Today we're going to be gaming on this dangly
little google chromecast. All the way from phone games, right up to cyberpunk. But before that,
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very much Linode for sponsoring today's video! Now physically the Chrome cast with google TV is
just an off-white little pebble with a dangly little HDMI cord at the end. It looks a little
bit like a high-tech sperm to me to be honest. And that actually doesn't fill me with a whole
lot of confidence in terms of gaming performance, because there's no ventilation on here. Which means
there's some pretty low power draw hardware in here. But we'll figure it out. We'll see what
happens. Now in terms of I.O. it is also concernedly limited. It's almost apple product limited but at
least it's a USB-c port which means we can still go to dongle town. Oh it comes with a cute little
off-white remote which actually come to think of it, is probably the worst color you can make a
remote. It's just gonna be gross and hand cheese covered after like two days of light use. Also, this
is definitely not a gaming peripheral so hopefully it's not gonna be too hard to connect something
more gaming oriented to the little chromecast. Ah yes, it also comes with some off-white
batteries included for the remote which is nice. And what looks like an off-white iPhone charger
and cable but other than that there is not a whole lot to say about this thing physically. So let's
plug it into a display and start setting it up. Setting up the little chromecast wasn't really
a big deal. All I had to do was give google all of my personal information and then sacrificed my
firstborn child to them. After that it just took about 20 minutes to install all of the software on
it and then we were up and running and just like that we've set up our little google spermcast.
I really should not start calling it that... the google chromecast... and as standard it seems to
just have a bunch of TV stuff on it. So let's go have a look at apps and see what we can find. Ooh
PAC-man! That would have been really exciting like 30 years ago. Oh! But here we go. We've got some
phone games that we can actually run on the chromecast.Oh! Let's give farming simulator a try.
That sounds amazing. Oh okay, it looks like it wants us to connect a gamepad before installing any
games which makes sense. Let's quickly go do that. And just like that, the xbox controller is connected to our chromecast.
That was surprisingly easy. Wow, that is an extensive list of settings
this game has. And with that admittedly very brief attempt, there doesn't seem to be much I
can do to fill the whole display with farming. But I don't really care. I'm just excited to
see how farming simulator runs on a chromecast! There we go! We're farming. Oh yeah, that
is some good farming action right there. There is the occasional frame drop and it
doesn't look great but it's a chromecast and it has native gaming support which I think is
pretty cool. So with that let's try a different android game. Damn this is like bloom the video
game. Look at that now this is by no means an ideal gaming experience, as you saw there
is the occasional - pretty substantial - stutter but the little chromecast is still running a game -
which I think is pretty cool. Although it is a pretty losery phone game so let's see if there's
a way to run some better games on the chromecast. Oh cool, retroarch is just on the google play store!
That's convenient. Now getting retroarch set up on the little Optimus Prime's excretion is actually
really easy. All you do is you install it off the google play store and then you install a file
manager so that you can copy game files from a PC onto the chromecast and once retroarch
finishes setting up, it'll be familiar to anybody that's used the software before. So with that let's
see what kind of games the chromecast can handle. Okay, well we've done some magic and
now we've got street fighter 2 Turbo Hyper Fighting running on the little
chromecast. I don't know what the controls are... That's going very well... Oh! Go away Sangeeth... Oh yeah! You can't defeat my ... oh never
mind he did. He did defeat my swipe attack... Yes! Finally beat the AI. Anyway the little
chromecast handles the snes game very well but granted there's not any real upscaling
going on so it's a very easy load which makes me think we should try out
a newer generation of console games. No way! Look at that. It runs PS1 games. Now I know,
I know by today's standards the hardware in the PS1 is barely more advanced than what you find
in an etcher-sketch but still. Although there is some input lag it's not the worst but it's
definitely noticeable. I think the part about the emulation experience on the little chromecast
that impressed me the most was just how easy it was. Granted, with more challenging games the
input lag may flare up your whooping cough a bit. But at least you don't have to do any
weird hackerman blackmagic tech fangling to get it running. Although, now it's time to see
how the little chromecast handles modern gaming! Now, it seems like one of the better ways to
play more modern games on the little chromecast is by using Geforce Now. This is just an app on
the play store which should be very interesting considering how the more powerful NVIDIA
shield struggled with it so let's give it a try. Okay there is definite input lag.
Like I would not want to play a competitive fps like this... a few moments later ... oh Wait... What? What just happened? What is happening? The moment anything
actually happened in the game everything just fell apart. The thin veil
of a functional gaming experience just... just collapsed... Oh look at that pixelation! Oh
there's also some heavy artifacting starting up. This is definitely not going well. Although,
I may actually have a dongle that'll help... A while ago I went out and bought this bad
boy which should give us wired internet on the chromecast. Giving it its best chance possible
to run Geforce Now with any kind of dignity. Now the thing that makes this Ethernet dongle
usable with the chromecast is that it has a USB-c pass-through, which will give us power for
the little chromecast. So let's see if it works! Hey! Would you look at that! It's actually powered
up Ethernet connected! Hell yeah. Now I'm not sure if the input lag feels any better. It could be
marginally better but that may also just be me imagining things. However, the real test comes with
the wolf battling. Oh that's much better. Nothing's exploded yet. When we did the wolf battling before
there was that insane desync and pixelation which is all gone now, making this just feel like a
pretty standard Geforce Now gaming experience but now that we've fixed the minor exploding
problem, let's try a slightly more competitive game. Okay, now there's definite input lag but it
actually runs surprisingly well. Like what the hell! We're playing Fortnite on a Chromecast!
Well I guess we're not technically playing it on the chromecast, but still! I just really hope
I'm playing against other people playing on a chromecast because if so, if the other players
are using a keyboard and mouse, I'm pretty screwed... Oh this is hot! This is really hard... This... this is the hardest thing I've... that.. is that
is impossible.. what the hell! So the combination of the input lag and the fact that you're playing an
fps with a controller means that Fortnite's only really playable in theory, but what happens
if we connect a mouse and keyboard to the Chromecast? Now, with its Bluetooth functionality
I'm hoping that this MX keys mini will connect to the Chromecast easily so that we don't have to
be humiliated by 12 year olds in Fortnite anymore. Whoa, it's actually not covered in plastic!
Which - that gets me all hot and bothered! Oh, it's like a Logitech apple keyboard. Okay,
now we just need to see if it pairs. Hey! There. It is paired. Nice, cool, now I have a keyboard
and then when it comes to the mouse I'm using this Corsair Harpoon that they sent over ages
ago for a video and it also paired super easily. and just like that we're ready to dominate
in Fortnite! Wow, that input lag is horrendous... The mouse movement is so imprecise. I actually think that the gamepad is less
terrible than this. Look at how stuttery and confused the mouse tracking is. I cannot
imagine what pvp is gonna be like with this. There's no way I'm actually gonna kill this guy. What? The only explanation for that person losing
that engagement to me is that they're also gaming on a chromecast. So I guess if
you want to know what it feels like to game while on meth - without you know... ruining
your life? You just have to use wireless peripherals with a chromecast! So now that we've
experienced the Fortnite gaming equivalent of bath salts, there's just one more thing left to
try. Would you look at that! Even Cyberpunk runs - semi-acceptably - on a chromecast, which is what!! Now,
due to input lag, driving does feel even more like you're trying to pilot a drunk hippo on a unicycle
than normal in cyberpunk, which is kind of shocking... but it does seem like the little chromecast is
handling cyberpunk better than a PS4 did which is a great point to end a video on. Thank you
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