• Visual Studio 2022 only for source Code
• BizHawk Prerequisites
• BizHawk 2.9

Make sure you unzip a copy of BizHawk(full folder) on your current root project folder, ff the ExternalTools folder doesn't exist, you should create it, as shown below:

 Mario-Genetic-Algorithm-Tool
 ├─ BizHawk
 │   ├─ dll
 │   │   ├─ BizHawk.Common.dll
 │   │   └─ ... (other stuff)
 │   ├─ ExternalTools
 │   │   └─ ... (probably empty)
 │   ├─ EmuHawk.exe
 │   └─ ... (other stuff)
 └─ src
 │   └─ GeneticAlgorithmTool.csproj
 └─ .gitignore
 │
 └─ README.md

1. Build solution
2. Run EmuHawk
3. Load Super Mario Bros ROM game (any dump for the Nintendo NES will do) on EmuHawk
4. Open the tool in the toolbar menu: Tools -> External Tools -> Mario Genetic Algorithm Tool

1. Backup your BizHawk's config.ini file.
2. Download and unzip GeneticAlgorithmTool.zip from the latest release in release packages to BizHawk/ExternalTools, if the ExternalTools folder doesn't exist, you should create it.
3. Load Super Mario Bros ROM game (any dump for the Nintendo NES will do) on EmuHawk
4. Open the tool in the toolbar menu: Tools -> External Tools -> Mario Genetic Algorithm Tool

Provide three movement actions list Right only, Simple Movement, and Complex Movement.

1. Right only: [{None}, {Right}, {Right, A}, {Right, B}, {Right, A, B}]
2. Simple Movement: [{None}, {Right}, {Right, A}, {Right, B}, {Right, A, B}, {Left}]
3. Complex Movement: [{None}, {Right}, {Right, A}, {Right, B}, {Right, A, B}, {Left}, {Left, A}, {Left, B}, {Left, A, B}, {Up}, {Down}]