aidanrwt / twitch-plays

Twitch IRC bot that takes input from the chat and presses the corresponding key.

Twitch Plays

Clone of Twitch Plays Pokemon.

Installation

You're going to need to have pywin32 installed. If you run into any errors try running this with Python 2.7.x.

Rename config/config_dist.py to config/config.py, and replace the username/password there with your Twitch username and OAuth token. Feel free to modify the start throttle here aswell.

In your VBA/Emulator, set the controls to the following -

Up: 0
Down: 1
Left: 2
Right: 3
Button A: 4
Button B: 5
Start: 6
Select: 7

After you've set that up, open up your terminal and type python serve.py. If your username/password is wrong you will be notified.

Whilst the script is running make sure you have your emulator in focus as your primary window. If you click onto another window, the script won't work. If you're not able to stay focused on one window as you need to do other things with your computer, you could try running all of this from within a virtual machine.

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If you have any question or need help, feel free to message me on Twitch or send an email to aidraj0 at gmail dot com.

You'll need to have VBA in focus for this to work, so your best bet would be to run all of this from within a VM.

twitch-plays's Issues

Bind Disable/Enable input to Hotkey

This is mainly technical but it'd be nice if we could bind the ability to enable input to emulator to a key so we can use a timer solution to enable when a new game starts just like what TPP does.

Anarchy/Democracy??

Is there Any plan to add anarchy/democracy slider or do you have any idea how to add the anarchy/democracy slider?

GUI in the future with this?

Ive had a conversation previously and i was shown a GUI that they used to stream with and i was wondering if this would be included in the future with this and maybe a way to set this up. https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/2245318/2239841/5deb0842-9c5e-11e3-95ee-0d51e547672d.png

I want it to look like that ^ But i have litterally no idea how to get started to set something like that up so does anyone have any input on how to set that up?

Python serve.py not working in terminal

python serve.py
python: can't open file 'serve.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

How to set everything up properly?

Okay, so i have Python 2.7 installed. i have my emulator and i have it running and i run serve.py and it said it logs in and the main window is the emulator. is it supposed to make a GUI at all. I was looking around and i saw like chat height and bots and misc and a whole bunch of other stuff. But i still see my standard old emulator nothings different the only thing it did was connect to twitch chat. How do i properly set this up?

Add an option to use PostMessage for minimized keystrokes

Some games will register keystrokes from PostMessage which sends a keystroke only to a certain window, even if it's hidden or minimized. This could avoid using a VM to stream certain games. I used to use this to make MMO bots to keep using your PC even while you're botting.

c++ example:

HWND wnd = FindWindow(0, "VisualBoyAdvance");
UINT key = 0x31; // 1 key
PostMessage(wnd, WM_KEYDOWN, key, MapVirtualKey(key, 0) << 16);
Sleep(150);
PostMessage(wnd, WM_KEYUP, key, MapVirtualKey(key, 0) << 16);

Use irc library in favour of your implementation

In my fork I have used https://pypi.python.org/pypi/irc in favour of your implementation of the irc protocol. It provides a much more stable connection for this purpose, and has been tested on the official Twitch Plays Pokemon stream without issue.

Your implementation is limited and causes a lot of disconnects and time outs.

The code will be posted soon but don't wait for me for it as it is extremely messy.