> Is cave saying "we dont want you to emulate games x,y and z because we are still > selling them/they are too new?" or is cave saying "we dont want you to emulate this > hardware platform because we are still selling games on it?" (regardless of whether > the games being emulated are new or old)
It's safe to say it's more the latter. It's a still-developed on platform and having emulation that allows new games to drop in isn't a good policy. The same was done with PinMAME with all the S.A.M. system games, which they still use for the newest tables. It's safe to say they (cave sh3) were added too soon.