OK, well... here's the story. ePSXe 1.60 worked for MOST of the game... but much later (Minmei singing, some of the EoE stuff) there were locks I couldn't get around. Eventually I had to cobble together a working version of VGS - with the help of a memory card converter - to play through those parts. ePSXe still works better, in addition to supporting savestates.