well, as a tester, I guess I'm prejudiced, but for me, the new plugins in 1964 along with some core changes have made the sound perfectly smooth, no popping or craclking noises, etc. the new video plugin is beautiful, though not perfect, but it's REALLY nice. I would say that it being more recent means that some things will be better emulated in 1964 than project 64, but that's simply due to continued gaining of understanding of the things that cause the 64 to be difficult to emulate. If the PJ authors got together again, knowing what the dev community knows now, I think they could put together something amazing. i think it would be 1/2 a year from now or a year from now, but it would still amaze everyone.