What about Xbox 360 flash storage? It has 4gb built in which could potentially store the game (assuming we do file copy and not disk copy). Especially now that the xbox 360 has a soft mod, copying to the internal storage should be fine. And it allows more people to speedrun optimally because the xbox 360 can be found everywhere and for very cheap.

I know that the current strat is to play on an original Xbox with the game copied to the hard drive. Could we consider allowing the game to be played from newer consoles storage, such as the Xbox Series X, to have the game be read from an SSD, improving load times? Because currently my only option to speedrun the game is through Dolphin, and i know that it's not to most optimal way.