The web has proven us that Doom can run on all the pieces from a cardboard field to a Roomba and even a single keyboard key, however now we can add a John Deere tractor to that checklist. Safety researcher Sick Codes labored with Doom modder Skelegant to get the sport working on a John Deere tractor show and confirmed off some gameplay on the Def Con hacking convention in Las Vegas.

Within the video posted by Sick Codes, you can see how the sport performs as a type of clear overlay on high of the John Deere consumer interface (UI). Sick Codes says the entire course of took months and concerned jailbreaking the Linux system utilized by the John Deere 4240 tractor. This model of Doom has, naturally, been modified to happen in a corn area, the place the participant mows down enemies on a tractor.

However Sick Codes isn’t simply jailbreaking tractors to get them to run Doom. In response to a report from Wired, he additionally devised and introduced a brand new jailbreak that gave him root entry to the tractor’s system. This exploit may probably assist farmers bypass software program blocks that forestall them from repairing the tractor themselves, one thing John Deere has come beneath fireplace for previously.

As famous by Wired, Sick Codes was in a position to receive “1.5 GB value of logs” that sellers may use to establish and diagnose issues. However he additionally discovered a solution to achieve root entry by soldering controllers on to the tractor’s circuit board. Sadly, gaining root entry isn’t all that straightforward with out the appropriate gear, however Sick Codes instructed Wired “it will be doable to develop a software primarily based on the vulnerabilities to extra simply execute the jailbreak.”

John Deere’s technological grip on its tractors goes past barring repairs. Earlier this yr, John Deere remotely locked its gear after Russians stole it from a farm in Ukraine, and it has carried out the identical on building websites in China to adjust to the nation’s financing insurance policies. In response to rising strain from politicians, John Deere introduced an initiative in March to make its software program out there to unbiased restore outlets.