It's a good question. It's referred to as a proxy - the most common form in this run is a dead body proxy, so I'll explain that one. There are certain objects in the game that Spyro can charge through, but not glide through. If you charge jump toward an object of this type, then press X while still holding Square as you enter the hitbox of the object, Spyro glides for one frame and then continues charging on the next frame. During the gliding frame, the game recognizes Spyro is inside of an object and pushes him out of it. The velocity of this push is preserved as a vector with magnitude and direction based on where you were in the hitbox when you pressed X. TL;DR (method stripped of explanation): Charge jump toward a proxyable object and press X while still holding Square as you enter its hitbox.

Examples of dead body proxies at 0:56, 1:58, 9:52, 10:43, 17:28, 18:26, 20:38. Examples of other proxies at 3:08 (animation proxy), 4:01 (animation proxy), 23:16 (squeeze proxy).

damn dude thanks alot for actually taking the time to write this (: ive always had trouble understanding how these work but now I'm able to, thank you alot, really helps!

No problem.

I’m not even goung to try this :O sick vid bro! No mods were used i suppose? Its all glitches or??

Proxy jumps are still useful for some speedrun categories ^^

I can assure you that the walls around you are very solid. Oh wait, you meant in Spyro.

Been there 😂 had to do most of evening lake home level again

Good eye. Yeah, the original version has a few differences (like the Spike is Born cutscene not being there) that make it faster than the Greatest Hits version.

@@jcthompson0005 Really? Are there any more speed-related differences that make the original release faster?

@@neog8029 Bianca's Sunrise Spring text is slower as is the hot air balloon's descent at the end of the homeworld. Boundaries in Evening Lake are a little lower, which makes getting out of bounds faster.

Jeremy Thompson also sunrise spring is the final boss music

That's just the music that plays on NTSC v1.0. They corrected it in subsequent releases.

Sure. Consider Sparx's color to be a number value (e.g. Yellow=3, Blue=2, Green=1, No Sparx=0). In this example, when Spyro takes damage that should induce a death, Sparx's number value is temporarily placed at -1. The game then interprets the value and Spyro dies. If you pause on the frame the value switches to -1 (also, the frame before the game interprets the value) and then exit the level or area, Spyro is placed in a "limbo" state we call zombie mode where the game recognizes that Spyro should have died, but can no longer move forward with the death process. There are a few effects from being in this state. Most notably, the game can't properly transition Spyro from swimming to not swimming or the other way around. When I exit Lost Fleet (19:54), Spyro is loaded back into Evening Lake underwater, so I retain that swimming state indefinitely or until I do something to remove zombie mode. TL;DR (method stripped of explanation): Pause on the frame you receive damage that would normally cause a death and then exit.

Wow, thank you so much! I've been following this as a guide and got stumped, I'll have to give it a shot now :)

@@DeadBedSpread No problem. Let me know if you need help with anything else.

Is this possible in the new ps4 version?

Thanks.

I haven't really had the opportunity to play the new game extensively, but there are people speedrunning it. www.speedrun.com/spyrort#Spyro_Year_of_the_Dragon

Yes, absolutely.

Thank you and sure. Area portals like the one that leads to Sorceress's Lair are, in many cases, larger than they should be and can be accessed in unintended ways and from unintended places. There's a small section of the portal for Sorceress's Lair that bleeds into the castle mountains. Although it's invisible, it works just like if I entered it the normal way. Entering it like I did allows me to ignore the 100 egg requirement that's meant to be in place.

There's a more in depth explanation of dead-body proxies in the pinned comment thread of this video, but to answer just your question about location, you generally should be centered on the surface of the hitbox as you enter. Press X the moment you enter the hitbox to proxy.

Jump off in the middle of an enemy u mean?

​@@jordanjohnston8967 In the middle of the surface of the hitbox as you enter it.

It's not the European version.

It's actually done on the NTSC version, but it's version 1.0, which is why the music is the way that it is. Most tricks work on both the European and American versions, but there are fundamental differences between the two that make some tricks easier/harder depending on which one you're playing.

@@jcthompson0005 Thanks for the response, I didn't know that!

The game has a global adaptive difficulty based around how many "hard eggs" you've collected before loading an area. In an Any% run, the only egg we've collected that is flagged to affect the value that determines difficulty is the one for defeating Buzz, so we're still on the easy difficulty when we enter Spike.

Which swim in air do you want me to explain? And yes, it's possible to do every trick that's done in this run on a PS1.

All of them. Can u make a tutorial video of how u do the swimming through the air glitch? And I want all of them in one video if u can. If ur not going to explain to me through chat. How do u perform the swimming through the air glitch? Explain it to me through chat or make a video. I want all of them in one video, please. Thank u.

