Thanks a lot for the clarification, Carter. That helps a lot.

I think I need some clarification as well as far as time starting at the menu. As soon as you power on the console or hit reset, or do the equivalent in your emulator, the menu scrolls up from the bottom until it takes up the whole screen. But you can also press Start to make it instantly go to the top and take up the whole screen instead of waiting for it to scroll. So at what point does time start exactly? As soon as we hit reset or as soon as the menu finishes scrolling up (or we press a button to make it scroll up instantly)? Also, how should we time our level splits, or is that up to us? And on that note, does anyone have autosplitters for this game that work with Nestopia?

Edit: As a suggestion, it may be better to adjust the rules so that times starts when you press start. The current record holder, andresfpg13, timed it that way, but I don't want to make everyone have to redo their run for something like that either. Just something to consider.

Thanks.

Yeah, Romhustler gives you a whole bundle. I think the one that's named "Dig Dug (J).nes" should be fine, just specify region as NTSC Japan when you submit your runs. I don't really know the difference, but I think some confirmation from the moderators would be in order.