cheats are probably causing the problems, since nintendont is not an emulator and cheats might be unstable, try turning cheats off and try again, i remenber having widescreen specific cheat and then resident evilt 4 would sometimes freeze on loading with it on and so on.
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also dont forget true crime games are really buggy as hell on all consoles, specialy new york, even on original gc or ps2 they crashed like crazy
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