So I've been learning the speedrun and its super fun, and I wonder has nobody submitted a run in 5 years because the game is dead? or is there some other reason like a game patch (like what happened to STCE)? Are there even any mods left who could verify a run?

maybe too many crashes and swaphopping is hard on the hands?

I think everybody just got busy and moved on with other stuff. Swap hopping isn't that bad from what I remember. Everything in the route should work just fine.

yeah I just finished my first run, weird