Doom ported to a nRF52840-based BLE dongle

nRF52840 Doom

Doom port to an nRF52840-based USB BLE dongle, the Adafruit CLUE board, and any device using Nordic Semiconductors nRF52840. Coded by Nicola Wrachien.

Features

• Based on the excellent doomhack's GBA Doom Port (https://github.com/doomhack/GBADoom) with some Kippykip's additions.

• Wireless gamepad with audio streaming like Wii remote.

• Extremely fast. Run almost always above 30 fps (except Episode 4 of Ultimate Doom).

• Additional gamepad support for Adafruit CLUE option (or other devices with enough I/Os)

  • Parallel Keyboard (each key routed to one GPIO).
  • MCP23008 I2C Port Expander.

• Tested with:

  • Shareware DOOM1.WAD.
  • Full Commercial DOOM.WAD
  • Ultimate Doom WAD.
  • Doom 2 WAD.

• Full Vanilla Render engine, including Z-depth lighting.

• Player's weapon also is subjected to ambient light.

• Monster behavior and sound propagation implemented.

• Sound FX support.

• Cheats implemented.

What's missing?

• Music.

• Demo playback, due to incompatibility.

• Need to be debugged.

• Multiplayer not implemented.

Controls:

Strafe: alt + Left-Right

Automap: use + change weapon

Menu: alt + use

Hardware:

The schematics of the prototype, Adafruit micro:bit port expander board + audio and wireless gamepad are in the hardware subdirectory.

Content of this repository:

• MCUDoomWadUtil: source of the WAD converter (Code::Blocks project). Note that GBADoom.wad must be put in the same directory as the executable.
• NRF52840Doom: the actual Doom port (Segger Embedded Studio Project)
• NRF52840DoomKeyboardOnNRF51822: wireless gamepad + audio (Segger Embedded Studio Project)
• hardware: schematics.

Building, developing, etc:

See https://next-hack.com/index.php/2021/11/13/porting-doom-to-an-nrf52840-based-usb-bluetooth-le-dongle/