Should the rules to that category be changed to specifically allow emulator savestates to be used? I've tried playing that difficulty now, and I don't see it being reasonable for a human to be able to finish a run on this level fairly.

I feel like it should be either that or just getting rid of it, and re-adding it if someone ever does finish a run of it, which is nearly impossible, but I guess in theory it could be done.

From what I heard, Expert on PAL is the same as Expert on NTSC. I don't think it's impossible per say. Maybe it could do with some rerouting to make it more viable for speed running, but just cutting it out seems a bit drastic.

If there had to be a decision, I would probably exclude Expert on PAL until someone did a run of it.

Almost a 4 week late reply because there's no notification system if people respond to forum messages. But no, Expert on PAL is nowhere near the same as Expert on NTSC. Every difficulty on PAL is much harder. Beginner PAL is about the same as Normal NTSC, Normal PAL is about the same, or a bit harder than Expert NTSC, and Expert PAL has nothing else to compare to, it's just absolute hell, any damage taken is basically a dead run.