Google would be able to provide you with more comprehensive information on this, or Reddit.
Haven't really been working on it but I'll get to it before the end of June when I have a bit more free time.
- Yes
- It will not make the game run faster or "smoother" per se, but it will improve the experience for the most part.
There is no rule against using shortcuts.
As for the missing tracks, is your copy Collector's Edition because if not, that's where the issue lies.
I'm pretty sure the reason why it isn't generally allowed is due to 3DO emulation being fairly poor and furthermore, the 3DO's performance as a whole being quite poor. Due to the differences between the 3DO version and the rest of them, it'd be best to separate it and make a page dedicated to it. We haven't done that yet due to more or less noone running it on 3DO and me never getting around to actually do a proper run.
WCG is the No Uniques category. Uniques is the Uniques category.
You can use the Corolla in any of them, what chiwie was saying was not worded too well but what he was trying to convey is that people don't really bother using any other cars because they're slower than the Corolla.
Nah, it's honestly alright. Some of the other ones are worse.
It's a bug with the way the game's timer was programmed. It is not really avoidable, you can just reduce the effects in some of the games that it's present. We manually retime individual level runs anyway so you don't have to worry about it.
Luck of the draw in all honestly, plus if you see that a run breaks even one rule, you stop checking it and you move on. The same cannot be said for a valid run, although generally speaking we wouldn't be spending 15hrs on 3min run.
This is a categories extension run, meaning it's not for a main category. This run can be performed on any platform where it is possible to replicate what is required to complete the run.
Alternatively, everyone just starts using it and we manually retime every run. If everyone is running the game overclocked, everyone is on equal grounds, and thus, not "cheating". If need be, you can filter between real hardware and emulator runs on sr.c, so there is also that if you feel that it'd be unfair towards people running on real hardware (of which there are not many.)
Done, in the future please only submit via In-Game Time.