Hello! I'm very new to the speedrunning community, I've always loved this game so I wanted to try a run. I can't buy a capture card any time soon, so I was wondering if I could use a camera or a phone to record my footage? Thanks in advance

Do you even have a japanese 1.0 version? If not, rather just play on emulator and capture that, it's way easier and the cheapest way to go...

Hey Pancake. Recording with a phone is absolutely fine. I used to do it when I first started speedrunning a few months ago. Just make sure you can see the whole image and you have game sound and you have a timer somewhere. That's it.

If you want check out one of my first runs to get a general idea

Good Luck on the runs.