I've read through the rules, an it only states that it must be the arcade version of the game on a proper emulator, with any settings. I use a pattern that involves making use of the way the game registers a death, to pass through Blinky near the right hand tunnel. It is not a hack, but since it involves passing through an enemy, I wanted to verify whether it was usable or not. It can be done on any vanilla version of the original Pac-Man arcade rom, on default settings.

Would this forfeit a run? I understand the moderators are strict on what goes and what doesn't, so I don't want to risk anything by uploading the game anyways. The rules also do not state needing a timer over the gameplay, and a few of the other runs don't have timers placed over them, but I wanted to verify anyways.

Here is what I'm attempting to qualify for. Note, I'm running on Arcade, not NES. https://www.speedrun.com/pac-man#10000_Points

The passing through an enemy trick (glitch?) is allowed. I've had that happen to me many times. You don't have to have a timer, though it does help.