Ys Seven

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Nobrainzombie are you using cheats(or use them at some point and then disable them)
Did you tried to save the game the normal way,restart ppsspp and load your save(no save state)

I clear the game 2 or 3 times without any problems but that was long time ago(I use the x86 version and without buffered rendering)
Right click on the YS7 icon in the ppsspp games list and you'll see "Ys SEVEN (the game id here).Go to your memstick\PSP\SAVEDATA folder,archive the folder that start with the game id and post it here.

I'm not 100% but I think when the dragon do some skill,you can't heal for a while

And for the audio,try switching between Audio Backends