So based on past rulings alone, it sets a pretty clear precedent.
The one major exception being a backwards compatible PS3 for KH2 because of its limited availability, and, last I checked, SSDs aren’t exactly hard to find. Now yes, some of these are different categories but none of them were banned. Buying different (but accepted) hardware/software has been an accepted action for this community in the past.
To be clear, I’m not speaking purely for 0.2 but for every current and upcoming PS4 Kingdom Hearts game. If it sounds like I’m talking down to you, my apologies but I’m writing this in a hurry. I’m going to preface this by saying that I know this is going to come off as condescending. M a r c - A n d r é _ M o r i n M a r c - A n d r é _ M o r i n, G r i g G r i g and 7 others Lots of things in life are not fair ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The entire point of this hobby is to go fast, I don't understand telling someone to go slower because its not fair to everyone. You are free to still run whatever games you like you will just have to suffer a little bit longer load times. Plus its not like we're saying "you don't have an SSD you can't run the game". I clearly remember people upgrading ps3 models from slim to super slim to get better times in BBS but now a $40 SSD is too much? As for the argument of making the hobby accessible, the community already made a decision to require video proof to get on the leaderboards which already makes the hobby WAY less accessible. With all the different consoles/versions of games people are willing to buy then an SSD shouldn't be a problem for someone whose that dedicated to speedrunning. If you don't want to be competitive then you don't need an SSD, but for the people that want to go the extra mile shouldn't be told they aren't allowed to. Speedrunning is a hobby, most hobbies require some form of money to be spent for the highest level of competition.
Haven't been around in a while, might come back to running when new games drop idk either way doesn't matter.