It's annoying in my opinion that Tournament and Knockout use full RTA run times, due to the aforementioned existence of (some? most?) people here running emulators with effectively zero loading times. The buttery 60fps of those emulator runs is another story. My knockout run, which I did on a PlayStation, got "beat" the other day by 12 seconds... on an emulator run that probably had 60 seconds or so less total loading times than a PlayStation run. I wanted to do a Tournament run, but it felt pointless, knowing that non-emulator runs stand no chance on the full game run leaderboards since we're counting load times and going RTA.

Since emulator and PSX runs have to coexist on the leaderboards, in my opinion it seems more fair to adopt a full game run timing strategy that does not penalize on loading times, since counting load times renders emulators (those emulating a game that had a separate PC-specific release...) the only way to be competitive.

Also uploaded two would-be 1st place times on Country Woods and Rocky Pass, awaiting verification. Kind of wish there was a competitive category for single track laps that didn't allow the bonus car, or didn't allow the unlockable cars at all. But I suppose there may need to be more than 20 people ever running this game to go for more and wider categories.

^ Doing my part to help! lol

Uploaded a 59:37 on Hometown, and days later off camera got my PB to 59:12. Would love to crack into the 58's. I like the longer knockout category, but long load times on PS compared to PC emulators means the PS times will unfortunately never be competitive. That disadvantage doesn't exist for "hot lap" records, which is nice.

^ Maybe I'll try that. I recorded one just now, poverty spec mode propping up my iPhone SE 2nd gen while it records the TV screen at 720p 30fps. 34:00, maybe I'll upload and see if I catch the bug.

No offense to the game, but I didn't realize NFS III: Hot Pursuit was a competitive enough game to require playthrough video uploads. I got what would have been a #3 time on Knockout Beginner New Game (Arcade), but didn't record it, just timed it per rules with my phone.

I just play the game on a PS2 through my TV. What's the easiest way to record? Setting up my phone to point at the TV screen and recording that?

Also is playing on PS2 emulation or not? I figured not, since a PS2 is full hardware emulation of a PS1, it shouldn't load or play anything quicker than an actual PS1 would?