tomcasavant/mastodonplaysgameboy

Lets users play gameboy roms via mastodon polls

MastodonPlays

Lets users play gameboy roms via mastodon polls

(WIP) The goal is to make this more customizable to allow you transform any rom into a mastodon bot, right now it probably only works with slower turn based games.

Pokemon Gold version hosted at @[email protected]

mastodonplaysgameboy's Issues

Add Gameboy Color image for GIFs

Pick random if multiple results are tied

• Probably remove existing random if no votes implementation and replace it with random if multiple max values tied for first

Redundant variables

There's a few variables that should be constants instead of being redefined in every function e.g.

MastodonPlaysGameboy/gb.py

Line 257 in 45f30df

script_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))

Add threshold vars to config

Support for multiple button presses

I think this would just add a 'None' option to the polls and allow users to select multiple options. Then pick the top 2 options

support for doing action more than once

Similar to #3 but maybe a x2, x3 option that will repeat the previous action twice in one turn

Turn Result image into a gif?

Some frames might be missing content, e.g. this name input image you don't see the blinking square that shows which character is currently selected

PyLint: Fix Generic Errors

Find specific errors that Mastodon.py throws when failing to pin/unpin/post a status so that pylint stops complaining to me

Variable Poll time limit in Configuration file

Update screenshots to take a picture every frame

(will also need to update how long GIF lasts to make up for additional frames) - should make the gif look more like gameplay

Backup save states

Maintain a directory from the previous 5 or so actions with a save file for each so if something goes wrong a save file can be restored

identify if pokemon game is in a battle/cutscene or not

If it is in a battle enable the gifs, otherwise it's just a movement and gif is not necessary

(also don't need to progress game by x frames if nothing is happening)

Figure out better default threshold value for pokemon gold

and/or improve diff check algorithm to determine when a gif should be created

Need better error handling

Error handling for mastodon actions is just sleeping for 30 seconds and then trying again

Post content/hashtags are currently hardcoded

Move these to the config file

Add constants/config options for filenames

Right now there's a variety of files that get generated, probably fine to keep screenshots names as they are (though we should probably convert those to datetimes i.e. 202405031200.png), but the 'action.mp4' or the 'test.mp4' (bad name) should be unified

Gif/mp4 not loading for some users

This might be specific to this instance rather than an issue with the video itself- could also be the file size of the output mp4 file?

https://computerfairi.es/@hitstun/112406640145300370

https://computerfairi.es/@hitstun/112406686093935104

Create option gif backgrounds

e.g. gameboy color

Support for arbritrary roms

specifically roms that are more action oriented, probably need specific frame ticks (for my pokemon implementation it just sleeps for some large number of frames in order to update)

Migrate from pyboy v1.6.14 to v2

https://github.com/Baekalfen/PyBoy/wiki/Migrating-from-v1.x.x-to-v2.0.0

While debugging #35 noticed there was a big version jump last week, I imagine it'll help with #27 as well

• Update requirements.txt
• Compatibility Changes
  • Screenshot is no longer screen_image(), it'll be screen.image
  • Simplify all of our inputs using the built-in pyboy.button
  • PyBoy() instantiation needs some adjustments
  • WindowEvent is no longer accessible from Pyboy it's in pyboy.utils (probably not necessary if we're simplifying inputs)
  • window_type is deprecated

tmp folder not automatically created

Either add to the repo or have it mkdir when the folder is needed (probably better to have it generate the folder every time it fills it up and then we can just delete the folder when the gif is generated)

This prevents the bot from generating a gif right now if the folder doesn't exist

Make use of PyBoy GameWrappers to extract information about gameplay

https://github.com/Baekalfen/PyBoy/tree/master/pyboy/plugins

Doesn't look like there's any pokemon gen 2 wrappers in there yet, ideally we could extract info about current pokemon team/stats/inventory- but it looks like the gen 1 wrapper only has data for grabbing the collision/walkable areas

Gif currently has hardcoded values for position on background

RTC Isn't functioning correctly

RE: https://mastodon.social/@phi1997/112435056419435322 from @phi1997

I think Pokemon Gold should have a Day/Night cycle which we haven't seen show up yet which means the RTC probably isn't working.

Make Alt Text more specific on game-to-game basis

Generate daily/weekly/monthly clips of progress

How many ticks needed for inputs between frames?

For some reason I need to do pyboy.tick() twice in order for it to consistently register the input, probably not an issue just worried it will have the opposite effect of registering an input twice

Separate GIF creation into separate class

Most of the code for generating the gifs does not interface with PyBoy so it should probably be in its own class