Spyro 1 Practice Rom
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This mod for the original Spyro the Dragon adds practice features for speedrunners including but not limited to: full save-states, a level select, timing functionalities, automatic collectable resetting, custom skins, visualizations, and many other quality of life features.
This can be played on PS1, PS2, PS3, and most emulators.
(however to use the full savestate functionality, you must have a PS2 75k-90k)
Be sure to download the correct version for the platform you are going to play on
To download the patched rom and get practicing, download the bin & cue here:
PS2 (75k-90k Download)
Note: To play this rom on PS2 requires either a MechaPwn'd or modchipped PS2 to read the burned disc. Must be a CD not a DVD.
Note, the 30k-70k models of PS2's are not capable of full savestates, however they are capable of partial savestates.
To download the patched rom and get practicing, download the bin & cue here:
PS2 (30k-70k Download)
Note: To play this rom on PS2 requires either a MechaPwn'd or modchipped PS2 to read the burned disc. Must be a CD not a DVD.
To download the patched rom and get practicing, download the bin & cue here:
PS1/EMU Download
This setting lets you practice & time individual level runs for most categories! Click here to view the IL spreadsheet
This setting controls the main display setting for the IL Timer
This setting will render the IL Timer when you freed a dragon.
This setting will render the IL Timer when land on the ground.
This setting controls if the level should loop upon exiting in IL Mode.
This setting displays an on screen timer that resets upon reloading your state/reloading spyro, and stops upon pausing. Can be used for manually timing movement, routes, & tricks in game!
This lets you change your current savestate slot manually.
This lets you change your savestate button from 3 options:
This lets you change your loadstate button from 2 options:
This lets you change your hotkey for switching savestate slots from 2 options:
This setting shows the amount of frames you lost to a dragon touch (30fps).
With Disable Portal enabled, it will automatically load a savestate the moment the camera touches the portal. This allows you to practice portal entries much more effeciently.
If you have manual timer on, the timer will stop the moment the camera touches the portal, allowing you to time portal entries as well.
With Track Consistency on, you can easily keep track of your consistentcy at tricks/hard movement from within the game. When you turn it on you will notice 2 numbers in the bottom left, a numerator and denominator. The numerator represents your successful attempts at something, and the denominator represents your total attempts at something.
Here are the controls:
Loadstate Button - Automatically increase total attempts
Right Stick Up - Manually increase successful attempts
Right Stick Down - Manually decrease successful attempts
L2 + R2 + Right Stick Up - Manually increase total attempts
L2 + R2 + Right Stick Down - Manually decrease total attempts
L2 + R2 - Show tracker for 2 seconds
Loadstate Button x3 - Reset both total and successful attempts back to 0
(alt hotkey for PS1/70k and below) HOLD L2 & R2 + PRESS Circle x3 - Reset both total and successful attempts back to 0
With Show Sparx Range on, it will draw an octagon around Spyro representing sparx's range for gem collection.
With Super Mode enabled, you can supercharge & superfly in any level!
To superfly, simply glide.
To supercharge, first jump, then press square twice when in the air.
While supercharging you can increase your supercharge speed with R1, and decrease your supercharge speed with L1.
You can select the pause/inventory menu color from a range of pre-selected options.
Choose from our selection of Spyro Skins.
Choose from our selection of Flame Skins.
Choose from our selection of Sparx Skins.
Skins included are made by: Composer, OddKara, Pepper, Texensis, & Jayobean!
Also credit to Pepper for the custom portrait in Gnasty's Loot, as well as the splash screen :)
If you would like to patch in your own custom spyro skin into the practice rom, see here: Spyro 1 Practice Rom Skin Patcher
Skips straight to "The Adventure Continues..."
Nestor is always skippable like any other dragon. Allows for faster nestor skip practice.
Allows for a longer time to set up rat-surf.
The rat is saved as a part of the sudo-savestate (L3/R3) as well
If you wish to patch your own personal spyro 1 .bin file instead, visit here: Patch Personal Spyro 1 bin
If you wish to compile the mod yourself, you'll need a few prerequisites
1. First type 1 then press enter to compile, then, either type 3 PS2_NTSC version, or type 1 for the NTSC version which will work for all other platforms.
2. After it has compiled, type 4 then enter for "Build Iso", then, type 3 PS2_NTSC version, or type 1 for the NTSC version which will work for all other platforms.
3. After it has built, your bin/cue should be in /build/
4. Be sure you built for the correct version. PS2_NTSC will not work on PS1/EMU, and visa-versa.
1. First type 1 then press enter to compile, then, type 3 for the PS2_NTSC version, or type 1 for the NTSC version which will work for all other platforms.
2. After it has compiled, type 5 then press enter for "Generate xdetla Patch", then type 3 for the PS2_NTSC version, or type 1 for the NTSC version which will work for all other platforms.
3. After it has built, your xdelta patch should be in /build/
4. Be sure you built for the correct version. PS2_NTSC will not work on PS1/EMU, and visa-versa.
If you need any help building this project, or are just trying to get into spyro/game modding in general, feel free to reach out to us on discord: Composer & OddKara :)
