As was recently discovered by PassionWagon from the Destruction Derby 2 boards, please read the following information if you are going to be running on emulator for the PS1 version of this game:

"There's inconsistencies between the older and current (2024) versions of Duckstation as of writing this, which causes the load times of modern duckstation to be slower than the older versions. But the gist of the currently acceptable settings is this: + Clockspeed 130%(44.03MHz) + 8 sector runahead + 2x read speed + Instant seek speedup

This is to get the emulation load times as close to PS2 with fast disk enabled as possible."

Following this you should be running on the latest version of DuckStation (As of 08.10.2024 it is Version 0.1-7663-g08bdffac6)