Running Simulation Mode programatically

[AronaDaal]

Hello! I have been working on a project where I build a deck and run a simulation, change, run again, etc. My desire is to run the simulator programmatically. I have attempted a few things to no avail:
1. I have the forge-gui-desktop-1.6.36-jar-with-dependencies.jar in my project was able to access the function:

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SimulateMatch.simulate(args);

where I pass in the correct args. However, I run into a NPE. Then I tried running from:

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Main.main(args)

since I saw some init blocks. Again, I run into a NPE.

I figure this is because it needs some dependencies to be initialized first, hence the jar file with dependencies.

2. So I attempted to execute the jar file in the code, however, I have been very unsuccessful trying to execute a jar file programmatically.

So I was hoping, how can I get solution #1 to work? Is there a function I can call to make sure things are initialized before executing the sim mode?