JaffarPlus

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

Built-in Emulator Support

Consoles

Console	Core(s)
Atari 2600	QuickerStella
Atari 2600	Atari2600Hawk
NES	QuickerNES
SNES	QuickerSnes9x
Sega Genesis	QuickerGPGX
Sega CD	QuickerGPGX
Sega SG-1000	QuickerGPGX
Sega Master System	QuickerGPGX
Gameboy Advance	QuickerMGBA
Gameboy / Gameboy Color	QuickerGambatte

Game-Specific

Game	Core(s)	Target	Notes
Prince of Persia	QuickerSDLPoP	LibTAS+PCem	Many PoP ports use this same (AppleII / DOS) game logic
Another World	QuickerNEORAW	DOS	This AW interpreter only works with DOS files
Another World	QuickerRAWGL	Multiple	This AW interpreter works with most AW ports
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)
Doom	QuickerDSDA	Doom / Doom II
Sokoban	QuickerBan	Sokoban (all)

Author

• Sergio Martin (eien86)

  • Github: https://github.com/SergioMartin86
  • Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/eien86
  • Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSXpK3d6vUq58fjgF5jFoKA
  • TASVideos: https://tasvideos.org/Users/Profile/eien86

• A list of TAS movies produced by eien86 using JaffarPlus can be found here

• Contributions via pull requests are highly appreciated.

• Thanks to:

  • This work is based on Jaffar, a solver for the original Prince of Persia (DOS).
  • 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
  • sinamas, et al. for Gambatte-Speedrun
  • Vicki Pfau, et al. for MGBA
  • Alexander Lyashuk (mooskagh, crem) for kickstarting the idea of creating a TASing bot.
  • The authors of DSDA
  • The authors of the third party libraries used.

• JaffarPlus is distributed freely under the Apache License 2.0 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