Thank you both very much for the prompt and informative responses.

I understand that you manually press timers for each level, but how accurate is that for each level's time? Because this leaves room to mess up, r is the official time determined after the run is over at a certain frame?

What's going on guys. I just got back into this game after watching TheRuseman's runs, and I have really started enjoying it again. As of right now though, the only thing I can safely do is Time Trial because it gives a definite time, but I want to try some single levels and possible a full any% run, but I have no idea how to set up the SpeedRunsLive timer. I downloaded it, but I am not sure how to set up checkpoints that it can understand when I finish a level. I am using Dolphin emulator if that changes anything on the GC edition.

The second one is about farming up lives to practice levels, I just want to know the best/easiest level to farm up a high amount of lives.

Finally, I was curious if my times won't be valid or something like that for using a emu. I know some people don't like them and I am aware that they are not 100% accurate, but what differences are there and should I switch to a real Wii/GameCube with the disc? In case you can't tell, I am also new to speedrunning.

Thanks!