from everything I read… this is a save state issue. I have no clue how to work around it. The only thing I could think of would be to get someone else’s save state or play the game from scratch without exiting or use save states. Even on this … cross your fingers.
Do you have a save state for disc 2 - I’m stuck on entering Cleyra, I’d like to see if I can make it farther and possibly do it w/out closing my browser.
Bahamut cutscene and the tree are very popular freezing points. I believe Amarant scene froze on the actual discs when it came out
I had experienced the slow/skipping/choppy-like play before. Having a desktop that I built to hack a satellite or something, I can say that the issue isn’t on client-side. Some games play better on different browsers- you said you play on Chrome, which is the correct way to go for everything apart from N64 games. So let’s get to an answer if we can with some steps and logic- (if any of this brings an idea to you, maybe it’ll work out into a fix)
1st - I can play it smoothly: the issue is specific to you, which is the good news as we can narrow it down and be more likely to find a solution.
2nd - Assuming its specific to you, and you were able to play it 4 months ago… What has changed since then?
3rd - Check your update history. Drivers, Chrome, Plug-ins, Add-ons.
4th - Have you installed any new software, firewall, browser gizmos, etc?
5th - Attempt rollbacks on drivers, reinstall Chrome, reinstall an older version of Chrome.
6th - Try to use the site on different browsers. Waterfox (this one bugged on me), IE, Opera, others.
Last: do you have any FF9 save states from disc 2 after Cleyra? That’s where I’m stuck due to a glitch =/