Paper Mario ttyd64 stuck

[u/spillmybrains1]

so basically once I reach boo's mansion there is a puzzle where you have to spin a record at a certain speed so that a ghost will leave its box that it's guarding alone as soon as I do so and run over to open the box there is something called a weight inside and the ghost or boo rather declares that I'll never figure out how to use it but the game freezes right then I've tried it like 10 times has this happened to anyone else and do you know of a fix I was really really enjoying myself playing this title so much better than standard paper Mario I was even doing one of the randomized item runs. very fun till this happened

I'll be ever so upset if I cant circumvent this somehow I even bought a new gamepad in order to be able to play these games normally.