Don't know what this is because it doesn't seem to be happening for anyone else on this thread. I started a new playthrough because I haven't picked up this game in a long time. Killed the cobolio gang, failed on the testing simulation (natch) and then went and talked to robogirl at the spaceport. Went back to get the lowdown on rats and bats and bad cats and it crashed. Thinking it might be a one-time thing I reloaded, went through all the dialogue again and it still won't let me actually get back into the hunter's office for briefing. This is a fresh installation on a recently formatted Wondows 10 installation with no translation patch, and the error is as follows:
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Hitting 'ignore' just causes an error loop. Gonna start a new game after this and see if it still happens, just posting to see if anyone else knows about this.