Hey guys hope you're doing well, I've been interested in running this game for a while now and was wondering if emulators are allowed for submissions? If so which one is recommended?

I'm not a moderator so i can't give a definitive answer but I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed since its doesn't give you an advantage. In fact, some levels actually run at half speed (2-3, 2-8 and the 100/200/400/hurdle disciplines of 3-10 I belive) and you won't be able to use an N64 controller which is pretty much perfect for this game, unless you have a modded one or an adapter of course. As for Emulators, Project 1.6/1.7 is what's used for most other N64 games. The Glide64mk2 video plug-in fixes some graphical bugs but I'm not sure if it's universal or only works with Mupen64plus and it also doesn't fix the slow down. Also, feel free to ask questions about the game/run in general if you have any.

I appreciate the help! Mupen64 plus seems to be the most effective emulator out of the ones I've used. The amount of dropped frames on project 64 was really painful and practically unplayable at some parts especially during the festival (certain parts wouldn't display at all with graphics bugs like the math portion which was odd). Also how do i boost grab?

In order to BG you have to boost with C^ and then grab upwards immediately afterwards (technically both the boost and grab can be in any direction but >90% of the time you will want to do them upwards). The reason you want to grab up and not sideways is cause it has the shortest animation and you need to do them fairly quickly to gain height. The optimal rhythm is somewhere around 4 BGs a second but in reality you probably wanna be a little slower since you just drop the BG entirely if you are too fast. The timing between BGs doesn't affect your speed tho, so if you dont need height you can space them out more. The only thing that affects speed is the time between pressing C and B. You probably wanna hold your right hand above the controller kinda like you would playing on a fighting stick so you can press C with your ring finger and B with your index finger. If you are using another controller you might have to figure out some other method but you certainly wanna use different fingers for boosting and grabbing.

BG example with hand cam: