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Re:Retrobot: A Discord bot that plays emulated games with fr... by kevincox on Saturday September 17, 2022 @05:02PM (#32881546)
Maybe it tries to emulate extra frames with different buttons pressed and if it doesn't make a difference it plays those frames for you?

Of course detecting "doesn't make a difference" is very difficult because most games will keep at least the current and last frame of input in memory somewhere. So you would need to be careful enough to ignore that.

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Re:Retrobot: A Discord bot that plays emulated games with fr... by g_hn_liaison on Saturday September 17, 2022 @06:29PM (#32882234)
Looks to me like that's exactly what it does. This line seems to check for a divergence of possibilities: https://github.com/rossimo/retrobot/blob/master/src/emulate....
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