Hi I was wondering why emulators don't have there own subcategory cuz emulators are not allowed cuz of speed time but why not use the same emulator and subcategory?

You can filter out any Emulators runs if you click on "Filter" > "Emulators" > "Shown"/"Hidden". Creating subcategories in addition to the Filters is up to the communities of the games.

depends on the community and game if emu has a subcategory, is on the main board, is hidden or not allowed. :) why not ask the community this relates to for you?

a lot of games on here allow emulators tho? Some because the game is very hard or nearly impossible to get physically nowadays and some because they trust in the accuracy of specific emulators and make rules around accepting those specific ones. "cuz of speed time" is also missing the point that MANY emulators (including official ones, I'm looking at you 3DSVC) fail to properly emulate the hardware leading to inaccurate emulation of lag or sometimes new (behaviours of) glitches, example being how money works in Pokemon Red/Blue 151 glitched.

The argument is hardly ever as simple as "emulator vs console".

Consoles all have the same specs- you just turn it on and play the game. Emulator and machine specs can be modified to the point that different submissions- even those made with the same emulator- can run different enough that it can be considered a completely different console. We're talking things that aren't in the player's control: movement speed, framerates, load times, cycle counts, etc.

So when you have people running emulations with different settings, should we make a new sub-category for each type of emulator and settings? That's gets pretty complicated pretty quickly, so each game chooses a way to deal with this problem that best addresses the issues that come up for that particular game.

Some games accept all types of emulator runs Some games reject all types of emulator runs Some games accept emulator runs, but only with certain settings Some games accept emulator runs, but only if done with specific programs Some games accept emulator runs done before a certain cutoff date, but none after that Some games accept emulator runs, but hide them on the leaderboard Some games accept emulator runs, but keep them on a separate leaderboard Some games come up with some other strategy

Whatever works for that community