Proto:Crash Bandicoot: Warped/"Alpha Demonstration"

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An early build of Crash Bandicoot: Warped was leaked to the public on October 25th, 2019. The date for the build is currently unknown, however some speculate it is from August 15th, 1998.

The game will crash shortly after the Universal logo screen when checking for special memory card data, therefore a patch is needed to play the game properly.

Debug Features

This build contains a small menu that can be accessed by inputting Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Circle while the game is paused. There are four features to be seen: GET ALL, OPEN LEVELS, ALLOW CAM, and NO CHEATS.

• GET ALL: Allows you to gain 25 Crystals and 20 Silver Relics from the start, as well as all colored gems and all abilities for Crash.
• OPEN LEVELS: Unlocks all areas of the Warp Room. Logically not available if you're not in the Warp Room.
• ALLOW CAM: Enables a free camera with the second controller. The pause menu is disabled on the first controller, but you can access it by holding down R2 and pressing Start. Full instructions below.
• NO CHEATS: Ditto. This only appears if you use OPEN LEVELS.

Freecam Controls

These controls are specific to the DualShock controller. D-pad and left analog stick are interchangeable.

• Left/Right: Modify X position.
• Up/Down: Modify Y position.
• L1/R1: Modify Z position.
• Triangle/X: Modify X rotation.
• Square/Circle: Modify Y rotation.
• L2/R2: Modify Z rotation.
• Start (in controller 1): Toggle frame advance mode.
• R2 (in controller 1): Advance frame.
• Select: Snap back to trail.
• Any controller 2 button: detach and freeze from trail (if attached). Certain levels, such as the game over screen, will freeze the game if this is enabled. Note that this freezes the camera trail, which is used by the game to control what to load, what to display, player movement, etc.. If you want to progress in a level, press Select to snap the camera back to its trail and continue.

General Differences

Crash 2 Leftovers

Unsurprisingly, a lot of elements present in this build are incomplete and use placeholders lifted from the previous game. These are:

• Crash's idle animations.
• The load/save system, although the bosses do not display appropriate icons.
• The boss icons during a boss fight, where relevant.
• The crystal and gem particle effects and sounds.
• The warp out sounds.
• The Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment system.
• The game over screen.
• The title screen, barring the intro slideshow, the logo and the background.
• Movement speeds while in third mask invulnerability.
• A huge portion of sound effects which were newly created for this game are missing at this stage, with the majority of sounds present in this build being leftovers.
• Various death animation use Crash 2's angel death animation.

Other Differences

• Character icons are in a rather primitive state: Crash's icon is a higher-res variant of his life icon (a re-drawn version of which is in fact used in the Japanese version), Cortex, N.Gin, and Tiny re-use their boss portraits from Cortex Strikes Back as placeholders (albeit with very minor differences between the two games, such as N.Gin and Tiny's lack of shading and Cortex's eyes and head shape being a bit larger), while Coco, N. Tropy, and Dingodile all use early icons, seemingly styled after Crash 2 in terms of size. While Dingodile and N. Tropy's are largely similar to their final icons with minimal changes (Dingodile's ears and snout being redrawn, N. Tropy's clock being changed from grey to green), Coco's icon is completely different and is closest in pose to her pause screen icon, only with a green flower in her hair (as opposed to blue) and rather rough shading.

Japanese Final	International Final	Alpha Demonstration	Crash 2 Final

• The portal design for entering and exiting levels is different. featuring an older design for the Time Twister Warp Room.

