Just thought I'd make a new forum restating some very good claims I saw for why emulators should be allowed (since the other forum posts have a lot of replies)

Regardless what's banned and what's not, at least require videos for the runs or some kind of proof like a photo of the end of every race or a screenshot of the splits. There's no way on earth someone can say they can't take a picture. I'm 100% confident some of these runs without video are simply fake times. Allowing emulators would let recording be easy for everyone. WiiU has better loads than Wii. Wii hard drive has faster loads than anything else. So allowing both of these and not allowing Dolphin based on load is just not reasonable. It's not any harder to fake a run on console if you really want to. It's also much easier to use cheats on homebrew, since Dolphin rejects master codes (like the item wheel, always have item, etc). I just believe in people being allowed to do runs on emulators to help expand the community, and plenty of other games like mario party ones and mario 64 allow emulation and thrive even more because of it. I think we could just make a sub category for emulators if allowing them against Wii runs is really that big of an issue, even though that is a bit hypocritical as Wii Us are allowed. I simply feel that emulation could really help this game grow as I personally know 10 or so people who want to run this game but sold there Wii a couple years back and just play it on an emulator.

Also, if IGT is being used soon, which I just heard might be a possibility, the emulators would be fully consistent with wii+wii u and there should be no issue allowing them.