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==Use of Emulator== | ==Use of Emulator== | ||
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Tool-assisted speedruns allow authors to use outside tools to aid their playing. For example, utilizing the save state function of an emulator to go back in time and revise mistakes, playing in slow motion, or using software to read variables directly from the game's memory, giving the player information not normally available to them. | Tool-assisted speedruns allow authors to use outside tools to aid their playing. For example, utilizing the save state function of an emulator to go back in time and revise mistakes, playing in slow motion, or using software to read variables directly from the game's memory, giving the player information not normally available to them. | ||
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==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
| − | * [[TAS]] | + | * [[Tool-assisted Speedrun|TAS]] |
==Reference== | ==Reference== | ||
Latest revision as of 15:15, 13 November 2022
Emulator allows a computing device to emulate a video game console's hardware and play its games on the emulating platform.[1] Emulators are commonly used in speedrun communities even though some speedrun communities ban the use of emulators.
Use of Emulator
TAS
Main article: Tool-assisted Speedrun
Tool-assisted speedruns allow authors to use outside tools to aid their playing. For example, utilizing the save state function of an emulator to go back in time and revise mistakes, playing in slow motion, or using software to read variables directly from the game's memory, giving the player information not normally available to them.
Emulator policy in some speedrun website
Cyberscore
The use of emulator is not allowed in Cyberscore.
Speedrun.com
Speedrun.com allows the individual speedrun community to decide if the use of emulators is allowed.
Speed Demos Archive
The use of emulator is not allowed in Speed Demos Archive.[2]
Emulator policy in some speedrun communities
Generally, the communities ban the use of emulator in mobile phone because that kind of emulators emulate the game inaccurately. Also, generally, emulator on the console is not allowed. The runners should read the rules of the speedrun categories to see the requirements of emulators of different communities.
Emulator list
MS-DOS
- DOSBox
- ScummVM
SNES
- Snes9x
DS
- Desmume
- melonDS
Android
- Bluestacks
Pokémon Mini
- PokéMini
Game Boy and Game Boy Color
- Gambatte
3DS
- Citra
Switch
- Yuzu
