It's something that was decided by top runners and moderators a long time ago. I always thought this was not healthy for the community.

If I'm not wrong, the main point is that these runs would end up being so far from reality that they would not be considered legal. And I'm completely alright with that, but who said they were legal in the first place?

Personally I find it questionable aswell. In my eyes, making an entire category extension for emu & nintendon't or whatever version would be a great way to open the community up for more people. Should top runners be scared of someone having a better time with Dolphin, then moderation would just have to make it clear: their time wouldn't count on legal versions' leaderboards. Simple as that.

"But then what's the point if their time is not considered legal?" Fun, perhaps? There's many people who just want to give it a try but can't manage to get their hands on the correct version of the game. I've seen so many of these comments from people who are literally getting a 'No. Don't.' answer whenever they want to get their emu run listed on some leaderboards.

"Then they could just run Dolphin for personal purposes. Their run would just not be listed on the website, it's only for fun after all" But that's exactly what people need: have fun with other people, together. One of the most important things we pursue out there is this sense of belonging to a group. Would you honestly run a game for multiple years if your time wasn't listed on any website, thus making you unable to have experiences with other people?

Adding a separate forum, a separate leaderboard for these people, is exactly what they just want. Sure their time won't be considered as official WR. But if they really did want to get that record, wouldn't they just go for these 35$ and buy the correct version?

Speaking of WR, bringing more people might bring more (healthy) competition and more mutual help between runners. That's exactly what's happening between runners from Pokemon's console runners and Emu's runners, for instance. There's no separation between runners from different platforms but rather support between them.

In the end, I feel like this doesn't cost anything to do that, while it could bring many people to just enjoy the game, instead of just shutting the doors right in front of their eyes, before they could even try opening them. The only cost I see would probably be having to 'monitor' more runs from more people, especially with the multiple options that emulation might bring. I admit this could be rather difficult at first sight.

I'll finish with this: I don't hope for change, I don't run this game, I'm not part of this community. I know all of it was decided many years ago. But I just want people not to refuse the idea that having fun is pretty much the main thing when it comes to play videogames. Perhaps this will ring some bells, perhaps not. I just hope that 'competition' itself is not the reason why these category extensions won't exist. If runners are worried about someone having a better time with Dolphin, so be it. I just think this is rather unhealthy for people who want to actually get along with the community.

could be wrong, but I think scrolling up text in other languages is slower overall. should explain why using other versions is bad for RNG manipulation, because of frame loss (well the loss would be so ridiculous so im not sure about it)

would've been cool if other languages were accepted though, yeah

and today he's at AGDQ. what a beast lmfao.

I really didn't think that game would be that broken great find

saving a minute with cartridge is huge. great find

depends on what console (2ds, 3ds) you use and if you are using eshop version or not. i guess?

are you sure it saves time?

I guess setting wii game region to japanese is easier than doing so for gamecube, plus wii loading times are faster for some games; also all stars category is new yup

rookie is a known player from "High Definition" clan, his times aren't fake, trust him :)

1. By doing the airswim trick, I went here
2. Load Snowhorn Wastes zone
3. So the game is like "you should have tricky at this point", and blue grubtubs appears
4. At the "cave" exit, the cutscene where tricky goes at his home loads, but not correctly; the game softlocks. fox falls through the ground and I can press only A, B, X, Z (you can hear my wii loading the game)

-At 2:45, tricky is saying "that's my mom!" -This trick would save time (something like 15 minutes) only for first spellstone category since you need 50 scarabs bag for any% -You can do the same thing with the warpstone's cutscene, fox won't fall through the ground but you can press only A B X Y

:( (hope someone will find a way to do this)

it'll help you Kappa

(big thanks duckinjail1200 btw, I understand it a lot more now)

I can do UHE but hey Double Jump is so hard LOL There are absolutely no tutorials and no explanations so please can someone give me tips? this trick looks frame perfect based u.u

I searched in the document but didn't found this:

100% jap route trick (basically what happen is mario goes oob and respawns at last load zone)

I just can't do this, I really don't know how to do, and nobody explains it

especially the second one on Poeguyz's PB, it looks easy but...

please help D:

Thanks a lot, I didn't know that.

Hello, today I tried to change my Wii game region to Japan with ARCmod06_Offline. (Zephiles did a tutorial for this) I did it...

...But, the disc doesn't work with japan game region. My Wii doesn't recognize it. So I turned game region in Europe (I'm European), it worked.

Do I need a TTYD Jap disc? Mine is European, but I thought it wasn't needed... Help pls =)

ps: I'm not really good at english so sorry for mistakes