Hey everyone,

I'm planning on running ED soon (TM), and my understanding from streams and posts on this forum has been that emulator runs are banned, which is why I've been playing the game on original hardware. However, when I look at the rules on the leaderboard, all categories have a section at the end saying:

"[Submitted runs can be done on a Gamecube,Wii, or Dolphin Emulator. (Must use Dolphin version within a few months of the current build. 5.0 stable is banned)]"

Is this just an outdated paragraph that was left in accidentally, or are emulator runs allowed now?

As of this point, yes, emulator runs are not allowed. Looks like that text needs to be fixed.

We discussed it on the Discord in the past, but there wasn't enough push to get Dolphin runs allowed.

Emulator runs are allowed as far as you use a modern version of dolphin, just DON'T use 5.0 stable or any older stable version.

Old versions of Dolphin have faster loading times than wii, so it's unfair to use them. Modern versions on the other hand have loading times very similar (and just slightly slower) than console, so they are allowed.

Thanks for the answers. Just to make sure I understand, I can run emulator as long as I use a beta or development version then?

Thanks Pandora, didnt realize we had decided to accept them!

Yeah, any beta or dev build post 2019 is fine. You can also use any rom version: US, JP, PAL or KR