Luminous Arc Freezing

I have a problem with Luminous Arc that's preventing me from proceeding any further into the game and it's bugging me. There's a specific point in the game where it keeps freezing on me and I don't know why. At that point the game will make a sharp fuzz sound sort of like TV on a channel that doesn't exist. Then it would just freeze. Anyway, I'm using R4DS and I've tried two SD cards a 1GB and 2GB both Kingston brand. I've reformatted both of them more than once and it still freezes on me, I don't know what to do

Are you using cheats? Do you have 1.18?

I'm not using any cheats and yeah I have v1.18

Still needing some help with this issue

did you ever fix it becasue i have the exact same problem at the witchs forest right after the intermission right?