TronNerd82
Member
Yes, you read that right. The 1993 classic Doom has been painstakingly ported to yet another fascinating failed console, the Casio Loopy!
For the uninitiated, the Casio Loopy was a 32-bit console released only in Japan in 1995, powered by a Hitachi SuperH CPU (the same family as the CPU powering the Sega Saturn and Dreamcast, but the Loopy used a less powerful variant), and exclusively marketed towards young girls.
Fascinatingly, the Loopy possesses a thermal printer built into the console so players could print stickers from their games, of which only 11 were ever officially released.
Using a modified Floopy Drive (the only flash cartridge available for the Loopy), YouTuber / homebrew developer ThroatyMumbo was able to port Doom to the Loopy, running at a decent, if not amazing framerate and having the soundtrack rendered in the Loopy's MIDI soundfont.
The project code is available here: https://github.com/ThroatyMumbo/LoopyDOOM
Included in the project's README file is a link to a YouTube video showcasing the project.
I'm pretty excited, though I probably wouldn't go out of my way to buy a Casio Loopy just to play Doom.
For the uninitiated, the Casio Loopy was a 32-bit console released only in Japan in 1995, powered by a Hitachi SuperH CPU (the same family as the CPU powering the Sega Saturn and Dreamcast, but the Loopy used a less powerful variant), and exclusively marketed towards young girls.
Fascinatingly, the Loopy possesses a thermal printer built into the console so players could print stickers from their games, of which only 11 were ever officially released.
Using a modified Floopy Drive (the only flash cartridge available for the Loopy), YouTuber / homebrew developer ThroatyMumbo was able to port Doom to the Loopy, running at a decent, if not amazing framerate and having the soundtrack rendered in the Loopy's MIDI soundfont.
The project code is available here: https://github.com/ThroatyMumbo/LoopyDOOM
Included in the project's README file is a link to a YouTube video showcasing the project.
I'm pretty excited, though I probably wouldn't go out of my way to buy a Casio Loopy just to play Doom.
