Many have been anxious and a little hesitant over the performance of the OUYA console and it’s ability to deliver upon its pledged Kickstarter promises, this video shows one of the developer OUYA consoles in the wild running a game called Roasty Rooster.
Considering this is an early developments game, the performance seems solid with only a couple of on screen visual slowdowns, this video demonstrates to the early OUYA community its ability to perform and hopefully deliver in March 2013.
The Neo Geo MVS board purchased recently sadly was not proivided with the service manual, so embarking upon an internet information quest to locate one began, my efforts so far have drawn a blank in locating the specific MV-1FS service manual however my assumption is the manual will be similar to the MV-1F service manual.
To assist all other future consolized Neo Geo MVS builders I have included links below to all the Neo Geo MVS Slot 1 service manuals so far found, these are in PDF format for easy reading and downloading. So if you are looking for circuit diagrams or DIP switch settings enjoy!
Update: I have been informed the MV-1FS is a Spanish variant of the MV-1F where the ‘S’ designates the board was destined for the Spanish arcades.
The developer versions of the OUYA console are now shipping to anyone who placed an order for these $699 box of Android magics. Julie Uhrman the CEO of the OUYA project has filmed an unboxing video.
The dev OUYA console and two controllers are both cased in hard transparent plastic shells and look great, even if the OUYA console is a hit or a miss I expect either way this limited run of 1200 dev consoles will be collectable in the future.
When released the OUYA will be a powerful $99 game console built around the Android OS. Pre-orders for the console are being accepted here.
The SNK licensed handheld the Neo Geo X Gold has been hacked, hacking can be bad news for any handheld system especially with the Neo Geo X only having been released in late December 2012. However I suspect at the retail price point Tommo Inc were not solely relying on game sales to subsidise the manufacturing costs of the hardware as this is not a low cost handheld console.
Currently the Neo Geo X Gold ships with twenty preinstalled Neo Geo classic games, and one additional Ninja Master’s game card. I suspect the majority of early adopters and hard core collectors will still continue to purchase any future released official game cards.
Neo Geo X Gold Specifications:
| Neo Geo X CPU | Ingenic XBurst JZ4770 @ 1GHZ |
| Memory | 128M DDR2 @ 250MHZ |
| Internal Capacity | 2GB Flash |
| External Capacity | 64GB SD Card (FAT32 Formatted) |
| Display Screen | 4.3-inch (16:9) Resolution 480 x 272 LCD |
| USB Connection | Micro USB |
| Video Connection | HDMI, AV terminals |
| Battery | 3.7V 2200mA (gaming runtime up to 5 hours) |
| Size | 170mm x 72mm x 15mm |
| Weight | 190g |
Neo Geo X Gold Facts So Far:
Neo Geo X .fba UNIVERSE BIOS Hacking:
You can inject the UNIVERSE BIOS into any of the existing Neo Geo X games, this hack is only currently possible if you have the socketed removable microSD storage card located on the Neo Geo X logic board.
1) Download A380 Neo Geo conversion tool.
2) Download UNIVERSE BIOS.
3) Replace the asia-s3.rom file inside of the neogeo.zip archive with a renamed UNIVERSE BIOS.
4) Unzip the conversion tool then place your Neo Geo ROMs in the “roms” folder and launch “fbacache.bat”. It will start to convert all roms into .fba format.
5) Mount the microSD card under Linux, then just exchange the games with the updated unibios verisons.