Hi all, I'm new to this whole thing and looking to try my hand at it. I was thinking of using an emulator as that's probably easiest for me to set up and record at the moment but I was looking for help finding download links for the allowed emulator and for any suitable recording/timing software as well. Any help on this or just general speed running help is much appreciated.

Yeah, i can help you out :

Emulator : http://desmume.org/download/ Recording Software : https://obsproject.com/ Timing Software : http://livesplit.github.io/

There are many tutorials how to use all that stuff. Good luck and have fun speedrunning. <3