My (limited) understanding is that most serious emulation is done via dynarec these days, particularly past the fourth / fifth gen of consoles. For newer conso

My (limited) understanding is that most serious emulation is done via dynarec these days, particularly past the fourth / fifth gen of consoles. For newer consoles, traditional interpreted emulation isn't going to be fast enough to be playable, so dynarec is the only realistic option.[0] For the older systems, it's more of a nice-to-have performance boost, particularly as a lot of people now like to play those with demanding upscalers and shaders. (Some older games, like Sonic 2, were designed around composite video artefacts and don't look right without CRT shaders.) [0] Things get fuzzier on near-current gen consoles, which are more like PCs, and may hypothetically be best emulated with some kind of translation layer not unlike Proton.