{"id":545487,"date":"2026-07-12T06:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/545487\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T06:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:06:08","slug":"porting-doom-to-the-casio-loopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/545487\/","title":{"rendered":"Porting DOOM To The Casio Loopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Targeted towards refined female gamers unlike the savagery of the mainstream game consoles of the era, 1995\u2019s Casio Loopy was a bit of an oddity of a game console. Despite being standard enough in its design and backed by the might of Casio, it saw only one year of active software development and hardware manufacturing ceased by the end of 1998. With only eleven titles released for the system, with none of them being\u00a0Doom, this obviously terribly upset [Throaty Mumbo], who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nDe06uY5C40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">set out to right this egregious wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the two dozen people or so who have one of these systems, you can experience the fruits of his labor yourself via <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ThroatyMumbo\/LoopyDOOM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the GitHub repository<\/a> and something like the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/partlyhuman\/floopydrive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FloopyDrive cartridge<\/a>.. Despite the quite capable Hitachi SH-1 16 MHz CPU and 1 MB of RAM, the main limitation is probably the original 2 MB of ROM space that does not leave a lot of space for DOOM WADs, even after doubling it on the FloopyDrive. Correspondingly you only get a handful of levels out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Overall game performance isn\u2019t too bad, though in the port\u2019s current unoptimized state the resolution is fairly low. That said, even the console\u2019s built-in printer is supported and demonstrated in the video, which is a pretty nice touch. It\u2019s not like Sega or Nintendo consoles allowed you to screenshot those glorious headshots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Targeted towards refined female gamers unlike the savagery of the mainstream game consoles of the era, 1995\u2019s Casio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-545487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}