I am uncertain what is going wrong here. I have made certain that the prereqs were installed, as well as made sure everything is up and running as expected.

If im understanding things correctly, its unable to find something called 'WebView2Loader.dll' which i have verified does exist on my PC.

I am on Windows 11 if that matters.

Terminal text follows.

2023-06-01 07:33:50,264 - Running pokebot on Python 3.11
2023-06-01 07:33:50,761 -

Unable to initialize pokebot!
Please confirm that the Lua Console is open in BizHawk, and that it remains open while the bot is active.
It can be opened through 'Tools > Lua Console'.

Starting in dashboard-only mode...

Exception in thread Thread-1 (mem_pollScreenshot):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Carl\Desktop\Bizhawk\pokebot-bizhawk\pokebot-bizhawk-main\bot.py", line 191, in mem_pollScreenshot
screenshot = Image.open(io.BytesIO(shmem))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\Carl\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 3283, in open
raise UnidentifiedImageError(msg)
PIL.UnidentifiedImageError: cannot identify image file <_io.BytesIO object at 0x00000262DED0A390>

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.1008.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\threading.py", line 1038, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.1008.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\threading.py", line 975, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File "C:\Users\Carl\Desktop\Bizhawk\pokebot-bizhawk\pokebot-bizhawk-main\bot.py", line 195, in mem_pollScreenshot
if screenshot is not None:
^^^^^^^^^^
UnboundLocalError: cannot access local variable 'screenshot' where it is not associated with a value

• Serving Flask app 'bot'
• Debug mode: off
  [pywebview] WebView2 initialization failed with exception:
  Unable to load DLL 'WebView2Loader.dll': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
  at Microsoft.Web.WebView2.Core.CoreWebView2Environment.CreateCoreWebView2EnvironmentWithOptions(String browserExecutableFolder, String userDataFolder, ICoreWebView2EnvironmentOptions options, ICoreWebView2CreateCoreWebView2EnvironmentCompletedHandler environment_created_handler)
  at Microsoft.Web.WebView2.Core.CoreWebView2Environment.d__3.MoveNext()
  --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
  at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
  at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
  at Microsoft.Web.WebView2.WinForms.WebView2.d__25.MoveNext()
  2023-06-01 07:33:56,393 - WebView2 initialization failed with exception:
  Unable to load DLL 'WebView2Loader.dll': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
  at Microsoft.Web.WebView2.Core.CoreWebView2Environment.CreateCoreWebView2EnvironmentWithOptions(String browserExecutableFolder, String userDataFolder, ICoreWebView2EnvironmentOptions options, ICoreWebView2CreateCoreWebView2EnvironmentCompletedHandler environment_created_handler)
  at Microsoft.Web.WebView2.Core.CoreWebView2Environment.d__3.MoveNext()
  --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
  at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
  at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
  at Microsoft.Web.WebView2.WinForms.WebView2.d__25.MoveNext()

hello. im all new to this so probably an easy fix but when i start the bot i dont get a dashboard. the window pops up but its completely white

What's the issue
Occasionally during an encounter, a Pokémon can be found holding an item.
This isn't stored in the encounters file correctly, so sometimes the item on Recent Encounters is empty.
Catching the Pokémon confirms that it is holding the item, so Current Encounter is correct

Strangely enough, sometimes it does work as expected, it's just hit and miss whether it will work or not.

Probably need to look into where the current encounter is stored into recent encounters and check the itemName is being passed correctly.

Numel may be a good pokemon to use to investigate as it has 100% chance to hold rawst berry, may be easier to see ones where it's not showing in encounters

I was curious if there's support and or support could be made for Emerald that's been patched with a fix to its RNG?

Basically talking about for example the fixes that can be found here.

The bot is really great after playing with it quite a bit, and it has definitely interested me, but it would be amazing if this could work on Emerald where its RNG is fixed and if there's a particular patch that could work with it. That's because when you are doing anything that isn't a random encounter (static) then it's really not that exciting or as satisfactory as the bot is still effectively abusing the broken RNG by doing frame perfect inputs. It would be really nice to have more consistent randomness while using the bot with Emerald.

It's fine if you wouldn't care to support this, and I still look forward to support for the other generation 3 games that of course do not have broken RNG.

Keep up the great work, though!

Configs are case sensitive, will create a pull to sort

Exception thrown when accessing
move_list = json.loads(read_file("data/moves.json"))
using move from pokemon["moves"]
sometimes it's randomly a junk value way out of range.

Sorry if this is a silly problem, but after I got everything set up and have begun soft resetting for starters, on several occasions I have the bot encountering the same exact pokemon down to the PID a few times. Most of the time it's about 2 of the same in a row, then after a couple encounters it may encounter the exact same one again. Is this just inevitable and unavoidable or am I doing something wrong? it does eventually go on to other PIDs after repeating a few times but I can't help but feel that it's very inefficient to have the bot encounter the same mudkip 3-4 times. Regardless, this bot is awesome

Is it safe to transfer Pokémon caught with the bot to home

On various speeds (100%,200%,400%) in BizHawk, I kept running into a small issue where the bot would lock up every so often after receiving the Anorith from the fossil. Once it gets to the 'Opening start menu entry: pokemon' entry in the command line, the script will keep mashing the 'B' input, thinking it's still in the dialogue with the researcher NPC / is trying to refuse to nickname the Pokemon.

I've found that pausing the script to manually open the menu and unpausing the script will make it function again, which saves closing and opening a new batch file. The script will then exit the menu and work perfectly fine anywhere between 10 mins to an hour before the process needs repeating.
I've only just tried fossil hunting for shiny Pokemon so I'm not sure if this is just me that this happens to or if it's an issue with the current build.

I have a party with my main pokemon and 5 zigzagoons and the config file threshold is set to the default amount of 2 but the bot wont check the party or take the items

If the pokemon's IV total is over 180 (or higher/lower depending on your prefrences) then the bot should try to catch it to preserve the pokemon

I find the stream very interesting, never witnessed a shiny live yet but I ocasionally come and watch it

Sometimes when farming for Mudkip it will select Torchic and get stuck, other times it will select Torchic and battle.

If there are any logs I can provide please point me to them.

I searched the discord and found one other person with this issue but it was fixed. I am using the latest version as of this post

I'm currently unable to get the bot working on Debian 12 with Python 3.11.2 and Bizhawk 2.9.1 (also tested 2.9).

In the git clone'd pokebot directory, I created a virtual environment, then installed the dependencies there:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install -r ./requirements.txt

When I attempt to run the bot in the virtual environment, I get a traceback, with no feedback in the Lua console:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/username/Games/Emulation/Emulators/Bots/pokebot-bizhawk/./bot.py", line 8, in <module>
    from modules.Inputs import ReleaseAllInputs, PressButton, WaitFrames
  File "/home/username/Games/Emulation/Emulators/Bots/pokebot-bizhawk/modules/Inputs.py", line 16, in <module>
    input_list_mmap = mmap.mmap(-1, 4096, tagname="bizhawk_input_list-" + config["bot_instance_id"],
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: 'tagname' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

The Linux version of Bizhawk is installed at /home/username/Games/Emulation/Emulators/Bizhawk (2.9.1), and the bot directory is symlinked in the ./Lua/GBA Bizhawk directory. This error happens regardless of whether or not I try to run the bot in the symlink.
I'm attempting to use the starter script. I haven't tested other scripts yet.