[Q] What direction with Ouya .... - Ouya Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Good morning all. So like every Sunday I go out garage/yard sale hunting looking for video/pc games and systems/equipment. I struck gold this past weekend and picked up a Ouya in almost new condition along with some Jamma arcade boards, Atari, and Vectrex stuff. So I have the next 4 days off so I am finally sitting down with the Ouya. I always head to XDA when I get any kind of new device and see what is being worked on. With that said -- this device has me scratching my head on what to do. Leave stock, or move to CM11, or something in the middle.
This is going to be hooked up to my Sammy 60". We all (wife & kids) love our android phones, tablets, and I have a Shield. I am going to use the Ouya for the following --
1. Console EMU's. Genesis, SNES, NES, TG16, NeoGeo, etc etc.
2. XBMC and/or Plex. I have a seperate media server I should be able to stream movies to it, right?
3. Netflix and YouTube. Kids love both. It would be easier for them to navigate then use the smart tv way.
4. Android Games. We all love our android games, we have 100's of $$$ invested in games.
Now I have been browsing the Ouya store and I really love some of the exclusive content they offer. I also want to be able to pair up the Moga controllers that I have as well to the Ouya. It looks like I have to load the pivot app for that (correct me if I am wrong).
So the question, what direction should I go? Can I run the Ouya with *BOTH* app stores? Can I run both app stores if I was running CM11?? I also see that there is a overclock option as well, I will want to do that as well.

No Ouya store on CM11 (or anything other than the stock ROM). CM11 is much better than the stock ROM, though the UI on stock is pretty nice.

Hello,
Welcome to the world of Ouya!
I would advise you to stay on Ouya original rom. Installing CM would just make this console a phone/tablet. Besides ouya's UI is very pretty, isn't it? , but this is just my opinion!
You can install Google Play Store if that's what you're asking. There's a thread about this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2359390
With Ouya's last firmware (Chupacabra), at the moment there is not a custom rom nor kernel. There is a "Tegra Overclock" app : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2534960

IMO, go with CM11. MY Ouya sat under a pile of DVDs for almost a year. I had no desire to use it at all. The OS seemed too alien and didn't want to be learned. I wanted an android machine. I got myself my android machine. I'm sure someone has an APK file for the Ouya Store somewhere. I'll look around on the inter-web and see if I can turn anything up.
I haven't run many games yet, just a couple and they seemed OK. I hate the stock controller though. I use mine as a set top box and a Minecraft server for my family. I wish Minecraft had controller support!

Guess what I found, not sure if it will let me post links yet
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2806575
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My suggestion would be to click the Ouya Apk download link, and download the necessary files. And you'll be good.
All you'll need is the Ouya Apk link
Good luck.
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[Q] Compatible games?

