3rd Gen Pi plays Pokemon

[Nah]

I stumbled upon this yesterday, thought I'd share:

Nearly 3 years after starting Pokemon Sapphire, the mathematical concept of Pi has a level 88 Sceptile but still can't escape the starting town

83,685,085 digits down, infinity more to go

www.gamesradar.com

Basically the premise is that someone is running a program in Sapphire where each GBA button is given a number, and every second the game presses a button in the sequence of pi. It's been running for 3 years apparently, and has had problems getting much farther than like Oldale and Petalburg, but at least it's managed to greatly overlevel its starter lol!

It kinda reminds me of like Twitch Plays Pokemon, or that one time a fish beat Ruby, it's amusing to see all these funny unusual ways Pokemon gets "played".

 

[RadEmpoleon]

I watched a highlight video of Pi plays pokemon- I think it found a shiny Pokémon and ran away from it.

 

[Rock_Salazar]

That sounds both awesome and tedious. To think it hasn't gotten very far in just 3 years makes me think it'll take a century until it beats the game.

 

[PoryKid575]

I've heard of this before and think it's a really interesting concept, it's a slow-motion TAS in a sense since the digits of Pi are pre-determined; though not one that seems to have made much progress.

 

[Palamon]

I hope they one day leave route 101, but the question is, will they ever? The answer to that? No, probably! A fish can beat Pokemon, but a math equation cannot. Just goes to show you that math is a joke... I'm kidding, or am I? Who knows, to be honest! Probably won't bother to watch something like this... I mean, it's interesting, but not really at the same time?? I don't know, lol.

 

[Megan]

I think I've heard that it may, in fact, take until past the heat death of the universe.

 

[ReKoil]

Sounds very boring to watch tbh.