If so, what is the preferred emulator to use?

theres no real rule against them because its substantially slower than console. loading times are like more than double and you cannot do any of the clips that save loads of time because there isn't enough lag on emulator to do them. I personally don't know which emulator would be best... I've only done testing on bizhawk pretty much

I was thinking of using bizhawk or pj64 v1.6 since they were the most compatible and generally accepted across other speed games. Until the re-release comes out anyway.

Thanks for the confirmation Grav 😄