Meaning I want u to explain all of the swimming through the air glitches that uve found. All of em.

I am afraid if u might fall and die if u do that.

I miss the jump occasionally, but it's consistent enough (>80%) that I enter the level confident that I'll exit on about the same pace.

The levels that scare me most are Bamboo Terrace (medium execution, medium randomness), Fireworks Factory (high execution), and Scorch (high randomness).

How bout Bentley the pirate level when u hit spyros tail in the acid to activate the swim in the air glitch when u exit the level after spyros final death? Doesn't that scare u?

Excellent question. This game has a global adaptive difficulty system in place that changes the fight based on which eggs I've collected during the run. Specific eggs were deemed "hard eggs" by the developers and collecting enough of those eggs results in the fight being as it was in your memory. Before Spike's Arena, I skip all but one of the "hard eggs" (Defeat Buzz is the only exception), so I get the easier version of the boss.

@@jcthompson0005 sorry for resurrecting a dead thread, but the adaptive difficulty always interested me. Do you know where I can read up on what the hard eggs are, or how the game's affected by getting them?

A minimum completion run doesn't require any gems, but still requires 19 eggs: 15 end of level eggs, 3 boss eggs, and 1 extra egg that's forced onto us in Sgt. Byrd's Base.

www.twitch.tv/videos/272764995

It's a temporary Bianca skip. I'd be forced to speak to her after exiting Sunny Villa regardless.

No, it's just the order that happens to be a good balance of fast and viably consistent.

There are some subtle restrictions that play into the routing. Both Molten Crater and Seashell Shore would be really slow if I were to do them last.

There's not actually a real and permanent Bianca skip. I know there are KZfaq videos out that claim there's one, but none of those are permanent skips. If you go into Sunny Villa without having spoken to Bianca, you're forced to speak to her on the way out. If you re-order the levels so that Sunny Villa is last, Bianca prevents the teleport to the balloon instead of the teleport being prioritized.

The Spyro 3 Any% TAS, which I'll link, uses the most complete Bianca skip that's been found, but that only skips the textbox section of the interaction, so it's a very marginal time save and one that's not viable for live runs at this point. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n8-ZnaeasdrWg5s.html

@@jcthompson0005 thank you very much! i had no idea the cutscene was triggered even after the level was completed, so I was always really confused that no runs seemed to bypass it.

The Honey Speedway portal is in the way, so you have to glide around it and then cut in. It's easier if you approach it from the other side in my opinion. www.twitch.tv/jeremythompson/clip/QuaintGoldenStorkBuddhaBar

Are you interested in learning to run the game? It's always cool to see new people pick it up.

No, but i might pick it up later

And turns out after 1 week i did it by accident..

(I'm copy-pasting a response I wrote for a different comment) Consider Sparx's color to be a number value (e.g. Yellow=3, Blue=2, Green=1, No Sparx=0). In this example, when Spyro takes damage that should induce a death, Sparx's number value is temporarily placed at -1. The game then interprets the value and Spyro dies. If you pause on the frame the value switches to -1 (also, the frame before the game interprets the value) and then exit the level or area, Spyro is placed in a "limbo" state we call zombie mode where the game recognizes that Spyro should have died, but can no longer move forward with the death process. There are a few effects from being in this state. Most notably, the game can't properly transition Spyro from swimming to not swimming or the other way around. When I exit Lost Fleet (19:54), Spyro is loaded back into Evening Lake underwater, so I retain that swimming state indefinitely or until I do something to remove zombie mode. TL;DR (method stripped of explanation): Pause on the frame you receive damage that would normally cause a death and then exit.

That's so cool! I have 2 try that when I play spyro 3 on ps1 if and ever I get them again. Thanks! I know, but can u make ur playlist into 1 full video? That's the last comment I wrote if ur confused. Don't u mean from, not for?

Yes and no. I play on version 1.0 of the NTSC release of the game. In this version, some of the tracks aren't correctly assigned to their levels.

In other words, the track is "wrong" in that it wasn't intentionally assigned to Sorceress's Lair, but it's always like that on NTSC version 1.0.

