Theoretical question:
As can currently be see on the site, the paired versions of Pokemon games are considered similar enough to be the same game, so a run of Red can obsolete a run of Blue, and so on.
My question is, would the "third version" games listed above also be considered the same game? If someone made a fully optimized "just beat the game" run of, say, Emerald, it would naturally be slower than Ruby/Sapphire due to extra cutscenes/storyline elements/etc., but would it be accepted at least into Vault or would it be rejected due to being slower than Ruby/Sapphire?
Other notes:
- The currently published Yellow runs don't answer this question, as their goals are
actually faster to perform on Yellow than on Red/Blue.
- There's
this Yellow run, but it was rejected on the basis of entertainment before the Vault existed.
- SDA considers "third version" games to be different than their paired counterparts.
