel core i10 can easly play all of my steam games on ULTRA graphics
Yeah that's cool and all, but can it run goat simulator tho?
Don't forget 10 TBs of ram and 500TBs of memory
Don't forget the 1gb ram
@DaveDoesGamez Internal memory and Ram are two completely different things
@@vladimirvladinov9270 No, they're not different. RAM and Memory both refer to RAM. What you're thinking of is Internal and External STORAGE.
Lmao that intro was SMOOTH XD
Imagine that you can press a button, and reset the entire game industry.
*Except here it is the toilet flush button.*
That made me laugh
Love your channel man you always bring original content instead of following the crowd.
Hi, great video. Try and find a Madcatz Mojo. It uses the tegra 4 chip and makes a great emulation machine plus it would be a good video piece :)
the ouya seems cool but I think that something like a jailbroken PS3 RGH 360 or jailbroken Wii U would be better
Homebru Wii’s are absolute carnage
Jailbroken PSVita running enso would be better. Or a Raspberry Pi 3, as that would actually have more memory than the Vita.
my old ouya still gets used nearly everyday with a wireless xbox one controller for emulators and Plex. Such a great console man i loved it
Not gonna lie but the intros keep getting better and better 😁😁😁
flash a custom ROM (i.e Lineage OS) on that OUYA, maybe run android 9 on it too
Android 9? With 1GB of RAM?
2:22 now that's some demonic console, ouya is promoting satanism?
Daniel B who are you ?
@@LazyJustice-02 Your twin brother
Daniel B hey baby you ok man ?
Keep us updated! Can you flash a custom rom? Might be a nice device if can put a VPN and use for Netflix streaming?
you can already do that with nords APK and netflix's amazon based APK sideloaded on a flash drive or micro SD card
@@Carbiniz3r so after the Shut down... Can we still sideload apps? For a fiver with a controller it seems pretty neat!
@@dadgamer6717 Although its shut down, Everything including the marketplace are still propped up on legacy servers and still running. Simply put, the shutdown only halted the creation of new content and updates. You can still get on, login and download the apps that are still there, which theres alot. Sideloading requires no internet to the ouya at all, you can either connect a PC to your OUYA with a micro USB to USB cable and drag .apk files into it from a windows PC Or you can use a flashdrive or micro SD card to sideload. apk files.
@@dadgamer6717 also any bluetooth controller works with it. So i use a newer xbox one controller with it
Have one. Sadly, service will be discontinued in a few weeks. I use it for NES/SNES emulation.
You can take your Xbox Or Playstation controller, connect it via Bluetooth to your phone and there you go. Now you can play regular Phone games with a Controller.
7:05 holy ducking feces man I have not seen or heard about this game in such a long time o.O Thanks for the awesome nostalgia trip!
PFFT
Just tried to update mine, worked fine until the reboot, and now displays jumbled lines until it shuts itself off. Last day to update, and it bricks itself. Typical.
4:22 Damn it, I've been pronouncing Ethernet wrong this whole time :-(
I've never heard anyone pronounce it like that
Mine overheated and has been a paper weight since. Very common too. Make sure it has good ventilation/airflow! And I have two controllers for it as well......
"Cracking open the last closed platform: the TV"
*plugs laptop into TV
I've had a OUYA for years and I think it's great however I haven't used it for a year
I will buy it from you.?
Could you try installing LineageOS on it and see how well it works for the low cost, and see if it's better than, say, a Raspberry Pi for emulation?
Neither are great, it would have input lag on both platforms.
That is a very cool mini PC and they should release it as an open source emulator platform for a slightly lower price. If they remove the account requirement or make the account free then I am sure it might boost sales as a media box or emulation box.
Oh man I was so hyped for the ouya 2 next gen killer!
I loved my Ouya. It got me into technology as a whole and I wouldn't have my job today if not for the Ouya community getting me excited for technology.
Have people rooted it and put a custom Android rom? Might be a great little budget steam link/streaming device.
As you can you use like an Xbox or pro-controller on it instead, I'm down
I believe there's a RetroArch build dedicated to Ouya, that's the first thing you should check. This might be the best budget SBC for emulation right now!
For the price I would say BOUYA !
More like OUNO.
Ill show myself out.
And don't come back!
Yeah, Please do that.
The window is that way.
Rooftop jumping works too lol
Its possible to flash Lineage OS to the Ouya, it becomes surprisingly usable especially with google play store too.
I had one at one point and after being disappointed with the stock library, I ended up sideloading stuff. Was okay for running the Android ports of the GTA and Sonic games.
👍!👍! Lmfao. I can't believe they had the start up say "OUYA". Good job.
Ouya was awesome :) I used mine as an emulator box before raspberry pi's etc took off :) No reason to use it these days but in its day I gave it plenty of use
Whenever you say google play store my google assistant wakes up
I bought it at 40$ a few years back. The first one I bought wad a brick and I had to exchange it. I really hated the controller but it "did the job". The touch pad was cool. Some of the apps were really good like the weird work out apps. The puzzle games were good too. Clarc, knightmare tower, and Regan Gorbachaev and dubwars were just a few. The ouya really needed ongoing support. I eventually stopped using mine because the TH-cam app was abandoned and would only display in the top 45% of the screen. It doesn't even load the app anymore. If they werent going to keep up with it I ought not to as well. I keep it though because the premise was cool. A cheap console with short games to play And each game is required to have a demo, awesome. It was like having a cheap arcade unit in the home. Thing is it was just another fad like those arcade machines of old. It also ran terribly but the idea was there.
