Z-Ball causing game to crash?

[not_wasabi]

As the title would suggest, my game keeps crashing when I'm playing Z-Ball in Chapter 10. The really weird part is that I was able to play just fine in my first encounter, all the way to level 6. But I died soon after without saving and now I'm in this weird loop. Started on Friday and happened twice in the last 20 minutes.

Also I am now realizing my stupidity for only having a single save file that I keep re-writing.