In just 3 days, the state of Nintendo Alarmo hacking went from ‘it loads a cat jpg’ to ‘it runs Doom better than a lot of PCs back in the day’ [Video]

First reported by Eurogamer, Nintendo hardware enthusiast GaryOderNichts has subjected the Japanese publisher’s new Alarmo smart clock to everyone’s favorite hacker right of passage: Forcing the proprietary little device to run id Software’s seminal 1993 FPS, Doom.

My first thought on seeing that Nintendo released a little smart device based on its games was “that’s cute, I find nothing objectionable about this,” but then I spied the gewgaw’s $100 price tag. Now I want to see DIYers like GaryOderNichts punish the alarm clock by twisting it in horrible, warranty-voiding ways like it’s trapped in internet of things Hellraiser.

It started with GaryOderNichts figuring out how to run custom code at all on the Alarmo, a process which the enthusiast outlined on his blogand demonstrated by making the device display a picture of a cat. This naturally led GaryOderNichts’ followers to request a Doom demonstration, which he provided just a …