A few weeks ago an issue was brought up in the FF discord regarding the ease with which certain cheating methods could potentially be used for FF9 on console. A community vote was undertaken to decide on a potential rule change to prevent this, and based on this it has been decided to require a hard reset before every attempt. The rules for the relevant categories have been updated.

You can read the details in this pastebin: https://pastebin.com/rfjm6pf2

If there are any further questions, feel free to bring them up here or in the discord.