Are emulated runs acceptable, the game at times can run slower than on normal hardware but nowhere does it end up running faster than on normal hardware, to me there isn't really an advantage or disadvantage from doing so, I mainly see a lot of rules on speedrunning games about using real hardware instead of emulating it because of the advantages

its aloud, but not shown on leaderboards by default (u have to go into the leaderboard settings and make it show). since this is a console exclusive, using emulation for easy WR's is kinda unfair, because of all the different hardware it's ran on. so while it is aloud, it wont show on default. if this had a released PC port, different story (bc's everyone would just be running on pc, and there would probably be a seperate tab for console run's and pcs run's) long story short, emu is aloud, but won't be shown by default, sorry not sorry ;)

to reply on you @m1btlyz, modders are planning to port Skate 1 and Skate 2 to run natively on PC without emulation, the one who confirmed it himself is Syphrus, no while he's no modder or anyone to edit games at all, he has made a video about cheats on skate 3 that push to introduce the viewers who make mods to join the skate modding team that's responsible for multiple skate 2 and skate 3 mods already. idk how far they are on progress, but if interested you should find their discord

I am aware of his video @R3GR3T (big syphrus fan myself) but that just opens a new world of problems, again we allow you to run on emulator, but they are hidden by default, also, if you where to look at syphrus' vid on speedrunning skate3, you would see he had switched from emu to xbox, since he had some weird problems whilst running on emulator. running on the original hardware is more consistent.