Coverage MarI/O

This project is an attempt to gather coverage through the use of NEAT. This is based on Sethbling's MarI/O project. Unlike MarI/O, instead of using the player's coordinates to calculate fitness, this project uses the current run's code coverage to calculate fitness. Note that this project is not intended to be fast.

Setup

1. Build BizHawk emulator from https://github.com/david-a-perez/BizHawk (this fork provides a way to read coverage data from a Lua plugin)
2. In either SMW or SMB, use File > Save State > Save Named State to save a state while inside a level
3. Then, Emulation > Pause and File > Load State > Load Named State to get the exact point the plugin will reset to
4. Then, Config > Cores > BSNES for SMW (I'm not sure which Core to use for SMB)
5. Optionally, Config > Speed/Skip > Skip 0 (never) and Config > Speed/Skip > Speed 400%
6. Tools > Code-Data Logger then inside the new window File > New
7. Ensure that File > Auto-Start is enabled`
8. Unpause with Emulation > Pause and after around 1 minute of no input, inside of the Code-Data Logger, File > Save As
9. Modify the Lua script from this repo to replace <STATE FILE> with the file path of your state file and <CDL FILE> with the full path of the file you just saved
10. Tools > Lua Console and in the new window Script > Open Script and open the script you just modified
11. It should now be training