Already messaged Monteiro to clarify that none of this is directed at him, it's for friends of mine who are interested in playing that I'm pushing towards speedrunning.

Can we set some rules for the emulator category?

Many of the gba emulators run faster than the actual hardware, its why often youre limited to mGBA or its core on bizhawk. Are there limits to which emulators we can use?

Do we need to boot with bios?

Do we need to lock the fps to native or can we set it to unlimited?

Are mobile emulators allowed for this game? they often arent for gb/gba/gbc as they typically dont emulate correctly and usually add some speed

Just figured it's time to clarify to get some consistency

Ive been using mGBA 0.9.3, with BIOS, locked to 59.7 fps, fwiw

Is there a limit to which emulator we can use?

Do we need to use GBA bios?

Do we need to lock to native FPS?

I'm currently using mGBA 0.9.3 as its the only one allowed by a lot of games, I use the BIOS, and i have the frame rate locked at the native 59.7

asking as theres no rules posted, and different settings/emulators can yield very different gaming experiences.

Can you add an option for using the GBP as its official hardware and not an emulator? also, its much easier to record

Is there a list of accepted/banned emulators?

I use the Mupen64Plus-Next core on RetroArch usually, want to know if thats fine or if I should use Project64

When the misc categories say that NG+ files are allowed, does that just mean that you can have already beaten the levels and just have to show beating them again? Or is there some way to reset your save data without resetting your cars that I'm unaware of?

For the "collect all plasmids" is it just the level 1 plasmids?

When should i start timing? when i hit play or when it loads in?