I am pleased to announce the first successful start-to-finish run of the FF4 Borg. The borg is an extension of the Snes9x emulator that plays Final Fantasy 4, using only the standard controller buttons as inputs, and reading information from memory that is equivalent to what's available to a competant human player, an atlas of the game (built step by step by the borg itself), and a list of high-level commands that reads a bit like a strategy guide.
The borg made it out of the final battle of the game in about 3,300,000 ticks, and if you looked at the game clock right before going into the final fight, it would read about 14 hours on the game clock.
Over the coming days and weeks, I'll be posting more about how the borg works, as well as where development is going to go from here. My most immediate goal is to put the current borg through its paces some more and get our success right higher. I'll continue to post failure reports and what I've changed to increase our chances of success on the next run. Eventually, I'll have enough data to start tracking statistics on the borg's success rate and where it fails the most.
Then it's on to the more interesting stuff. Did you know Square made more than one Final Fantasy game for the SNES? Because I knew.
Edit: Next run was also successful. Woo!
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