AutoROM

This package automaticaly installs Atari ROM files for Atari-Py (which Gym Depends on), multi-agent-ALE (which PettingZoo depends on), and ALE-Py (which will replaced multi-agent-ALE and Atari-Py in the future).

AutoROM automatically downloads the needed Atari ROMs from ROM hosting websites into the ALE-Py folder and Multi-Agent-ALE-py folder in a very simple manner:

pip install autorom
AutoROM

To specify a specific installation directory for your ROMs, use the --install-dir command line flag.

AutoROM --install-dir /path/to/install

This will install ROMs at "/path/to/install/ROM/".

Furthermore, you can accept the license agreement from the command-line with:

AutoROM --accept-license

OR when you are installing the Python package by specifying the extra accept-rom-license:

pip install autorom[accept-rom-license]

This command would download the ROMs during installation and make them immediately discoverable to ale-py.

Packaging

AutoROM requires that you package it as a source distribution. We have a special script to build all our source distributions, i.e., ./scripts/build-dist.sh. The resulting source distributions will be located in dist/. You can directly install this with pip even including the extra accept-rom-license. For example,

pip install --find-links dist/ --no-cache-dir AutoROM[accept-rom-license]

Citing

If you want to cite this repo for some reason, the bibtex is:

@misc{autorom2020,
  author = {Terry, Justin K and Jayakumar, Mario and Black, Benjamin},
  title = {AutoROM},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  note = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/PettingZoo-Team/AutoROM}}
}