I know on the three ps2 games rules for IL runs it says emulators are not allowed but I was just curious if this still holds true or could be something that could change or at the very least discussed for those three games. I know the main ps2 emulator, PCSX2, wasn't 100% accurate in the past when these rules were made, but with the more time has passed to me at least it feels extremely accurate to original hardware when playing games on it. This is all just how I perceive it and I could be wrong but in case I'm not I would be happy to see either emu runs next to original hardware runs on the board or have then separate like how full game runs are separate. I want to do runs in all of these games but lack of availability in the original stuff limits me from doing so. So sorry in advance if this is some common question that has been asked to death here.

This is something that I have been tossing around in my mind for quite a while now and I want to throw it out to get a judgement on it from everyone and see how other people feel about it or if there are any other suggestions.

There was a discord server created before for this community, but it seems to be gone since the server invite sent in the last forum post has expired and hasn't been updated with a new one. This made me wonder if a new one should be made for the series as a whole, communication between everyone and as something people may join if they are curious about running the games as a whole. As they would have people they could talk to or receive help from or even give help to others. I see this with other communities and so it's why I had this idea for a while. The downside of it is this community is quite small compared to some but I do see it work for communities around the size of this series and my general hope/goal of this would be this server could somehow be used to increase the size, or atleast bring more awareness to people who may be interested in wipeout speedruns. This is just a general idea and I wanted to get some input from other users about this whole idea and see what the general consensus on all of it is, whether it is a good idea or not or if there are some alternatives people would wish to pursue. Let me know what yall think about it and what should be done all together. Thanks.

I had someone comment on one of my videos asking wouldn't be more immersive if these were done on time trial instead of single race. I told him we did single race just because the other two runs for individual levels were on single race but it got me curious. Why are the level races done in single race and not time trial like other wipEout games are done is there a specific reason or do we not have to do it in single race at all and we could have done it in time trial all this time?

I was interested in running this game's individual levels and I saw that runs were done on original hardware. I was just curious if emus are allowed for this game and if so which is the one that is accepted?

I'm very interested in speedrunning this game as I've always enjoyed the strider series and found this one to be the most enjoyable when I played them years back. So I'm wondering what is the best emulator to use for this game so I can install it and start practicing and hopefully start doing runs soon.

I want to run this game and the only way I can play it right now is through the Nintendo switch nes games I was wondering is it considerably slow then the other versions? If that's the case would the game be faster on a PC emulators instead or are they all around the same speed?

I was wondering if I could play this game on a PS3 and still submit a legal run that would be added to the leaderboards. It is running on a disc that I own I am not emulating it from the ps store.