[duskwuff]

There are techniques out there for running TAS input files against real hardware for most of the common platforms. Some of the TASes on tasvideos.org are specifically flagged as "console verified" [1], indicating that someone's confirmed that they don't depend on emulator quirks.

[1]: http://tasvideos.org/ConsoleVerifiedMovies.html

[aardvark179]

Thank you, that's just the sort of thing I was curious to look at.