i put this as an off topic reply to another post but thought it might do more good where it could be found

I would save very often say every few fights also its a good idea to save before you walk over a glowing line in the land scape or go into a cave etc not sure what to call the lines in a mmorpg they would be server lines

anyway when your game freezes reload the last save then before you do anything make a second save to a new save slot once that is done go to load and load the game on the new save slot walk past where it froze up on ya and save again to your first save slot then play as normal

for ppl useing an emu like pj64 enable the mem pack option make saves with f5 when it freezes (darkling bog)reload and make a save to the virtual mem pack (aka in game save)then load the mem pack save and play as normal

emu compressed save files over 2mb freeze often in certain areas for some reason

another thing that seems to make the problem worse on n64 or emu is if you do things like cross from bog to jundar area (mtn pass) and try to loot any bags chest etc or enter a cave or basically any skipping ahead of areas after you kill the necromancer

if it was me i would do 2 things after termitor skip all bog treasure past the tomb (you can buy it all in ungrit(sp?) anyway and go from jundar gate right to town as you can clear the area after town while doing the quest and there is nothing out there that ya really need for a straight run to town
while these 2 things wont fix the problem they will cause it to happen far less (though ive never been able to resist grabbing the teleport belt in the cave just to the left of the jundar gate)

hope it helps

This is probably the most helpful post in this entire forum. Thanks
I'm afraid I'm not technologically savvy enough to understand most of that, but it sound like it might just fix the biggest problem in this game.