I can confirm that Jade Cocoon works past the freezing tunnel if you use the RE2 japanese ID.
CONFIMED 100%
I owe my life to whoever found this.
and if anyone doesn't want to restart a game they can always use CWcheat's memory card saver and loader, then rename the card to what CWcheat is trying to find on the newly converted game from the previos game. If that made any sense...