@Rhodechill setting frame skip to 1 in Dolphin's settings really does wonders for your framerate. (Also I'm not a "he".)

Even if I could be 100% sure it would go undetected, I still don't want to unfairly take someone's WR from them.

I would want to try this, but I don't want to take credit for a good run that I didn't do legitimately or get banned if they do find out.

It's pretty easy to fake that using some basic video editing though.

I'm totally fine with Dolphin being banned, I can see why it'd be a problem. I'm mostly just bored and keeping myself occupied with things that might be sort of productive but probably aren't, like talking about fake runs on the forums.

Banning Dolphin runs isn't really going to do much if you can't tell the difference between a console run and a Dolphin run though.

What's stopping people from running the game on Dolphin, playing back the video on their TV and then recording that with a capture card though?

I'd be such a good cheater lol.

Personally, I think they should get deleted, but I suppose the mods have the final say. I'd like to know what they would have to say about this though, because I currently have no idea if they are even aware of these runs.

I found a very strange run, done as Luigi on the Flame Runner. Not sure if I'm overlooking anything, but if I remember correctly Luigi can't use the Flame Runner. There was no video of the run. The run in question: https://www.speedrun.com/run/y976o3nm

Edit: Just found a Yoshi Flame Runner run as well. https://www.speedrun.com/run/zxv7qe8y