Problem in Google colab with "Breakout" game in OpenAI Gym (ROM missing) about atari-py HOT 6 CLOSED

I was also experiencing the same problem and, based on the previous answers, I wrote this short script to be used in colab. I hope someone finds it useful.

! wget http://www.atarimania.com/roms/Roms.rar
! mkdir /content/ROM/
! unrar e /content/Roms.rar /content/ROM/
! python -m atari_py.import_roms /content/ROM/

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Found a fix. Go to http://www.atarimania.com/rom_collection_archive_atari_2600_roms.html and download the .rar file with the roms. Extract that .rar file on your local machine. There are 2 zip files in the extracted folder. Then upload those 2 zip files to you colab project.. inside your colab notebook run the following
from google.colab import files
uploaded = files.upload()

This will give you a button to browse your local machine. Upload those 2 zip files.

Then in you colab notebook run the following
!python -m atari_py.import_roms .

Don't forget the . at the end. Then you can run atari gym.

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It's now possible to install Gym along with the ROMs like this:

pip install gym[atari,accept-rom-license]

This installs the autorom package, which provides the AutoROM command, and runs this command with the --accept-rom-license option. AutoROM downloads the ROMs and puts them in the right folders, so everything just works again, but now if Atari decides to sue someone for using their copyrighted ROMs, it will be you, not OpenAI (I'm not a lawyer, though!). 😆

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It seems this is a general issue with Colab+gym, I fail to create the pong environment, with the same code that worked flawlessly on Saturday.

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@0x15F9
You have no idea how many times I have come back to and used your solution! ❤️
Quite a lifesaver! 😄
Thanks a lot.

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Just copy and Run.

!wget http://www.atarimania.com/roms/Roms.rar
!unrar x /content/Roms.rar /content
!python -m atari_py.import_roms .

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