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by VertanaNinjai 472 days ago
It 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.
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It definitely cannot be beaten using random inputs. It doesn't even get out of Pallet Town after billions of steps. We tested...
the game has been beaten by fish
Based on the other examples of random inputs not being sufficient, I dare say the fish-based attempt may have been fraudulent.
dyor we only tested it with a pufferfish, courtesy of puffer.ai / pufferlib RL library. i promise it doesn't work with random inputs.
I'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-sapp...