Alpha Demonstration	Final

• The controller vibration option is called "Shock" instead.
• Sapphire Relics are known as Silver Relics instead. Logically, they are silver-colored. (Not to be confused with Platinum Relics, which are white.)
• There are no specific music tracks for bonus rounds and death routes in this - the main path music is always used in both instances instead.
• All the new music that is in the game is incomplete, usually with slightly different melodies or rhythm. The processing is much rougher and playback glitches are therefore frequent in this build, particularly at the beginning of certain tracks.
• The vortex cutscene area, intro cutscene and outro cutscenes are all missing.
• Descriptions for the Power-Ups do not exist yet, and a life sound effect plays when grabbed.
• No portal automatically appears after a boss fight ends, Crash is just automatically teleported out of the boss arena.
• None of the hard paths are considered as such, meaning dying in a Death Route will still lock the Death Route platform.
• Most levels have uniform relic requirements of 2:00:00 for Silver, 1:40:00 for Gold, and 1:20:00 for Platinum.
• Percentage counts are different: Crystals contribute 1%, Gems 1%, Colored Gems 2%, Relics 0%, entry to a boss level 1%, beating a boss 4%.
• Crystals and gems don't play the choir sound effect or have any particle effects, identically to Crash 2.
• Masks are lost upon re-entering the warp room, so they can't be taken into other levels.
• Crash jumps in and out of Coco's levels. Neither Coco's animations for entering & exiting levels, nor Crash's animation for leap frogging under the entry platform seem to exist at this point.
• Double-jumps cannot be chained with enemy bounces.
• When the player gets a relic in a Time Trial for the first time, options to restart trial or going back to the warp room will appear, whereas in retail the level ends after the name input regardless.
• There is no "Entering Time Trial" text when starting a Time Trial.
• Entering a Time Trial with Aku-Aku doesn't remove any Aku-Aku's in possession.
• Time crates work in a completely different manner to the final version - when the player breaks a time crate, instead of freezing the timer for said time, it will take away the amount of time from the box. Despite this, they still cannot get the timer to go below 0 seconds.
• Each box outside ? boxes gives them 1 Wumpa Fruit when the player breaks them in Time Trial. ? boxes makes varying amount of Wumpas to appear.
• When the player receives a relic, the relic will go off-screen after a second just like all other items, whereas in retail it stays on-screen until you go to the Warp Room.
• If the player is currently in a darkly lit area, when you pause, the power-up icons will all be black.
• If the player gets another mask while already in third mask invulnerability mask, its timer does not reset.
• If the player uses the Fruit Bazooka while invincible, the invincibility will immediately be removed.
• N. Gin, Cortex, Eggipus Rex and "Hot Coco" are missing.

Level Differences

Warp Room

• A music track not used in the final version of the game plays at various areas in this build, including as the theme for the Warp Room, as well as being assigned to various levels which the music seemingly wasn't composed for yet, including. It can be heard on the game's official website, as well as in the build featured as a hidden unlockable in Spyro the Dragon upon booting it up.
• The load/save screen doesn't have the load/save text imprinted on it, and has a much more basic design, with a blue border around it. Coco also stands in place on the right side of the screen, looking on the left instead of standing on the left side, looking in front of the camera like in the final.
• Composer Josh Mancell posted the uncompressed version of this track on his Soundcloud in 2013, labeling it as a demo for the underwater levels.

Alpha Demonstration	Final

• There's an oversight with the save file icons where the top right icon shares the same palette values as the bottom right one, resulting in some visual bug on the bottom right save if the player ever saves the game on the top right file.

• The electric gates have no sound effect for touching them.
• The camera angle for entering Warp Room 2 is much higher up and can even partially hide Crash.

Alpha Demonstration	Final

• The Warp Room 4's collision and geometry is rough, where the player can even clip out of the scenery and fall off of the Warp Room.
  • If the player dies while a portal is present, the portal's image will be used on all of the other portals in the Warp Room until the player either enters a level, or restarts the game.
• The middle platform leading to the secret warp room is the "default" non-shaded form of the gem platform.
• The secret warp room is called "Neodyne Systems".

Medieval Levels

• Spinning the energy balls from the wizards will simply make them go through Crash and leave him unharmed, whereas in the final game they also get destroyed.

Toad Village

• The 2nd Mask Crate has now merged into the 3 stack before the bonus, and because of this, there are only 41 boxes instead of 42.

Alpha Demonstration	Final

Gee Wiz

• The 2x2x2 Locked Crates found in the final game are instead a single one in the Alpha Demonstration version.

