I was going to attempt speedrunning Melee's Catagory Extensions, but was wondering: What emulator works? I use Dolphin 5.0-16793 for speedrunning Melee, but is any type of emulator allowed, or is it just a certain few? There's no rules on what emulator is allowed or not, so I was just wondering. Thanks.
For Category Extensions there are no set rule for what emulator to use. Some are better than others however. I am not quite sure on which ones people use but i know a good one is the slippi emulator as it cuts down a ton of load times for Real Time runs. All Trophies. All Characters etc. But for really any other category with an In Game Timer like the main categories in the 1-P Mode any emulator should be good enough.
I should mention tho just in case. 5.0 (Stable) is the only emulator allowed on the Original board with a few settings enabled in the rules. Category Extensions lets you use any.
Feel free to ask if you got any more questions :D
I’ve been using Slippi 2.1.0.
Slippi has way faster loads than console or Dolphin 5.0, but as far as I can tell the later Slippi versions don’t let you disable cheats, hence why I used the older 2.1.0.
The issues Around the start of this year we discovered a pretty big issue related to the updated versions of the Slippi Emulator. Certain levels in Classic mode had messed up spawn locations to where characters would spawn in the middle of the stage or even in the blastzone beating the stage in