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Re: by VertanaNinjai on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:57PM (#43270701)
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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Re: by xinpw8 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:14PM (#43270921)
It definitely cannot be beaten using random inputs. It doesn't even get out of Pallet Town after billions of steps. We tested...
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Re: by fancyswimtime on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @06:07PM (#43274028)
the game has been beaten by fish
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Re: by xinpw8 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:58PM (#43276578)
dyor we only tested it with a pufferfish, courtesy of puffer.ai / pufferlib RL library. i promise it doesn't work with random inputs.
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Re: by gusgus01 on Thursday March 06, 2025 @12:29AM (#43276718)
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...
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Re: by cjbillington on Thursday March 06, 2025 @05:01AM (#43278359)
Based on the other examples of random inputs not being sufficient, I dare say the fish-based attempt may have been fraudulent.
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