VBA Crash

I was playing Metroid: Zero Mission on VBA, in the hall where you fight mother brain. i just destroyed the barrier with missiles and used a screwattack to kill the surrounding bullets and suddenly it crashed. crash details below, if it helps



Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: VisualBoyAdvance.exe
Application Version: 1.8.0.603
Application Timestamp: 433ed0ae
Fault Module Name: VisualBoyAdvance.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.8.0.603
Fault Module Timestamp: 433ed0ae
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000235f5
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Just use the official stable release 1.7.2 instead, that I have never heard of crashing, might be worth checking the rom as well though, with a rom audit tool like clrmamepro

I do recommend for all PC versions of VBA though to use VBA-Over.ini found here that just fixes the save auto-detect for some games (pokemon is a commonly known one not to detect the correct save format used, there are a few other games as well though, that this simple file fixes)

http://vba.ngemu.com/downloads.shtml for the official stable release of VBA

All your internal saves will still work but not save states, actually I recommend against using just save states anyway, if you have anything setup wrong and just use save states you can't fix some setting then load a save state as that will just undo what you just fixed.