(I'm copy-pasting a response I wrote for a different comment) Consider Sparx's color to be a number value (e.g. Yellow=3, Blue=2, Green=1, No Sparx=0). In this example, when Spyro takes damage that should induce a death, Sparx's number value is temporarily placed at -1. The game then interprets the value and Spyro dies. If you pause on the frame the value switches to -1 (also, the frame before the game interprets the value) and then exit the level or area, Spyro is placed in a "limbo" state we call zombie mode where the game recognizes that Spyro should have died, but can no longer move forward with the death process. There are a few effects from being in this state. Most notably, the game can't properly transition Spyro from swimming to not swimming or the other way around. When I exit Lost Fleet (19:54), Spyro is loaded back into Evening Lake underwater, so I retain that swimming state indefinitely or until I do something to remove zombie mode. TL;DR (method stripped of explanation): Pause on the frame you receive damage that would normally cause a death and then exit.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

I run using the PSN download on a PSTV since loads are faster than on the original disc. The PSN download version is NTSC v1.0. Aside from loads, the game is essentially identical (i.e. all tricks performed are possible on console).

yep true. I still have the playstation spyro yotd cd , but for a beginner like me took about an hour to do the underwater glitch XD

@@jcthompson0005 How did you manage to get the game to run without slowdowns on the PSN version?

I don't know what you mean by slowdowns. @fausto

@@jcthompson0005 only on the PS3 will the 3 Spyro games have slowdown. It's extremely annoying which is why I don't play them on PS3 anymore. The slow down occurs in all levels, especially in large open areas. The PSN downloads here in America are horrible on PS3. No problems on PSP or Vita.

NTSC version 1.0

In my opinion, the lowest reasonable single segment time for this category is somewhere between 23:45 and 24:05.

That said, I seem to be finished playing, so I don't expect sub-24 to happen.

Psst. hes currently streaming spyro runs on twitch :P

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jr2ierh5tbnVZGg.html

Yes, it is.

Jeremy Thompson Would you try it, man? :D

But how is it possible if you need to charge octopus with 1-gem underwater in the end of Seashell Shore and a wild 5-gem automatically flies to you in the start of Cloud Spires?

I'll record an example of each for you.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jp9-pc90u5umno0.html

If you mean a segment timer, I use that while I'm streaming on Twitch, but the PB videos I post to KZfaq are the raw local recordings.

If you just want an approximate reference, time starts at 0:32, Sunny Villa 1:05, Seashell Shore 2:27, Molten Crater 3:19, Cloud Spires 4:19, Sheila's Alp 5:52, Buzz's Dungeon 7:11, Sgt. Byrd's Base 9:14, Spooky Swamp 10:05, Bamboo Terrace 11:05, Enchanted Towers 12:15, Icy Peak 13:11, Spike's Arena 14:28, Bentley's Outpost 16:53, Frozen Altars 17:39, Fireworks Factory 18:41, Lost Fleet 19:50, Charmed Ridge 20:59, Scorch's Pit 22:35, Helmet Proxy 23:25, time ends at 24:40.

Thank u!

Time ends at 24:40? Y isn't that in the title? It says it's 24:08. Not 24:40. So the time in the title is wrong and needs to be changed. Sorry.

@@jordanjohnston8967 The title is not wrong. The run ends at 24:40, but begins at 0:32. That's a 24 minute and 8 second period of time.

No, I didn't.

@@jcthompson0005 glitches?

@@OldGamerGR Yeah, plenty of those.

Jordan Johnston they did it during production to save disk space. You aren’t supposed to be able to do pretty much anything the player did and certainly not abuse it in this way. Just goes to show the lengths speed runners will go to completely bust a game and I love it.

How much money do you have?

@@jcthompson0005 enough for my age, I would say 😂

@@celin99 Perfect. Let's do it.

@@jcthompson0005 But jokes aside, the video really impressed me (I was literally saying "Marry me!" at some parts of the video because I was so impressed 😂)

@@jcthompson0005 And congratulations to the world record by the way 👏🏼

If you're referring to the Sorceress fight in the Super Bonus Round, because it is in the Super Bonus Round, which does not count towards completion, it is not required for an any% run, or even a 100% run.

No.

@@jcthompson0005 download spyro hacks 2019 ps1 edition for free no virus plzz

That's a different category referred to as 117%. "Any%" just requires you to beat the game (in this case, that means to trigger the first ending).

No hacks. I can answer any questions you have regarding the method of skips/glitches if you're more specific with your comment.

Jeremy Thompson you definitely can’t fly out of sunrise springs like that for a start with superfly

@@cunningflop You're right that you can't with superfly. The powerup is removed as you cross an invisible trigger at the opening of the cave. Knowing this, I used a mechanic called a superfly jump to achieve the out of bounds. Essentially, with Spyro about level, I flap (with X), angle myself up (with down), and then charge (with square). If these inputs are timed correctly with an adequate original angle, the momentum from the flap directs the charge diagonally up. The invisible trigger at the opening of the cave removes superfly, not your charging momentum, so the superfly jump is completed without being influenced by the removal of the powerup. If you pause the video around 4:41 and slow it down, you'll see that I start the superfly jump right before my powerup is removed (I need superfly to begin the jump, but not to complete it).

Jeremy Thompson Jesus h Christ