How to revive your Ouya: Here are the resources I mention in the video: Ouya World: ouya.world/ Christian Weiske's server & guide: ouya.cweiske.de/ Ouya World Magazine: archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22OuyaFuture+Staff%22
Dan! I backed the kickstarter and frankly I think that the Ouya team did everything right .... except figuring out how to keep a revenue stream. I haven't plugged my Ouya in in years but I know exactly where it's at and in the coming weeks I'm going to break it out and see if I can get it going again. Thanks for the video!
If you have a file explorer on your ouya, you can copy and paste the text file for the new store dns from a usb drive to internal storage. A tad bit easier if you’ve never plugged it into your computer.
As an Ouya developer who poured 2 years of my life into developing a game for this platform (called “Nub for Ouya”), I’m glad that our work hasn’t gone into an endless oblivion, and reassured that our fans can still get what they paid for 😊
A lot of people complained about the controllers and especially the lag. I also experienced the lag, but I also figured out is was because of wireless reception. Sometimes I could only get a controller to work good within about 8 feet of the Ouya. Also the system will lag if you are downloading other games in the background.
I was developing indie games at the time and kickstarted one of the developer tiers planning to make a game for it. When I got the dev unit (mine wasn't delayed) I was so disappointed with the controllers that I hardly played the unit and didn't bother making a game for it. I know they said they were going to improve the controllers but I was so put off that my Ouya journey ended there.
@@SVW1976 Now that's just not cool. For every indie game that is 'low quality', there's usually one to be found that is a modern classic. Without a vibrant indie scene, we wouldn't have games like Shovel Knight, Rogue Legacy, Pier Solar and the Great Architects, Hades, CrossCode, Timespinner, and many other great games.
So much hype on the Ouya still remember Rich from Review Tech USA going on about it Glad it’s still got a use in 2022 and games are still available cheers Dan
First Kickstarter I supported and got the Bonze founders version. I would call it a failure as it didn't do what it was designed to do. With that said it did much more then it was supposed to do and mine got lots of use. Today people wonder why anybody would want this with Raspberry Pi and all the Android Boxes available, back then they were not as well known as they are today. Mine was much like this video, a file server for videos and Kodi and emulators. I enjoyed it so much i picked up several when people were dumping them for $5-10 each and setup them up for people i knew, a few are still being used today. I have moved to a tiny windows server to replace it , but it was great for the 2-3 years I used it.
People fail to realize just how shitty the Raspberry Pi was to use back then. And all these emulation handhelds and boxes just weren't much of a thing back then.
I have a limited edition white OUYA. I use it often and everything on it works. All of the installed software works. All of the games run. All the emulators work. It won't give you any problems about being connected to the web until you try to connect it. And honestly why are you trying to connect it when you know the server is 100% off line?
Thank you for making this video. I literally found this system in my closet and was about to throw it out but decided to check youtube to see if there was any use for it now. Found your video and now i'm going to keep it and use it!
I purchased the ouya specifically to be a very tidy and easy to use emulator box that did not require a keyboard or mouse to use at ANY time in its life. It provided this exactly as I wanted. So I consider the console a success. I don't want any junk getting in between me and the game. I just want the TV, the controller in my hand, and the game. That's it. Nothing else. The ouya did this nicely.
I was one of the people that never got my OUYA (though I vaguely remembering that I did get my 2nd controller). It wasn't until 2 years ago when a friend and colleague was "Hey I got this, but I never use it, do you want it?" as he knew I had been purchasing old consoles that I had never got to play as a child (don't worry, I had a PC and played plenty of games). It wasn't until after we learned that the services had shutdown and that the device was essentially a brick. Still, I'm fairly certain I never threw it away. Who knows, maybe I'll dig it up and, for the first time ever, I'll press the power button of an OUYA (even though I was a backer xD)
My favorite thing about the Ouya was the indie multiplayer games like Hidden in Plain Sight. Still love the two Towerfall games. Plugged it in a few days ago and the games still worked, I'll be applying the fix you mention to keep it going longer. While real gamers may complain about the console for a casual gamer like myself it was good enough, especially at the $99 price point.
What a dick move by Razer to brick it if you connect to a network. No business from me ever will go to them. I'll have to make sure mine doesn't connect next time I get it out of a box (Kickstarter backer).
I remember this, i never quite understood why it got so much funding don’t get me wrong it was a nice idea, but I do remember just getting a galaxy s4 around the same time and that could run a lot of emulators and games and I bought a hdmi cable and controller and could do pretty much everything this was offering apart from the exclusive games so to me I alway felt a dock version for your phone would be better and amazed it still haven’t really happened, Samsung Dex is pretty impressive but it feel massively over looked, even by Samsung now.
I think motorola with their new Snapdragon Gen 1 phone also offers a desktop experience, so maybe that will give Samsung some incentive to work on it again.
Cool, I bought one (boxed and pristine) a few years ago for 30,- euro. I installed a few emulators on it, that was working really well. Good to see there's still life in the community.
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It was a good system for emulation, and even had a few Android hits. But the Nvidia Shield has replaced it Also remember the OUYE knockoff?
