Hi everyone!

As I want the mod decisions to be transparent to the community I opened this thread to inform you about my decision made in the case of yeroc5311's run and it's verification, despite it containing the usage of an online emulator.

I looked into this case in detail and here are my findings: First of all, the page is extremely questionable, I do not recommend using it. Despite that it uses emulatorjs.com to emulate games, which uses the open source project EmulatorJS. The payloads to load EmulatorJS in this case requested the core "gb", which according to the documentation will use the Gambatte core. As Gambatte is an allowed emulator according to our rules I did look into if EmulatorJS runs it accuratly. It seems to be doing so (concluded by me after some simple verification steps I did with this video).

Conclusion: I will allow this run to be verified, but please abide by the rules and use standalone versions of one of the allowed emulators (when not using original hardware), my personal recommendation is Gambatte Speedrun. EmulatorJS contains the GPL-3.0 license which requires proper attribution, which is not the case here. As I'm a software engineer I do not condone using anything, which doesn't even properly comply with such a simple license. But obviously this is something where the @yeroc5311 would have needed in depth technical knowledge to even find that out, so I will tolerate it this time.

I hope this clears this up, I will leave this thread open for any questions or discussions regarding this decision.

@yeroc5311: I would love to see more PBs, so please keep submitting runs :) Just please as mentioned above use a standalone version of one of the allowed emulators.

I submitted another run! and this time im using an emulator and a better timer on a "Virtual Machine" (computer in a computer program). Edit:And also thank you for verifying my run! I really thought I was screwed.

Using a VM for runs is in my opinion totally legit, I wouldn't see any reason to not allow this. I won't explicitly state this in the rules, because I see no necessity to do so. If anyone in the community is against that please reach out in this thread so we cann discuss this if necessary.

@yeroc5311: Thanks for submitting your new PB, huge improvement! Just a heads up: Using the cake is faster, as summarized in this thread. Maybe that could be the next improvement you implement for an even faster PB, looking forward to it!

@AmenAnthem I saw your message, but I don't have an old enough account to send messages back. So I have to reply back to messages here, but my message back to you is yes. I resubmitted my run because I reuploaded the YouTube video, not much changes but its something.