Having spent a ton of time updating MAME's emulation of the CDIC - the chipset that controls both audio playback and CD reading - various games are working better than before.
Hotel Mario works about as well as it did before, but there was a fun little discovery: Apparently, the game detects when it's Christmas Eve / Christmas Day, and adjusts its loading-screen messages!
Hotel Mario Statistics For Mog's Emulation Station
At present, Mog's Emulation Station has 422 views spread across 1 video for Hotel Mario, with his channel publishing less than an hour of Hotel Mario content. This is 1.00% of the total watchable video on Mog's Emulation Station's YouTube channel.