The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning (PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox)

The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
Developer: Krome Studios Publisher: Sierra Entertainment Platforms: PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox Released in US: October 10, 2006 Released in EU: October 27, 2006 Released in AU: November 2, 2006 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select. This game has a notes page

This page covers the home-console release. The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning for the Game Boy Advance can be seen here.

The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning is the first entry in the reboot of the Spyro series. Instead of being a platformer like the older games, this game focuses more on action.

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Notes

Debug Options

Debug Info

A few debug displays can be found in this game. Input any of the following GameShark / CodeBreaker codes to enable them.

If activating these codes on a PlayStation 2 console, input this into a cheat device that supports RAW codes. If the cheat device doesn't support RAW, skip this step.

Enable code: 9018F1D0 0C063C1C

Enable Debug Info display
201203A4 00000000
2073D73C 00000001
Enable Debug Overlay
2073D740 00000001
Enable Spyro Collision Overlay
201470AC 00000000

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  The first code displays a build date and FPS info.

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  The second code displays various info about movie files.

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  It also displays some sort of debug graph in-game.

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  The third code displays Spyro's collision and angle.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

For the debug info display in the USA GameCube version, use this gecko code:

0430ea44 60000000
0430ea58 60000000
0430eac8 60000000

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Additionally, the GameCube version also has a debug display option for the structure MKCloth. It can be enabled with the following gecko code:

USA

0458b7b4 00000001
0458b7b8 00000001
0458b7bc 00000001

EU

0458c374 00000001
0458c378 00000001
0458c37c 00000001

(Source: Original TCRF research)

The GameCube USA and EU release has a full debugging symbol map embedded into spyro06.elf.

Level Select

To do: Document GameCube codes, look for more debug options.

A level select menu is available in the game. By entering the GameShark / CodeBreaker code 20356D74 A4850014 (USA) 20357454 A4880014 (PAL), this will unlock a level select at the main menu and inside the pause screen, allowing the player to go to any level in the game (as most level selects do). The player's unlocks change from level to level.

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  A level select menu is available in the game.

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  It can also be found inside the pause menu.

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  Inside the Level Select menu via pause menu.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Load All Chunks

The GameCube version has an option to load every chunk in the game, with first all the normal levels and then all the flight levels, in the order they appear in the story. The game crashes after the second flight level. It also displays "Autolevelswitch running..." on the screen. 803e5bc0 (PAL) or 803e5100 (NTSC) need to be set to 1 in the GameCube version for this to work. It has an effect whenever a level is loaded, and is effective immediately if a level is already loaded.

Fast Forward Cutscenes

The GameCube version has an unused function that allows the function to fast forward most run-time cutscenes, including audio modification. 803e5bc4 (PAL) or 803e5104 (NTSC) need to be set to 1 in the GameCube version for this to work.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Hidden Cheat

To do: Find GameCube and Xbox versions.

Seemingly undiscovered until September 27th 2017, this cheat can be inputted while inside the pause menu in the PS2 release.

Pause Screen Inputs	Reward
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, R1, L1, R1, R1, Start.	Grants unlimited Level Up points.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Graphics

A few unused graphics can be found inside the game's files.

Unused Logo

Prototype Logo	Hero's Tail Logo	Final Logo

A placeholder prototype logo can be found inside the game's files. One very interesting part is that it is just the logo for Spyro: A Hero's Tail, but with the subtitle replaced with "Quest".

UI Splash

Splash Image	Season of Flame Cover Art

An unused UI splash image can be seen in the game's files. This exact render of Spyro can be found on the cover art for Spyro 2: Season of Flame.

UI Gem

This might've been used as a gem counter early on. However, in the final game, gems are mainly used for health and mana. This icon is the Clear Gem icon lifted from Crash Twinsanity, possibly as a placeholder.

Debug Font

A debug font texture can be found in the game's files.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Music

music_demo.mus

This is actually the main menu theme from Dawn of the Dragon, but it is in fact in the files of A New Beginning too. However, this version has a few differences in effects and instruments. This might've been used in a demo for the game since it isn't used in the final game.

Unused Text

translations.English.txt

In the fourth section of the translations.English.txt file, is this piece of text. Note that this text is translated through every language that the game is translated into.

TEXT_LEVEL_DEMO=4	Testing

gamesounds.inc

Not very significant, but in the very first line, this piece of text is present.

SOUND_ID(PLACEHOLDER)

debugfont10.FontInfo

Font info for the debug font that can be seen in the unused graphics section.

CharMap = !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
AspectRatio = 2.5
CharSpacing = -2.0
FontXScale = 1.0
FontYScale = 1.0

Language Files

There are six language files for English, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and German in A New Beginning intended for the EU release. Although there's no option to change the language in the US release, they're still present, and wholly accounted for in the game's files.

(Source: Original TCRF research)