I am a heavy gamer, and intend to buy a Iconia A100 for it sizes and speeds.
So, this will be place to list compatible games for A100, including Gamelofts games and others. If you already tested, please list on next posts and I will collect them all here on 1st post. Please also list the specific version for them.
Oh, thanks to vszulc remind, all THD games should work, as they are for Terga, aren't they?
THD games:
- Samurai THD
- Galaxy on Fire THD
- Pinball THD
- Guerrilla Bob THD
- Fruit Ninja THD
- Sprinkle THD
- Monster Madness THD
- Trainz THD
- Shadow Gun (not yet release?)
Gamelofts games (I expect all games release for Iconia A500/A501 should work well):
- Until get confirmation
Other games (please confirm which one full screen and play-able)
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 (confirmed by d1dd1)
- For update
* I saw "you-know-where" a GameLoft package for A100. Any one tried yet?
Good idea! I have a bunch of games installed on my A100, so I'll return later with some more details. But off the top of my head: All three regular Angry Bird games. As well as Angry Bird HD and Angry Bird Seasons HD. As well as the Tegra Specific titles that you can find in the Tegra app on the A100: Samurai 2 THD, Galaxy on Fire THD and Pinball THD.
You want some specific version numbers?
BTW: If there's a specific game you were wondering about regarding compatibility with the A100, a good start is market.android.com... You can see which one of your Android devices a game is compatible with on the www-market. Too bad they don't have that feature on the regular market app.
Sometimes a game will be compatible even though it's not featured there though, so its more of a rule of thumb...
I installed the sixaxis controller app to use my PS3 controller to play emulator games. I am loving it.
Has anyone tried "9mm HD". It doesn't work on the a100. I wonder what requirement it needs. It works on my phone.
Stupid Zombies doesn't work. I love that game. Works fine on my A500. Bastards need to get to fixing.
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Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 works without problems
Dungeon Defenders is also pretty good, and its free in the Tegra Zone.
Order and Chaos
Has anyone been successful in getting Order and Chaos to rub properly? I have heard of other devices useing a all devices version but I cant seem to locate it anywhere..
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Has anyone been successful in getting Order and Chaos to rub properly? I have heard of other devices useing a all devices version but I cant seem to locate it anywhere..
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You have to modify the build.prop to get O&C to work. The "all devices" hacked version no longer works as of July and another one hasnt been produced since.
To modify the build.prop you'll need to be rooted and have root explorer (or an equiv) and change this: ro.product.model=A100 to this ro.product.model=A500 in the build.prop file under system.
Once you do the above you should be able to find O&C in the market and download it. Works great, the only thing I've found odd are input boxes. Once you type something in a input box you have to minimize the keyboard rather than pressing enter or tab. For example at the login screen put in your login and then minimize the on screen keyboard.
A word of caution about modifying you're build.prop, if you don't know what you are doing you can soft brick your tab! So be careful, just because the above worked for me doesn't mean it'll work for you.
So you can add Order and Chaos and Vendetta Online to the list of games that will run on our wonderful acer tab
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Is O'n'Ch still working on A100? I recently bought an A100 in frys and I'm waiting for it to come to Poland. First things first I will root the device, as I would love to play O'n'Ch on 7''. I have also sent email to gameloft about O'n'Ch not supporting the 7'' tablets,but they didn't reply me yet.
Dead space works great for A100, but i ordered this from gamestop so it came pre-installed.
Madden 12 works great! Been playing this for a few hours now.
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Dead space works great for A100, but i ordered this from gamestop so it came pre-installed.
Madden 12 works great! Been playing this for a few hours now.
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Hows Dead Space. I want to buy it but look to be only exclusive to xperia play and acer a100 from Gamestop.
zombies
reverendbill said:
Stupid Zombies doesn't work. I love that game. Works fine on my A500. Bastards need to get to fixing.
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Stupid zombies works perfect on my a100 that I bought today
I installed and work fine with my Acer A100 :
- Fruit ninja
- Aspalt 6
- My paper Plane
- Tintin HD
- Cut the rope
- Samurai II
- RipTide GP
Ok on my A100 for:
- Shine Runner
- Pool Break
- Pool Bar HD
- Checkers
- Uno HD
- Zen Pinball PHD
@JusThinK
How Asphalt 6 worked on your tablet?
I'm trying to get the game with the discount, but I can't!!!!
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@JusThinK
How Asphalt 6 worked on your tablet?
I'm trying to get the game with the discount, but I can't!!!!
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Same here. I see several games and app not being compatible with this tablet. Kinda sux cause I really wanted to make this tablet my all around device.
Has anyone tried editing their build.prop file to something like a Samsung Nexus? I have a Nook Color, and I'm constantly tweaking the build.prop with Root Explorer to get apps to show up and install properly. I'd try it right now, but I'm at work.
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Has anyone tried editing their build.prop file to something like a Samsung Nexus? I have a Nook Color, and I'm constantly tweaking the build.prop with Root Explorer to get apps to show up and install properly. I'd try it right now, but I'm at work.
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I'd like to try it. Can you point me to the file directory and which line to edit.
EDIT: found the file under /system now i see these lines related to device:
ro.build.id=HTJ85B
ro.build.id.display.id=Acer_A100_1.018.01_COM_GEN2
ro.build.id.system.id=Acer_A100_1.018_COM_GEN2
Which do I change and what do I change to?
Doing some search tells me to edit ro.build.fingerprint but still not sure what to edit it to.
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I'd like to try it. Can you point me to the file directory and which line to edit.
EDIT: found the file under /system now i see these lines related to device:
ro.build.id=HTJ85B
ro.build.id.display.id=Acer_A100_1.018.01_COM_GEN2
ro.build.id.system.id=Acer_A100_1.018_COM_GEN2
Which do I change and what do I change to?
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Change this:
ro.product.model=A100
to this:
ro.product.model=A500
Be sure to put the system directory in read/write mode before trying to change anything in there. Oh and becareful changing things.. you can easily brick your device!
doing the above edit to you're build.prop will make most apps, and the system settings think you're device is a a500 which will let you run more stuff. I've had mine set like this for a while now with no issues and games run great, especially order and chaos and even 9mm.
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I tried your method but I don't see anything different. Still cant open Order & Chaos. Is there any other app i cant test that works for a500 that does not work on a100?

