2014-02-18, 02:24 AM
IllegallySane Wrote:How does the twitch chat control the game? Is it seriously one person trying to keep up with all the input spam or is there some program that essentially reads the inputs and tries to input them as fast as the game can handle them? Also, this is just hilarious to watch. Imagine how many Kappas per minute an audience of 57k+ could achieve.
It's in the FAQ on the stream page.
Quote:What is this?
TwitchPlaysPokemon is a social experiment, it is a stream of the Gameboy version of Pokemon Red (151 romhack) running on an emulator. An IRC bot translates buttons said in chat into keypresses (simulated in software, no fancy typist robots).

