Someone Ran DOOM on a 1.26 Million Yen Hasselblad Camera
The port is the latest entry in a running series of DOOM conversions into unlikely hardware, and here the camera's own controls, shutter, touchscreen, and speaker, do the work instead of added parts.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Software developer Radium Wang reported on October 7 that he ran DOOM on the Hasselblad X2D 100C, a medium-format mirrorless camera from 2022 priced at 1,265,000 yen in Japan and $8,199 in the US. Footage on Reddit shows the game on the rear touchscreen, with the shutter button firing the gun and a half-press not firing.
Wang's build uses doomgeneric, an open-source project for putting DOOM on hardware by writing the display and input layers for each device. The game data is not commercial DOOM but Freedoom, the compatible free release, and Wang's GitHub notes state the camera runs Android-related mechanisms inside. Controls cover moving forward and backward, turning left and right, shooting, dashing, and opening doors, with swiping used to rotate the view. Gunshots and other effects play through the camera's built-in speaker, but background music does not play. Wang published his findings on GitHub and posted a 15-second clip to the r/hasselblad subreddit on October 7.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.