Hi, I'm willing to speedrun this game and wanted to know if it was possible to allow emulators ? To my experience I didn't notice any difference between emu and hardware apart from a few crashes on emu on my end. At least allow ILs and add a variable for full game runs to separate emu/n64 maybe ?
Glad to see there's interest in this! I will test the accuracy of emulation soon and update the rules accordingly. Hopefully will have testing done by next week, but I can't promise anything.
I have come to the decision to allow emulator submissions under a separate category for both ILs and full game runs!
I don't currently have any restrictions on which emulator should be used, as it seems as though many emulators won't even run this game. For now, if you can get it working, I'll allow it for submission. Anything based on Mupen64Plus seems to work well. I may end up changing these rules in the future.
Like many other N64 games, World Driver Championship runs slightly faster on emulator than it does on console. As such, I don't believe the two versions should be compared together on the leaderboards. It's for this reason that I'll be keeping the two platforms separate. I was hesitant to allow emulator at all after discovering this, but I figure there's no harm in a separate emulator category.
Please let me know if there are any issues submitting or if I've made a mistake in restoring the leaderboards. I had to manually update every run after creating the emulator variable, and I worry I may have made a mistake somewhere.
Thanks for expressing interest in running on emulator. Best of luck!
