The version of the package containing the problem is still in the Ubuntu 16.04 repos. pcsxr/xenial,now 1.9.92-4 amd64 [installed]
The workaround mentioned worked for me.
I edited '~/.pcsx/pcsx.cfg' and changed 'Cpu = 0' to 'Cpu = 1' Now my games run again.
The version of the package containing the problem is still in the Ubuntu 16.04 repos. pcsxr/xenial,now 1.9.92-4 amd64 [installed]
The workaround mentioned worked for me.
I edited '~/.pcsx/pcsx.cfg' and changed 'Cpu = 0' to 'Cpu = 1'
Now my games run again.