AI Mario Kart

AI-Mario-Kart

A Convolutional Neural Network that can drive Mario Kart Wii on Dolphin by moving the mouse pointer horizontally to control the steering angle.

Gamplay on pre-trained model

To play this download the repo and move AI Mario Kart.ini to %USERPROFILE%DocumentsDolphin EmulatorConfigProfilesWiimote Then run AI_Player, it will find the pre-trained model in the /models directory. Launch Dolphin with the game at native resolution

Controlling the AI

You can then play with the AI by moving the dolphin window so that it fits inside the window from AI_player (screen capture) the AI will then view your gameplay and attempt to steer for you. Press the m key to start the AI (it will control your mouse to steer), c to stop and q to quit.

Note that gameplay requires Windows due to AI_player requiring the pydirectinput library to simulate hardware imput (to circumvent directX anti-cheat) that only works on Windows sadly. You can still build and train the dataset though on other operating systems but AI_player is Windows only.

Training on custom dataset

Data_collection v4.3.py is used to build a dataset and CNN_Training v5.5.ipynb is used to train and export a model using your dataset. You can then use AI_player to play mario kart using your trained model.