Well, seems I can't enter the forest of hope no matter what build I use
EDIT:
I also tried the PAL version just now, and despite all the trouble I see reported on the forum it seems to run just about as fine as the US version, although a bit slower. But the emulator still crashes on me during the Forest of Hope landing scene.
2nd EDIT just for the hell of it:
I finally figured this shit out! For some reason I had been playing with OpenAL audio all the time instead of DSound, sound in general is just much better now, and it doesn't crash!
EDIT:
I also tried the PAL version just now, and despite all the trouble I see reported on the forum it seems to run just about as fine as the US version, although a bit slower. But the emulator still crashes on me during the Forest of Hope landing scene.
2nd EDIT just for the hell of it:
I finally figured this shit out! For some reason I had been playing with OpenAL audio all the time instead of DSound, sound in general is just much better now, and it doesn't crash!