Pikachuh

I basically have this single problem, my entire game freezes whenever I try to do anything with my old save file and my properly patched rom. Is there a way to make it so that my game's save file is compatible with my patched rom? If anything, could someone explain to me in depth how to do this?: "Save Issues Desmume To use your old saves with this translations in this emulator try the following: Make sure the .save file name is the same as the .nds If it's still in Japanese, in-game go to Options and change 'Button Mode(5th option down)"