After a brief discussion, using the minimal installation for (PC) 2000 is now approved for the leaderboard.

This will continue to be a work in progress to eliminate all potential crashing points.

You can find more information on this forum post here: https://www.speedrun.com/mgs1/forums/ba9y1

You can find the files/folders you need on this resource here: https://www.speedrun.com/mgs1/resources/am0et

If anybody has any questions, feel free to reach out to a moderator.