Playcast Packful of Fun - Playcast-Media

[Ripcord]

Is this service available in the UK, keep getting not in your area message like some of the other guys?

On the error page you're getting it gives you a URL you can visit to see what their coverage is.

[Thierry Allard]

Played a few hours of batman Arkham Asylum today and everything went very smooth to the point I forgot that I was playing from a stream all along. Even the start and select taping was working flawlessly this time. This thing is shaping up to be a pretty decent service if they manage to have a bit more content and more recent games to show off the tech. It would be nice to have some very graphically heavy recent game to brag about, right know everything is a bit old and doesn't have as much wow factor (even though it's pretty cool already).

[Mr. J]

Today's update should have improved connectivity for those of you with weaker internet connections. Please try launching again and let us know what you think. Thanks!

[TheDavyStar]

I tried it out today. Had a little bit of lag, but it didn't bother me too much until I played Pacman CE, where I pressed left right as I approached a turn andd instead just continued on.

Annoyingly, the start button is emulated by pressing the home button twice, which brings up the OUYA menu. That is pretty frustrating.

Lastly, Playcast still doesn't allow for online play, whicch annoys me. You could say that's because the game are on a different network from Steam, but hey, there's 23 games and a lot of Fire TV owners that you could play with. Surely online play would be feasible, right?

I wonder when cloud gaming providers will be able to acquire morerecent games for their library. That sai though, the current library, bar Ghostly Adventures an Cities of Gold, features some brilliant games! Also, does anybody know if multiplayer works locally on the LEGO games? I haven't trie it just yet.

As a single player experience, it works very well, and I think I might get a subscription, but the aforementioned niggles mean I saly have to give this app a 6/10.

[Kaimega]

Davy: here is how the controls for START and BACK work, as posed a few pages back:

Start and Back buttons on OUYA controller in Playcast Service are mapped as follows:
Start - Single Tap
Back - Double Tap

Works best if you gently tap on the center of the touchpad.

also note that mid session - Pressing the R1/R2/L1/L2 Buttons at any time will trigger the Service Menu in which pressing Tutorial options should refer to above instructions as well.

Also, do other cloud gaming services offer online play? I honestly don't know, but I think that would be a bit too taxing on their servers, or that would require even more servers which are more costly.

[mekadur]

I tried it out today. Had a little bit of lag, but it didn't bother me too much until I played Pacman CE, where I pressed left right as I approached a turn and instead just continued on.

Hi, PAC CE (similarly to the equally brilliant Pix the Cat) actually natively registers control input also before reaching the turn needed... which - unless under profound latency conditions or very high game speeds (and even then it is feasible) - should enable playing this game rather well.
also - in this type of game - you might find the D-Pad preferable for directional input.

[Mr. J]

Local MP does work on Playcast!

[ajb999]

Hi, PAC CE (similarly to the equally brilliant Pix the Cat) actually natively registers control input also before reaching the turn needed... which - unless under profound latency conditions or very high game speeds (and even then it is feasible) - should enable playing this game rather well.
also - in this type of game - you might find the D-Pad preferable for directional input.

I noticed when the speed got to a certain point on PAC CE that it would not register even the dpad quick enough. You can push the next direction as soon as a turn is made and consistently pacman will keep going straight. I'm using Ethernet with an anthracite controller/OUYA.

[TheDavyStar]

Also, do other cloud gaming services offer online play? I honestly don't know, but I think that would be a bit too taxing on their servers, or that would require even more servers which are more costly.

Onlive does, and I think Nvidia Grid does, but I suppose those companies are much larger and have much more money to chuck about than Playcast Media.

EDIT: Sorry, I mame a few typos here and there because of my crappy phone keyboard. CURSE YOU KEYBOARD!

[Nitrogen_Widget]

I went from no service to my wifi is weak.
I used to be able to play Lego batman 2 with little lag, now with the recent updates I can't do anything and I've got a 2nd tier cable modem.
It should be plenty fast.
So its either the ouya or the newest updates that are causing my problems.