One of my Brazilian models is gonna help me get my hands on this piece of shit to help complete my console collection. I've had an amazing week so far and this had only made it better.
When I get it I'll share the results with all of you.
For those who don't know the Zeebo is a 3G enabled home console made exclusively in Brazil in Rio Janeiro. It was supposed to help stopgap Mexicans and South Americans who couldn't afford PS3s. The game selection on it is quite weak and it can barely do progressive scan. Still better than the Ouya though.
Reminder that this shit had fucking Resident Evil 4.
Eli Morgan
What more could you ever want in a console?
Andrew Reed
I does not have a port of Skyrim… Yet.
Sebastian Taylor
Look, man. Let's be honest, it kinda had RE4
Aaron Roberts
Holy shit. This is fucking terrifying.
Ayden Hughes
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Samuel Nguyen
At least the Ouya was Android-based, so you could run most Android apks easily, including emulators. The Zeebo was based on Qualcomm's Brew - a featurephone system - and it was closed and tweaked so only developers could port games, and no one bothered. So it had this tiny library, with PS1-grade graphics at best, for the price of a PS2, when the PS3 was out.
The Ouya had some hype before disappointment set in. The Zeebo was always mocked. That piece of shit had nothing going for it.
I don't speak macaco, sorry. I speak spanish, the other kind of macaco
Dominic Nelson
Thats impressive if its true and they got RE4 down to 7.88 megabytes.
Nathaniel Lewis
It seems Quake 2 was okay, but the first one had no music.
Ryan Garcia
I think I can see some buttons on the sides… Is this really the player 2 controller? The console doesn't provide two identical controllers?
Nathan Allen
Violame user
Carter Morales
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Nolan Edwards
Looks like crap.
Nathaniel Thompson
Its actually the wii remote knock-off. The other controller is the classic wii remote knock-off.
Noah Gonzalez
BR here. That shit has no exclusive games beyond Zeebo soccer and some "street kart racing" as far as I remember, it's all repurposed mobile games like the Symbian version of Crash Bandicoot, the mobile version of RE4 and so on.
As for putting games into it, it is possible with a JTAG. Here's some places you can get info on how to do it, all in portuguese:
Zeebo has, like, 1GB of internal space. That shit is just an HTC Dream / Google G1 phone with some custom OS flashed. The controllers feel like shit, and I remember people saying there was input lag in a lot of games.
Think long and hard if it's really worth buying a piece of shit like that.
Carson Thompson
For people who want weird and rare devices for their collections, it could be.
Benjamin Hughes
I suppose. Personally, I consider this a knock-off console like those "Phantom System" kind of crap, and it's not something I would want in a console collection. Maybe I'm just jaded from hating the fact this abomination was a thing, and how utterly incompetent the company was at every single business decision they had to make.
Anyway, to the OP, you can send your Zeebo to this guy and he will mod it:
He is well known in the scene, so he is reliable. Pretty cheap service as well. Consider asking your BR friend to send it for you before handling it over.
