[SV Auto Story] Titan Battles not recognized | Pokémon Automation | Page 1

fallow smelt Jan 16, 2026, 5:16 PM

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I've been using auto story in SV and it works nearly flawlessly, except for the Titan Battles.
Titan battles get into a loop where the titan battle is not recognized and the game resets to the previous checkpoint indefinitely.
I will collect the Program Output while it runs and will share it here.
I am using an ESP32-S3 with a Switch 2 on a Windows 11 PC.
Please let me know if you need any additional info.

Thank you.

scarlet warren Jan 16, 2026, 5:23 PM

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!screenshots

uneven lanternBOT Jan 16, 2026, 5:23 PM

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scarlet warren Jan 16, 2026, 5:23 PM

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yaysquirtle

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@solemn haven

solemn haven Jan 16, 2026, 5:25 PM

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Which Titan battle?

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I will need logs

scarlet warren Jan 16, 2026, 5:25 PM

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!programlogs

uneven lanternBOT Jan 16, 2026, 5:25 PM

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To help the developers understand the automation problem you're facing, please find the log file and upload it to the help channel.

Where are the logs?

The logs are created in a file called "SerialPrograms.log".
On Windows, it is in the folder where you launch the program. On macOS, it is at /Users/<your_username>/Library/Application Support/SerialPrograms/.

Whenever the log file reaches about 50MB its content will move to SerialPrograms-<timestamp>.log. Depending on how recent the problem is you may need to look for logs in older log files.

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fallow smelt Jan 16, 2026, 5:35 PM

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Logs here

📎 SerialPrograms.log

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Screenshots being captured and will be shared later (I've manually fought the titans and started at next checkpoint)

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It failed for all titans fought so far, Bombirdier, Klawf and Iron Threads

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First occurrence is at 2026-01-16 12:05:50.547263 - [Console 0]: Unable to confirm Titan battle. Wait 2 seconds and re-try.

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I don't have screenshots but I was streaming this and I have it recorded - does it help?

fallow smelt Jan 16, 2026, 5:58 PM

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Here the first two titans - Klawf wasn't recorded for some reason

inland terrace Jan 16, 2026, 6:40 PM

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I found this line buried in there twice, if it's meaningful:


2026-01-16 12:28:13.871332 - [Console 0]: UserSetupError: Black border detected! Please set your screen size to 100% in the TV Settings on your Nintendo Switch.

fallow smelt Jan 16, 2026, 6:40 PM

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Oh, that happened because I tried to start the program during a black loading screen 🙂

inland terrace Jan 16, 2026, 6:44 PM

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There's also the ~800 times it failed to OCR the date

2026-01-16 01:41:46.862098 - [Console 0]: issue_system_scroll(): left, delay = 24ms, hold = 48ms, cooldown = 24ms
...
<repeat 5 times>
...
2026-01-16 01:41:46.871875 - [Console 0]: issue_system_scroll(): right, delay = 24ms, hold = 48ms, cooldown = 24ms
2026-01-16 01:41:46.873552 - [Console 0]: issue_system_scroll(): right, delay = 24ms, hold = 48ms, cooldown = 24ms
2026-01-16 01:41:46.873572 - [Console 0]: Failed to read year. Will not adjust.
2026-01-16 01:41:46.875138 - [Console 0]: issue_system_scroll(): right, delay = 24ms, hold = 48ms, cooldown = 24ms
...
<repeat 3 times>
...
2026-01-16 01:41:46.880089 - [Console 0]: wait_for_all()
2026-01-16 01:41:46.883357 - [Console 0]: Waiting for all requests to finish...
2026-01-16 01:41:47.465978 - [Console 0]: Attempting to read US date...
2026-01-16 01:41:47.470584 - [Console 0]: OCR Text: "U1" -> "1" -> 1
2026-01-16 01:41:47.475975 - [Console 0]: OCR Text: "U1" -> "1" -> 1
2026-01-16 01:41:47.486248 - [Console 0]: OCR Text: "2U26" -> "226" -> 226
2026-01-16 01:41:47.491983 - [Console 0]: OCR Text: "45" -> "45" -> 45
2026-01-16 01:41:47.497031 - [Console 0]: OCR Text: "U5" -> "5" -> 5
2026-01-16 01:41:47.505371 - [Console 0]: OCR Text: "a.m." -> "am" -> AM
2026-01-16 01:41:47.505842 - [Console 0]: Compiling Error Report...
2026-01-16 01:41:47.730374 - [Console 0]: Saving Error Report...
2026-01-16 01:41:47.823102 - [Global]: Found 781 unsent error reports.

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could very well be unrelated but every bit of context could help

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@fallow smelt Your capture card (NZXT Signal 4k30) supports HDR passthrough and seemingly tonemaps it to SDR by default. Do you have HDR disabled on your console?

fallow smelt Jan 16, 2026, 6:59 PM

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Yes, HDR is disabled

solemn haven Jan 16, 2026, 6:59 PM

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Also. What CC version are you using?

fallow smelt Jan 16, 2026, 7:00 PM

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you mean the computer control version?

