M3 DS real user reporting in.
Before the patch I couldn't even save, game would hang each time I tried. Now thanks to the patch I can play the game for the most part. My only issue is that the game keeps locking up at segments, animation and input stops but music keeps playing.
I'm going to see if the Save State/Load State functions can bypass this glitch any if at all ( I remember with an old emulator some time back that would do the same thing at random, you had to use save states and then load them to rekick the game back into gear...Not sure how well it will work with this, I'll report findings when I have them. ).