@Aegis
hi there, with regards to the speed difference between blizzard and cyberstorm emulation, have you tried manualy changing the 'ppc_model=automatic' in your config to 'ppc_model=604e_v2.4' ? it made a massive difference for me. there is more in this thread
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=75062&page=18
kind regards