At this point, NES emulators have become extremely accurate at recreating the original hardware. However, with games like Duck Hunt and other zapper games, the is no way to accurately emulate a zapper. This means that the only way to play the game is to use a mouse. There is a great difference between aiming a gun and shooting at a CRT tv and clicking the screen with a mouse, its pretty much a different game at that point. So, instead of banning the use of emulators, I think it would be best to create two sub categories. I think we should have one category for Nes and one called EMU. (I'd include the WIIVC in the NES category since there are very few runs. You can see the Super Mario 64 leaderboard if you don't understand what I mean. I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.
-Carter44
I think that sounds like a great idea. I agree that emulator Duck Hunt is much different than pointing a light gun at a screen.
I also agree emulator is different gameplay - zapper/lightgun vs clicking are two very different styles.
I'm all for a game getting more runs which means making it accessible to people that don't have a zapper+CRT+Console but runs should definitely be separated - not sure on the best approach to it from a leaderboard perspective, maybe like SM64.
