Replaced it with MameCEv9.5 and it worked well - the version that did not work with WinCE Service Pack 3 was 9.4.

I still have no troubles running PocketNES, nor a slu of other apps - maybe mine was an isolated incedent. who knows.

Hats off to the slew of developers who make this possible. I never imagined in those days when I was chuckin quarters into those stand-ups that I would be carrying around hundreds of them inside a handheld computer - for Free.

You do a service to this world.

:deemunny.