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Ever use an emulator that was a pile of junk?  Well, I have!
Each category is rated in severity from 1/5 (minorly annoying) to 5/5 (is that you mupen?)

*Internal capture is nonexistent ''5/5''
**MS Virtual PC
*Internal capture has so many unique deficiencies that it needs its own category. ''4/5''
**Mupen (not frame accurate, fails if monitor goes into powersaving mode, captures parts of windows and menus in front of the capture window)
*Internal capture shows a/v sync drift. ''2/5''
**FCEUX (less apparent at 96000hz)
**PCEjin (seems to be rom-specific?)
**Snes9x (depending on audio settings)
**PSXjin (only human-detectable on very very long captures)
**FBA (depending on audio settings)
*Internal capture has no useful sense of timing at all, creating a/v sync hell. ''3/5''
**Dolphin (unmodded)
**Dega (on Windows)
**PCSX-RR
**Mupen64
*Internal capture cannot occur properly at speeds significantly faster than realtime. ''2/5''
**Mupen (can lose even more frames)
**FBA (audio issues)
**FCEUX (audio issues)
*Internal capture has filesize issues. ''4/5 unless you can get it under the limit''
**Gens (2GB split screws up)
**FBA (no 2GB split)
**Mupen64 (no 2GB split)
**Famtasia (a/v desync?)
*Internal capture can't save to any useful lossless codec. ''3/5''
**Famtasia (uncompressed only)
*Internal capture is so awful, kkapture is better. ''5/5''
**Dega (on Windows)
**Mupen
**PCSX-RR
*Internal capture requires extra intermediaries for common encoding workflows ''1/5''
**JPC-RR (audio and video for many common workflows)
**Dolphin (modded, audio only)
*Internal capture doesn't distinguish between multiple resolutions in any automatable way ''1/5 to 3/5 depending on how many segments''
**Gens
**PCSX-RR
*Internal capture has different movie sync than with capture disabled ''3/5''
**FBA
**Desmume
*Internal capture has ambiguous settings that affect output in undesirable ways. ''2/5''
**Gens (Audio "HQ")
**Snes9x (Bad handling of 2x resolutions)
**PSXJin (Mysterious audio settings, Entire video setting page)
**Famtasia (line crop)
**Dolphin (many video settings)
*Internal capture can't save to a lossless format ''5/5''
**Famtasia (4:2:2 colorspace conversion)

Corrections and additions welcome.