Can we revisit this? This rule seems very arbitrary and I'd like my 1CC from the normal leaderboard to be included in the 1CC category as well.

@Validusername16 in regard to:

"the mister fpga board from what ive heard supports a ton of input devices including keyboard. if we allow the mister fpga platform it means we'd have to go out of our way to ban certain control methods that are intended to be used with the platform"

This is no different than controllers used on a PC when running an emulator. Whatever rules you have currently would transfer to the MiSTer. There's no reason to ban MiSTer unless the emulation is not accurate.

I mentioned this to skunky the other day as well. I second this. I think skunky uses 30 sec swaps and looks like it works fine.