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

That’s precisely what hacker GaryOberNicht, who not too long ago discovered 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 high of the Alarmo to maneuver and urgent the opposite buttons to shoot or open doorways. Right here, take a look:

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

How did they pull this off? Gary explains in a weblog publish that after one other individual known 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 an alternative.

Given how simple it seems to be reproduce what Gary has carried out, Alarmo software program modding virtually definitely received’t simply cease at Doom. In fact, how far any on-line group efforts to show the Alarmo right into a bizarro recreation console will get most likely is determined by how Nintendo, which has been significantly lively with its copyright disputes recently, feels about it.