I remember thinking this was gonna be ground breaking. Glad I held off on buying one.
You werent the only one, me and my whole group from 360 days were thinking the same thing and were talking about backing and getting it day one
The ouya looked so cool and I remember being hyped for it back in middle school
i was kinda impressed too, saw it on a tech magazine and i thought it was pretty cool. never heard of it again afterwards until i saw crowbcat's video on it.
Looking forward to the follow-up video on this once the services are shut down. Really curious how far emulation can go on this thing.
I'm still sorta surprised it didn't succeed in a niche market. If it was more of a media center device for streaming, that could have saved it. I wanted one, just didn't have an HDTV at the time. Even now, my main HTPC is primarily for streaming and indie games on steam. I've completely given up on the main consoles and big game companies tbh.
"The Ouya just shouts it's own name and lights your screen up orange."
*Tribal chant* "OOO-YA!"
"Fair enough."
I have one of these and I have NES, SNES, GB, PSX emulators on it and it works great. Also, I found out about updating it to Android Pie with Google Play Store on it with Lineage OS
Any instructions would be most helpful
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I went to Best Buy and bought one for $99 right after launch. Back then it was nice having an emulator that connected through HDMI to my HDTV. That’s about all I used it for but it was a fun little device. Those controllers though...
I'd buy one of these.
I still think they are really cool.
Sadly, these are double the price of a ps3 where I live...
Thank you for making sure my Google assistant still works
Did you ever do the follow up video for the OUYA after their servers were taken down?
You should have tried moonlight, maybe still sideload it and use it as a streaming box, nowadays I use my laptop as a streaming box on my living room, if the ouya can do it properly and I find it cheap enough I might give it a try.
If it could easily be done, this thing could make a nice alternative to DIY Raspberry Pi-based emulator boxes. I wonder if there if it could handle some kind of OS like Linux.
Either way, you could get a raspberry pi for about 20 to 30 £/$ and emulate whatever
I just like u doing that throwing some fun in the beginning u are awosome
yes you can sideload the apps and there are already custom roms for it.
Love your videos man, keep up the good work
Ah man, I remember they hype this thing had online. Have you seen its "competitor", the GameStick? I have one laying around somewhere still I think lol...played it like once.
Great review!!! Is there a second episode after the shutdown?
By the way, Shadowgun still looks nice compared to the hardware! :)
There's a lot of unique and charming games on Ouya, and most of them have free demos, so plenty to do on the console before you start paying for games. Don't miss Amazing Frog, Maldita Castilla, Super Crate Box, Towerfall, No Brakes Valet, Potatoman Seeks the Troof, I could go on..
I remember that Julie "Television" Urhman.
It would be interesting to see what the Ouya is still capable of in 2019. Can it run Modern Combat 5's Battle Royale? In terms of Native titles, there is Ravensword, and also The Ball, a title that saw release on PC and runs on Unreal Engine 3, as one of the few Unreal Engine based first person titles of that time. It might be worth checking those out.
the main problem the Ouya had wasn't with the console itself really, the problem was competition. After the kickstarter other established companies decided to make their own versions. Madcatz made one and even the Nvidia Shield was pretty much just a suped up version of the Ouya, which is really shady as Ouya was already buying their Tegra chips from Nvidia. Ouya did attract a lot of indie developers in the beginning, but MIcrosoft and Sony both started their own "indie" divisions to court companies away from the Ouya. It's a fun littel emulation box and really these days it can be bought cheaper than a RaspberryPi and it includes a controller. FYI just about any USB or Bluetooth controller can pair with it as well. I always used PS3 controllers with mine. They also weren't bad for running XBMC / Kodi back in the day, but more current versions can run kind of slow today. I had a lot of fun dragging this over to my friends' houses and just retro gaming the day away. If they had advertised the emulators they would've been given lawsuits by all of the major game companies.
Man I played so much of rally cross on ps1 as a kid. That clip got me in the feels
So its November and been 5 months after it discontinued being supported. What does it do now if you plug it in? Did you end up emulating this? Love a follow up vid
Release date killed it. Even launching in late 2012 with youtubes lets play boomb would have saved it
I was wondering if it would be possible to flash an entirely new firmware + OS on the OUYA.
I'm not sure how Nvidia Tegras worked, but for Qualcomm devices there's an option called Emergency Download Mode which lets you flash firmwares/ROMs via a very low level method.
You could probably make a decent Android smart TV with it if you could achieve that.
The 1gig of RAM is always going to hamper the performance of this thing with any half modern OS. 2 gig would have given it more of a chance of being useful.
I had one in college. I remember MANY great nights of my friends and I all syncing up PS3 controllers and playing Bombsquad. That game was the only Ouya game that really showed the potential of this thing. Other than that, it was a dud. Because of Bombsquare though, this thing holds a special place in my heart.
im really impressed that theres no some type of retroarch for this device, i mean its a tegra device.
You should install a custom os before the shutdown just in case you need to restore the original os for some reason in the process.
You might be pleased to know that the community has "revived" the ouya store. All it takes is dragging an ouyaproperties.xml file onto the console and boom! You're ready to go. :)
I just know these will get hacked with a different Android version/UI, and I think that will be the best time for me to get one.