Will we be able to submit runs using emulation, or only captured switch output?

The latter. Switch emulators have been developed at outstanding pace, but lack the precision and accuracy to be able to properly compare runs to ones on actual hardware.

Thus, emulators are banned for the foreseeable future.

quick question, would there be any issue with making a new category for ONLY emulators? (if the popularity is big enough of course)

Okay sounds good, TreZc0! Thanks!

@kahuna - Maybe at a later point - there are no plans for now, mostly to not inflate verification workload by too much.