Ranking Every Trainer in Pokemon Red
Which Pokémon trainer is the very best in Pokémon Red? The answer may surprise you! Pokémon Red is one of my favorite games. I probably went through hundreds of AA batteries playing it. At the start of this year I put together a small project to rank every single trainer by making them all fight each other over, and over, and over until I found out who was the best. In this talk I'm going to talk about how the Game Boy system works, how I made every trainer battle each other, how I ranked the results (ignoring good scientific practices), and how I saved my CPU from melting itself. Topics involved: * The Game Boy system * Console emulation * Pokemon Red * Assembly * Python * The Cloud (minor)
Nathan Sullivan
I learned to code when I was around 14 and my dad handed me his old C++ textbook. About 10 years ago, after going to Queen’s University Belfast to study computer games design, I realised game devs were underpaid and overworked, so I moved to Dublin to work for AWS. After a couple of moves I’m working for Business Insider in Belfast.