Can't play NFS Shift & Hot Pursuit

The car will keep on go to the right-handed side by itself.
Any method to solve?
Thank you.
It seems no one try to play these two games in their A100. Disappointed.
Finally, I can play Hot Pursuit. EA had released a new version 1.0.55 which is compatible with Tablets.
Now I'm waiting the new version of NFS Shift.
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SimCity is now in the market for all not just an Asus exclusive
Sry if I didn't understand if you are using market our another
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EDIT: SOLVED, I found on the net the data files from an Iconia TAB A500 and they works applying the procedure I described in the previous post (I noticed on Mobilisim that there are different data files between "smartphone" and "tablet" versions of the game).
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Unfortunately that doesn't help those of us who don't have a tablet sitting around all I have is my phone to download data on, so it looks loke no SimCity for me. Have there been any other fixes to get this working?

[Q&A] Ask a Developer your Ouya Questions

I backed Ouya on Kickstarter, and mine finally arrived today. There have been a lot of questions, a lot of speculation, and not many answers. I will personally be attempting to install a 3'rd party launcher, Google Play apps (store, music, movies) and other games and apps I have bought over the years on the Play Store. The point of this topic is for other people who are interested in buying one or have pre-ordered one to get answers to their questions, like I couldn't.
I have been an Android user since the original Motorola Droid on Verizon, and a Custom ROM Developer for the Samsung Fascinate, HTC Thunderbolt, and Droid Bionic. I will be working on a custom ROM for the Ouya as well once we get some reasonable safety measures to ensure I don't brick it while experimenting. Feel free to ask me anything, about app compatibility, features, user interface, whatever, I'll do my best to answer. I'll also keep this topic updated with my observations and experiences with hacking and modding this console.
Since I've already gone through the trouble of tracking down working apps I figured I'd save everyone else a few minutes and collect the working ones here:
How to install: From your Ouya browser click the link for any apk's you want to download. once the downloads have completed go to: Manage > System > Advanced > Storage > Downloads and select the apk files one by one.
Netflix: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7653846/apps/Netflix_2.1.2 build 787.apk I had audio issues on some shows until I rebooted, and an occasional freeze, but just hold down the "ouya" button on the controller to back out to home and open it up again.
Hulu Plus: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7653846/apps/Hulu Plus 2.6.201000.apk Seems to be working great!
Youtube: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7653846/apps/com.google.android.youtube.googletv-2.apk Works great.
Nova Launcher: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7653846/apps/com.teslacoilsw.launcher-1.apk Works great and opens up additional options in the settings menu. I choose to use this as the default launcher, since I can still access all my ouya games, and the ouya home from it much quicker than from ouya home.
Dropbox: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7653846/apps/com.dropbox.android-2.apk Works great with the controller, I use it to copy apps from my computer or phone easily.
Amazon App Store: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7653846/apps/com.amazon.venezia-2.apk Installed, logged in, and downloaded Angry birds, which didn't work so well.... Well, I mean it worked great, but was very difficult to play with the ouya controller. Time to hook up a bluetooth mouse. EDIT: after the initial time working so well, I cannot get it to work again. the main page opens but any app I click on it just brings up a blank screen. If anyone else experiences this please let me know...
XBMC: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u...f76-Gotham_alpha2_stagefright-armeabi-v7a.apk This is the latest XBMC build with hardware decoding. I didn't try any local/network video yet, but the streaming video from break.com looked fine.
Pandora: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7653846/apps/com.pandora.android-1.apk Works great, but since it's the Android interface you'll have on screen adds unless you pay for prime, and the "X" to close it is very tiny. However on the plus side if you go to Settings > Developer Options > Uncheck Don't keep activities Pandora can run in the background with a 3rd party launcher. So right now I'm listening to Whitesnake and installing the next app on my list to check tonight.
Flixter: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7653846/apps/net.flixster.android-1.apk Works, but not always. Final Destination 5 kept freezing at the same point every time, but I watched several minutes of The Dark Knight Rises on wifi and the quality was good and I had no issues.
Chrome: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7653846/apps/com.android.chrome-1.apk Works great, but due to lack of gapps framework you can't sign in, so no tab/bookmark syncing yet.
Non-working/Glitchy:
Facebook - Installed, logged in with no problem, but the interface is far to large to use. Imagine pictures that are 2 - 3 times larger than the screen, with tiny text and you'll get the idea. plus it crashed for no reason....
Twitter - Installed, could not log on. Got the error "Cannot create account" when trying to log in.
SuperSu - Installed, but once inside it said SU needed an update, and installation of that update failed.
Commenting to subscribe to the thread, excited to hear your plans and glad to see a bit more action around here.
I would suggest talking with Rayman ( posted the OTA download thread) he's also working on some development for it and I know we wanted to get some dumps from another ouya to confirm some things.
Definitely looking forward to the comments here. I received my Ouya today and excited to see what it can do.
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I'm certainly no developer, but I've had the same results regarding the play store, for what its worth. I have superuser installed and working. I attempted to use a similar method to getting the play store on the Kindle Fire, with no luck.
Has anyone dabbled with xbmc yet?
If so how is it performing?
dully79 said:
Has anyone dabbled with xbmc yet?
If so how is it performing?
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I played around with it a little. I was able to stream in HD from icefilms with no major problems. The most glaring issue that I saw was if you have a video playing, and decide to pull up the menu, it can be pretty sluggish. I only played with it for about 10 minutes or so, though.
