Emulator performance can vary a lot depending on how good your PC is, or even from one Dolphin version to another sometimes. You can keep running on emulator if you want, but it wouldn’t make sense to track top-level emulator runs on a leaderboard because of that.

if you have the time and passion to speedrun the game, then shelling out $40 on a game disk and $20 on a capture card really isnt too much tbh

what about the console

$200

For the console

200$ is how much the Family Edition Wii cost at launch iirc, nowadays you can find one for much cheaper since everyone and their mother had one.

Make sure to get the vertical one tho, the horizontal one doesn’t support GC games. You can tell them apart by the orientation of the Wii logo on the front