There would be emulation involved, no questions asked.
"KEEP" set this goal upon itself (more ambitious than MAME and MESS, from what I see).
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linkBeing planned to be crossplatform, porting wouldnt be an issue (theoretically for now, as the driver-based design is similar to MAME's, and technically could be extended to cover new consoles and new gamesets). Apparently based in party on the design of
Dioscuri, btw.