Nintendo Game & Watch can run Doom, barely



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Intrepid developers have done what they expected Y necessary: Condemn now runs on Nintendo’s recently released Game & Watch handheld. The game and the clock: Super Mario Bros. was designed to run three games, but was successfully transferred Condemn shows that you can handle others if you have a lot of patience (via Hackaday).

This version of Condemn not perfect, of course. In order for the game to run even at the slowest speed shown in the video below, the sound had to be turned off and the textures had to be simplified to accommodate the game on the small laptop. And getting this far was not easy: the programmers broke Konrad beckmann had to trick Game & Watch into downloading its firmware by injecting code into external storage accessed by Game & Watch’s tiny microcontroller.

Find a version of Condemn small enough to fit in Game & Watch’s meager amount of storage was a separate problem. The hackers settled on a package called “Minimal Condemn IWAD ”which replaces the original game textures with simplified versions, but still had to make further adjustments, such as disabling the sound to work within Game & Watch’s 1.1 MB of usable storage.

The game and the clock: Super Mario Bros. is designed to evoke the original Nintendo Game & Watch handhelds, while running a version of Nintendo’s classic NES, Super Mario Bros., as much as Super mario Bros. 2 (known in the West as The lost levels). (Also runs a Mario-themed version of the Game & Watch game Ball). CondemnThe action of slaying demons wasn’t carried over to a Nintendo console until the more powerful SNES was released, so appearing on a small device designed to run NES games is as unusual as it is impressive.

Condemn is an old resource for programmers experimenting with home games. The game has appeared in all kinds of places: from a Samsung refrigerator with xCloud to a Windows PC integrated. Minecraftand even the touch bar of a MacBook Pro. Thanks to this work, Condemn it seems like home on a Game & Watch, and soon, other home games could be too.



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