firstly welcome to the speedrunning community, i hope you excel in whatever game you currently speedrun and hope to see them on the leaderboards some day!
secondly, you are able to record and or stream with any software or program youd like, as well as any capture card hardware or screen capture software. the only thing you need to make sure is that your recording is within compliance with the conditions of the community you are within for the game you speedrun and the terms for speedruns.com
thirdly, most communities commonly do not allow the usage of emulation however there are some minor cases where they do, and or have their own emulator catagory. my suggestion to you is to make sure you follow your community set guidelines if they allow the use of emulation for said game.
hope you enjoy your stay and once again, welcome c:
- senko
LiveSplit isn't going over my game, and when i make it windowed i accidently click on the timer and it pauses my game? Help??
[quote=SenkoChan]thirdly, most communities commonly do not allow the usage of emulation however there are some minor cases where they do, and or have their own emulator catagory.[/quote] This is not an accurate statement to make. This is true for more modern systems (PS and later mostly), but is just not true for early systems. Most communities and games for consoles like the NES and SNES usually always allow emulation because it’s pretty accurate to the original hardware. They may put restrictions on what versions of emulators are allowed, but very few outright ban them or even split out the categories.
@Exscrave Enable global hotkeys in LiveSplit. It will allow a key press to do something in LiveSplit (like split or something) without you or needing to be clicked in it. Just remember that the key press will always register in LiveSplit so don’t use a key you’re going to hit while playing your game.
for the basis of more modernized games yes, i will agree with you. however, there are a good deal of communities that disallow emulation. its only a precaution, accurate or not that can be the case.
inherently theres no one stopping you from running a game the way you want to, whether or not the community accepts your run is up to them. for clarification, i was not stating that emulation is frowned upon or not allowed on majority of games.
most communities rule out emulation due to cheating, having to monitor what emulators people are using, if theyre using the same rom, etc. its more of a hassle than it really seems on the outside.
as far as im aware, the ones im commonly watching have their own emulation catagory section or have emulated runs hidden by default.