It's still classed under OPL, regardless of the media used to actually load the game (Network, USB, HDD, MMCE, etc). Any means of loading the game on PS2 other than the actual disc is classed as OPL and generally not separated by storage media. Makes rules easier to understand.

You can run on emu if you want to, as long as it's RPCS3 then they'll be pretty close anyway. There is a timegate for emu on this game, however, but you shouldn't really be worrying about it since you'll most likely already have a PS3 by the time you come close to the timegate.

Reorganising some categories on a board, and whil the standard variables apply to most of them, there are a couple that do not. In order to maintain board cleanliness, the only current way to do this is to create multiple variables of the same thing and apply them to each individual category where they are needed.

A much more efficient way to do this in terms of time and ease to maintain, would be the option somewhere for assigning a variable to some, but not all, categories. Either on the variable page itself, having a "Categories..." or "Levels..." Option with a dropdown to select the levels you want the variable to apply to, or on the category/level edit page itself, show the variables in a tickbox list with the option to add and remove variables on a category by category/level by level basis.

Which region? I've got files for a couple of them I can upload, though I would highly recommend playing on RPCS3 instead of PCSX2

Join the Discord if you haven't already, you'll find all the stuff you're looking for there.

Re: OP PS4, it's only possible to convert the community save if you have the PAL version of the game. It cannot be re-regioned to the NTSC-U version, you'd need to grind it out yourself.

Probably needs to get added for this game but PSNow exists as its own separate platform on the site, so you'd use that

Trap Team never had a digital release on any console other than the WiiU code included with Wii discs, but as long as it hasn't been modified in any way then it should be fine

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Yeah you'd be fine to do runs, and depending on which emu you're using, we could potentially use the video to compare to real hardware when we decide to see if emu should be allowed or not.

XOne is only listed as its own console, not having the variants such as XOneS or XOneX. I could edit the description to clarify it if you'd like?

Nightmare could possibly be added to the category extension board, the main board already has two variables so it would be very cluttered. Your description of a "linear" category is essentially glitchless, which does not really have enough interest to warrant its creation at the moment. Possibly later, if more people become interested in it.

Someone I know is looking at the country options. He lives in England but wants to display his name on the leaderboards as the Union Jack. This was an option before some of the site changes, did it get removed in a change at some point?

They are counted as the same game, the PS3 versions are more optimal for Ratchet 1, 3 and Deadlocked, plus some categories of Ratchet 2.