**The Yodo Quad: A Powerful Single Board Computer**

I recently had the opportunity to test out the Yudo Quad, a powerful single board computer that's designed to run on the Ubuntu operating system. The Yudo Quad is available on the Udo website and has been funded on Kickstarter, with several versions available depending on your needs.

My first experience with the Yudo Quad was using the SNES emulator. I chose one of the pre-installed cores and was pleased to find that it performed well on this emulator. With tons of cores to choose from, I had no trouble running my favorite games and didn't even notice any lag or overheating issues during my four-hour play session with my daughter.

To further test the Yudo Quad's performance, I switched to a different game, Shak Fu, and changed my core to see if it would make a difference. I chose the BSNES Mercury Performance Core, which seemed to run well without any issues. However, I decided to try out another emulator, Altered Beast, using the Genesis Plus GX, which also ran smoothly.

One of the features that stood out to me was the ability to change settings and cores on the fly. This is particularly useful if you're having trouble running certain games or need to optimize performance for specific titles. The Yudo Quad's interface is user-friendly, and I appreciated the new xbm interface, which is sleek and modern.

To ensure that the Yudo Quad was stable and performed well over time, I tested it with two different games: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Altered Beast. Both games ran at full speed without any issues, including buffer issues or lag. The ability to turn vsync on or off also became a useful feature, as some users may prefer this setting for their gaming experience.

Overall, my experience with the Yudo Quad was overwhelmingly positive. With its powerful performance and user-friendly interface, it's clear that this single board computer is designed for gamers and enthusiasts alike. The Yodo Quad's availability on Kickstarter has generated significant interest, with several versions available depending on your needs. I'm excited to see what the future holds for this promising platform.

**The Udo Project**

For those interested in learning more about the Yudo Quad and its development, the Udo project is definitely worth checking out. With a strong focus on performance and power efficiency, the Udo team has developed a single board computer that's capable of running Windows, Linux, and Android. The Yodo Quad is powered by an x86 processor and can run with up to 8 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage.

One of the most exciting aspects of the Yudo project is its focus on community engagement. The development team has been open about their plans for the platform, including the release of new features and updates. With a strong emphasis on user feedback, it's clear that the Udo team values the input of their users and will continue to work towards making this single board computer the best it can be.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, my experience with the Yudo Quad has been overwhelmingly positive. With its powerful performance, user-friendly interface, and flexibility in terms of setting and cores, this single board computer is a must-have for any gamer or enthusiast. Whether you're looking to run your favorite games or develop new projects, the Yudo Quad is definitely worth considering. For more information on the Udo project and Kickstarter campaign, please check out the links provided below.

**Links**

* [Udo website](link)

* [Yudo Kickstarter campaign](link)

