Let's focus on talking about the self-taught resources please, don't talk about other off topics, not everyone learning to find a good job on big companies, the reality is, when a man/woman want to self studying CS, he/she age is already not a fit for those companies.
We want to learn even after the right age, just because we love the computer.
So is that emulation software-base, not hardware-base, or half half? If its half half, consider several games won't work, what's the big difference with real PS1 hardwares in terms of gaming experience?
Originally half-half, then later fully software. I don't know all problematic games but the ones I do know of had some hard coded expectations for the hardware that the emulator didn't fulfill.
Even going from original PS2 to slim PS2 some games (eg. Panelist) stopped working because the specs of the DVD drive changed.
And similarly going from original PS1 to PSone resulted in minor changes in GPU behaviour which caused display quirks in some games.
We are in same boat mostly, and I found learn from textbooks from 0 groundup is a really enjoying experience, it reminds me of the good old student era, though I didn't spend time on learning, so that I can't even find a good job now.
In a higher chance, they want to nuke your website, because too many 301 can be harmful to SEO in some rare cases.
If they want to sell you sth, or scam, they won't do 301, because after 301 the juice power will gradually move to your domain, and its pointless to do this before any scams and sales.