Similarly, the text displayed at the bottom of the screen upon freeing a dragon is smaller, and there is no difference between the size of 'RESCUED' and the dragon's name.

The text displayed when speaking to the balloonist is also centered when, in the American version, it would be left-aligned.

The font used in menus and dialogue windows is smaller.

Below this is an option that allows the player to change the game's language to either English, French, German, Spanish or Italian.

In this version, 'PRESS START' was changed to 'START GAME' instead.

Spyro's teeth aren't showing in his title screen appearance, for some reason.

The title screen music starts slightly later.

Several touch ups and fixes were done in the one month between the American and European releases of the game, with the Japanese release maintaining many of these changes.

Should the player access this inventory page, its world name will (unsurprisingly) display as 'Thigh Masters'.Ĭonsider tidying this section, might I suggest a table? This may possibly be a remnant from a time where 7 worlds were planned for the game, and in fact the earliest demo contains inventory data for a 7th world. although could you imagine if there actually was a Thigh Masters world? This was clearly intended as a joke on Insomniac's part. unusual piece of text is grouped in with the world names. Despite this, prototypes which do contain dragons with undecided names instead show the name 'Silvus' in their cutscene, corresponding to the first name in the array. The EXE in one of the demo versions references the 'Dragon X' string many times in the dragon name pointer array, suggesting that it would have been used for Dragons whose names were yet to be decided. The internal order in which the names are listed implies that they would have been used in Jacques (Rashidi), Cliff Town (Gale), and one of the Magic Crafters worlds (Finlay and Jethro). Notably, Silvus was used in demo builds of the game as the name of the cowardly dragon in the Artisans home, which was renamed to Tomas in the final release. The name listings for all of the dragons and balloonists (as well as Toasty and Jacques) contain a few names which go unused by any of the characters found in the final game. It is itself found in the name of the boss Dr. The term 'Shemp' is an internal joke among the developers, as if something didn't go as planned, or if someone messed up, they 'got the Shemp'. Insomniac also managed to sneak this into the files of the second and third game.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The demo used on a standalone demo disc released in 1999, with similar content to the above demo.Ī rather cryptic compendium of text, repeated multiple times to fill up leftover space on the disc, can be found in the 'DRAGON' file, containing extracts from Shakespeare, Dickens, Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, and other esteemed authors.

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