I have updated the rules for Dragon Warrior 4. The goal of this update was not to change any rules, but to properly define what already is and is not allowed.

The other piece was to put in place rules for emulated runs of the game. I borrowed these from other games, most notably SMB1 as they have already put in a bunch of work to determine what emulators run NES games accurately.

• Video is required for all submissions. If you use Twitch, make a highlight of your video for submission. • Allowed emulators: FCEUX, Nestopia, Bizhawk, OpenEMU • Emulator specific functionality is banned (e.g. save states, binding multiple keys, Run-Ahead, RAM Watch, etc...).

• Turbo/Autofire functionality to press one button at a constant rate is allowed. • Macro functionality, mapping one button press to multiple buttons or to a sequence of button presses, is NOT allowed. • Timing starts on confirmation of Message Speed on a new file. • Timing ends on screen blackout when leaving Zenithia Castle after beating Necrosaro. (last required input)

If there is anything that I missed or if you have questions, please post in this thread. I will edit this post with any rule updates.

This should probably be updated to reflect that turbo is allowed now.

Updated rules to include allowing turbo.

See news post here: https://www.speedrun.com/dw4/news/866