emerald-battle-sim

Pokemon emerald battle simulator with a fully functioning elo system and leaderboard Inspired by pimanrules' pokemon crystal elo world (https://github.com/jsettlem/elo_world_pokemon_crystal)

• prerequesites
• usage
  • creating players
  • running
• todo list

prerequesites

• a custom fork of pokeemerald-expansion
  • copy the debug elf file pokeemerald.elf and linker map pokeemerald.map into the project's res folder
  • i cannot provide prebuilt roms for obvious reasons. build instructions are in the fork readme
• devkitpro installed (recommended to also have devkitARM's gdb executable in your PATHs located in (devkitpro dir)/devkitARM/bin/)
• a build of mgba coppied into res/mgba

usage

creating players

• in order to add players, run pokemon.py
  • there are a couple of variables that can be adjusted
    • SHINY_ODDS: adjusts the chance of trainer's pokemon to be a shiny (1 / SHINY_ODDS)
    • PLAYER_COUNT: amount of players that will be added to the player pool
    • DEFAULT_TRAINER_AI_FLAGS: the default ai flags that trainers will use
      • explaination of each ai flag are inside of the __ai_flags enum inside of poke_data.py, but they mostly dont need to be changed

running

• once players have been added, run main.py
• saved information about the leaderboard are stored in the dump/ directory, and a viewable html page of the leaderboard is stored at website/html/leaderboard.html

todo list

• remove requirement for a custom fork of pokeemerald-expansion
• prevent database from being recalculated every match, takes a lot of time if there are a lot of matches in the battle logs