Issues with ppsspp

Hello, I am having issues with my retropie psp emulator. Every game i try to open with ppsspp (not liberto) always freezes the whole system upon opening. This first issue I had was that i could get the games opened, but it said unable to create save file. So I did sudo chmod pi:pi /home/pi, same error came up. I then reinstalled ppsspp after removing it, then receieved the freeze issue.

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How do I fix this?