The rules have been revamped a few days ago, most notably making use of the Main Rules.

Emulator rules have been specified further, requiring you to disable the "Speed up Disc Transfer Rate" as it pushes loading significantly beyond the capabilities of any legitimate version of the game.

Unofficial ways of running the game aside from emulators are now allowed as well, like Open PS2 Loader (OPL). Since loading are again sped up notably, timegates were put into place to make sure OPL does not lead to times that are impossible to beat on official hardware. The timegates are up for debate, but any slower runs are perfectly okay to be accepted on the board. Emulators are also affected by this rule. Should timegates seem unreasonable, feel free to bring it to my attention and I can adjust them as needed.