Hi! ^^

I'm new here but familiar with the speedruns of the game. I've seen many runs, some tutorials (always difficult to me because of my not fluent english but still interesting), and I've made myself some speedruns, unrecorded (my PB is 1:56:55, but the last time I made speedruns of the game I didn't know a lot of tricks). For some reasons (which are not the topic here ^^) I really prefer the black and white version, that why I always run this version.

My questions:

1. I know in the traditional No S&Q/WW/OoB we are allowed to die in the shop, and I suppose it's still being a SS run, but: is there a category "No S&Q/WW/OoB and No Death"? The reason I ask this is I like to make a run without dying, it's ...prettier I think, we see Link making the whole adventure without dying, and without seeing the files menu. If there is no category like this, can it be created? I swear I don't want to create a category to be the first at something, on the contrary, I like challenges. But, truly, making Link dying is pertubing me (despite there is no real death warping).

2. I've heard on a video tutorial for LADX (which works for LA I suppose) that the only emulators allowed are Gambatte, BizHawk and BGB. But the video has been posted several month ago, so my questions are: are these three ones still allowed? And are there other ones allowed?

3. Is it allowed, in the emulator, to configure a key to simulate the A+B+Start+Select input?

4. I've heard that JP 1.0 and US 1.0 are recommended for LADX runs (and, I suppose, LA runs), why? I've also heard that most of people use the JP (1.0) version, is it because of texts shorter?

Thanks a lot for all you will can anwser about these questions! :)

Hi! My name's Nemau, I'm 28 and I'm French (apologies for mistakes...).

I'm a very fan of Zelda: Link's Awakening, I use to speedrun it for many years just for fun but I want to make a "real" time (my PB is only 1h 56min 55s!) so I came here to ask some questions about speedrunning this game. :-) (in a next topic) Don't worry I have seen many videos, tutorials, FAQs... so I will not ask basic questions. ^^

Happy to be here!