Those were the old mod's rules. After you brung it up, ive decided to allow FDS for the pure reason that its alot more convenient for me and other runners. If people want to compare themselves with other console runners, they can simply not let emulator runs show on their screen.

I've seen this trend with many games. I tend to lie on the edge of the blade, I'm of the mindset that emulator and consoles should be on their own separate boards, but I totally get why that's not always the case. But calculating loads and stuff is time-consuming and annoying. I dunno. I get why splitting a board is a total hassle, but that's the best way IMO to run a board for the future.

EDIT: I didn't specify what I meant; I apologize. Emu and hardware should be split IF and only IF there's a feasible difference between the two, speedrun-wise. In this case, it sounds like there is... but that's just my opinion.