What I suspect is mistaken for SOME of the game freezing that is often complained about with this game is actually a controllable glitch. For instance, in battle viewer, if you press LB-left/up-X all at the same time, the screen will freeze though you will still have total use of the controls except the ones that will unfreeze the screen which means you will still be able to move the camera around and zoom in and out and the like. To unfreeze it, you can just press the same buttons again or go in to snap shot mode. There are ways to freeze and unfreeze other modes but I have yet to get them all figured out.