All forms of MelonDS crashing on AYN Thor Max, pls help me

Hey friends, long time lurker first time poster. Tearing my hair out over this. Was working on fixing up all the logos/heroes/icons on my Thor in Cocoon and testing the occasional game. Come to find out that MelonDS refuses to run any of my DS library. I'm on a Thor Max with a 512gb microsd, where my roms are located.

I've tried MelonDualDS (I know it's no longer necessary since the main build implemented dual screen support), the regular MelonDS build, and the nightly build. All open fine until I set a ROM directory. Once I do that, it loads in my collection and hard crashes to the Cocoon menu. After that crash, I cannot get back into the app without it crashing again.

I've tried deleting hidden files, reducing the number of roms in my nds folder (now only have 34, previously had around 50ish), deleting/reinstalling the emulator and pointing Cocoon to my folder over again, and I'm not sure what to do here. The emulator was running fine a couple of days ago, but now I can't play any of my DS games.

I appreciate any tips!!