[STEAM] Hackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not "impossible"

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Last month, we passed along Modern Vintage Gamer's (MVG) confident assertion that

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, owing to the console's sprite-based display hardware and lack of a frame buffer. We all should have known better than to tell a dedicated group of hackers that something is "impossible," though, as two recent projects have made great progress toward functional Doom ports on stock Neo Geo hardware.

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Both of these projects have significant graphical compromises that limit how viable they would have been for a marketable, '90s-era console port, as

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. Still, they stand as a testament to the surprising results that clever, determined coders can coax out of legacy hardware.

It looks like Doom if you squint

To create the

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project for the Neo Geo, coder FrenkelS adapted

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they designed to run on 16-bit PC processors like the 8088 and 286. Using that engine, the Neo Geo code then makes a kind of proto-frame-buffer out of

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, an area of display memory that's usually used to display menus and HUD information on top of gameplay.

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