JaffarPlus is a high-performance general-purpose breadth-first search optimizer. This project is specially tailored for the production of tool-assisted speedruns (TAS). Its features are:
- High-Performance: Tailored for multi-core CPUs, especially for high core counts.
- Multi-Platform: Supports games from multiple consoles/game emulators
- Extensible: Any new emulators or games that support load/save and advance step functions can be added to JaffarPlus via a common API
This work is based on Jaffar, a solver for the original Prince of Persia (DOS).
| Console | Core(s) | Target | Notes |
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| Atari 2600 | QuickerStella | Bizhawk (dev) | Faster than Atari2600Hawk |
| Atari 2600 | Atari2600Hawk | Bizhawk 2.9.2 | |
| NES | QuickerNES | Bizhawk 2.9.2 | |
| SNES | QuickerSnes9x | Bizhawk 2.9.2 | |
| Sega Genesis | QuickerGPGX | Bizhawk 2.9.2 | |
| Sega CD | QuickerGPGX | Bizhawk 2.9.2 | |
| Sega SG-1000 | QuickerGPGX | Bizhawk 2.9.2 | |
| Sega Master System | QuickerGPGX | Bizhawk 2.9.2 |
| Game | Core(s) | Target | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prince of Persia | QuickerSDLPoP | LibTAS+PCem | Many PoP ports use this same (AppleII / DOS) game logic |
| Another World | QuickerRaw | many | All ports of AW use the same engine |
| Super Mario Bros (NES) | QuickerSMBC | Bizhawk 2.9.2 | Inaccurate in transitions, but good for solving levels |
| Arkanoid (NES) | QuickerArkbot | Bizhawk 2.9.2 (NesHawk Core) |
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Sergio Martin (eien86)
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A list of TAS movies produced by eien86 using JaffarPlus can be found here
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Contributions via pull requests are highly appreciated.
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Thanks to:
- TASVideos' staff (judges, encoders, admins, etc)
- The Bizhawk development team (YoshiRulz, feos, Morilli, CasualPokePlayer, NattTheBear, Alyosha, feos, zeromus, and many others)
- Dávid Nagy and all SDLPoP developers
- Gregory Montoir and Fabien Sanglard (authors of Fabother World)
- Eke-Eke and all Genesis Plus GX developers
- Shay Green, Christopher Snowhill and all QuickNES developers
- sbroger (a.k.a Chef Stef), developer of Arkbot
- Mitchell Sternke, developer of SMB-C
- Alexander Lyashuk (mooskagh, crem) for kickstarting the idea of creating a TASing bot.
- The authors of the third party libraries used.
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JaffarPlus is distributed freely under the GPL3 license for any purpose and use, as long as:
- The license and proper credits to its author are preserved
- If you publish a TAS or any public work using this software, I'd appreciate you mention it and linking this repository in your description