Greetings from New Mexico. I'm new to the forum, and moderately new to speedrunning. The concept captures my imagination and I love watching the oldies done quick. Right now my pet project is the original Castlevania on NES, but ran on NEStopia. Any suggestions for a newcomer to the scene for improvement (besides practice) and decent recording on a budget? My bills and truck happen to take the most out of my paycheck... Anyway, Happy Gaming!!

If you stream, people might help you with tricks/strats. People usually prefer when you do your speedrun on a console, but it's sometimes hard to setup and sometimes expensive. To learn, I won't recommend you to buy your recording devices yet. Learn on emu, then if you like the run so much, you can look forward to it.

Cool, Thanky PackSciences. I guess I won't be moving up the ranks too quickly then, as I enjoy just playing on emu (I'm too lazy to setup consoles when they are all available on my laptop...) I understand the timing differences that can arise from emu-only, and that they are essentially originals in spirit...But when I feel I am ready for a true-life run, I do plan to have the original system.