> My thoughts were more in line of Dolphin/PCSX2 style emulation..which is very 'per > game hacks' specific, 'quick and dirty' if you like...the sort of coding that brings > forth looks of disgust and ridicule from Mame Dev members.
Actually neither Dolphin nor PCSX2 are especially based on per-game-hacks; the architecture of those machines is such that there is almost nothing you can HLE in any significant way. Dolphin in particular you can trivially configure to be 100% MAMEdev-approved and still very fast on attainable hardware (it's also most compatible that way, unsurprisingly). It's why I cite it as a big victory for truly open-source emulation.