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CoolROM.com's game information and ROM (ISO) download page for Spyro - Year of the Dragon (Europe) (Sony Playstation). View this page in. English French German Indonesian Italian Japanese Portuguese Spanish Thai. Sent to recapture the eggs, Spyro the Dragon, and his best friend Sparx, face a journey into uncharted territory against his most fearsome enemy yet - the Sorceress! All new playable characters, frantic challenges and new exciting worlds to explore - the Year of the Dragon begins here! Spyro: Year of the Dragon Langue. English (USA).

I'm seeing a lot of threads about the Spyro games crashing. This can be caused by the libcrypt copy protection featured on the discs.

Since the end of 1998 Sony introduced the first protected PlayStation games in Japan (PoPoRogue). They added extra code, called LibCrypt, could detect if a Mod-Chip was being used. When it detected it then game could not be played.
About 6 months later the LibCrypt protection was also used on European PAL games (Medievil) and now also US games are being protected.
The LibCrypt protection uses a Digital ID (16 bit key), which is stored in the SubChannel of a CD-ROM.

In order to solve the problem you need to rip the subchannel data from the disc onto your hard drive. To do this all you need is P.E.Op.S. CD-R Driver 1.4 from here. Place that file in your ePSXe 'plugins' directory and then select it as your default plugin for CD-Rom. After that follow these instructions:
Please note: Your CD/DVD drive MUST be capable of reading CD subchannels for this process to work. 90% of modern computers (2004+) SHOULD be ok. If you're not sure google your CD/DVD drive to check the specs/reviews
1) Click 'Config' then 'CDRom'

2) Click 'configure'

3) Near the bottom of the new window, select 'use subchannel SBI/MS3 info file (recommended)' and then click 'Create SBI/MS3 file (Only with supported drives)

4) Select 'Read subchannel from CD-Rom' and then select .SBI file. Then
create click 'Create subchannel info file'.
Please note: Your computer may appear to lock-up or become unresponsive during this stage. Don't worry, leave it 20minutes or so, if it's still unresponsive you may have to force a shutdown (holding down the power button)

5) Once it's created save the file to the location of your .ISO or another convenient place
6) When you're about to play the game associated with the subchannel info you need to configure the plugin again. In the field where it says 'File' click the three dots, locate the subchannel file and click 'Ok'.

7) Enjoy Spyro!
To my knowledge the fix effects:
- Spyro 3 (PAL/NTSC): Year Of The Dragon
- Spyro 2 (PAL/NTSC): Gateway To Glimmer/Ripto's Rage
- Spyro The Dragon (NTSC)

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Spyro: Year of the Dragon
Developer: Insomniac Games Publishers: SCEA (US), SCEE (EU) Platform: PlayStation Released in US: November 1, 2000 Released in EU: November 10, 2000 This game has unused areas. This game has a hidden developer message. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused sounds. This game has a hidden sound test. This game has revisional differences. This game has anti-piracy features.

Spyro: Year of the Dragon

Developer: Insomniac Games
Publishers: SCEA (US), SCEE (EU)
Platform: PlayStation
Released in US: November 1, 2000
Released in EU: November 10, 2000

This game has unused areas.
This game has a hidden developer message.
This game has unused enemies.
This game has unused sounds.
This game has a hidden sound test.
This game has revisional differences.
This game has anti-piracy features.

Spyro: Year of the Dragon is the last game of the original Spyro trilogy and it was also the last Spyro game developed by Insomniac Games. In this game it's Spyro's duty to (once again) save a foreign world by defeating an evil sorceress and reclaiming all the stolen dragon eggs.. also something something Year of the Dragon.

3Dialogue oddities
4Unused Dialogue
7Unused Graphics
9Unused Areas
10Unused Objects
11Revisional Differences and Glitches
12Anti-Piracy

Developer Messages

Located in the main directory of the disc is a file called 'SPYRO3.TRD'. It contains the following text:

This text is also present in the files for bothpredecessors. (in the 'DRAGON.TRD' and 'SPYRO2.TRD' files respectably)

'Shemp' is referenced multiple times in the Spyro series, starting with the boss in the first game called 'Dr Shemp' and later the name of a skateboard trick in the third game. It is thought to be an in-joke by the developers whenever an unexpected error occurred, or when one of the developers messed up, and in either case they would 'get the Shemp'. It was likely added to reduce any leftover space on the disc, which is further supported by its inclusion in the files of the playable Crash Bandicoot demos accessible in the series.

Grouped in with the epilogue text within the Atlas is this sneaky message by Insomniac Designer Head Brian Allgeier, who at the time of Spyro 3's development was a level designer at the company.

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Unused Text

A (rather long) string of text which appears to have been inserted purely for the sake of humour and doesn't occur at all in the game (because of its length, which is far too long to fit properly into an Atlas description.)

Possibly tied to the above string, again rendering it as part of the developers' quirky sense of humour.

A slightly ruder text string. A similar string is used in an earlier prototype of the game as an error handler, so it's possible that this was either used for debugging or error handling, too.

Dialogue oddities

Hunter

If the player completes both of the skateboarding egg challenges in Sunny Villa and then talks to Hunter, he will say the following:

While this is mostly true, wiping out doesn't end your run, as your run is only over when you run out of time. This line of dialogue is simply a leftover from an earlier version of the game, as in two different demos of the game, wiping out causes the timer to stop and your points to reset to zero, meaning that even if you had broken the course record during the run it wouldn't have been counted unless you didn't 'survive' until the time was up. The difficulty of this may have been what motivated the change.

Most notably, while Hunter still says exactly the same dialogue, the audio file for the dialogue is missing. Given how late in development the demos were, it's possible that they changed the challenge after the dialogue had been added, but weren't able to re-record the line due to time constraints.

Sparx

Sparx also has dialogue left over from an earlier version of the game. In Honey Speedway, Sparx says the following:

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