If you guys need more console data, my SNES can "hard reset" to a stable seed in 4.5 seconds.

Not saying that should be a benchmark though, in case other SNES consoles are generally slower. There were cases where hard resetting took tens of seconds, but around 12 seemed to be the higher average limit. In that tournament several (!) years ago we rounded that up to 15 just to be safe and standard for runners all round.

IMO as long as emulator runners make an effort to pause during the hard reset that should be fine.

Unless it's an in-game option to set language / font then I vote no.

It's no different to allowing a SNES romhack that has a font adjustment or palette swap while leaving the game mechanics unchanged. If a mod doesn't alter a game to the extent that it warrants a new category then I'm not interested.

Howdy, nice routing. There's a FF4 Discord that you may be interested in. Feel free to PM any of us FF4 runners on twitch to get the link to join if you like, cheers

Howdy, if you PM me on Twitch I'll send you an invite. Alternatively, jump into a channel when someone is running FF4 and they'll hook you up, cheers.

Yeah it's still active. If you jump into someones chat while they are running FF4 they should be able to set you up with a Discord link, cheers