Spyro The Dragon Glitch Picnic | Spyro 1, 2 and 3 Glitches | MikeyTaylorGaming 

I love that the original Spyro is still so remembered after all these years. :) He is such a classic coming from Insomniac. ^-^

This is so damn cool! Really like what you do, man - I had no idea about this stuff!

Also, I don't know if this is a "glitch" or an "easter egg", but in the original Spyro the Dragon (at least on the NTSC greatest hits version), if you wait around in the level (about 10-15 minutes), the music track will end, and depending on the level, an alternate theme will play, including two tracks that didn't get their own level!

As a game programmer i can explain why Spyro can't be hurt with the Invincibility Glitch I can imagine that Spyro's health is controlled by values The Values would be 3,2,1 If the value reaches 0, his health function is disabled and will be resseted back to normal once Spyro respawns after death, but since you triggered a cutscene that requires spyro to be in it, the death mechanism has stopped and spyro can't be hurt because his health value cannot be under 0, and you need more health in able to be hurt, so no matter what you try *besides falling out of bounds* you cannot die what so ever

I firmly believe that the duplicate map is designed for the Cinematic Cutscenes and the Portals are there as loading zones for the animations within the cutscenes of Spyro himself and many others to be fully loaded into the real map data soon shortly after the main map data gets loaded. Like when you head through a Portal you would see that animation with the gems being counted etc.Well that so happens to be in a empty partition of space high on up from where the main level begins.

In Spyro 3, I used the swim anywhere glitch in Bamboo Terrace to get around the area. You can use it to get to Bentley's sub-level even if you haven't unlocked him yet by going over the back of the map and you'd be able to enter the portal from behind. The only difference is that the glitch there doesn't require a fairy. All you need to do is dive at just the right distance before the outer edge of the waterfall near the end of the level. Cool to see this!

That duplicate world you're showing in Spyro 2 is what's known as a Parallel Universe and is a glitch present in many games, such as SM64, Pokémon Generation 4, and Paper Mario. While I don't have much experience w/ this particular PU, I'm guessing that it works in much the same way. Your position is tracked using x, y, and z coordinates, the value of which is stored in the game engine. You can overflow this value by traveling too far in one of the three directions, causing graphics to recycle. Note that collision is not repeated, for some reason. This is a very basic explanation of this particular PU glitch, but I hope it helps. If you happen to know more about this one than I do, please feel free to correct me.

Mike, in world one in Spyro 2, there is a water level. When I was probably 7 years old or younger, I discovered a glitch in that level on the top of the level. On top of the level there is a sea city where you can complete extra missions, but what I did was something different. This is where the glitch starts. I tried to swim out of the area, but the invisibul wall pushed me away. I noticed how I got a little futher by swimming faster towards the invisebul wall, so what I did was that I started to swim around the area while pushing myself forwards to the wall. I was swimming around in circles around the sea city but I noticed I got a bit futher and futher. In the end I actually got out of the area and I noticed that I was out of the level. I was swimming outside the level which was a huge discovery for me as a kid. I remember how suprised I was when I actually swimmed so far away from the level that the game crashed and on top of that, I heard an audio clip begin played for some reason about some people talking about spyro. I am not sure but I also think those people spoke the same language as I did (which is not english) which creeped me a lil as a kid. I was very very confused.

Ah...memories. I was 4 when I had Spyro1. Good times.

This is literally my favorite video about Spyro on RU-vid

What really caught my interest to you and your channel is that you actually know what Spyro the Dragon is. It's my all time favorite game. Plus your accent is amazing and I could listen to you talk all day. :)

The first one was my favorite game when I was younger. That intro gives me nostalgia!

Spyro can walk on water. Jesus can walk on water. Spyro is Jesus (kinda)

The duplicate world you found in Spyro 2 is most likely a separate world used for cutscenes.

This video was a nostalgia overload. Scenes from the Spyro games, which I remember, but forgot what game they belonged to were suddenly remembered again. Great video, Mike.

Oh man, these were pretty sweet! I'm surprised I haven't seen most of these before, I'll have to try em' out one of these days. Great video man!

