Smashbot selects Fox, chooses the level, and does nothing but shine in place.

[someone7070]

It seems to be functioning fine, except for its very odd behavior. Needless to say, it is trivially easy to beat when it is doing this. Not sure what is wrong. Any ideas?

[someone7070]

Here is a link to the debug file. Couldn't upload it here for some reason (says it isn't supported). https://ufile.io/o54vg7f8

[altf4]

Well, the good news is that if SmashBot is multishining in place, that means it can see the gamestate and can press buttons. So it's almost working.

Are you on FD? SmashBot only knows how to play on FD, other stages will make it multishine. Alternatively, are you positive you're using SmashBot, and not the example code in libmelee? (That code will multishine everywhere just as a proof that it's working)

[someone7070]

Yes, I am on FD. I'm not sure how I would be running just the code associated with libmelee. All I did was download the SmashNot-maser.zip file here from github, follow the instructions (compiling the other Dolphin from source caused a minor error with xlocal.h, which apparently is depreciated as of right now, but the fix was simple), and then run smashbot.py with the command "./smashbot.py" while in the folder. I initially thought I might be able to point it to Dolphin's file location, but it only seems to work if you actually install the new Dolphin, which I ended up doing.

Based on what you're saying, it does seem I could be running example code, but how is that possible? I was also able to get smashbot.py to change controller port, and to run it in debug mode. Are either of those things possible just running some libmelee example code?

[altf4]

Nah, you're definitely not running the libmelee example code.

The dolphin setup is working. You can see in the debug file that smashbot is able to see the gamestate at every frame. In order to do the multishine, it needs to react to the current state. (It doesn't simply spam the correct buttons at the right timing, it actually responds to the gamestate each frame)

Oh duh. You're probably using an unsupported character. You can see/change the list of supported characters here:

https://github.com/altf4/SmashBot/blob/master/smashbot.py#L115

You can add your character to that list to enable play, but SmashBot won't know how to play against it, really.

I never did add that to the readme. Damn. I ought to do that.

[someone7070]

Yes, that was the issue. Working fine now. Edit: Just got shine-locked with Captain Falcon, though I was able to defeat it with Jiggly Puff. The bot doesn't react well to Sing, Rest and Rollout. You can almost always get a hit if you fully charge Rollout off stage, you can usually hit it with Sing too if you just float with Pounds over its head, then come landing down with Sing. This is an easy Rest setup usually, but sometimes it wakes up before it is over and hits you instead. Smashbot is also too cocky with invincibility frames with Jiggly, so you often get a free Rest on it while invincible, because it often dash-dances right on top of you when you just come back from losing a stock.