Thank you for the help and replies. I'll go ask the mod of the game some time whenever I can.

Hello everyone. I've been practicing a speedrun of a DS game on emulator (Inazuma Eleven). I've watched a video of a run of it (which was on emulator as well), and some of the timings weren't matching mine.

Not sure if its because of the run being the first and only of the game- but still I'm concerned if its because of my emulator settings. So far I have everything in default. I tried googling but nothing really came up aside from a pokemon speedrun wiki.

Here are my specs (if that has to do with anything) https://twitter.com/Igni29521/status/1028669414923792385

I practiced some sections of the run, and will try a full run offline shortly.

Is saving, quiting, and reloading the file allowed? The rules say that it depends on the game (If I'm right). I thought of routing the game and see if some backtracking to recruit a player can save time etc. Recruiting certain players in the game is dependent on random luck (the menu appears showing 5 players form the team and sometimes the specific player won't appear; saving before you see the menu then quiting + reloading the file will "reshuffle" the players list before you talk to the manager)

I don't know, this route idea might be embarrassingly stupid at the end, but I still want to give it a try.