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Analyze Your Splatoon Play In Real-Time

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Wiki in English https://github.com/hasegaw/IkaLog/wiki/en_Home

This is analyzing the video feed in real-time to scrape info and stats that display on screen. I always assumed someone would do this for splatoon, since nintendo is way behind in this sort of thing (they don't even have a way to specatate a match), but I thought it would be done by intercepting network traffic.

Hopefully the network traffic is encrypted?

Do networked games usually encrypt their traffic? Genuinely asking as someone unfamiliar with this sort of thing. Seems like a lot of extra CPU cycles and latency for not much gain. Are people worried about attackers analyzing their strats ;-)?

yes, for example World of Tanks always uses same key, replays are simply a dump of network traffic to a file = encrypted with same key. Here is a project decrypting replay files (so a network traffic stream) and interpreting data.

https://github.com/evido/wotreplay-parser

with a bit of work this could be modded to work live on network tap. You could even generate heatmap for current battle on second screen while you play.

Very impressive project. Some things are more simple recognition to scrape the numbers that show up on the screen for k/d, etc. but their engine also has k-nearest neighbors learning to recognize weapons & abilities.

I doubt most of HN speaks Japanese. Is there an English description somewhere?

IkaLog (Squid-Log in Japanese) is a third-party program to support players of the Nintendo game, Splatoon.

IkaLog recognizes what's happening in the game through HDMI video capture devices, and outputs battle logs automatically. In addition, IkaLog can also save screenshots of the scoreboard, post messages to Twitter/Slack, and record your gameplay with OBS!

https://github.com/hasegaw/IkaLog/wiki/en_WinIkaLog

Cool. I don't have time to check it all out at the moment, but since it's possible to view your Wii U gamepad video on your computer, I thought it'd be cool to analyze the map in real-time and estimate ink percentages for both teams. (From what I saw, this doesn't seem to do that?)

For anyone confused about what this does, English information here [1] tells us it interfaces with a video capture card to capture the HDMI output of a Wii U game console and analyze it in real time.

[1] https://github.com/hasegaw/IkaLog/wiki/en_WinIkaLog

This seems somewhat relevant: Kartlytics: Applying Big Data Analytics to Mario Kart[1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6179318

Could someone please describe what this repository accomplishes? I know the game but don't know what is the use-case for this tool.

Heh, the title is literally "Squid Log".

I'm quite confused as to what this does... my knowledge of Japanese is quite severely lacking, I'm afraid.

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