Pokémon Crystal AI Tournament – Scientifical…

I ran a tournament of all the NPC trainers from Pokémon Crystal using their parties and AI from the original game, then ranked them based on their results.

Some links that may be of interest to you:
My Twitter (as long as that site continues to exist…): https://twitter.com/pimanrules
The code for this project: https://github.com/jsettlem/elo_world_pokemon_crystal
Half-hearted instructions for running the code: https://github.com/jsettlem/elo_world_pokemon_crystal/blob/master/running_battles_locally.md
@DJMykah , who all the music in this video is from: http://djmykah.com/
Credits for various Creative Commons things used in this video: https://github.com/jsettlem/elo_world_pokemon_crystal/blob/master/video_credits.md

Convenient timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:03 – How the AI works
11:12 – Implementing the battle system
12:32 – What is a disassembly?
14:37 – The exciting world of swapping memory addresses
19:11 – Battle mosaic
19:57 – Running the battles
21:40 – Trainer card summary
23:20 – Tournament results
44:38 – Top 16 tournament
59:32 – The Grand Finals
1:01:49 – The Hall of Fame
1:11:27 – Trainers in game order
1:12:24 – Outro

Corrections:
None so far 😀