Is there a reason for this?

Banning emulators solves a problem Way of the Samurai doesn't have (cheating), and exacerbates the only problem it does have (nobody plays it).

I am doing runs of this game in 2018, with someone I know who is also running it. We run New Game Any% (i.e. Leave Pass) and New Game Ending#1. I just submitted a New Game Any%, 3mins 19 seconds: . Admittedly, it's far from optimized, but it's an initial benchmark, and I submitted partly just to see if a New Game Ending1 run (which I do in about 45mins) recorded on emulator would be accepted.

Speedrun rules are run by the community, right? So it makes sense to listen to the only folks active in the game... especially given that there are a grand total of five submissions across three categories.

My suggestion: let us submit to a separate EMU category. I'll mod that category and even write more explicit rules for the console categories, i.e. distinguishing NG and NG+, clarifying start/stop parameters, require audio, etc..

It makes sense to have a mod who is an active runner and I would be able to setup the EMU categories (NG/NG+, Difficulty, Ending, kinda like how WotS3 does it). We are also thinking of challenging each other in "Harvest Samurai" a run where you race to see who can eat all items on the map and Leave the Pass first. Gotta hunt all the mushrooms etc... I wouldn't bother making the category until there are runs to submit to it, but it would be fun to add that if it happens, and it would be convenient if I were a mod and could easily accomplish that.

Sounds good?