Automating Super Mario World with AI, Part 1: Read WRAM and Draw a HUD

In 2015, Seth Bling released MarI/O - a neural network that taught itself to beat Super Mario World. SMW is one of my top-10 games and my undergrad thesis involved neural nets, so this project resonated with me and stayed in the back of my mind. Now, we're going to build this from scratch.

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