{"id":57595,"date":"2024-11-04T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T16:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/36552\/Hackers-Achieve-The-Inevitable-They-Got-Nintendos-Alarmo-To-Play-Doom.html"},"modified":"2024-11-04T16:07:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T16:07:02","slug":"hackers-achieve-the-inevitable-they-got-nintendos-alarmo-to-play-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/hackers-achieve-the-inevitable-they-got-nintendos-alarmo-to-play-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Achieve The Inevitable: They Got Nintendo’s Alarmo To Play Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Nintendo Alarmo<\/a> is nothing more than a 2.8-inch circular screen housed in a big, red, circular computer. That immediately made it a prime target for hardware hackers keen on getting the $100 alarm clock to do their bidding. The first step on this path is, inevitably, forcing the device to run Doom<\/em><\/a>. Unfortunately, it doesn\u2019t try to wake up your neighbors every time you slay a demon, at least not yet.<\/p>\n

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Reverse engineering specialist and YouTuber GaryOderNichts has a video of the Nintendo Alarmo running Doom natively, with no hardware replacement involved. Gary posted a video to his YouTube and Twitter<\/a> accounts over the weekend showing this in action. The controls use the spinning wheel on the top of Alarmo to aim and move, and the two side buttons let you fire your weapons. The hardware hacker laid out the instructions and code on their GitHub<\/a> for anybody else who wants to achieve the same feat.<\/p>\n