I purchased a DSi LL (Japanese) from ebay and it runs games extremely well if you use unlaunch. I'm able to run the hax from my SD card, as I prefer not to install the hack directly onto the DSi. Its pretty much a perfect situation.
Only...
"We'd prefer our customers don't use emulators for their speed runs, so we aim to provide a platform for them to speedrun specific levels that we've approved!" /s
He is playing with the words OP chose. Someone else will likely fork the project and continue development under a better guise. It just won't be the same team that developed this project. New people willing to take better precautions and more...
I may try the new ram site, and download more RAM to my Switch. Not sure if ddr3 is the right ram
for it tho. Edit- no it uses floppy Ram, just like @AncientBoi