That's exactly what hacker GaryOberNicht, who recently discovered how to run custom firmware on Alarmo, did in a video. published in Mastodon and x.com/GaryOderNichts/status/1852753537001718021″>your account yesterday. In it, they play by spinning or pressing the mushroom-shaped mass on top of the Alarm to move and pressing the other buttons to shoot or open doors. Here, take a look:
gary saying It is “possible to load the shareware version of Doom completely from USB, without modifying the Alarm.” And they have provided the software and instructions to run it. on Githubso almost any sufficiently informed and determined Alarmo owner can do it too. Best of all, it can be done without needing to open the watch at all.
How did they achieve this? Gary explains in a blog post that after another person named Spinda x.com/_spinda/status/1845279277304119318″>The Alarm was hacked (with a Flipper Zero) and discarded the memory firmware, Gary devised a method that uses a USB mode and the USB-C port to point the Alarm to a custom external firmware.
Given how easy it seems to reproduce what Gary has done, it is almost certain that the modification of the Alarmo software will not be limited to Condemn. Of course, how far any online community's efforts will go to turn Alarm into a weird gaming console will likely depend on how Nintendo, which has been particularly active with its copyright disputes lately, feels about it.
