With all these Win9x games you are trying to get running, it may be worth it for you to invest in an old laptop (Pentium III or older) to run Win9x natively. Other options worth considering may be PCEm, or the unofficial DOSBox builds that can run Win9x (I never tried those).

I tried PCem a couple of years ago; it did at that time have issues when it came to audio delay while playing games within its virtual environment. There might have been more progress in recent years however.

I also tried a very similar program called 86box, which began its life as a fork of PCem. To keep track of the actual progress of those two programs I usually search on YouTube for recent videos from various channels, before eventually upgrading to the newest build.

I haven't tried to do a Windows 95- or 98 install inside a DOSBox environment for some time; I read that DOSBox X is more aimed at installing an old version of Windows from within, while vanilla DOSBox has games and not programs and OS as the main focus. There has been talks about some kind of dynamic recompiler that's been added in newer versions of DOSBox SVN that might make a Windows 9x install more suitable because of speed improvements; I wouldn't be surprised if DOSBox X also has gotten the new recompiler added as well.

I would however not get old computer hardware just to run a few old troublesome games; having the very same games working on modern Widows 10 machines (emulation/wrappers and such) is something I would much more prefer personally.