Gladiator Begins (ULUS-10528)

[LunaMoo]

As I replied can't really load it, viewed it via hex editor to check why and it was made in 0.9.9.1 that's quite ancient ppsspp version you have there. Problems you're experiencing could be related to that fact, so I would really recommend saving the game normally via option in game, then updating PPSSPP which is now at 1.3.0 release or if you're a bit adventurous v1.3-111-g789dc2f in developement.

From that old version till now we had quite a lot of improvement in emulation accuracy as well as cheat engine improvements, from just looking at this game, bloom in higher res of buffered rendering is fixed(via hack called lower resolution for effects) and in general most games should look and sound better. Some games might be much slower by default due to emulating new and quite bothersome effects, but those can be skipped to restore old performance via another option called disable slower effects.