Ok, time for another update. I'm very pleased with the graphics and performance of the console for the games that are available. Puddle THD looks amazing on the big screen, and aside from the camera issues it always had, I'm loving playing Mario 64 with a wireless controller using Mupen 64.
Back on the hacking side, I was able to sideload Nova Launcher successfully, and it opens up a lot of extra options in the settings menu, but I haven't had time to play with them yet. I was with family from out of town all weekend, but I'll be back home tonight and really try to crack this box open. I'll try XBMC myself tonight, are there any other apps anyone would like me to try loading?
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Ok, time for another update. I'm very pleased with the graphics and performance of the console for the games that are available. Puddle THD looks amazing on the big screen, and aside from the camera issues it always had, I'm loving playing Mario 64 with a wireless controller using Mupen 64.
Back on the hacking side, I was able to sideload Nova Launcher successfully, and it opens up a lot of extra options in the settings menu, but I haven't had time to play with them yet. I was with family from out of town all weekend, but I'll be back home tonight and really try to crack this box open. I'll try XBMC myself tonight, are there any other apps anyone would like me to try loading?
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XBMC works great, but make sure to install the experimental "libstagefright" build for hardware acceleration support. If you could figure out Hulu that would be awesome, someone reported tweaking the APK a bit to get it working but never revealed what they did.
Yeah, I saw his post about it, with no followup. Hopefully the logcat will give me some insight into why it's crashing. It's a shame Ouya removed so much of the android framework that these apps rely on. I wonder if there will ever be an official Ouya release for some of these programs...
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Yeah, I saw his post about it, with no followup. Hopefully the logcat will give me some insight into why it's crashing. It's a shame Ouya removed so much of the android framework that these apps rely on. I wonder if there will ever be an official Ouya release for some of these programs...
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Well XBMC and OUYA both promise one for XBMC at least, and I read that they're in talks to have Hulu and Netflix officially supported as well. I imagine it'll all depend on how the reaction at launch goes.
It would be really nice, but given streaming media providers attitude toward root users I wouldn't be surprised if they refused to play nice. I still can't watch an Ultraviolet movie on my Nexus 7 without temp unrooting it...
For Hulu, find the Hulu for Google tv apk, I found it online.
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Thank you! I saw that on an Ouyaforums thread and was going to try it tonight? how well does it work? I also saw somewhere that youtube for google tv works on the ouya as well, can anyone confirm that? I'll gather the apks together tonight, re-host them, and put some links in the OP.
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Thank you! I saw that on an Ouyaforums thread and was going to try it tonight? how well does it work? I also saw somewhere that youtube for google tv works on the ouya as well, can anyone confirm that? I'll gather the apks together tonight, re-host them, and put some links in the OP.
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I can confirm that the googleTV youtube app works very well.
Updated OP with tons of links to tested working apps.
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Updated OP with tons of links to tested working apps.
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Thanks! Hulu is working great.
Bluetooth not working
My controller and console work but the bluetooth on my console does not want to turn on so it just constantly tries to turn on so my controller can never connect.
Any help?
Do you have a usb keyboard and mouse to navigate with? if so I'd suggest going to the advanced settings menu (stock android settings) and try turning bluetooth on there. If you've already tried that and it doesn't work, your issue can be hardware or software. If it's hardware you're way past what I can help with, but if it's software these steps might work. Go to backup and reset under the same settings menu and do a factory reset. If that doesn't work the final step would be to follow the instructions to flash the latest ota software update through recovery. His instructions say to reboot and hit a key combination repeatedly to get recovery up, but if you have adb access you can just type "adb reboot recovery" in your terminal window and it will boot there directly.
Here's the link, good luck:
https://forums.ouya.tv/discussion/comment/11742/#Comment_11742
Thanks to MBM for the instructions, and Rayman for hosting the OTA downloads.
*disclaimer* I haven't tried this myself yet, but plan to tonight if you'd rather wait for a confirmation. Honestly though MBM has been working on the Ouya a lot longer than I have and his instructions line up with what I've done on other android devices. /*disclaimer*
one note about hulu plus. THe app you posted here 2.6 does not have options for keyboard control (which was indroduced in 2.8, the latest version.) for use with the controller, keyboards etc I have a copy of the apk which i will upload as soon as I have 10 posts and can post links (almost there haha). WHen I installed 2.8 by it self, it force closed but i was able to get it working by installing 2.6 from your post and then upgrading.
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Do you have a usb keyboard and mouse to navigate with? if so I'd suggest going to the advanced settings menu (stock android settings) and try turning bluetooth on there. If you've already tried that and it doesn't work, your issue can be hardware or software. If it's hardware you're way past what I can help with, but if it's software these steps might work. Go to backup and reset under the same settings menu and do a factory reset. If that doesn't work the final step would be to follow the instructions to flash the latest ota software update through recovery. His instructions say to reboot and hit a key combination repeatedly to get recovery up, but if you have adb access you can just type "adb reboot recovery" in your terminal window and it will boot there directly.
Here's the link, good luck:
Thanks to MBM for the instructions, and Rayman for hosting the OTA downloads.
*disclaimer* I haven't tried this myself yet, but plan to tonight if you'd rather wait for a confirmation. Honestly though MBM has been working on the Ouya a lot longer than I have and his instructions line up with what I've done on other android devices. /*disclaimer*
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[Q] Ouya app installed but don't launch?

