

How did he manage the feat? Taking inspiration from Nintendo’s own SuperFX chip, he embedded a co-processor in the cartridge, and fed the video stream from the cartridge back into the NES. In the video embedded after the break, he helpfully points out the system requirements for running Doom, and compares them with the specifications of the NES. wasn’t satisfied with the existing ports of Doom, so he decided to bring the classic game to a classic console, the NES. Many times we’re left scratching our heads at the mashup, and this is no exception. From calculators to thermostats, we’ve seen Doom shoehorned into a lot of different pieces of hardware. “But can it run Doom?” is perhaps the final test of hacking a platform.
