Judging by the “pi plays Pokemon Sapphire”, uh,
not in a reasonable amount of time? It’s been at it for over 3 years, hasn’t gotten a gym badge yet, mostly stays in the starting town.
It's impossible to beat with random actions or brute force, but you can get surprisingly far. It doesn't take too long to get halfway through route 1, but even with insane compute you'll never make it even to viridian forest.
It can be brute forced if that’s what you mean. It has a fairly low difficulty curve and these old games have a grid system for movement and action selections.
That’s why they’re pointing out the lower parameter amount and CPU. The point I took away is doing more with less.
I'm not sure if you're just making a play on words, but I believe the commenter was talking about the streamer who sets up their fishtank to map to inputs and then let's their fish "play games". They beat pokemon sapphire supposedly. https://www.polygon.com/2020/11/9/21556590/fish-pokemon-sapp...
The win condition of the game is the entire state of the game configured in a certain way. So there exists a lot of win conditions, you just have to do a search.