They Got Nintendo’s Alarmo to Play Doom

Can Nintendo’s Alarmo run Doom? You bet it can
What do John Deere tractors, Ikea smart bulbs, Lego bricks, and the MacBook Pro Touch Bar have in common? They can all run Doom, and naturally, so can Nintendo’s adorable Alarmo alarm clock. It was only a matter of time before someone pulled that off, but what I didn’t expect was that when it happened, it would be playable.
Doom Has Been Ported to the Nintendo Alarmo Clock
Running the classic Doom is a rite of passage for anything that has circuitry these days. When the Nintendo Alarmo released, some pondered when someone would get Doom running on it, and that has now happened.
Of course someone has Doom running on Nintendo Alarmo now
Earlier this week, Tom told us Nintendo Alarmo couldn't yet run Doom, but did confirm it could display a picture of a
Hackers Achieve the Inevitable: They Got Nintendo’s Alarmo to Play Doom
Hardware hackers prove they can make the Nintendo Alarmo play whatever they want on screen without ripping out its guts.
The Shores of Bell — Doom is now playable on Nintendo's $99 alarm clock
Nintendo's Alarmo alarm clock was hacked and made to run the shareware version of Doom by Twitter user GaryOderNichts, who uploaded a gameplay video of the completed job to a Twitter thread earlier this week.
It was only a matter of time: someone has gotten Doom to run on the Nintendo Alarmo
If a device exists, you can almost guarantee someone has put Doom on it, and that's exactly what's happened with the Nintendo Alarmo.
Yes, the Nintendo Alarmo can run Doom
Obviously, the Alarmo isn't the ideal or optimal way to play Doom (we've got an exceptional recently released Nightdive Studios-led remaster for that), but that isn't the point. Getting Doom to run on things it has no business running on has been a decades-long endeavor.
Random: Yes, Doom Is Now Playable On Nintendo Alarmo
"There's currently no audio support. To avoid the USB loader memory size restrictions, the .wad needs to be compressed and then uncompressed to external memory on boot. However, it's possible to load the shareware version of Doom entirely from USB, without modifying the Alarmo."
You can run Doom on Nintendo’s Alarmo clock
A few days after describing how it was possible to load custom firmware on a Nintendo Alarmo, GaryOderNichts shared a video showing Doom running on the alarm clock, and posted instructions to GitHub for anyone looking to do the same with their own device.
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