Despite the rules having always required RTA timing, most past level runs of the DS version have used IGT instead. I have manually looked at each IL submission and, if a video was still viewable, corrected the in-game time to real time by doing a frame count of the video. I have also clarified the IL rules to specifically note that the DS version's IGT does not correctly measure the run time.

Soon, I'll make some brief guidelines for emulator usage for the DS version. It's likely that nds-bootstrap will start being treated as an emulator for the purposes of these leaderboards.

Edit: The only new guideline for emulator usage is that nds-bootstrap will be treated as an emulator. However, playing on a flashcart (for instance, R4, M3, DSTT) will not be treated as emulation. Emulators may continue to be used as before. I am deliberately doing all this without first asking the other moderators for approval because I am the only moderator that plays the DS version.

The subcategories for different difficulties in All Tournaments and the Quickrace ILs have been removed, and the All Tournaments/Quickrace IL category is a single category now. All runs from different difficulty subcategories have been migrated to the single category. The point of this change was to reduce redundancy, since the run is the exact same across different difficulties. The subcategories for different platforms will remain separate.