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys this ETA Prime back here again today I'm here with the Udo quad now the guys over at Udo were nice enough to send me a sample board of this unit this is kind of a precursor to the new yudo x86 that they launched on Kickstarter and actually that's the only Kickstarter that I have ever backed and I kind of feel bad about that but the board looks so awesome that I had to back it I really want to get my hands on one as soon as possible so what we have here is the Udo quad this has a free scale imx6 arm cortex A9 quad core it's clocked in at 1 gahz the GPU is a Vante gc2000 plus it has a aanti GC 355 and a aanti GC 320 GPU so three gpus built in you won't be using all three gpus at the same time but it's nice to know that it has them it has an amtel Sam 3 x8e arm cortex M3 this is the same CPU that is in the Arduino do and as you can see it has the Arduino pin out Ms here which is really cool to have on a board this really really makes it very useful as a development board and just something cool to mess with so there are a lot of images that you can download for this they have their umuntu version two Android 4.4 Android 6.0 a few Arch Linux ports there is a Cody build an open elec and a Locka build the problem with Locka right now is I cannot get it to boot um I am waiting on some help over at the Retro Arch forums but I have tried everything I have flashed it in Windows Linux Mac OSX I'm stuck at loading kernel so I know the board works great because I can run all the other images flawlessly and has to be something with the new Locka build as you can see here we have the microphone in audio out two USB ports HDMI ethernet two OTG ports over here we have an on andof switch and it has this massive heat sink on it another cool feature about this board is it has SATA SATA power it also has a DSi display for an LCD so I have messed with this board a little bit now I have run the omuntu and it runs very very good one of the coolest features about this is the Arduino built in so you can have the operating system running and use the Arduino command software from inside umuntu while your board's running you can have all of your sensors hooked to the board and execute your commands from umuntu let's go ahead and get into this and right now I'm using their untu 2.0 version I have pre-loaded a few cool neat little extras on here now you know I like to do emulation and that's what we're going to do so we're here at the desktop of the you do umun 2 2.0 build it comes with a bunch of pre-installed applications as you can see here I have retroarch and Fs UAE launcher installed these do not come pre-installed I installed these through the terminal myself retro Arch runs pretty good and fsae is an Amiga emulator I can get it to launch but I cannot launch a game without a scrambled screen I'm not sure if it's even built for arm processors I'm going to work on it and see if I can get it to run on here good news is I do get the launcher up and I can start loading the games but when it goes to the game I get a scrambled screen so something's up might be the GPU not being compatible I'm going to look into it so this we also have an Android 4.4 Android 6.0 Arch Linux an open El and a Cody build that you can download and install one of the main draws to this unit for me was the Arduino IDE interface now this uses the same pinout as the Arduino R3 1.0 and it's pretty cool to have your IDE built into the same board that you are going to be running your accessories from usually you have to take your Arduino plug it into USB plug it into another computer with a operating system running an Arduino IDE interface program you can send your commands from there but we're pretty much using an auntu computer with an Arduino built on to it so it's pretty cool to have that that was one of the main draws I've never owned an Arduino I am going to order an ultimate starter kit and see what I can get done with this uh on the desktop first thing you really need to do is go to software updator and just let it run update your software it can take anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes minutes so just be patient there is Wi-Fi built onto the quad as you see in the picture here comes with a Wi-Fi chip and the other notable thing here is I am running this from the barrel Jack and I'm using a 12v 3 amp power supply now they say this runs on 6 to 12 volts I opted to do the 12 because I had an extra power brick for an old HP monitor it was the same size Jack positive in the middle terminal negative on the Outer Edge so it worked perfectly for this and at 3 amps I should have no problem with low power open up our menu here under accessories we have our archive manager file manager one of the coolest apps ever a calculator keyboard Leaf pad terminal again education we have scratch and squeak if you've never used scratch or squeak scr scratch is amazing for kids or even adults to learn programming with electronics an Arduino IDE interface games will not be listed here like I said I installed the fs UAE Amiga emulator and retro Arch Graphics document viewer image viewer in another video I am going to install and see how it runs on here now I used years ago before I was able to afford Photoshop and I love I was actually thinking about going back to for a little while using one of these boards because a lot of them do run it and some of them run it very very well internet comes pre-installed with a chromium web browser it's a really good web browser for this build here you can install others if you are familiar with Linux like Firefox and other Linux web compatible web browsers office Abby Word document viewer got blue fish editor scratch and squeak sound and video pulse audio volume control usually you have like a VLC player or something here but they do offer a Cody build and an open elect build you may be able to install VLC through the terminal I haven't tried it yet I'm pretty sure you'd be able to do that system tools calibrate touchscreen there is a DSi connector on the board and they do sell a touchcreen for this untu software Center download some games and stuff like that through here software updater and your task manager