The Nintendo Switch 2, or rather the future Nintendo console, is still awaited. The Kyoto firm has already confirmed that it will officially present this new machine before the end of the current fiscal year, in March 2025 at the latest. Fans are obviously hoping that the announcement will come as soon as possible.
For now, they must "make do" with the games that the original Nintendo Switch continues to support. A new accessory has also aroused keen interest from the entire community recently: the Nintendo Alarmo. It is an alarm clock equipped with a screen, speakers and motion sensors capable of waking you up to music from cult franchises from Big N such as Zelda, Mario or Splatoon. Hackers have just discovered a new function for it, that of running games. Of course, the lucky one is called Doom.
Doom runs very well on the Nintendo Alarmo
The Nintendo Alarmo is no longer a simple alarm clock. YouTuber GaryOderNichts has managed to run Doom natively on the Nintendo Alarmo without changing a single part. Together with a certain Spinda, they extracted the firmware of the alarm clock to integrate a custom one. Thanks to a USB stick, GaryOderNichts managed to integrate Chocolate Doom (a faithful port of the original version from 1993) directly into the Nintendo Alarmo.
GaryOderNichts uses the alarm clock's buttons to play, including the rotary knob on the top to move around and turn the camera. However, he says that the sound is absent due to memory size restrictions on the USB charger. "It is possible to get sound if you load Doom entirely from USB without modifying Alarmo, but that would spoil the show," he writes on YouTube. Be careful, you run the risk of damaging your device if you embark on such a process.
In any case, the videographer, who is not at his first attempt at emulation, has just achieved a great feat. Running Doom on a device that was not at all designed for this purpose has become a sort of challenge for computer enthusiasts in the Nintendo community. In August 2022, an enthusiast showed, with video support, that he was playing Doom on the screen of a John Deere tractor.
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