killer app: make a badly animated frog jump around Swindon.
http://www.fayju.com/blog/projects/amazing-frog/
― JimD, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
(btw I've only used this so far for emulation, N64 and snes stuff is working really well, haven't yet managed to find time to do the extra bit of fiddling that MAME will require, but yeah, this box is basically doing what I wanted it to do so that's fine).
― JimD, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
which n64 emulator are you using? whichever one i used had catastrophic problems with more than half of the roms i tried.
― Z S, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
Just the one in their store. I've only tried 5 or 6 roms to be fair, and there are a few which didn't work when I tried to run them at full resolution but worked fine when I dropped them to something closer to the original screen size (which is I guess 640x480? Maybe even lower actually). So that might help.
― JimD, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/WBVmBuk.jpg
;_;
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 04:50 (ten years ago) link
have to admit i'm tempted by that $39.99 sega, though. never had a genesis growing up!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 04:51 (ten years ago) link
The Ouyas on that shelf are still priced at $99.99, which is what they sell for on the Ouya website.
― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 08:13 (ten years ago) link
What's really ;_; is Stuart Ashen finding a Kickstarter developer version in a second hand shop before the official release.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf_jmGaanuY
― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 08:19 (ten years ago) link
that $40 genesis is made by some non-sega company in china, i guess? amazon reviews are hit and miss. one says the emulation is funky (distorted audio, slower performance). and 40 of the built in games are weird homegrown shit, which sounds like a draw, imo.
― ☞ (brimstead), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:11 (ten years ago) link
I bought one of these for $80 just for playing emulators. Just got it up last night and both GoldenEye and Mario Kart 64 worked great. The Ouya games seem pretty lame though.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 20:29 (ten years ago) link
the bitcoin of game consoles
― gimme the lute (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 March 2014 02:12 (ten years ago) link
i used it for 2 days. it's been sitting behind my tv ever since.
yes, i'm an idiot
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 March 2014 02:13 (ten years ago) link
ditto, on all points
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 March 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
Thritto.
― JimD, Friday, 7 March 2014 07:55 (ten years ago) link
And their latest move is really laughable. I'm sure their original pitch was something like "android games are great but so much better on a big screen", so it takes some brass neck to then try to sell the "imagine how great it'd be to take these big screen ouya games and put them back on mobile devices!" argument.
― JimD, Friday, 7 March 2014 07:58 (ten years ago) link
whats their latest move
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 7 March 2014 13:59 (ten years ago) link
im actually just amazed that any of you guys even got one
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 7 March 2014 14:00 (ten years ago) link
like, received one
Ouya Everywhere
― JimD, Friday, 7 March 2014 14:19 (ten years ago) link
http://kotaku.com/theres-pretty-much-no-reason-to-buy-a-ouya-anymore-1537697326
^yup
― JimD, Friday, 7 March 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/06/ouya-everywhere-starts-with-mad-catzs-mojo-microconsole-in-spri/
― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Friday, 7 March 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/03/report-ouya-everywhere-puts-games-on-tv-pc-without-the-ouya/This is so stupid, it's basically admitting that the whole idea of the Ouya was a waste of time, because all anybody had to do was hang around for slightly less than two years for Android tablets and TV dongles to get powerful enough.
― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Friday, 7 March 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
Or, you know, play games on your PC, because it's not like you can do that at the moment oh wait you can! Which kills off the one remaining advantage that the Ouya had, that it was powered from the mains and could run it's processor at full speed without having to balance that against battery life.
― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Friday, 7 March 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
I wonder who feels that they got burnt more: people who bought a Wii U or people who bought an Ouya?
― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Friday, 7 March 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
Gotta be Ouya, Wii U's performance was fairly predictable
― Nhex, Friday, 7 March 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
Got both, feel ok.
― JimD, Friday, 7 March 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
at least the bath people took on the ouya was a cheaper bath.
― Jeff Malone, no relation (Will M.), Friday, 7 March 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
And the Wii U does have some good stuff; it's just looking like GameCube Redux.
― Nhex, Friday, 7 March 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
i just got an email from ouya with the subject line "Fart where no frog has farted before"
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
this company's gonna go out of business or something
― markers, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
i'm sure the mass market will pick this over a fire tv or android tv
― markers, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
they're just gonna sell apps
― I made a grave mistake with my balloon at the end (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
if only someone would have warned me that buying an Ouya might be a bad idea
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
speak for yourself, i bought mine with bitcoin
― I made a grave mistake with my balloon at the end (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
i was a little shocked at the enthusiasm for ouya given the graveyard of linux-based game systems already out there plus the well-established and polished hacks for existing systems if your main interest was emulation.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link
maybe ouya was just a way to vote against the big 3? like it's main feature was being a political lever -- in which case I'd say it was a success.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
pyrrhic, but yeah
― I made a grave mistake with my balloon at the end (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
feel like the steambox is gonna be what ends up getting that Fuck Everyone dollar
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
hahaha
― markers, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
i would get that over this
umhttp://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmqJnR5IUAEC4z7.jpg
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 May 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
lol
― Nhex, Saturday, 24 May 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/iEPBagF.png
― go to evangelical agonizing eternal hell (Karl Malone), Saturday, 24 May 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
Amico Intellivision - this holiday season's Ouya (if it actually gets released on time).
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 2 July 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
who's in?!
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 2 July 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
afaict the guys behind it are all hardcore conservative christian boomers who wanted to make a console for conservative christian parents without all that sex and violence and microtransactions that would fill little johnnies head with sin. no surprise that creepos like Doug TenNapel are working on games for it.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 2 July 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link