I'm very late to the trend of AI playing Pokemon gameboy games, but I just started playing Pokemon Red myself on the iOS Delta emulator, and have been having lots of fun. To be clear, this is my first time doing anything with Pokemon. It wasn't something I was into as a child, but am for some reason discovering it as an adult and enjoying it.
I just wanted to make a quick post to show how I got the PokemonRedExperiments project running on my MacBook Pro M4 using uv.
Full steps:
# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/PWhiddy/PokemonRedExperiments.git
# Install ffmpeg
brew install ffmpeg
# Copy ROM to git root path
cd PokemonRedExperiments
cp /path/to/pokemon-red.gb PokemonRed.gb
# Validate rom is valid. Should produce ea9bcae617fdf159b045185467ae58b2e4a48b9a
shasum ./PokemonRed.gb
# Set up python environment
cd baselines
uv venv --python 3.10
uv pip install -r requirements.txt
# Start the pre-trained RL agent
uv run ./run_pretrained_interactive.py
I first tried using Python 3.12, as the README suggested using Python 3.10+, but I found that there are package dependency conflicts with 3.12, so I changed my uv command to use 3.10 and everything worked. This is why I love uv. I can very easily try out other versions of python and not worry about messing up other projects.
