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'''ATTENTION: This article is not about entering a new robot into RoboRumble. Enter [[RoboRumble/Enter The Competition|here]].'''
 
'''ATTENTION: This article is not about entering a new robot into RoboRumble. Enter [[RoboRumble/Enter The Competition|here]].'''
  
If you entered a bot into the competition, you could consider to collaborate running the competition by using your computer to execute battles and upload results (similar to SETI@Home project). The process is fully automated, so there is no pain on doing it.
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You should consider contributing to RoboRumble and the Robocode community, by donating spare computer time to execute battles between bots (similar to the Folding@Home and SETI@Home projects). The process is fully automated, so there is no pain in doing it.
  
Run it as much as you can! The more you run it, the faster everybody's bots will be ranked. If you find problems, refer to the RoboRumble related pages, or post your issue and we will try to solve it.
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Run it as much as you can! The more you run it, the faster everybody's bots will be ranked. Report problems [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|here]].
 
 
[[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|Report problems here]].
 
  
 
== Setting up ==
 
== Setting up ==
  
# Make a new, clean installation of the version of '''Robocode''' ([http://sourceforge.net/projects/robocode/files/robocode/ download link]). that matches what the [http://literumble.appspot.com/RumbleStats LiteRumble Statistics] indicates is allowed.
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# Make a new, clean installation of the version of '''Robocode''' ([http://sourceforge.net/projects/robocode/files/robocode/ download]), that matches what [http://literumble.appspot.com/RumbleStats LiteRumble] indicates is allowed.
 
# Edit '''<code>roborumble/[roborumble/meleerumble/teamrumble/twinduel].txt</code>''' and change the <code>Put_Your_Name_Here</code> to your preferred username.
 
# Edit '''<code>roborumble/[roborumble/meleerumble/teamrumble/twinduel].txt</code>''' and change the <code>Put_Your_Name_Here</code> to your preferred username.
 
# Extract the zip-file [http://robocode-archive.strangeautomata.com/participants-latest.zip latest bot archive] (35.9 MB) into the "robots" directory.
 
# Extract the zip-file [http://robocode-archive.strangeautomata.com/participants-latest.zip latest bot archive] (35.9 MB) into the "robots" directory.

Revision as of 20:46, 15 August 2017

ATTENTION: This article is not about entering a new robot into RoboRumble. Enter here.

You should consider contributing to RoboRumble and the Robocode community, by donating spare computer time to execute battles between bots (similar to the Folding@Home and SETI@Home projects). The process is fully automated, so there is no pain in doing it.

Run it as much as you can! The more you run it, the faster everybody's bots will be ranked. Report problems here.

Setting up

  1. Make a new, clean installation of the version of Robocode (download), that matches what LiteRumble indicates is allowed.
  2. Edit roborumble/[roborumble/meleerumble/teamrumble/twinduel].txt and change the Put_Your_Name_Here to your preferred username.
  3. Extract the zip-file latest bot archive (35.9 MB) into the "robots" directory.
  4. (Optional) On newer CPUs on which you are planning to run RoboRumble exclusively, disable Dynamic Overclocking.

There you go!

Running battles

  • Run 1v1 battles with roborumble.bat (Windows), roborumble.sh (Linux) or roborumble.command (MacOS)
  • Run melee battles with meleerumble[.bat/.sh/.command].
  • Run team battles with teamrumble[.bat/.sh/.command].
  • Run twin duel battles with twinduel[.bat/.sh/.command].

Getting the RoboRumble bot JARs

The latest bot archive is available here (35.9 MB). It contains the JARs of all robots in the rumble, automatically updated on an hourly basis. Unzip them into your robots/ folder.

For earlier robot versions, see here. For earlier zip archive, see here. A mirror is available on GitHub.

Credits to Rednaxela for creating this.

Useful options in roborumble.txt

  • USER ‒ Your name/handle, used for identification of your roborumble client.
  • BATTLESPERBOT ‒ The minimum number of battles a bot needs before it stops getting priority.
  • NUMBATTLES ‒ The number of battles fought on each run of roborumble
  • ITERATE ‒ Whether to run battles indefinitely.
  • UPLOAD ‒ Can be used to disable uploading. Disable uploading when testing a version of Robocode NOT allowed by the server. Not really necessary, as the current server will reject results from incorrect versions anyway.

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