As of July 5, 2017, all full-game speedruns will start when you select the difficulty after choosing "Dam" under level select. This skips the unnecessary tutorial mission when starting with a new game, much like 007: Nightfire any%.
The timing on already existing runs has been adjusted to remove the training mission. This make it more fair for people who ran the game before this rule change.
If you have any questions, feel free to post here and I'll be happy to answer them.
In the past, the Dolphin emulator was banned because it had too much of an advantage over the real hardware due to reduced lag and faster loading times. Even outside of loading screens, the faster loading times made gameplay more consistent because the game is constantly streaming information from t