I did everything in this video but I still can not play Raiden, Tower Knight, fist of awesome pass the demo version, sad because I bought those game and I wanted them full again. In the menu it says purchased but they not pass the trial version. Any help with this?
@@SonicBoone56 Hiya, not sure our stuff was that well known if I'm honest lol, but in my opinion the best games we did was Rush Hour Mayhem and Mr Monocles Travels
I'm not gonna lie. When I first saw the Ouya on store shelves, the idea of a 99 dollar console running a highly moddable OS like Android was almost magical to me at the time. I didn't pull the trigger tho and I felt so bad when I learned how rough things had gone for the little guy, so it makes me so damn happy to see some people getting some use out of them.
I'm glad that there's a way around the DRM that keeps people out of their purchases. I really hate this mentality corporations have where customer purchases are dead when the company says so. People mock the Ouya hardware, but I'm sure plenty of people made purchases that they 100% should access to & shouldn't have to result to cracking to get their games.
I mean we're all used to games as a physical medium that can't be taken away from you unless your house gets robbed, and now we've given up on the idea of a owning a physical object because it's backward and inconvenient, we have to find a way of restoring the inalienable right to use a digital product you have paid for no matter what happens to the company that sold them
@@rorychivers8769 Which you can with pretty much any game now and I bet going forward, it's not hard to get around and systems will be hackable eventually it's only a matter of time.
@@lothar71 Sure, but it still falls short of acknowledgement by the industry that you should be able to use what you paid for no matter what happens. Toys Я Us went bust, but it didn't suddenly stop my LEGO from working until I found a workaround
I bought an Ouya in 2013 and wanted to make a game for it since I had used Multimedia Fusion 2 for years and could make Ouya games with the Android exporter. What put me off in the end was frame rate issues I could'nt solve and the tons of shovelware being released for it overall. I've never thought it's a bad little console but I do wish people didn't keep throwing bad quality games onto the store.
Tho i agree. I kinda like digging through "free" shit to find gems. Playing knockoff elder scrolls was neat. There was a mystery game I kept eyes on. Ironicly the 2 KS games for "Ouya" I funded never released on ouya haha, but on other devices.
The Ouya just didn't really have any games of its own, or any unique IP. Most of the games were just shovelware, bad ports, or knockoffs of games that were already succesful elsewhere.
Gaming companies: Cloud based and "always online" gaming is the future to prevent pirating Customers: - *pirate games on systems that can no longer be supported* - They just don't get it, do they? You can't have a non-physical media on a cloud somewhere and tell people it'll never go away.
I wanted to buy a Ouya back in the day to plug into a HD CRT TV that only displayed 480i/p and 1080i. But since the Ouya didn't support 1080i, I decided just to stick with a Xbox 360 since its scaler could output 1080i pretty good. The biggest competition this little cube had was the Raspberry Pi which could be used to learn programming on a cheap little board. In hindsight, the Ouya could be considered the precursor to the Nvidia Shield TV and those Android TV boxes coming from China.
It honestly was. I installed Kodi early on in 2014 or 15 and used it as a tv box up till server shutdown. (Well till kodi unsupported the android version ouya runs) With retro emulation mixed in.
I've still got mine in its box gathering dust (somewhere) so I'll be digging it out and getting it configured! I was gutted that this system didn't catch on but after watching this I feel I'm not alone. Many thanks, Dan. - Dave
I bought into that and due to some damage in shipping wound up with two of them. I eventually got my money back selling the two after the company went down. It was a good idea but also it would have been more fun if just an Android computer so we could just use the Google Play store.
The problem with the ouya, aside from the project looking an awful lot like a money laundering stunt, its 'ceo' being an obvious grifter and the unforgivably stupid name, was the same problem as most single board computers today (such as raspberry pi) .. as a platform for a game console, there is no practical advantage to the formfactor. It's _too_ small for its own good; its size and shape is a gimmick that neuters its performance. Even in 2013, a low powered x86 mini-itx system would run circles around any arm based products. If you're hooking it up to a gigantic TV, why does the system need to be smaller than the controller? It made absolutely no sense.
@@pikachulovesketchup666 don't really understand why you keep calling stuff trash just because it's not computationally powerful lmfao, some of the most fun I've had was playing scummvm games, went back to broken sword yesterday and enjoyed it just as much. Will definitely play Simon the sorcerer again sometime soon. Even the switch is running on a Tegra btw, but botw is still mechanically better than 100% of the games coming out today and also more appealing to look at than most of them
@@pikachulovesketchup666 Pi is "trash", but it's absurdly inexpensive and competent enough for emulation, which is what mostly used it for when it comes to gaming (not to mention the plethora of useful non-gaming related stuff you can do on it)
My Ouya still has a side-loaded version of android release of Shadowrun (2013) on it, which sadly was pulled from the store a good few years ago. Ran pretty well from what I remember.
Id be as likely to attempt to start my own airline as I would to create my own games console. Just too difficult, too expensive to make work and too much well established competition. Wouldnt go near the idea.
A shame it was so overhyped, people literally believed they'd get a $100 console that was equal to the xbox and the play station when in reality it was just an android box with some low quality controllers.
