What does it mean when a game crashes the emulator?

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I think that's part of Windows or automatically added by the compiler. It should mean stack/heap corruption, I think.

3rd Birthday works fine for me. Is it in a specific part? Did it work with a previous version of ppsspp? Have you made sure your graphics driver is up to date?

Oh, I just saw you have 0.0.9.7 there. Have you tried using the latest git build from the downloads page? That's a pretty old version. 3rd Birthday works much better in the latest version, especially with "simulate block transfers" enabled and otherwise default settings.

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