I seem to get the issue where the game crashes upon using a whirlwind to go to the world map, I'm using Bizhawk. I found that if you save state before jumping in the whirlwind, you can get it to load the world map by trying over and over until it doesnt crash. I have heard this was fixed on Mednafen, but bizhawk is a more user friendly emulator. If there are any workarounds for this I'd love to know.