This is the code used in the NES Flappy Bird Reinforcement Learning AI-video showcasing how simple reinforcement learning works to train the flappy bird to fly.
This project was part of a hackathon and therefore put together in a rush. Please forgive any glitches in code quality. Most of the code in this repository is taken from the fceux emulator project. We have simply injected our code into the emulation routine to alter the joypad inputs at appropriate times to make the bird fly. You can have a look at the changes necessary to make this work by comparing the fceux-stock and the master branch.
- git clone this repository to your machine
- compile the code either by importing the fceux project file into visual studio (works best with visual studio 2010) or following the instructions in the
READMEfile (not this one, this isREADME.md) - download the flappy bird rom
- run bin/fceux and open the downloaded rom
- enjoy