As someone who's used Fraps, it's pretty decently high quality. Only problem is you gotta pay to record longer than 30 minutes with no watermarks. It's a one time payment, so if you invest in it you thankfully get to keep it for good.

The thing is, though, there's pretty much no reason to use Fraps over OBS, because OBS gets around about the same quality if you up the bitrate and it takes up less space, plus it's free.

got the girl part, just missing the speedrunning part, i'll catch up to you when i snag it

Hey there, I'm Catherine. I'm not quite new to speedrunning as I've expressed an interest in it sometime in the past as well as followed some speedrunners, but I am new to joining these forums and actually getting active in the community.

Right now I kind of want to get into speedrunning the Mario & Luigi RPG series, although I do know that save for Dream Team and Paper Jam I'm probably going to have to sink my money into a capture card (exception with those two as I already have a streaming method on my N3DS that does not need a capture card). I may look into other games, perhaps PC games in the future; it's a little up in the air for now.

Other than that, glad to be here even if I may lurk for a little while!