game crashes during haven forest flying metalhead hoverboard chase, unless played in debug mode

[legendddhgf]

Acknowledgements

• [X] I have searched for duplicate or closed bug reports
• [X] I understand that I am supposed to provide my own legitimately obtained copy of the game

Describe the Bug

This usually happens when I am about to capture a flying metalhead. Sometimes I capture one, sometimes 2 or 3 before it hits. This has happened every single time I tried to play this level and simply cannot progress at this point because the game just abruptly crashes every time.

How To Reproduce

Play through Haven forest flying metalhead hoverboard level. I'm not sure if extra tricks during play make this more or less reproducible.

Does this problem occur on original hardware or PCSX2?

Yes, it's unique to OpenGOAL

Expected Behavior

The game shouldn't crash and close.

Environment Information

opengoal-support-package.zip

Game Version

NTSC 1.0 (black label)

Have you set the game to something other than 60fps?

No

[legendddhgf]

Additional notes:

I eventually tried nuking my settings and then uninstalling / reinstalling the game. The same issue continued to happen.

However, in debug mode, I was able to complete the level without issue during debug mode, I saw the following task manager messages start to come up, with timing around when I would've instead expected the game to crash:

I also saw some red text come up for moments, but I didn't have the time to register what was displayed or take a screenshot of them.