Andy Geezer is the one that’s cracked the emulation, and it’s now playable. Not sure he has an account here.
Story goes: I ask Andy if he has an Akuma dump on Friday, he says yeah but he’s not managed to get it running so never messed around with it. On Saturday I patched literally 2 JNZs and it booted fine with keyboard, Andy is inspired and so writes the IO emulator on Sunday (today) and the rest is history
(Which is lucky as I’ve heard if you start the game without finishing it, you only have 7 days left to live)