Game Boy and even Game Boy Advance games were more available, I know I played a poorly-translated version of Gold before the game was released stateside, but I'm talking about in general and the expectations of the public. Plus, even if you could play day one games then, the emulation was janky.
my soul dies when IllBleed isn't on that list
Setting the difficulty higher added more objectives to complete, which could significantly alter how levels played out. As far as I remember it didn't affect the story too much.
MGM wouldn't have given that amount of leeway in a movie tie-in.
I played Pokemon Yellow near release and it was quite bug-free. GB and GBA were not complicated platforms to emulate, and GB had been quite well-refined by the time Yellow dropped.
If you put 90s emulators and the game on the real system side by side, you'd be surprised how off the sound and timing is in the emulators. It might not seem like it when you are playing it, but it's there. Back in the 90s there were NES games I discovered through downloading roms and playing them in Nesticle, because they weren't that popular in the NES' heyday. If I really liked one of them, I would sometimes pick it up because NES games were dirt cheap at used game shops in the 90s. I was pretty surprised by how different they sounded and how much faster they ran on an actual NES, even though they didn't seem "wrong" when playing in Nesticle.
It wasn't really a movie tie-in, as it was released two years after the movie was released (so not in theaters, on VHS only). This is different from the typical licensed games of the time as hitting at or just before the theatrical release. The Warriors (2005) was based after the movie but it came some 26 years after its original release.
Nesticle was hacky bullshit that ran on potatoes. Not surprising how b0rk it was in that context. It's more like UltraHLE: hacks for speed and "good enough". NO$GMB is still regarded as a very accurate emulator. KGen was also very accurate very early. Meka was very accurate very early. "Accurate emulators" was more a thing about the SNES and NES because they were such weird architectures to emulate.
That was kind of the point I was making earlier, the newer the game the less likely it was going to work properly. NES games (especially those without mappers) were fine by 2001, but every subsequent generation was hard. SNES games were mostly going to work but games like Star Fox, Stunt Race FX, or even Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island were going to be slow, not work properly, or be mostly playable through emulator-related hacks. Nintendo 64 games were not going to work well at all, even Super Mario 64 had slowdown, missing sprites, and other quirks (and forget about playing something like The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask or Conker's Bad Fur Day). Dolphin wouldn't be out for another two years and even then by the time it was playable with high-end computers the GameCube was already basically dead.
I remember a brief period of time where the best way to emulate certain N64 games was through playing the Wii Virtual Console version in Dolphin.
Yes, and this is exactly the point I was providing counterexamples regarding. Gameboy Color? Emulated FAST after release. GBA didn't take too long either; there were prototypes released before the GBA dropped. Generally true, sure. Absolutely true? Eh. The problem with accurate emulators is that some platforms were harder to emulate than others, leading to the absurd situation where today, Dreamcast emulators have lower hardware requirements than Saturn.
Duckstation is the answer for PSX here. The problem is that doing this right is really hard due to all kinds of peculiarity in how the software actually functions. But more people are into authenticity these days. For N64, we're starting to see glowups like Ship of Harkinian making OoT 60FPS. So there's a real future.
Is it or was it considered more accurate that other emulators at the time?
Synthetic benchmark versus licensed software, but choice of compromise was the status quo at the time. KGen also had its quirks. Bloodlust emus like Genecyst and Nesticle were notorious for hacks. Being simple and like the NES in some ways, the GB was well understood.
I don't know what to tell you. The fact the those older emulators made compromises so games would run better at the expense of accuracy was kind of the point I was making. I also think it's a bit disingenuous to point at Genesis and Gameboy emulators in the late 90s and early 2000s to try and counter what Xarpho was saying. Even though Gameboy was seeing releases into the early 2000s, these are platforms that were both a decade old at that point and you weren't exactly playing cutting edge games on them. Granted, Switch is starting to get pretty old as well.
It’s the texture filtering. Filtered textures look like ass on modern displays.