Shadow of the Colossus freezing during ending.

[Air]

It's probably SIF cycle voodoo. We did tweak it in the 0.9.7 SVN, and the deranged audio effects would indicate SIF dma emulation errors.

[rama]

We tweaked so much more over 0.9.6 that it's become impossible to pinpoint a likely problem.
Well, I wanted to play this game once anyway..

[Air]

Excuses! You know the two most likely causes of any regressions are either SIF or VIF cycle voodoo. But of course those also fix other games and act as a general speedup, so it's lot like you we say "teh omg it sucks " ... it's just annoying cycle voodoo as always.

[rama]

This is 0.9.6 "Yes I'm a year old edition". We changed kinda everything!
And really, this kinda game does either work or not, right from the beginning.
If it fails in the ending , it's 99% not a cycle thing.