GG! This game looks amazing. Might give the speedrun a go after a casual playthrough
Of course you can always film your TV as you do the run, but for verifying sake, it may be easier to verify a recorded emulator run
Some good and bad news regarding emulating this game! You can't emulate through MAME as it seems to be behind on quite a lot of the M2 games. However, there is an M2 emulator which can be found here https://segaretro.org/Model_2_Emulator We'll be likely adding it to the 'Resources' tab so it's easier for others in the future who want to try out the game. I believe flyingfox has addressed the fact that video evidence is required, but the M2 emulator isn't a particularly CPU intensive program so recording shouldn't be too much of an issue.
flyingfox will add a post to the forum for this game regarding what is added/changed or you can feel free to join the Sonic Speedrun Community Discord and ask more in the #other-classics channel.
Good luck CatBoo
Really looking forward to trying this game out! Just wondering if there were any particular strategies that worked well on the 2000 revision that I could translate over to this one. I've heard about the potential issues with speed and having to hold down L2? Sounds like an annoyance I might be able to get over :D