I never got it fixed Slick. But I did notice something when I decided to play from the original disk again just to finish up my game. On the back up, when you exit the cave that leads to the game permanantly freezing, you end up freezing outside in a bright sunny area. With the original disk you wouldn't be in that location just yet, you would be staring at a open hole in the side of a cave wall with a small ledge you'd have to jump up on to reach the hole leading to the outside. So for some bad reason it's loading up the wrong section in that area and then freezing.

Also, I should note that during both attempts with this backup guide the extractor tool crashed to a "send error report" the first time and then went smoothly upon re-running it. This may be the source of the problem?

The Extractor Tool never crashed on my computer.

Yeah, okay dude, when the game goes into a long loading process just what a couple of minutes and it should load. This worked for me at all the long loading points, such as after you obtain the second necklace.

hey tyler....how do i find the offset sequence 699468 and the 01 00 so that i can patch it to 25 02. i am hella stuck at this point..haha :p