Pokémon Crowd Control Flask

Flask (Front/Back End) server that controls Pokémon game with specified keyboard inputs in real time.

If you are looking for Discord version of this script, go here: Pokémon Crowd Control (Discord)

Setup

Before cloning repo, make sure you are using Python 3.9 or newer.
Python 2.7 is deprecated/obsolete by now and will not work with this project.

Clone repo and create virtual environment

git clone https://gitlab.com/MCCXVI/pokemon-crowd-control-flask.git
python3 -m venv pokemon-crowd-control-flask
cd pokemon-crowd-control-flask

Activate the virtual environment for this project

Windows /

Scripts\activate.bat

Linux & MacOS /

source bin/activate

Install required packages with pip

pip install -r requirements.txt

Prep for the Flask App

Change the SECRET_KEY to something else. It should be confidential and never shared with anyone.

app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = 'SECRET_KEY'

Set "YOUR_IP" to your local IP Address.

app.run(debug=True, host="YOUR_IP")

Change keys for the pynput depending on binded keys in your GBA Emulator.

Here are all the attrebutes of pynput.keyboard.Key

• 'alt', 'backspace', 'cmd', 'ctrl', 'delete', 'down', 'end', 'enter',
• 'esc', 'f1', 'f10', 'f11', 'f12', 'f13', 'f14', 'f15', 'f16', 'f17', 'f18',
• 'f19', 'f2', 'f20', 'f3', 'f4', 'f5', 'f6', 'f7', 'f8', 'f9', 'home',
• 'insert','left', 'menu', 'pause', 'right', 'shift', 'space', 'tab', 'up'

# Defining Keys

up_button = Key.up
down_button = Key.down
left_button = Key.left
right_button = Key.right
a_button = Key.backspace
b_button = Key.space
start_button = Key.home
select_button = Key.delete

Running App

Run "app.py" in your terminal

python app.py
Key for the current game is: XXXXXX

Everytime the app starts, it will generate unique six-character key code for the game.

Playing

Go to

YOUR_IP:5000/auth

Choose a nickname and enter the Game Key provided in the terminal.