Nintendo Alarmo spielt "Doom"
Nintendo's new gamification alarm clock Alarmo has a new field of application: thanks to the hacker GaryOderNichts, it can play "Doom".
(Image: @GaryOderNichts auf X)
Once again, "Doom" has a new platform: thanks to hacker GaryOderNichts, the classic shooter now also runs on Nintendo's new alarm clock gadget Alarmo. Doom" is controlled via the alarm clock's controls, as GaryOderNichts demonstrates in a video.
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This means that "Doom" is theoretically fully playable on the Alarmo. But the sound, of all things, doesn't work, writes GaryOderNichts in a thread on Platform X. This is curious, especially as sound playback is actually the core function of the Nintendo Alarmo.
GaryOderNichts has published the source code for his project on Github. This means that anyone who owns the Alarmo and has a suitable wad package for "Doom" can play the alarm clock themselves. This is available from "Doom" as a shareware version, among other things.
According to GaryOderNichts, you can load "Doom" on the Alarmo completely via the USB loader without having to change the code of the Alarmo itself. A stick plugged into the USB-C port of the Alarmo is prepared with a modified software. In principle, this method could also be used to implement other playful hacks with the Alarmo. The hacker describes the procedure in more detail in a blog post.
Wake up and go to sleep
Nintendo's Alarmo is actually designed to wake owners up with sounds from Nintendo games. A motion sensor detects the movements of sleeping or waking users and acknowledges this with appropriate sound passages from "Super Mario Odyssey", "Splatoon 3", "Pikmin 4", "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" and "Ring Fit Adventure".
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With the Nintendo alarm clock, you can not only wake up, but also go to sleep: "snooze sounds" are played when you hop into bed to make you sleepy. On the alarm clock's display, sounds for falling asleep or waking up are accompanied by animations from the video games. You can also view sleep statistics at –, such as how much you move while you sleep.
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