This is the first video of yours that I've seen. I see hardly any difference between your channel's quality and that of professional youtubers. You really put them to shame. You have a new sub, hope you make it big some day :).

There's proxy jumps in Spyro 2 too, especially in Hurricos. After you break down the giant windmills with the supercharge, you can jump beside the red button. Some of them launch you into the air and you can fly to anywhere in the level.

You, sir, are terribly underrated. You deserve more views and subs with your great commentating, quality, and videos. You have a sub. ✌

I've replayed these three games probably 10000x as a kid and I've never seen most of these glitches WTF This is so cool! Thanks! I need to go back and find these ASAP hahaha

In Spyro 2, there is another way to swim on land. You have to go to the level 'Mystic Marsh' and hunt the thief who tries to escape you by diving underwater. Just kill him the moment you are exiting the water and it's done.

Awesome video man :D Watched your Crash Bandicoot series too, this has filled up my nostalgia :)

I'm sure you've already gotten comments about this, but there's an out-of-bounds glitch in aquaria towers in Spyro 2, which basically turns an "all-underwater" level into another "swimming in the air out of bounds" level

It's probably just my American-ness, but I'm not the biggest fan of "Gateway to Glimmer", and much prefer "Ripto's Rage" as the Spyro 2 subtitle

This is the first video of yours that I saw and the day I watched that was today. Thanks for the enlightenment. :)

I like music from Spyro 1. Also i think some glitches makes games even more interesting... Specially when we repeat them many times. Great video mate. Those old PSX games had awesome atmoshpere... i feel isolated from real world just watching that video lol.

Spyro my 2nd favourite video game series (crash bandicoot 1st) thanks for the upload I'll definitely try some of them out :)

awesome man! good to know these. Some people are REALLY annoying when narrating, however, your voice is easy and fun to listen to. I hope you get a budding career as a game reviewer or something equally cool :) keep up the good work

Crash Bandicoot remasters? Where is our Spyro Remasters?

That was awesome! I didn't know some of them! My favourite glitch is in Spyro 3 where you can wallride and skip half the track in the skateboard race against the rhynocs :)

Love spyro used to play it as a kid on the gamecube ;) Happy new year Mike(y)

I feel that while it was definitely a good game Spyro 2 may have been rushed a little in the patching department. In fact I reckon Insomniac could've got the NPC at the top to recognise that you've cheated if they wanted to

Is it weird that there's a ton of nostalgia for me when hearing about, or seeing Spyro, despite the fact that I've barely played it? I used to play the Demo a bit, but I never actually had the Spyro games, nor have I really played them. I was always a Crash Bandicoot person myself. But yet, every time I hear or see Spyro(Specifically the PSX games), nostalgia slaps me in the face. Also, the duplicate world in the air in Spyro 2. I don't think anything "causes it to happen", it just..happens. The makers of the game put the world up there. There's probably a reason it's there. Even modern games do things like that. A lot of time there's entire duplicate levels, hallways, worlds, etc somewhere outside the main game area. They tend to be used for cutscenes, or if there's a portal type thing in the game that you see the world through, it'll show that duplicate world instead of the real one so it doesn't have to re-render the solid objects and npcs/animations/etc. There's also other reasons for stuff like that, but that's the main ones I've seen. Think of it like the Ghost Town in Grand Theft Auto 3. A little section of city that has no solid objects, and is in an area you were never meant to get to. It was used for the intro cutscene so the cutscene didn't have to render all the solid objects, NPCs, and traffic that would normally be there in the main game area. Also, personally, I'm fine with long episodes. But if you don't want to make longer episodes, I'd at least like to see some of these games, like Spyro and Crash Bandicoot revisited in a Part 2. Especially if there's more glitches to find. I mean..this video was fun, but a majority of time was spent just showing different ways to swim on land, or to walk underwater, or whatever. Interesting and all, but I would have liked to see some of the other hidden rooms and things. I know at least one of the Spyro games has a hidden room you can't normally get to.

you forgot the chin up swim glitch. just go in a pool of divable water and move spyros face above land. dive while swimming forward and he will force himself out of the water. also there are 3 more hidden butterflies on the inaccessible pillar at 15:06

This is one of ur best episodes yet :D

Hi from Georgia!!! I appreciate you leaving this video up for Spyro fans!!! Waving across the Pond! Poppy

This video i awesome man! i'm a HUGE original Spyro fan! Definitely watching your videos more! SUBBED

The first Spyro 3 homeworld is not called Midday Gardens. The second one is.

