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Ouya Controller Wear and Tear

November 1, 2019July 5, 2014 by S-Config

The slow destruction of an Ouya Controller after 1 year of moderate use.

I don't think I would consider myself an aggressive gamer to really abuse the Ouya Controller. I have a total of 63 games loaded on my Ouya with over half of them being side-loaded emulators coupled with all of the things I learned in previous blogs about this consoles journey. Multiple times I have re-rooted this Ouya and even had to firmware reset it a few times as well. Throughout all of this, the controller is the real item that takes the beating in any game console. I know some of this will view my blog as being nitpicky however there are people who want to take care of their consoles and treat them with a fair amount of respect so that it can last a very long time. Read on if you want to know more or just want to take notes if you are buying a used Ouya Controller on the used market.

Archived – Xposed installer for Ouya v2.1.4

June 8, 2023July 4, 2014 by S-Config

This post is here to archive the old procedure of Xposed for Ouya 2.1.4

If you have stumbled onto this page because the Xposed framework is what you need to root your Ouya and this page is here only for historical reasons. Click here for the updated documentation on rooting your Ouya.

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Ouya Support – Other troubleshooting issues.

August 23, 2021June 29, 2014 by S-Config

Welcome to Ouya Support time with S-Config!

I notice a lot of people come to my site for various support topics for the Ouya and I figured that I should make an article dealing with some of the Ouya Support in terms of troubleshooting issues that were simply too small to exist under one article. These are questions which pop up time and time again in forums as well as on reviewers that decide is a fatal flaw of the console. Just a kind note that your Ouya has a 1 year warranty from the time of your purchase to be sure to keep that sales receipt in case something catastrophic happens to it.

Ouya USB Speed Test – Partitions

August 22, 2022June 2, 2014 by S-Config

Testing the Ouya USB ports.

Ouya USB is great really! It gives the Ouya extra space to store games, ROMs, pictures, practically everything that you would otherwise have problems with the confines of an estimated 3.2GB of free space that is on internal memory because the Android OS is taking up over half of the space! However, one of the annoyances that people do complain about is how long it takes to scan games.

A lot of this has to do with the quality of the USB thumb drive that you are using. But could it be something more? Could it be the way that our drive is formatted that is slowing down the Ouya? What I am talking about is partitioning your USB Drive to something other than the normality in order to attain stability and speed out from your Ouyas USB device.

PS3 Third Party a.k.a. The P3 Controller

February 14, 2025May 17, 2014 by S-Config

Ouya vs. the P3 Knock Off Controller Title.

The PS3 (Playstation) Third Party P3 Controller.

For those who do not play much on eBay there was a lot of issues with purchasing controllers for the PlayStation 3 in regards to china making a ton of knock off controllers. These third-party or P3 controllers looked like a Sony PlayStation 3 controller except that if you ever picked one up and start pressing the buttons or pushing the analog stick around you know that there is something not quite right with them.

CheapCast – A ChromeCast daemon for Ouya

June 8, 2023April 18, 2014 by S-Config

CheapCast coming to the rescue on Ouya!

In my previous article, I have discussed a lot of AirPlay and DNLA action with AirPin for Ouya. But what if you don't have an Apple phone? What if you got an Android phone or even a laptop that is running Google Chrome? This is where installing another service onto your Ouya called "CheapCast" will aid you in your multi-platform streaming woes.

Goodbye Youtube and Vimeo

September 23, 2023April 14, 2014 by S-Config

About the movie time section for my favorite YouTube and Vimeo Posts:

In an effort to divorce me from YouTube and Vimeo. Movie time is no longer on this site. Read on if you want to know more.

Samba filesharing on the Ouya – For windows users

June 8, 2023January 2, 2014 by S-Config

Welcome, Ouya to the Samba Windows network community!

To most people who own an Android or an Ouya. There's a multitude of methods of installing data to it be it music, pictures, videos, or Side-Loading APK's:

AirPin – AirPlay and DLNA streaming on Ouya

October 16, 2024December 29, 2013 by S-Config

My experiences with AirPin AirPlay for Ouya

If you have read our previous articles about AirPlay. You'll know that we are no stranger to Apple and their magical protocol of transferring audio data from one device to another with the protocol known as "AirPlay". However, when it came to Ouya it has been almost a dead topic. After all; The Ouya is a cheap game system and could never be able to act as an AirPlay receiver of content like that. Or at least, so we thought. This is not going to be a step-by-step guide as that would involve us showing you how to root your Ouya to access the GooglePlay store. Although this program works without your Ouya being rooted. You would have to think of more creative ways of getting those APKs onto your Ouya without the assistance of Google Play and we can't show you that! We like my web provider very much thank you!

Would you like to know more?

IBM SurePOS 4800-742 AP04 and Chemi-Con Capacitor fail.

November 2, 2019December 9, 2013 by S-Config

More IBM SurePOS hatred from a computer technician.

Another IBM product (which is now Toshibas nightmare), another capacitor fails. Unlike Dell and Samsung which moved away from the Chemi-con capacitors quickly after the lawsuits and disasters of PCs and servers dropping over dead in less than a year. IBM stayed the course and decided to make this capacitor the "Industry Standard" kinda like how industry standard for generating power is using a water wheel. Unlike my previous article I don't think I have illustrated exactly WHY the capacitors blow apart so easily in these SurePOS units.