ps2 has a very good emulator and ps3 emulation is starting to ramp up so are we going to be able to use emulator in the future? i didn't see anything about emulator in the any% rules also. also how is emulator going to change the leaderboard?

We are very stringent with our measures in terms of allowing emulators on the boards, especially for main series games like rac1, going commando, and up your arsenal. It was a tooth and nail effort to accurately prove that the emulator was good enough for Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank because we had to do a practical full game load analysis between PPSSPP and an actual console. The only way PCSX2/RPCS3 would be implemented, the way I see it, is if the emulator becomes practically console accurate in terms of performance and if there were very strict limits on what you can do on the emulator itself. Since PCSX2/RPCS3 is a lot easier to load and utilize Tool-Assisted scripts compared to PPSSPP, making sections of the game that would typically be rough on a beginner (e.g. sinaflips on Rilgar) a breeze. Allowing emulator adds a whole new dynamic, and in it's implementation it needs to be raised alongside extremely strict rules and regulations to make any emulator run even remotely legit for og trilogy games.

friendly reminder that the PCSX2 devs explicitly stated that accuracy is not a priority / will not happen https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/3181#issuecomment-568209562