Successfully played DOOM on Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo



DOOM has been played on a variety of devices, including

car navigation systems, medical ultrasound scanners , Lego blocks , and printers , but now some brave souls are playing it on the Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo , an alarm clock that Nintendo suddenly announced.

Can Nintendo's Alarmo run Doom? You bet it can - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/3/24286842/nintendo-alarmo-doom-hack-usb-custom-firmware-instructions



Hacker Gary, who works on reverse engineering and security related to the Wii U, has discovered a way to execute custom code via USB on the Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo without disassembling it. This is apparently an application of the technique used by Spinda, who hacked the Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo with Flipper Zero.




Gary has used this method to successfully play DOOM on the Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo. Gary posted a video of himself playing DOOM on the Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo on his YouTube channel.

Doom on the Nintendo Alarmo - YouTube


Press the white knob on the top of the Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo for a while to turn on the light.



After that, the DOOM launch screen appeared.



The game screen looks like this. Note that audio is not supported.



You can also control your character using the white knob and the two buttons in front of it.



You can move the viewpoint by swiping left and right on the knob.



He plays DOOM more thoroughly than you'd expect, so if you're interested, check out the video.



Gary wrote, 'To get around the memory size limit of the USB loader, you need to compress the WAD file and unzip it to external memory at launch. It is possible to load the shareware version of DOOM completely from USB without modifying the Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo. The source code and instructions can be found on GitHub.' Technology media The Verge reported, 'Almost any Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo owner with enough knowledge and determination can do this. The best part is that you can do it without opening the clock at all.'

In addition, Gary has published on GitHub the code for playing DOOM with the Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo.

GitHub - GaryOderNichts/alarmo_doom: Doom for the Nintendo Alarmo
https://github.com/GaryOderNichts/alarmo_doom



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