On the original release on spyro YOTD the fireworks factory extra life accessable by the proxy jump it was actually a breakable wall but it got taken out in the platinum version, also the same as the lonely Island on midnight mountain after beating the sorceress there was a whirlwind what took you through a opening to allow you to glide there and it had three butterfly jars on it

Never seen any of these before! Really cool.

When playing through Spyro 2 once, I managed to get out of bounds in the underwater level in Summer Forest. I don't quite remember how, though.

am i the only one who played spyro 2 and found the last bit of the game really fricking hard?

Another one of my favourite videos on yt! Awesome! Spyro is the first game I ever played, on my brother's PS1. I loved it :D BTW, you never actually told us how to double jump lol

11:41 But First, We Need to Talk About Parallel Universes.

Nice one man! lots of awesome glitches! Did you know there is also an awesome airswim in spyro into the dragonfly that makes it so you can get to the final boss early? it makes it so you can beat the game in about 10 minutes or something.

Probably going to try all these glitches tonight XD

Awesome video! I actually found a similar glitch to swim in the air in Spyro 2 a few years ago. In the level Breeze Harbor there is a small section of water where the water is really shallow. If you try diving towards it then swim upward you'll be swimming in mid-air just like in this video. However, the game would crash anytime I'd touch an enemy.

Oh by the way, if you're trying the Swim on the land glitch on Spyro 3, at evening lake, if you use the autogyro (that's how it's called in english ?) to travel to Sunrise Spring or Midday Gardens, you can get trapped in water :p Water having no effects while you still collide on walls.

Oh my god I got so amazed by this video. The Spyro PS1 games were my favourite on the console

Man, I dunno. I guess I just really suck, but I seriously can't do the double jump in Spyro 2 to save my life. xD Like...When I do it Spyro doesn't go as high as he does in your video. Or maybe I'm not doing exactly what you are? :,( I'll just cry myself to sleep now. xD You're awesome though! Love your videos!! ^-^

This was an awesome video ^^ subscribed :D

The duplicate worlds in Spyro 2 are probably there deliberately to be used for the ending credits, where they fly through the worlds. Since they're rendered a little differently, as you said, it was probably easier for the developers to do it this way than to program the actual home world map to have a conditional state with no moving parts. There's probably a duplicate world for every map that gets a fly-through during the ending credits (and likely for the other two games as well). There's probably a similar explanation for the portals above the home world as well. I'll bet they're there so that when Spyro is flying "between" portals in-game, they have a generic background to use during the loading screens.

There's another way to swim in air in Spyro 3. There's a place in the panda level with a waterfall where, while paddling on the surface of the water, you can dive into the edge of the waterfall and you'll be swimming in the air.

Hard to choose between crash bandicoot and spyrothey are both such great games. Basically my entire childhood haha. I remember doing so many glitches in these games.... like I'm talking a lot of them.

This was a very good video!

Omg some of those glitches are awesome XD

coolest video I watched today 10/10

Your videos are awesome, keep it up

It’s not a glitch, but I always get to the top of that ladder in Glimmer using the superfly portal at the end of the level. If you go through it and charge all the way back to the cave, you have JUST enough time to fly up there before the powerup times out!

I love your glitches!!!

from what I've seen in Spyro 3 I've deduced that Insomniac basically decided to reward glitchers with extra lives by placing them in areas where there used to be a portal; I'm basing this on the glitch cave in firework factory and the distant island in midnight mountain, both of which contain an extra life (4 in the case of the island in midnight mountain)

How do you not have more subs?? Your vids are awesome :)

I performed the swim in air glitch and tried to get to the duplicate world in summer forest but my game froze about 2 mins up, i waited a bit for the game to unfreeze when i started hearing random dialogue from characters in different languages and then in english, is this normal

The duplicate world in spyro 2 is actually used in the credits with the camera exploring the levels while the credits are rolling! as for the portals they are used when you enter a portal on the original map, the camera pans to those floating portals and rotate while the new area loads! thankyou for this video as well :)

this is amazing, I just wish you covered more glitches. e.g. in spyro 1 - how to enter gnasty gnorc before the dragon head opens to the portal), or in spyro 2, how to skip getting climb from moneybags. can you do a part 2?

