firered-ai-switch
An AI that plays Pokémon FireRed on a real Nintendo Switch: capture card in, emulated Bluetooth controller out. LLM strategist + deterministic skills, map localisation from the pret decomp, ACE toolkit.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 74%)
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
- ai-agent
- computer-vision
- game-ai
- llm
- nintendo-switch
- opencv
- +4 more
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Partial The dashboard, agent orchestration, and replay UI are vibe-codeable, but the hard parts are hardware (capture card, Bluetooth controller emulation) and deep reverse-engineering of the game's decompiled source for pixel-exact localisation and navigation.
What it would actually take: Build it as a capture pipeline (HDMI capture into OBS/OpenCV), a perception layer that matches frames against maps and sprites extracted from the pret decomp, deterministic skill modules for pathing and battles, and an LLM planner that calls those skills as tools. The hard pieces are the frame-accurate map matching, closed-loop pathfinding over the full game world, and handling dropped Bluetooth inputs, which requires familiarity with GBA internals and the decomp codebase plus real hardware to test against.
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Launched 287 days after the earliest competitor.
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