Switching to "normal" core did the trick, I hadn't thought about that after changing it for a different game. Priv runs quite nicely now, the intro crashes (and I expect there will be a few more speech-related crashes from time to time) but i should be able to work around that.

I'm also having a couple of issues with Privateer, a couple of which are mentioned here and I've worked through the EMS and bad IRQ issues (so, got rid of the NOEMS message and the immediate "Halted by code" problem, but I still can't get the game to load. I have turned off all of the sound …