Hi everyone!
I have just gotten my Ouya device today and installed apps from my Samsung Galaxy S3 like Netflix, Youtube and XBMC... I did try installing some other apps called Showbox, USTV, and TVPortal but the thing is, they do install and when you launch them it goes back to the Ouya homescreen. Is there a way to run *any* android app on the Ouya even if modding the console itself or the apk file of the app? I would like those certain apps to work. If there is none I guess I will be selling it on the market.
Thank you.
-John
johnsnow5440 said:
Hi everyone!
I have just gotten my Ouya device today and installed apps from my Samsung Galaxy S3 like Netflix, Youtube and XBMC... I did try installing some other apps called Showbox, USTV, and TVPortal but the thing is, they do install and when you launch them it goes back to the Ouya homescreen. Is there a way to run *any* android app on the Ouya even if modding the console itself or the apk file of the app? I would like those certain apps to work. If there is none I guess I will be selling it on the market.
Thank you.
-John
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netflix, look for the 1.8.1 apk I beleive, you can find it on XDA here.
For youtube, I forget which version, Ill have to check mine and get back to you.
XBMC you can get from OUYA itself, you dont need to sideload it.
I found it best to get the amazon app store installed. Most apps on this seem to run good, since the hardware is similar to the kindle and nexus 7.
I used HULU from the amazon app store and it runs fine.
Im seeing more and more the version 1 of the OUYA was a bit of a disappointment and I was a kickstart backer (only 20$ though).
IF (big IF) they create a version 2 Im sure it will be much better but version one buyers and kickstart backers better get something for being R&D
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netflix, look for the 1.8.1 apk I beleive, you can find it on XDA here.
For youtube, I forget which version, Ill have to check mine and get back to you.
XBMC you can get from OUYA itself, you dont need to sideload it.
I found it best to get the amazon app store installed. Most apps on this seem to run good, since the hardware is similar to the kindle and nexus 7.
I used HULU from the amazon app store and it runs fine.
Im seeing more and more the version 1 of the OUYA was a bit of a disappointment and I was a kickstart backer (only 20$ though).
IF (big IF) they create a version 2 Im sure it will be much better but version one buyers and kickstart backers better get something for being R&D
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It's fine. I sold it within 2 days because I don't like I can't install all android apps. It was very good with XBMC though

