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Can't Pokemon be beaten by almost random play?
by modeless 2y ago
Can't Pokemon be beaten by almost random play?
- VertanaNinjai 2y agoIt can be brute forced if that’s what you mean. It has a fairly low difficulty curve and these old games have a grid system for movement and action selections. That’s why they’re pointing out the lower parameter amount and CPU. The point I took away is doing more with less.
- xinpw8 2y agoIt definitely cannot be beaten using random inputs. It doesn't even get out of Pallet Town after billions of steps. We tested...
- fancyswimtime 2y agothe game has been beaten by fish
- xinpw8 2y agodyor we only tested it with a pufferfish, courtesy of puffer.ai / pufferlib RL library. i promise it doesn't work with random inputs.
- gusgus01 2y agoI'm not sure if you're just making a play on words, but I believe the commenter was talking about the streamer who sets up their fishtank to map to inputs and then let's their fish "play games". They beat pokemon sapphire supposedly. https://www.polygon.com/2020/11/9/21556590/fish-pokemon-sapphire-stream-twitch https://www.polygon.com/2020/11/9/21556590/fish-pokemon-sapp...
- cjbillington 2y agoBased on the other examples of random inputs not being sufficient, I dare say the fish-based attempt may have been fraudulent.
- tehsauce 2y agoIt's impossible to beat with random actions or brute force, but you can get surprisingly far. It doesn't take too long to get halfway through route 1, but even with insane compute you'll never make it even to viridian forest.
- bloomingkales 2y agoThe win condition of the game is the entire state of the game configured in a certain way. So there exists a lot of win conditions, you just have to do a search.
- xinpw8 2y agonot sure what you mean..details?
- drdeca 2y agoJudging by the “pi plays Pokemon Sapphire”, uh, not in a reasonable amount of time? It’s been at it for over 3 years, hasn’t gotten a gym badge yet, mostly stays in the starting town.