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Donkey Kong Country 2 NEAT

An AI based on SethBling's MarI/O to play Donkey Kong Country 2 with lsnes.

Requirements

  • lsnes with Lua 5.2 (do not try to build with 5.3, it does not work!)
  • A Donkey Kong Country 2 ROM

Instructions

  1. Start lsnes
  2. Go to Configure -> Settings -> Advanced and change LUA -> Maximum memory use to 1024MB
  3. Load the DKC2 ROM: File -> Load -> ROM...
  4. Load the script: Tools -> Run Lua script...
  5. You may also want to turn off sound since it may get annoying. Configure -> Sounds enabled

Keys

1: Stop/start 4: Play the best run 6: Save the pool file 8: Load the pool file 9: Restart

Notes

Only tested on Pirate Panic

Credits

A lot of basic info came from Donkey Hacks, the NEAT A/I comes from SethBling's Mar I/O, and basic information about the tilemap came from p4plus2/DKC2-disassembly