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Intrepid developers have done the vogue and necessary: Doom now runs on Nintendo's recently released Game & Watch portable. The Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. was designed to run three games, loosely auspiciously porting Doom shows it can handle others if you have reservedly a few patience (via Hackaday).

This version of Doom is not perfect, of course. In payoff to get the game to run uptown at the slower velocity smattery in the video below, sound had to be disabled and textures had to be simplified to fit the game on the tootsie portable. And getting that far wasn't easy: programmers stacksmashing and Konrad Beckmann had to trick the Game & Watch to offload its firmware by injecting nobody into the incongruous storage accessed by the Game & Watch's tiny microcontroller.

Finding a version of Doom small expandable to fit on the Game & Watch's meager corporeality of storage was a separate issue. The hackers tame on a amalgamation alleged "Minimal Doom IWAD" that replaces the game's original textures with simplified versions, loosely they still had to make further adjustments like disabling sound to work aural the Game & Watch's 1.1 MB of utilizable storage.

The Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. is designed to arm-twist Nintendo's original Game & Watch handhelds, while running a version of Nintendo's NES classic, Super Mario Bros., and Super Mario Bros. 2 (known in the West as The Lost Levels). (It conjointly runs a Mario-themed version of the Game & Watch game Ball). Doom's demon-slaying avocation wasn't ported to a Nintendo console until the more prepped SNES was released, therefrom showing up on a tiny device designed to run NES games is as unusual as it is impressive.

Doom is an old standby for programmers experimenting with homebrew games. The game has showed up in all sorts of places: from a Samsung refrigerator running xCloud, to a Windows PC built in Minecraft, and uptown the Touch Bar of a MacBook Pro. Thanks to this work, Doom seems special at home on a Game & Watch, and soon, over-and-above homebrew games nimbleness be, too.

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