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knave:
You must not have other android devices...lol. I started hearing that term when I first started trying things out on my tablet...

Bender:
Have had mine a couple of days now
I installed PLEX and it's running 1080p beautifully
It took me a little while to figure out what side-loading was but I got "MAME4droid reloaded" running and all the roms on a usb stick
I Love having a more modern version of MAME (.139) on this thing
The controller is pretty good, not quite up to par with the XBOX 360 one but really not bad at all
What a great little box to put on a second TV or to travel with
All my movies and MAME in the size of a rubic's cube for $99, I'm very pleased!
Now if we can get a customizable front end for this it would just be killer

Bender:

--- Quote from: shponglefan on June 28, 2013, 06:52:37 pm ---Before this thread, I had no idea what "sideloading" meant.  Sheesh, what ever happened to calling it "installing".  ???

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Took me a while too
Installing is from the official OUYA store and side-loading is installing anything else in the "make" section with an .apk file

Haze:
yeah, it's not a term I really like.  To me it's a way the industry have decided to try and make the standard practice of installing your own software sound like something borderline dodgy, creeping in by the side door.

Bit surprised the Ouya is using that terminology....

glad to see it's running semi-recent versions of MAME tho, it's the type of thing I'd quite like to see an official OSD target for in the source, especially if we end up with a more customizable build system covering both MAME and MESS, so you could roll your own with a healthy selection of suitable drivers from both projects.

it's still a little underpowered, but I'm sure we'll see advances in that area with subsequent systems assuming it isn't a complete disaster.


leapinlew:

--- Quote from: Haze on June 29, 2013, 03:26:33 pm ---yeah, it's not a term I really like.  To me it's a way the industry have decided to try and make the standard practice of installing your own software sound like something borderline dodgy, creeping in by the side door.

Bit surprised the Ouya is using that terminology....

glad to see it's running semi-recent versions of MAME tho, it's the type of thing I'd quite like to see an official OSD target for in the source, especially if we end up with a more customizable build system covering both MAME and MESS, so you could roll your own with a healthy selection of suitable drivers from both projects.

it's still a little underpowered, but I'm sure we'll see advances in that area with subsequent systems assuming it isn't a complete disaster.

--- End quote ---

I think it's another word for Beta, as in, you can do it if you want but it may have undesirable results. When I sideload something, I expect it may not work perfectly but when I install something I expect a seamless error free experience.

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