How do I play an animation during load/save from a system slot?

Player clicks the load game button

I place a loading splash on the screen that has an animated sprite

I start a 0.1 sec timer to trigger the system load function

The timer triggers

The program appears to hang and the anim no longer plays

3-5 seconds pass

the on-load event triggers

I hide the splash screen and game resumes

I really want there to be some kind of feedback to the player during the save/load process. I doesn't have to be an actual progress bar, but something is needed so the player does not think the program has crashed.

As such, there is no download.

You simply create a layout with minimal graphics.

You put there your sprite with animavii.

And you add a condition to go to the next layout after fully loading it.