Found it. All existing links in this forum to it are dead/changed and the threads may or may not have moved but found a working link for anyone else needing it:
Trying to track down this particular thread but seems this and the other stickies are now missing? Anyone got insights or links to provide?
Was recently made aware of Duckstation as a more accurate emulator compared to ePSXe. I've read the current sticky and the linked rules but some potential quality of life enhancements were not explicitly covered that I hope could be clarified. Namely stuff like the Internal Resolution Scaling and Texture filtering options amongst some other visual enhancement settings.
In addition to that, with the availability of FDS on PS2 hardware and other speedrun titles allowing the use of the Read Speedup option, I'm curious if there's a specific reason this is not permitted?
Just curious on these things. I'm currently working with a friend who's doing active speedruns on ePSXe and potentially considering moving to Duckstation and want to dial things in.