That’s precisely what hacker GaryOberNicht, who lately figured out 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 prime of the Alarmo to maneuver and urgent the opposite buttons to shoot or open doorways. Right here, take a look:
Gary said it’s “potential to load the shareware model of Doom solely from USB, with out modifying the Alarmo.” And so they’ve put the software program and directions for operating it on Github, so nearly any sufficiently educated and decided Alarmo proprietor can do it, too. Better of all, it may be finished with out opening the clock up in any respect.
How did they pull this off? Gary explains in a blog post that after one other particular person 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 straightforward it seems to be reproduce what Gary has finished, Alarmo software program modding nearly definitely received’t simply cease at Doom. After all, how far any on-line neighborhood efforts to show the Alarmo right into a bizarro sport console will get in all probability is determined by how Nintendo, which has been particularly active with its copyright disputes recently, feels about it.