That’s precisely what hacker GaryOberNicht, who not too long ago discovered find 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 stated it’s “potential to load the shareware model of Doom totally from USB, with out modifying the Alarmo.” They usually’ve put the software program and directions for working it on Github, so nearly any sufficiently educated and decided Alarmo proprietor can do it, too. Better of all, it may be carried out with out opening the clock up in any respect.
How did they pull this off? Gary explains in a weblog submit that after one other individual referred to as Spinda hacked the Alarmo (with a Flipper Zero) and dumped the firmware from reminiscence, Gary labored out a technique 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 carried out, Alarmo software program modding nearly actually gained’t simply cease at Doom. In fact, how far any on-line group efforts to show the Alarmo right into a bizarro recreation console will get in all probability will depend on how Nintendo, which has been notably energetic with its copyright disputes these days, feels about it.
