I had the idea of making a rom hack where I just remove the game being allowed to save so that I don't have to erase the save file every time I restart the run.I would even keep the save box at the end of each star just to make sure nothing would give me any advantage over anyone else, I would just stop it from being able to save the data. Would this still be speedrun legal?Times wouldn't even be affected since we start our timers after we erase the save, not when we do.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, it just popped into my head, I probably won't even be able to do it since I suck at programming.

The answer is no and if you don't want to save do what Enigmaa said (which is what people do in runs already)

Yeah it wouldn't be legal because of the short bit of menuing needed in a regular run with the save options.

You can skip the erasing-part, when using Aglab2's Star Manager – a program to view collected stars, actually made for new rom-hacks to explore but of course does his purposes for the orginal game, too. ( https://github.com/aglab2/SM64StarDisplay ) It has an option "Delete file on reset".

May I suggest another category to you? It's called "Non-Stop", the leaderborad is found over here: https://www.speedrun.com/sm64ns And the code needed is this one: https://sites.google.com/site/sm64gameshark/codes/non-stop

there seems to be a lot of posts asking if code/hack/modification is alright and the answer is always no. any change regardless of how little or if it even matters is not allowed for runs and everyone should know this. all runs must be done on the original unaltered game.

these questions come cause people dont read other threads...they got a question and want to ask it. directly. at once. sad about that, too, but thats just the way it is...even if u would stick this rule in the forum, questions will still come...dont know, what this is, but its definitively this way...but anyways: thx for your try, clearing this up ultimately, tyler! :)