You don't need the emulator anymore, just download it, extract it and run the bin file and voila. If that doesn't work then the problem is not with the game.
As for VAM it's not even a game, it's a scene creator and toolkit with character customisation, it's about 10000000 times more complicated than this is.
"I see. Well, I don’t have an antivirus anymore other than the standard windows defender, but when I had Norton, it would automatically delete the TrueFacials.exe file. The issues seem to have begun only starting with 0.41, which is when NTLEAS started being implemented
The thing is, the actual unity executable is the bin.exe, but the “new” TrueFacials.exe that usually is targeted by antiviruses is kind of something that automatically runs the bin.exe through NTLEAS" quote from Discord
there is the problem, the .exe, which contains a virus, starts the game automatically with NTLEA.
the bin.exe start the game without anything