this was such a fun video. good commentary :D

This is the first video I've seen of yours, and that intro 😆 Earned you a sub my friend haha

Why did you make this mod 💀 That's a legit question, I mean it has to answer to a theoretical "what if" scenario rather than being meant to be actually played

@@alessandrobozzi7085 I think dayo also mentions this at the end of the video, but you can change the difficulty settings of the mod. This kind of playthrough wasn't necessarily what I had in mind when I made the mod, but I included the hardest locations because I knew some people would appreciate the challenge. To answer your question, I just wanted to let people experience the game in a fresh way. A lot of people know the gem locations inside and out. I hoped this mod would make them search the levels for that one last gem like the first time they played the game, and maybe even discover interesting locations they've never been to before.

Yeah, my favourite part was watching Dayo trying to find the last couple of gems in some levels, sometimes they werent even that hard to get to, just well hidden. Amazing having to look for gems again in Spyro 1 after all these years.

@@Peteguy100 Have you done the mod for the other games? 3's level designs and minigames would be pretty fun with a randomizer and hard challenge.

@@xaytana I haven't, and for the time being I don't intend to. For Spyro 3 there is a randomizer that I believe changes egg locations, and there's also Spyro 3.5 which moves stuff around but also does a lot more. Maybe in a year or two I might get to making a randomizer for Spyro 2 if nobody else has done it by then.

In my day, it was “thanks Obama”

SAME! most of the time it pisses me off, but this time, a win

Great work on the video!

@@DrShemp thx Shemp!! 😄✨

Spyro 3 was a good game from my experience, I would argue overall even more fun when I played it as a kid in comparison to Spyro 1 cause of the better bosses and the Minigames; but as an Adult now I would argue Spyro was the better game; legendary music (although Spyro 3 music was good too), more complex levels and platforming, no annoying Minigames and additional characters/story; not at least the whole glitchpicnic stuff, which makes speeedruns/mods interesting on this game. So basically I like Spyro 1 more today exactly for the sane reason I liked Spyro 3 more as a child😂

imagine combining this with the spyro starts super heavy mod and every gem he gets lighter.

Thanks for watching. All of the techniques that i show in this video are possible on the original ps1 disc, invluding void outs. (Really a more accurate term would be "flop timer respawn")

@@Dayoman But…there were several times, as a kid, where I softlocked by flopping and wasn't reset, Spyro was just left floating in his flop animation until I reset the game (and I would spent several minutes waiting). Are there certain places where that just can't happen? It was typically when I flopped right above a liquid hazard, does that not void out?

​@@Wandergirl108If we entertain the thought that you're not just experiencing a false memory (which I at least have plenty of regarding this game), then there is one way I can think of that could cause what you described. You'd have to be in the zombie state, and by far the most likely way for that to happen is to touch a dragon while in the death animation, i.e. getting pushed into a dragon by an enemy attack while sparxless. In the zombie state if you fall on water you will indeed get endlessly stuck in the flop animation. I don't think you're technically in the flop state, because you can still void out in other ways while zombied, but it looks the same.

@@IikkaFrestadius That HAS also happened to me - I discovered that glitch by accident when one of those little guys in the Dream Weavers homeworld kicked me onto Lateef, and I love doing it every time I get there now (I didn't know there was a technical term for it, I always called it "ghost mode glitch"); and yes, one time, when I was done doing everything I could do while ghost moded (or zombied, or whatever), I tried jumping into a liquid hazard so I could properly die and continue the game, and that did indeed softlock me. I do also have false memories of this game, I can confirm that too - for instance, my childhood memories say that the bottom of the secret area in Dark Hollow is about two dozen complicated platforms all placed in a vast stretch of liquid hazard, which of course it is not. However, there is one instance I very clearly remember because of how upsetting it was, and you can tell me if this is possible. I was in Wizard Peaks, trying to get that one egg thief that runs around a pond; rather than chase him, I glided across the pond and flamed him. I didn't QUITE make the glide, and flopped off the edge of the standable space, right above the water, and my game softlocked there. I was upset because I hadn't saved in a while, and think I went to get my parents for help, and we all just stared at Spyro falling forever, the game never voided out. I DO think I got the egg around the same moment I flopped, mind you; could that have caused the softlock? I don't know, I'm thinking of getting the game out and trying one of the intentional void-outs shown in this video to see if it works.

@@Wandergirl108 I haven't heard that egg thieves could cause a softlock like that, I even hopped into the game and tried to get it myself for a while. It is possible to get zombied in Wizard Peak though, on the dragon on top of the supercharge ramp as well as the dragon next to the exit level vortex, so it's possible you were already zombied when you went for the egg thief.