I found another glitch that you should've mentioned. If you rapidly press the camera and charge buttons(all at the same time), you can have the camera focus 100% on spyro during any boss fight in the second game. It was natural to have the camera to be 100% be focused on spyro during the first game at any point. They removed the glitch in the third game though

Sooner or later you come up with the 'fly in the air' glitch, specially at Aquaria Towers or Dino Mines. Though it's frustrating you can't flame anything =P. Also, as Jags said, duplicate instances of textures are present in levels to make it easier for the engine to load them in place. Another notorious example of this technique in early games was MS Fury3, a shooting PC game. Though this duplicated textures are frequently applied without 'surface' or 'solid' object, and located so far away in the world so you can't reach them or see them. (Like when you make out-of-canvas draw in Power Point or Illustrator or similar for 'palette' purposes.

14:56 Yeah, makes sense that the scene with hunter's cage would be there, because that's when he gets kidnapped, isn't it? I thought it was in the previous world, though maybe it's just filmed there. Dunno, I really need to play Spyro 3 more, but I've only recently started loving it again. The Black Label release sullied my relationship with it more than a little.

As for the swim in air glitch leading to another world, what I would say probably happened is that you've most likely exited the original area with all of the collision, and the game is probably trying to figure out what to render. My guess is that it may be accessing the memory for the objects underneath without the code for the collisions intact. I'm not sure what the code looks like, so I can't say for sure, but it's my best guess. If that is the case, it's pretty impressive that the game doesn't simply crash when you go so far out of bounds. Also, a note about proxying - proxies exist in all the games, not just Spyro 3. In fact, speedruners tend to use a pretty well-known proxy in Hurricos, to avoid the first jumping puzzle. I don't think there's more that are useful enough for Spyro 1 speedruns, but there are a bunch in 2 and 3

There was a glitch in the first game where if you die and pause the game right as you respawn, the music either changes or gets completely muted depending on where you are. You’ll also get it if you pause right as you enter or return from a level.

Wow watching this video is such a throwback. I want them to reboot Spyro soooo bad!!

Three of my favorite games of all time, this video blew my friggin mind

The world floating in the air is for making animation easier, it's the slightly different versions that get used whenever a cutscene is triggered.

I've never liked out of bounds. I discovered the swim in air glitch in Dino Mines on complete accident. Seeing things like that really freaked me out. That double jump to get passes the latter in Glimmer. I never knew I could do that. Now I can finish the level and never have to return.

There’s also a small place in the outer wall by Colossus that you can glide through if you start out up high where that hidden orb is. I forget exactly where, but I’ve done it before and I was able to land inside that smaller underwater passage. Got stuck there, of course!

My first time glitching out a game was Spyro 3, and totally accidental as well, i was playing through Spyro 3 and i was at the Asian themed level with the Pandas and did a glitch you did, but like i said, on accident, it's the part with the waterfall and you have to jump on 2 small platforms to get to the other side, well as a kid i was very bad at that, kept falling into the water, used my horn charge to get out of the water, next thing i know I'm charging into the sky and it's like the whole entire world was layered in invisible water! The COOLEST freaking thing but i could never do it again and no one believed me, so glad to see it's actually a thing XD

Anyone else notice "Analog ON" in the top right corner for the intro for Spyro 2. Love the ePSXe use man xD

I also found that if you complete an orb quest while underwater, you automatically get transferred to the quest giver and you're still swimming in the air. This happened to me in Mystic Marsh and was the first time I experienced the glitch.

Oh shit time to glitch into the sea and explore areas lol.