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Latest that it prompted me to download 0.61.4

solemn haven Jan 16, 2026, 7:00 PM

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Do you have screenshots of the Titan?

inland terrace Jan 16, 2026, 7:01 PM

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fallow smelt Yes, HDR is disabled

Just to be sure, you turned off the bottom setting for HDR, not just the top one right? The top setting only controls the buit-in display's HDR, the bottom setting controls it globally.

fallow smelt Jan 16, 2026, 7:01 PM

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Yes, the bottom one is off as well

inland terrace Jan 16, 2026, 7:01 PM

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Much appreciated bearing with me on the simple stuff.

fallow smelt Jan 16, 2026, 7:02 PM

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solemn haven Do you have screenshots of the Titan?

Only the videos I shared above, once I get to the next titan, if it fails, I'll share it here

scarlet warren Jan 16, 2026, 7:02 PM

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solemn haven Do you have screenshots of the Titan?

You can extract frames from the videos Cris shared above

solemn haven Jan 16, 2026, 7:02 PM

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I want the screenshot that looks like this:

fallow smelt Jan 16, 2026, 7:03 PM

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I can extract the frame myself, just a sec

solemn haven Jan 16, 2026, 7:03 PM

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In particular, it's trying to detect the green HP bar.

inland terrace Jan 16, 2026, 7:03 PM

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inland terrace Jan 16, 2026, 7:04 PM

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inland terrace

this is from the video above, cris may be able to get a clearer/more accurate screenshot direct.

fallow smelt Jan 16, 2026, 7:05 PM

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This is from Iron Threads - where I did have boxes on

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For Bombirdier boxes were off

inland terrace Jan 16, 2026, 7:05 PM

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at least the health bar is almost completely unobscured on the treads

solemn haven Jan 16, 2026, 8:50 PM

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I have a fix that fixes detection on the above screenshots. It should hopefully be in the next release.

compact spoke Jan 16, 2026, 8:54 PM

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What was the issue?

solemn haven Jan 16, 2026, 8:56 PM

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My green bar had slightly less red and blue than the above screenshots.

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[stdout]: Compute imageStats: avg {65.631653, 240.141977, 81.218842} (sum 386.992) stddev {2.639696, 8.000636, 10.325919} (sum 20.9663) count 22715
2026-01-16 12:40:17.159491 - [stdout]: is_solid(): stddev sum 20.9663 vs max 30
2026-01-16 12:40:17.159577 - [stdout]: is_solid(): average: {0.169594, 0.620534, 0.209872} vs {0.088235, 0.750000, 0.161765}, distance 0.160297 vs max 0.2

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So, I just relaxed the max_euclidean_distance from 0.15 to 0.25.

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0.20 works for the above screenshots. but I decided to be less strict and set it to 0.25.

fallow smelt Jan 16, 2026, 9:40 PM

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You guys are too fast 😄

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Any additional setting that I could change on my side that could help it run as is?

inland terrace Jan 16, 2026, 10:35 PM

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i knew the colors were slightly off somehow!

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that's why i thought HDR lol

solemn haven Jan 17, 2026, 12:05 AM

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fallow smelt Any additional setting that I could change on my side that could help it run as ...

I don't think there's anything note to fix in your end. Please wait for the new beta release (coming soon) and test it out for us.

solemn haven Jan 17, 2026, 9:27 AM

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The new beta release should fix the issue. Please try it when you get the chance!

fallow smelt Jan 17, 2026, 4:36 PM

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Just a final feedback as the program finished running last night - I had a high number of resets on orthworm, but the program was able to complete it after some tries, everything else ran smoothly, including the elite 4 and area zero battles, no other issues were observed and there was no other blocks in here. I'll run the program again when the new release is here. Thank you!

solemn haven Jan 17, 2026, 6:33 PM

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How many resets for orthworm?

solemn haven Jan 17, 2026, 8:56 PM

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FYI. Here's the channel for beta releases.
https://discord.com/channels/695809740428673034/732736538965704726

fallow smelt Jan 18, 2026, 3:14 PM

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Around 30 or so. The problem was getting to him, I was getting unlucky with the amount of wild battles and the character was getting out of route/alignment

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So it would run into a wall and cause a reset

fresh basin Jan 22, 2026, 12:41 AM

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Hey I am new to all this so I apologize if I am not technical enough or potentially experiencing user error but I have the exact same problem.

For the Auto Story function it seems to work perfectly except for when it needs to handle the Titian battles. It will find the Titian but then reset instead of completing the battle so then it'll be in a loop of approaching the Titian, start encounter, reset.
I think that it's not realizing the Titian encounter has begun and it thinks that it's stuck bc it's not walking.

My current work around has been to let it get to the titian then I fight it manually and once it's defeated I start the program at that point.
Lmk if I am doing something wrong or anything I am not technical at all so user error wouldn't be surprising.

(Besides that it works fantastic so far)

solemn haven Jan 22, 2026, 1:43 AM

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it's fixed in the recent beta.

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if you don't have access to the beta, you'll have to wait for the next release.

#[SV Auto Story] Titan Battles not recognized