StyleWan: The framerate will suffer seriously when using normal core.
Waltorious: I would very much like confirmation about what, if any, adverse effects exist when running normal core. This setting is not mentioned on the original vogons thread, only the cycles setting. If normal core fixes the issue with a manageable framerate hit, then it will likely be my preferred solution.
Do the cycles no longer matter when running in normal core? Are they only used with dynamic core?
They matter no matter ☺ what core you use. The difference is that normal core is slower (the program is interpreted instruction by instruction. This approach is a lot more CPU demanding than dynamic core but allows for a more fine-grained time emulation) while dynamic core is faster (The program instructions are, in blocks, translated to host processor instructions that execute directly. In the most cases this approach is more efficent than interpretation, except for programs that employ massive self-modifying code). [info from DOSBox.conf manual]