JPCSP for Dummies

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Badunkadunk, I must disagree with you. Here's why:

I would say that has plenty of relevance: it means they are better emulators.

How useful is an emulator that runs at full speed, but has several bugs, crashes constantly, or doesn't run all (or the majority) of its respective platform's games? PJ64 is openly incomplete, as few to no games run without one bug or another, even though it can run virtually every N64 game. PCSX2 may not have as many bugs, but its compatibility isn't nearly as good as PJ64 or JPCSP (The Japanese version of Street Fighter EX3 never worked at all and Onimusha Buraiden doesn't run anymore since a VERY old build). JPCSP naturally has some flaws, but I guess it's more compatible than PCSX2.

At the slo-mo underwater speed that SFA3 Max is running at, it pretty much makes the game unbearable to play.

Did you take a look at your PC's configs? Some emulators require more CPU power than others, especially when they run in a virtual machine, like JPCSP. Taking your example, I played SFZ3 here, and it indeed was very slow. Since my PC is x64, I tried using JPCSP x64, and voila: the game ran at roughly 90% speed, and my notebook is quite old already! Other games, particularly Rider Generation 2 and the two Rurouni Kenshin games, ran at full speed, while others, like Irregular Hunter X and Rockman Rockman, were still slow.

This is the worst emulator I've ever come across.

Well, after I analyzed your post, I can say that you should consider your PC's hardware limitation before blaming the emulator for below-average (for your expectation) performance.