Nintendo’s new music app for smartphones may have grabbed the attention of the past few days, but don’t forget about the Japanese company’s new sound clock, Alarmo.
As you may recall, the person known as ‘GaryOderNichts’ on social media (who usually works on reverse engineering for the WIi U) recently figured out how to run custom code on the new Nintendo watch. Of course, this immediately led to requests for Doom, and in an update, it’s now fully playable on the device.
What might actually be wild here is the fact that the buttons and buttons on the Alarm can be used to play the game. So now you can blast demons back to Hell on your watch! You can see id Software’s classic first-person shooter on the move on Alarm in the video below:
Although it’s up and running, Gary noted in a follow-up message that there is “currently” no audio support. Here are the reasons for that:
“There is currently no audio support. To avoid USB loader memory size limitations, the .wad needs to be compressed and then decompressed to external memory at startup. However, it is possible to load the shareware version of Doom entirely from USB, without modifying Alarmo. “
If you want to try this for yourself, the creator has also shared source code and instructions. there is insightful blog post as well as if you are curious to know more about how it is enabled on Alarm.