and here we have all of our settings so the operating system runs very good web browsing is fast videos are a bit choppy um running them at 1080p through YouTube on the chromium web browser but I have my phone and my desktop and everything I I didn't get this for a web browser the Arduino was the draw for me but I did install retro Arch and like you guys know I love retro emulation so we're going to get right into it first I installed this through terminal using their test PBA then I went to the stable build and I am able to play most of the cores under the test PPA that I downloaded first through terminal it was I didn't have N64 so I figured I'd try stable and lo and behold it worked open this up I have a PS3 controller connected with a USB cable and I've already set this up for a few games we're going to get into it first up let's try Donkey Kong now this is the Atari 2600 version and my controller is already preconfigured it runs very good with this setup here oh man he got me the big problem that I'm having with the Retro Arch emulator is the sound and I'm working on getting it fixed I have crackling popping in a lot of the emulators themselves I've managed to get a few to work correctly but until then I have my sound off just to be on the safe side side and I have my I'm really sucking at this I have my Center PS button on my PS3 controller configured to go back to the Retro Arch menu now I'm using the same interface as Locka this is the Retro Arch xbm interface when you pre-install when you first install this you'll get the old retro Arch look and I really like the way this looks another thing I noticed was if I was to go and start another game now it would load the previous game so I need to shut down the Donkey Kong Atari game that I just used close now we're ready to start something else we're going to try SNES and I'm going to go with Primal Rage I am using the SN x9x core and it seems to be running very well there are tons of cores to choose from with the SNES emulator and I'm sure others run better than some this was the first option that I chose so I'm going to stick with it I've had really good luck with the SN x9x on pretty much every other operating system that I've used it on whoa now I'm not sure if this is just if this is lag or if this is how the game played before but what I'm going to do is back out of here and I'm going to change my core I'm going to go to a different game and change my core just to see back close that game I'm going to try Shak Fu when we hit run It'll ask us what core we want to choose we're going to use bsnes mercury performance core see if that works now I had my four-year-old daughter play SNES and Sega Genesis on this unit for about 4 hours yesterday and she had no trouble didn't crash didn't overheat we were able to exit back out directly to the umuntu desktop and I got to choose check and if you're having trouble running games you can always change different settings change your cores it is really trial and error when you're running something like this the bnes Mercury oh yeah it seems to be running pretty good so they have one for performance accuracy and who speed and I chose the performance so it's not going to you know sound's not going to be as accurate and stuff like that but it should perform a little better and man man this game is so good guys so it does look really good scaled up and like I've said in previous videos I love the way that the screen moves in this sha game it's just something about it when it Scrolls the scroll is really cool we'll go back to Retro Arch close SNES and I will try we'll go Altered Beast first and then we will try I have always used the Genesis plus GX I'll do Altered Beast and then I'll go to Sonic the Hedgehog 2 this was one of the emulators I had sound trouble on it was really Poppy and this emulator definitely runs at full speed on this unit come on power up oh oh I lost my orb nope yep ah I needed that give me that give me that I'm getting buffer they call it getting swole I don't know is that what the kids are saying nowadays it's time to destroy some zombie heads get out of here oh just need to be shooting Fireballs at these guys so yeah this runs good back out close the game and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Emerald Hill Zone one all right so within the Retro Arch emulator you can turn vsync on or off you can just mess with so many I love retro Arch and I've used it for years on Android the interface was very old you know it was outdated to me this new xbm interface that has come out is beautiful they use this within the Locka TV and woo that's it back out we'll just close this game and I will exit retro Arch by going over to my retro Arch buddy here and quit retro Arch so that's it for now guys that's a quick rundown and overview of the youo Quad running umuntu 2.0 this is a available on their website I will leave links in the description to the Udo website I will also leave a link to their new Kickstarter which is the x86 yudo it's going to be awesome this is the first Kickstarter that I have ever funded and I am very excited to get my hands on one it runs now there's several versions you can get you can get the slower Intel Atom Processor they have an X5 processor also which is the newer atom but you can get it up to 8 GB of RAM 64 GB of storage the board is going to be amazing and it's definitely going to be more powerful than the Raspberry Pi now the development on it it does run x86 so we will have Windows they have a Windows 10 build a Linux build and an Android build and from what I have seen so far it looks like like it's going to be an awesome performer and even the 2 gbyte lower clocked version is 89 on the kickstarter it's going to be worth it it's going to be awesome guys that's it for now thanks for watching links are in the description go check these guys out and check that Kickstarter out the they're not paying me at all um they sent me a demo board to review I love these single board computers that's why I do this guys like I this this is my hobby I love doing it I love seeing how they run and I cannot wait to get some more power in my hands with a new x86 single board computer like always thanks for watching\n"