Would a run from a Wii using the Nintendont emulator be considered Console or Emulator? According to the developer, Nintendont uses a virtual machine system to run the game, so it should run as if it was played on a regular Wii.

I think that would most likely be emulator category.

I believe the Wii actually has native hardware for running Gamecube discs, so if you put a disc in it should run exactly the same as if played on an actual Gamecube. What you're describing is the Wii hardware performing software emulation of hardware, rather than using the built in Gamecube hardware.

Thank you. I'm still going to run on Nintendont to lower costs.

So, does Nintendont still count as emulation or does it count as Wii? The GBATemp says it runs at Wii speeds as both Wii and vWii (Wii Menu on Wii U) are too slow to emulate GameCube games.

We've done extensive testing by removing and comparing loads on Nintendont vs every other platform, and Nintendont is leagues faster in load times than any official hardware there is. It creates unfair competition because it basically forces all runners to run on it if they want to compete for WR.

Because of this and the fact that it is not official hardware, Nintendont counts as Emulation in regards to runs on the leaderboard and is not accepted on the main leaderboards with runs done on official hardware.

We initially banned Nintendont entirely from the boards. It has created issues in the past of people submitting runs under Nintendont but not telling anyone, and it ended up in us having to completely restructure the leaderboards and rules. We decided that if there was demand for it, we could accept the runs under the Emulator cateogry, but the issue with that is that it cant really compete with PC emulation, and is emulating a different version of the game (PS2 version vs Gamecube version)