{"id":2580,"date":"2025-08-30T19:58:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/yes_the_super_mario_bros_game_and_watch_can_run_doom"},"modified":"2025-08-30T19:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:58:43","slug":"yes-the-super-mario-bros-game-watch-can-run-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/yes-the-super-mario-bros-game-watch-can-run-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, The Super Mario Bros. Game &amp; Watch Can Run DOOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yes-the-super-mario-bros-game-watch-can-run-doom.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/hardware_review_game_and_watch_super_mario_bros_-_a_gorgeous_object_that_leaves_you_wanting_more\">Game &amp; Watch handheld<\/a> was pulled apart in pretty quick order, with hacker <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ghidraninja\">stacksmashing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/the_super_mario_game_and_watch_has_been_hacked_already_and_it_could_fix_that_unfortunate_bug\">digging deep into the system&#8217;s code<\/a> before it even officially launched.<\/p>\n<p>The same hacker has been busy in the days since, and, alongside fellow coder <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kbeckmann\">Konrad Beckmann<\/a>, has been able to dump the stock firmware, despite the security put in place by Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to hack the system further are ongoing, but there are limitations \u2013 the Game &amp; Watch: Super Mario Bros. has just 128k of SRAM and 1.3 MB of external RAM, and there&#8217;s only 1.1 MB of flash memory for storage.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these limits, stacksmashing has been able to answer the call of the internet and get id Software&#8217;s DOOM running on the system. Sure, this is a stripped-down version of the game with simplified textures and the memory allocation rewritten, but it proves it&#8217;s possible \u2013 and it will be interesting to see where hackers take this system next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/yes_the_super_mario_bros_game_and_watch_can_run_doom\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo&#8217;s new Game &amp; Watch handheld was pulled apart in pretty quick order, with hacker stacksmashing digging deep into the system&#8217;s code before it even officially launched. The same hacker has been busy in the days since, and, alongside fellow coder Konrad Beckmann, has been able to dump the stock firmware, despite the security put in place by Nintendo. Efforts to hack the system further are ongoing, but there are limitations \u2013 the Game &amp; Watch: Super Mario Bros. has just 128k of SRAM and 1.3 MB of external RAM, and there&#8217;s only 1.1 MB of flash memory for storage. Despite these limits, stacksmashing has been able to answer the call of the internet and get id Software&#8217;s DOOM running on the system. Sure, this&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/yes-the-super-mario-bros-game-watch-can-run-doom\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo-life"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yes, The Super Mario Bros. 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