Help with emulators in kodi

I've only just recently started trying out emulators and nownim trying to launch them from within kodi. Its surprisingly not very straightforward, at least not for me. But I did somehow get my n64 ROMs to import. All the covers are there, however, eventhough all the ROMs launch in n64oid, very few work when I load them from within kodi??? I'm looking for anyntips. Thinking I'll eventually sort it out but now my issue is adding my new ROM collection on aftv. Using NES.emu ALL the ROMs work but the problem I have is I can't add emu as a source because it simply shows up nowhere on the sdcard. Tried uninstalling, tried moving it to another location but its just not there. N64oid and muppen show up just not NES.EMU...THAT might be what makes this a aftv problem more so than one I'd take to the kodi forums. Can someone tell me what going on? Thanks.
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I've only just recently started trying out emulators and nownim trying to launch them from within kodi. Its surprisingly not very straightforward, at least not for me. But I did somehow get my n64 ROMs to import. All the covers are there, however, eventhough all the ROMs launch in n64oid, very few work when I load them from within kodi??? I'm looking for anyntips. Thinking I'll eventually sort it out but now my issue is adding my new ROM collection on aftv. Using NES.emu ALL the ROMs work but the problem I have is I can't add emu as a source because it simply shows up nowhere on the sdcard. Tried uninstalling, tried moving it to another location but its just not there. N64oid and muppen show up just not NES.EMU...THAT might be what makes this a aftv problem more so than one I'd take to the kodi forums. Can someone tell me what going on? Thanks.
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I think you are over complicating the whole thing. Add your Emulator as a Favorite and then add it to the shortcut. You can then remove it from the fav's. You will then have your emu as a shortcut that shows up always. As for roms. I'm not sure what you mean. Start the emu and then run your rom.
try retroarch. it has a lot of cores that work almost perfect on the ftv.
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I think you are over complicating the whole thing. Add your Emulator as a Favorite and then add it to the shortcut. You can then remove it from the fav's. You will then have your emu as a shortcut that shows up always. As for roms. I'm not sure what you mean. Start the emu and then run your rom.
try retroarch. it has a lot of cores that work almost perfect on the ftv.
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Seems that would be a simple approach to get it to show up but, and remember I'm new to this, the way I add it is through file manager so adding it as a kodi favorite won't fix that. But if that works for you I might need to try a different method.
I've used retroarch and it is easy to get working but read awhile back people had serious issues integrating it to kodi. In fact, i didnt read they actually got it working. You understand I want to scrape ROMs into a game library in kodi, right? I've been able to run emulators for awhile and set shortcuts to them from within kodi but I'm finding full integration to be much more tricky.
Thanks for the reply. The guides are a bit intimidating but not overly hard. What I'm really wondering is why this app isn't showing up?
KLit75 said:
Seems that would be a simple approach to get it to show up but, and remember I'm new to this, the way I add it is through file manager so adding it as a kodi favorite won't fix that. But if that works for you I might need to try a different method.
I've used retroarch and it is easy to get working but read awhile back people had serious issues integrating it to kodi. In fact, i didnt read they actually got it working. You understand I want to scrape ROMs into a game library in kodi, right? I've been able to run emulators for awhile and set shortcuts to them from within kodi but I'm finding full integration to be much more tricky.
Thanks for the reply. The guides are a bit intimidating but not overly hard. What I'm really wondering is why this app isn't showing up?
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retroarch works very well. In my case, I took the old retroarch api which works very well on the firetv and added the cores from the latest version and did an inbound signature so it passes the api signature using one click. I have the apk which you could use. Send me a PM and I'll share it with you if you like.
That would be great. PM sent. Thanks a lot!
Have you tried ROM Collection Browser and/or Advanced Launcher? You shouldn't really have to mess with sources with RCB so long as the directory that your roms are contained in (or a directory higher up the tree) is also added as a source.
KLit75 said:
That would be great. PM sent. Thanks a lot!
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let us know your experience with the modified retroarch.
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let us know your experience with the modified retroarch.
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I definitely will. Sorry. Havent had a lot of time to sit down and try it. But ill report here when i do. Hopefully soon!
Update--brilliant! Thanks again. Got everything to scan in. With the exception of some controller mapping and gameplay glitches which ill learn as i go, this was simple and painless.
Im big time into bells & whistles so eventually wouldlike to get newer emulators with gameplay videos running with fanart and covers but one thing at a time. Honestly if I'd known it would be this quick I wouldve done it sooner. Much appreciated!

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