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

You need to ask this in the pac-man forums: https://www.speedrun.com/pac-man/forum The moderators and the community of the game should know much better on it than the general community in the main threads. (The moderators are those who handle the leaderboard, make the rules and verify the runs)

Done! Apologies, I just signed up recently, so I'm still learning where everything is located. I wasn't aware that there were individual forums for runs. Thank you!