Contributors

Spare CPU, donated to evaluate an AI learning to play Pokemon Red. 0 contributed result(s) received so far.

Nobody has contributed yet. The instructions are two commands and it needs no GPU — you could be the first.

You can watch it

While your machine is scoring, it serves a page at http://127.0.0.1:7397 showing the actual Game Boy screen your computer is playing — live — with the checkpoint it is evaluating, how far it has got, and a pause button. Folding@home had to make a protein simulation look interesting; here the unit of compute is already a game.

What a contribution is

Your machine scores one checkpoint for an hour and sends back numbers — never files. It works on Windows, macOS or Linux, on Intel/AMD or ARM, and needs no GPU. You supply your own legally-dumped Pokemon Red ROM; none is distributed.

curl -X POST https://franksriracha.zip/api/contrib/register      -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"handle":"yourname"}'

Then follow the repository. The reasoning behind all of it is in We are not running a BOINC server.

Contributed scores are advisory: they decide which checkpoints get measured next, and cannot put a model on the broadcast by themselves. That is deliberate, and explained in the write-up.