Yes, the Nintendo Alarmo can run Doom

2 weeks ago

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The Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo - Nintendo's quirky (and arguably overpriced) measurement to thief you leap retired of furniture successful nan greeting - is nan latest spot of hardware to walk nan 'can it tally Doom' test.

A station connected X / Twitter by personification GaryOderNichts - who is typically known for their Wii U reverse engineering efforts - appears to show that nan classical 1993 first-person shooter tin so tally connected Nintendo Alarmo.

It doesn't person nan smoothest framework complaint ever, but we tin intelligibly spot nan original Doom being played connected nan Alarmo's cardinal display. GaryOderNichts presses successful nan ample siren fastener to move forward, and rotates it near and correct to move Doom Guy in-game. Meanwhile, nan backmost fastener connected nan near looks for illustration it's utilized to unfastened doors and interact pinch objects. The notification fastener connected nan correct fires nan weapon.

After my past post, it was beautiful clear what everyone wanted to spot connected nan Alarmo. So, present it is - Doom moving connected nan Nintendo Alarmo! pic.twitter.com/WimckYPnXZNovember 2, 2024

While an highly awesome feat, location are a fewer caveats that GaryOderNichts makes statement of. There's nary support for audio, for one, which Gary attributes to "USB loader representation size restrictions." He notes that it is besides imaginable to load successful Doom's shareware type via USB without moreover needing to mod nan Alarmo successful immoderate way.

Obviously, nan Alarmo isn't nan perfect aliases optimal measurement to play Doom (we've sewage an exceptional precocious released Nightdive Studios-led remaster for that), but that isn't nan point. Getting Doom to tally connected things it has nary business moving connected has been a decades-long endeavor.

The r/itrunsdoom subreddit is an fantabulous spot to browse for this reason, pinch caller examples showing Doom running connected an physics drugstore sign, a rate registry and moreover successful different games wholly specified arsenic Rimworld. This is nan cardinal logic why Doom will astir apt outlast america all; it tin rather virtually tally connected anything.

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