i had a similar problem... does it freeze when the cutscenes come up or is it ingame also. If you try cleaning your disk or maybe it is the console you are playing in. Does other games work well and is it only ff8 which seems to freeze?
A Nintendo DS game may keep freezing because the gamecard is dirty or worn out.
There are many reasons why a Nintendo DS game may keep freezing, but the most common issue is dust in the game card.
its is freezing because the game is scratched up
your disk is probably scratched up or dirty
Programming glitch.
Because your PS2 is rubbish mate!
that happen to me with my action replay DONT TRY THE CHEAT AGAIN!!!!!! Your game will keep freezing if you do
Maybe your game system is screwed up, or the actual game has something wrong with it.
Because xbox better?
No, if that happens then either your game is broken or your DS is broken.
What's the Pokemon modifier cheat? I don't know that, but to prevent your actual game from freezing, keep saving at every step of the way.
The game is freezing even for me the only way to stop it is to wait a couple of weeks for the game to actually complete totally then it should not freeze or you can patch it.