Good catch on step 3 there

I didn't try with bios, since notaz recommends not using a bios. The games I tried (the Crash Bandicoot series) worked fine without a bios.

I just compiled notaz's code, didn't try to include all your fixes since those are hard to identify. I tried diffing your latest release with notaz r8, but the resulting diff was a complicated mess. Integrating a new upstream release is easier if you follow debian packaging guidelines (orig.tar.gz + diff.gz). See http://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging for more info. That would enable the use of the "uupdate" command to simply switch out the upstream source for the new upstream source.

I acknowledge that this is not a proper upgrade, but for people not interested in the extra features you provide it's a reasonable temporary fix. I probably should have mentioned this in my original post though, so thanks for the clarification.

I still think it would be a good idea to release your coming upgrade in 2 parts: upgrade the core first, upgrade the ui afterwards.