For around 5 months now the WIP build of puNES has fixed the HLT issues that caused it to be banned for Any%:

Also see https://github.com/punesemu/puNES/commit/eab01be9778b303d5f0f6b9ef931738fdca04671 and https://github.com/punesemu/puNES/commit/e0074b265d0b0283f8c0d562861a6cfa23c45120.

Is there any possibility we could get the WIP version unbanned. The owner of the puNES repo does not put out releases often (last one was in February). If the mods are worried about using the broken version and pretending to use the fixed version, maybe we could require players to run the test roms that threecreepio made? No worries if you can't unban it yet, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who uses it anyways.

No, we need a pinned known version for traceability. You could fork it, pin it, and release it yourself. Make sure to give it a tiny project rename. E.g. punesrta

Does this work?

https://github.com/ChessMan14/puNES-smb3

Nitpicks:

1. in README the WIP builds link out to the other repo. Can you remove that to avoid confusion that that's allowed?

2. The banner at the top of the README says punes. Can we remove the banner so there's less confusion.

3. In releases, the filenames all say wip. Could we remove that (or add version) to avoid confusion.

I'll check the HLT specific diffs more thoroughly and/or get another community signal if it meets our bar for any%. Was that kabaudio who mentioned HLT not being observed properly in the first place? If the originator of the issue is satisfied, I would be satisfied.

Thank you for checking it out, I've made the changes that you suggested.

Yes, It was kabaudio who originally brought up the issue.