Sparx also has dialogue left over from an earlier version of the game. 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. Most notably, while Hunter still says exactly the same dialogue, the audio file for the dialogue is missing. The difficulty of this may have been what motivated the change. As such, even if you had broken the course record during the run, then it wouldn't have been counted if you wiped out before the time was up. This line of dialogue is simply a leftover from an earlier version of the game (as in two different demos of the game) where wiping stops the timer and resets your points to zero. While this is mostly true, wiping out doesn't end your run, as it is only over when you run out of time. Score as many points as you can until the timer expires or you wipe out. Whenever you hop on a skateboard, a timer will You can go for the course record now, if you want. If the player completes both of the skateboarding egg challenges in Sunny Villa and then talks to Hunter, he will say the following: 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. Possibly tied to the above string, again rendering it as part of the developers' quirky sense of humor.Ī slightly ruder text string. You just put that back this minute.Ī rather long string of text which appears to have been inserted purely for the sake of humor and never shows up in-game, its length also making it far too long to fit properly into an Atlas description anyway. Where do you think you're going with that egg.

Unused Text The very last egg, no really it is. 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. It is thought to be an inside joke by the developers where whenever an unexpected error occurred, or when one of the developers messed up, they would 'get the Shemp'.

This series of extracts from famous literary works is also present in the files for both predecessors (in the 'DRAGON.TRD' and 'SPYRO2.TRD' files respectively) and 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.Īs for the word mentioned in the last line, 'Shemp', it is referenced multiple times in the Spyro series, starting with the first game’s boss called 'Dr Shemp', and later the name of a skateboard trick in the third game. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Located in the main directory of the disc is a file called 'SPYRO3.TRD' which contains the following text: 14.4 Object 752 - Dino Mines Dinosaur Parts.14.3 Object 707 - Scorch's Pit Power-up Variants.

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