Do any specific weapon types / elements cause enemy Knockback or is it just random? I'm trying to avoid doing it, if possible.

You probably have the most experience among us so I'll take your word for it. On my side, I was running 2x and 3x but my menus still aren't good enough to be consistent so I began paying more attention to load transitions. I was trying to compare side-by-side with runs already posted here by counting frames. I may continue to do this if only for my own curiosity.

Regardless, if you determined that "Duckstation" at "2x (Quad Speed)" matches currently accepted emulator speeds then hopefully we can get a mod to sign off on it. Of course with OSD displays, "Show Enhancements" and "Show Status Indicators". Although I don't know if we need to show the 'Resolution' in OSD, just everything else but that's up to them and not a big deal.

Looking forward to the results.

Thanks for putting in the time, crazey. I'm curious to see how close you can get to your current runs on PSTV. As far as settings to look at I feel most are pretty basic but he FFIX board has a small guide for their "Duckstation" settings we could look at for reference. https://www.speedrun.com/ff9/guide/sy8j6 (I'll remove link if needed but considering it's on this same site I thought it might be OK.)

All pretty standard but they do recommend using "3x (6x Speed)" Read Speedup. Apart from that, on the Rayman [1] board they have a google doc under Guides which recommends "7x (14x Speed)". It makes me wonder if it's per-game specific via trial-and-error. I will say that most other boards simply say to use default settings with only OSD changes, etc, but for those games maybe it's fine.

So it's up to us considering there's no general consensus. I guess we can just do a few runs up to Central Park (or after) and compare the times with PSTV runs. Should at least give an idea of load times. I'm not as experienced in the game as others here but I'll try some runs on my end starting with the basics like default settings + 2x Read Speedup, then 3x, etc. If you guys have other things you'd like to try I'm all for it. I appreciate trying to open the game up to more runners and growing the community.

Why are the emulation runs not shown by default? Is this moderator's choice? Other boards show emu runs mixed together when they don't have separate leaderboards.

Just curious as it can seem confusing or even disheartening for emu runners to have their runs hidden behind filters. No offense, just wondering as to the reason and if it's something that can be changed.

Well, I know that default "Duckstation" settings are a bit slower overall in comparison to something like PSTV. I saw one speedrun board allow using "2x (Quad Speed)" over the default "None (Double Speed)" under Console Settings. Not sure if that will make our emu runs on par with current PSTV runs but it could be a starting point for comparisons.

Aside from performance testing as long as we "Show Enhancement Settings" and "Show Status Indicators" under Advanced Settings and enable all the OSD overlays to show Speed, FPS, etc. under Display Settings it should help ensure validity of the run and that nobody is using faster options than what's agreed upon.

Anyone still run this game? Was wondering if we were going to get a new moderator or not. I've been playing the game and thinking of trying for some real runs soon.

As of writing this message the rules state that we need to be using "Bizhawk", "psx", or "ePSXe" for valid emulation runs. Is there a possibility of allowing other emulators, in particular "Duckstation" or "Mednafen"?

I'm on Linux (not Windows) and the only available option listed under the Rules is "ePSXe". This emulator hasn't been updated since 2016 so I can't really use it. This requires installing very outdated versions of some runtime libraries which can be unsafe and difficult to deal with on modern Linux systems, especially when trying to install in parallel with their newer counterparts.

Cross-platform Emulators (available for both Linux & Windows) I've been using are "Duckstation" and "Mednafen". Both are actively developed and used by many other speedrun boards, especially "Duckstation" which is easier to work with and quite accurate. I saw that some of you guys have already been testing it for performance comparisons. If you're willing to look into either of them further and decide on either to be allowed for valid Emu runs I'd really appreciate it.