Currently only have access to my gamecube with swiss and a sd2sp2 adapter, my games are in my storage unit. Would I need to get my games from storage, or could I use my backups from the MicroSD?

sorry for the late reply, the notification mustve gotten buried, so I only saw the forum thread at random now.

For full game runs, unfortunately we still time those in real time on console, and you'd be getting an unfair load advantage playing the game from the a microsd, so that wouldn't be allowed. However, you're fine doing individual level runs with this, since these just go by ingame time and aside from loads this then would just be original game on original hardware