Can Nintendo’s Alarmo run Doom? You guess it could actually

That’s precisely what hacker GaryOberNicht, who lately found out how to run customized firmware on the Alarmo, did in a video posted to Mastodon and their X account yesterday. In it, they play by turning or urgent the mushroom-shaped blob on prime of the Alarmo to maneuver and urgent the opposite buttons to shoot or open doorways. Right here, take a look:

Gary stated it’s “potential to load the shareware model of Doom fully from USB, with out modifying the Alarmo.” They usually’ve put the software program and directions for operating it on Github, so nearly any sufficiently educated and decided Alarmo proprietor can do it, too. Better of all, it may be accomplished with out opening the clock up in any respect.

How did they pull this off? Gary explains in a weblog put up that after one other particular person referred to as Spinda hacked the Alarmo (with a Flipper Zero) and dumped the firmware from reminiscence, Gary labored out a way that makes use of a USB mode and the USB-C port to level the Alarmo to customized exterior firmware, as a substitute.

Given how simple it seems to be reproduce what Gary has accomplished, Alarmo software program modding nearly actually received’t simply cease at Doom. In fact, how far any on-line neighborhood efforts to show the Alarmo right into a bizarro recreation console will get in all probability is determined by how Nintendo, which has been notably lively with its copyright disputes currently, feels about it.