I made a game for OUYA. It was called IronWalker and was definitely an amateur effort but it's the nearest I'll ever get to releasing a game on a 'console' so I was pretty happy.
I bought one of these not long after the initial release because I thought, with a little work, it could be a really great retro machine. Never got around to that, and other things came along that largely removed the need, but I also never bothered to try and sell it because I figured I'd find something to do with it sooner or later. Thanks for these resources. I may just dig the funny little thing out and give it a go.
The Ouya was a fantastic idea but with a delayed and underwhelming implementation. Back when android was spreading like a wildfire, it was a great idea to make an affordable device that would play android games on TV. Not that there were any good games back then but the Android ecosystem was growing. The problem was that by the time it was released, Sony had announced PS4 and public interest shifted to the new Sony console.
I think what really killed it also came out right with xbox360 and ps3 started. making self publishing way easer. Steam greenlight as well. While when it was announced on ks it was extremly restricted.
I have one of the special edition Kickstarter Ouyas as well as 4 of the custom engraved covers for the remotes. It may not be the most powerful little console, but it is still neat to whip out and play all kinds of neat fun games on it still as well as reasonable emulation. Do wish it had a Tegra 4 rather than the Tegra 3, but eh.
Got my first OUYA as a present without knowing first what to do with it, but it quickly became a fun obsession of mine, my guilty pleasure. Made lots of videos showing the good and entertaining games and I was always thinking about how to save the library. My OUYAs all worked when the network was gone, but some games couldn't check their license anymore and the turned to trial mode... so I was very happy to be able to perform the hack. My OUYAs are all alive and well and we still enjoy the couch multiplayer games from time to time.
Great video, nice to see my terrible game in the magazine again. Rerez did a video slamming the console 2 months ago and you could clearly see he'd connected to the new server to download the games. No mention of the community and the latest game jams though. Just jumped on the bandwagon of "it was a massive failure". Unless you actually sit down with the console and play some of the strange and interesting titles that released you won't get anything out of your time
I still can't believe people take this piece of worthless hardware seriously. Like the worst female CEO ever in hardware existence said in of her infamous interviews: "There is nothing special about this box...nothing...like NOTHING!!!"
I bought the Ouya and extra controllers way back when and had a TON of fun in college playing casual games, especially TowerFall and BombSquad. Recently my kids have gotten old enough to learn it and were having a blast until...they uninstalled TowerFall. 😭 This guide gives me hope of getting it back, even if I've lost years of stats (and specifically my character's win ratio 😁).
I think ouya was ahead of its time, but just had an awful execution. If it was marketed towards retro gaming like emulating then it probably would sell like crazy since the only alternative in 2013 was to buy a raspberry pi and figure out how to install games on it. instead they were hyping up PlayStation level performance on free to play games.
I think this console gets shot of unfair flack. While it's somewhat a business failure they designed a console and made it to production. I actually think it's a nice design and it was an inspiring concept. It seems very easy to criticize the misteps of others these days. They tried something new, something different and I think that in itself is worthy of praise.
My biggest gripe with the console is the weak signal strength between the console and the controller. Random amount of input delay, sudden loss of connection at all and interference when using two or more controllers made it completely pointless for any form of "serious" gaming. Try 1CC-ing a shmup or have any sort of competition on there and the crappy input signal will drive you nuts. And I tried ALL the workarounds... I put it on its side, I sat no more than one feet away, I made sure no other devices were close, I soldered an extra piece of antenna to the controller circuit board, I updated its firmware, I tried both my launch controllers and the later revisions, even recieving one directly from the fellas from Ouya. Nothing made it even slightly better. A crying shame!
Never thought I'd get to use an OUYA console until this video has perked my interest .. perhaps just like the C64, older consoles will indeed experience a 'revolution'! The OUYA box wasn't lying! :D
I admittedly found the Ouya to be a joke, but it’s pretty cool that there were people who weren’t gonna let it go to waste and found legitimate uses despite it failing it its original purpose. Stuff like this is always commendable and I’m here for it.
The hugely obvious thing that originally killed the Ouya was that it had no access to the Google Play Store (or Amazon Appstore I guess if you must). When it came out without that massive library of Android games that people already played on phones/tablets, I instantly knew it was doomed. Valve did exactly the same thing with their Steam Machines (limited native-only Linux library), but compounded it by only having third parties manufacture the hardware (so it was inevitably overpriced because OEMs couldn't sell them as loss leaders as they didn't get a 30% game cut like Valve did). At least the Steam Deck corrects this and that's why I've reserved one. A bit surprised that the resurrected Ouya store with free downloads of commercial games hasn't had a legal challenge about this from at least one Ouya developer. Maybe it has and they've pulled games where such objections have been raised? It's most likely to happen where the game is still a paid one and actively developed on the Google Play Store.
Fascinating stuff. It's also timely with the recent news about Nintendo closing the Wii U and 3DS eShops - games that could disappear forever without preservation or sideloading/emulation. In some ways the Ouya was lucky and unlucky with its timing. The recent rush of emulation boxes tends to suggest it was onto something.
