Can Nintendo’s Alarmo run Doom? You bet it can

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What bash John Deere tractors, Ikea astute bulbs, Lego bricks, and the MacBook Pro Touch Bar person successful common? They tin each tally Doom, and naturally, truthful tin Nintendo’s adorable Alarmo alarm clock. It was lone a substance of clip earlier idiosyncratic pulled that off, but what I didn’t expect was that erstwhile it happened, it would beryllium playable.

That’s precisely what hacker GaryOberNicht, who precocious figured retired how to tally customized firmware connected the Alarmo, did successful a video posted to Mastodon and their X account yesterday. In it, they play by turning oregon pressing the mushroom-shaped blob connected apical of the Alarmo to determination and pressing the different buttons to sprout oregon unfastened doors. Here, person a look:

Gary said it’s “possible to load the shareware mentation of Doom wholly from USB, without modifying the Alarmo.” And they’ve enactment the bundle and instructions for moving it on Github, truthful astir immoderate sufficiently knowledgeable and determined Alarmo proprietor tin bash it, too. Best of all, it tin beryllium done without opening the timepiece up astatine all.

How did they propulsion this off? Gary explains successful a blog post that aft different idiosyncratic called Spinda hacked the Alarmo (with a Flipper Zero) and dumped the firmware from memory, Gary worked retired a method that uses a USB mode and the USB-C larboard to constituent the Alarmo to customized outer firmware, instead.

Given however casual it appears to beryllium reproduce what Gary has done, Alarmo bundle modding astir surely won’t conscionable halt astatine Doom. Of course, however acold immoderate online assemblage efforts to crook the Alarmo into a bizarro crippled console volition get astir apt depends connected however Nintendo, which has been particularly active with its copyright disputes lately, feels astir it.

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