Question about cycle counting accuracy when emulating a CPU

Question

I am planning on creating a Sega Master System emulator over the next few months, as a hobby project in Java (I know it isn\'t the best language for this but I find it very

Answer 1

I guess that depends on how accurate you want your emulator to be. I do not think that it has to be that accurate. Think emulation of x86 platform, there are so many variants of processors and each has different execution latencies and issue rates.