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Whether it's a rule, or merely an inevitability, if it exists, someone can and will port DOOM to it. YouTuber Stacksmashing has brought the game to a new and rather unexpected platform: the new Nintendo Game & Watch handheld. He details his experiences in porting the 1993 game to the system, which included having to use a version of DOOM that removes textures and replaces them with simple outlines and flat colors, in order for the game to fit onto the Game & Watch's very small storage. Getting DOOM to a playable state on such an odd system won't be the end of his exploits, either, as Stacksmashing and fellow coder Konrad Beckmann are working together on releasing a homebrew creation tool for the new Game & Watch.

 

[Jayro]

Man... I can't believe they were so skint with the ram. They could have just left a full 8MB, and that would have cost the nothing.

 

[Mnecraft368]

No zoom to full screen?

It's been like, what, 10 days since the thing came out?
Give them some time.

 

[BaamAlex]

Most important...can it run minecraft?

 

[tech3475]

Man... I can't believe they were so skint with the ram. They could have just left a full 8MB, and that would have cost the nothing.

What I find weirder is how Nintendo went for a more 'efficient' design compared to e.g. the NES Classic (256MB RAM, 512MB Flash).

Something like the G+W is closer to what I'd have expected the NES classic to be spec wise.

 

[Teletron1]

Man... I can't believe they were so skint with the ram. They could have just left a full 8MB, and that would have cost the nothing.

They probably purposely did it to prevent this .. bottlenecks n64 games

 

[Lostbhoy]

 

[Zense]

They probably purposely did it to prevent this .. bottlenecks n64 games

I mean you wouldn't want to play n64 with a dpad and less buttons anyways, unless it's MM by treasure.

 

[Deleted member 668561]

 

[Jayro]

Since there's hardly any RAM on the device, I think they could write some kind of "bank-switchung" code to stream the assets being used into RAM as they're being called for, instead of loading them all into ram at once. That should get you fully textured maps with better performance.

 

[64bitmodels]

Now port Super Mario 64...
Just to fuck Nintendo over, like they deserve

how the fuck would you even be able to play SM64 on a console like the game and watch XD

 

[Ajlr]

There needs to be a Lemmings port here. Some Turbografx, Master System, Game Gear, Amiga, Genesis, Atari ST, Atari 8-bit, 2600, 7800, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Neo Geo Pocket and Pocket Color games would be nice. Oh and of course Mario 3 and other NES games.

 

[ShadowOne333]

how the fuck would you even be able to play SM64 on a console like the game and watch XD

I was just making a joke.
Oblivious people sure know how to kill a joke.

 

[Deleted member 397813]

...but why tho?

but why? WHY NOT?

 

[xdarkx]

Not as impressive as someone porting Doom to a pregnancy test.

 

[Lodad]

Cool, I'm gonna run straight to a scalper and pick one of these up for double the price of retail!

Seriously though, screw Nintendo for not announcing preorders were available, and screw best buy for never emailing me that they were in stock or on sale. Just went from "not yet available" to "out of stock." I absolutely hate all of this electronics scalping and I hope hell is real only so these people have to try and buy a ticket to heaven from scalper demons.

/rant sorry, but I had to vent somewhere.

 

[RichardTheKing]

...This is news? I mean, "someone porting over DOOM to Weird Device" isn't surprising.

Now if it was DOOM 2...

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

...but why tho?

Because we need to port doom to everything

 

[Paulsar99]

The ram and storage in this thing is so damn small that I doubt it's even worth it to hack it.

 

[Deleted User]

That's all well and good, but all I would want is the ability to play all the official Game & Watch titles on this, sans the two-screen versions.

Octopus was my first Game & Watch, so it holds sentimental value for me.

 

[Bladexdsl]

but...can it run crysis