In Hurricos in Spyro 2 there's a proxy on a button thats used to stop the spinning fans. If u dont hit it and jump on top of it he'll shoot up into the air making it possible to reach any area

you missed one in spyro 2. in the stage Aquaria Towers, once you refill all the water in the stage and can swim to the area above the main area, where you can play the manta ring game with hunter, theres a way to get out of bounds. swim to the edge of the area where the invisible wall is. charge against the floor so spyros head is straight down, but press towards the invisible wall. you will slowly slide through the barrier and end up outside the level. if you swim too far, the game will freeze. but this glitch can be used to swim anywhere in the level and even rescue a baby seahorse without opening its tower correctly

another glitch on spyro 2 is, in glimmer, when you get to the superfly powerup outside, you can use that superfly powerup to get to the other superfly powerup that requires you to learn how to climb. it means you wont ever have to go back to glimmer

I recently learned that the reason there is a duplicate world is that the game always renders both at once, one a high resolution version for when your close and the other being the Low resolution for when you're far way this helps so they don't need to use fog to cloud your view of the distance

This is So Cool!! xD

Unrelated but I love your voice, feels like Paddy McGuinness is narrating it hahah

There is also a glitch that I found where, in that seahorse level, if you go to that circular area where you find hunter and the seahorse king, if you swim in circles around it at the VERY edge, having Spyro swim diagonally against the invisible wall, he will slowly go further into the wall and eventually go into an ‘out of bounds’ area. Since my siblings and I were little when I found this out, we called it “glitch world.” XD

13:03 If you haven't freed Sheila the Kangaroo yet, an arch will appear below where the portal to Sheila's Alp would be. If you swim through this, you can enter her level without paying Moneybags, and beating her level will free her. You can free Sheila, Sgt. Byrd, and Bentley by doing this; there are tutorials for Skipping Moneybags that'll show you how. Spyro 3 handled portals that were supposed to be temporarily inaccessible by putting them below their destinations and lifting them up, not by conjuring them out of nowhere. It's the same for cutscene assets, like the whale's stomach and the cage from the cutscenes where Hunter gets trapped, all of which can be seen out of bounds at 14:54. It's awesome to see how everything is *right there* if you know where to look.

It's possible to use the Spartan helmet proxy jump in Midnight Mountain to fling high in the air, and from the height you can glide to the secret platform with 3 butterfly jars that was supposed to hold the Super Bonus Round portal. It's really hard to pull off, and I couldn't do it last time I tried (about a week ago) but I definitely did this in almost every playthrough as a kid. If you get the helmet to shove you backwards, angle left into the wall. If you hit the right spot, Spyro will be be forced to follow the upward angle of the wall. Last week I was able to get this to happen only once, and I messed it up by holding Square too long and just charged back down (into the abyss). I'm surprised this isn't more well known, I'm pretty sure I got this from the internet, but while I can find references to the proxy jump, I can't find anything saying anybody else has ever used it to gain height, only to zoom horizontally across the map.

Amazing compliation

The settings you're using for the emulator are pretty nice. Really smooth, really colourful, really high resolution. Any special things that were done for this? level of filtering? post-processing?

thanks bro

as a kid id use the flying power up near the end in glimmer to get to the other power up in the cave. if you fly the shortest possible route you can make it

Holy Crap, I didn't know the high jump was a glitch! I may have actually discovered that! When I was a kid back in 2004 I was playing Spyro 3 and always used that to get around faster!

too awesome!

when I was little I used the super fly power up outside by the lampposts in the first world and used it to just barely make it to the ladder and avoid buying the climbing.

Hi i like your Spyro 2 glitches just wondering if you knew there were loads more swim in air locations and glitches? (i speedrun this game. nice frog proxy takes me ages to do that)

I remember pulling off a glitch in Spyro 2 that extends your life counter to beyond 99, much like the Crash video you did. I got it by obtaining skillpoints that don't spawn butterflies (perfect bosses, speedway time trials). Getting a regular life drops your counter back to 99 however. Doesn't even the extra life sound that way. I'm not sure if I remember it correctly since it's been years since I had the patience to grind that many lives, but I know I've gotten beyond 99 before.

nice I did not know about a lot of these a cool glitch I learned about online is if you swim in air on bamboo Terence on the black label version sometimes when the game freezes it will play the evening lake theme witch is not on the BL version

Hold on wait a second I thought riptos rage was spryo 2 and so is gateway to glimmer?

Cool!