you have to get used to the fact that select games won't work with your flashcard.
especially R4's are notorious for this, unless they run Wood. if your card can't run wood, i would indeed considering buying a new card.
Just saying "i want a patch" does no good. No patch is made because it works without a flaw on all up2date cards. What you want is not an AP patch, but something to make the game work on your outdated card / loaders
(on another note, see if your R4 runs the AKAIO firmware, besides wood, it's probably the best fw for your older (maybe non genuine) r4)
i just tried it on my R4 clone running AKAIO, and it does not freeze. It's your setup that is causing problems, not the rom's (nonexistant) AP. You know, not all problems come from AP, most of them come from user error, misconfiguration and compatability issues. So my suggestions are trying an up2date firmware (last time i checked 1.56 was the latest) or getting a newer model (acekards are cheap (13$) and are no-nonsense).