Alpha Demonstration	Final

• The slot crate before the final checkpoint cycles through nothing, a ?, a life, a TNT and a Mask.
• The crate hovering over the bottomless pit in the bonus has been moved more to the right.
• The total box count is 105, leaving 12 boxes unaccounted for, making it impossible to get the gem.
• The only time crates in the level are one 2 second and 3 second crate right at the beginning.

Double Header

• There is no invisible barrier blocking Crash at the beginning of the level, meaning he can just walk backwards and fall into the void and die.
• There is no death animation for the giant lab assistants.
• There is no lightning in the background.
• The giants have no swinging sound effect.
• The pit of water after the bonus is more grey than blue.

Prehistoric Levels

Dino Might!

• This level (Bone Yard in the final game) swapped names with the third Warp Room's prehistoric level (Dino Might!).
• The Triceratops doesn't break the boxes for you, meaning you have to break them manually.
• The Triceratops has a caveman lab assistant riding on top of him during the chase sequences (seen in concept art and early screenshots), which is completely absent in the final version. It has two poses for riding the triceratops: One on top of its head, and the other riding behind its frontmost horn.

Alpha Demonstration	Final

• The First Checkpoint in the red gem route is breakable instead of Iron, meaning it is impossible to get the box gem for the level. It also makes the total box count 67 instead of 66.

Alpha Demonstration	Final

• The second pterodactyl in the last regular chase sequence of the level has been removed in the final version.

Alpha Demonstration	Final

Bone Yard

• The mask has been replaced with a ? crate and the life crate stacked on top of iron crates has been replaced with a mask crate on the ground, with the iron crates missing.

Alpha Demonstration	Final

• When the Bandifish spins, it re-uses Crash's spin animation and sound effect.
• The walls near the end of the Baby T section are more enclosed, and you can clip through the floor.
• You have to manually jump off Baby T at the end of the section.
• You have to manually grab the Wumpa fruit from the locked crates at the end of the bonus, and the ? crate in the air at the end of the level.
• Body-slamming Baby T will instantly kill it.
• There are 111 boxes.
• There is an invisible current at the beginning of the yellow gem path.
• There is no special gem at the end of the yellow gem path.
• The 5 lives in the yellow gem path in the final are instead an exit portal.

Alpha Demonstration	Final

Arabian Levels

Hang'em High

• There is only one iron arrow crate at the beginning instead of two.
• Added Wumpa fruit on the second carpet.
• One of the ? crates in the 5 stack is spaced further apart.
• There is an added crack at the beginning of the second monkey bar.
• The ground where the bonus platform is is much higher up, meaning you can simply jump back on the railing, as such the arrow crate is not there.
• The bonus entrance platform clips through one of the buildings.
• The steel crates in the bonus and the exit platform have been lowered, which makes the slot crate harder to see as the HUD icons overlap it.
• There are two more rows of wumpa at the end of the rail section.
• The box formation after the last checkpoint is different. Instead of the nitro on top, it is now a slot crate, with a TNT below.
• Two TNTs have been added right before the end of the level.
• The level 27 button will spawn Crash at the normal beginning of the level.
• The secret path has absolutely no objects in it, besides Crash's spawn object. Only collision and scenery are there, which also means it is not possible to complete as the last jump is too far. This also means there is no yellow gem.

High Time

• The entry portal is the same as Hang'em High.
• The level has the red gem instead of the purple gem.
• The first upwards section isn't split properly, allowing Crash to stand on a vertical wall halfway through.
• The fires have no sound effects.
• There are two more bounce crates right next to the bonus platform.
• The mask crate has been replaced with a standard crate.
• The death route platform carries you into the death route seamlessly without a cut.
• There is additional scenery where the iron arrow crates are.
• There is no burned up fire near the end of the death route.
• There are two added standard crates to make a line of three next to the TNTs at the end.
• The total box count is 89 instead of 85.

Crash Kabob

• This level is known as "Flaming Passion" in the final game.
• Like with High Time, this level re-uses Hang'em High's level entry portal.
• The death route is nearly fully incomplete. Both platforms to and from it are locked, and the only aspects of it in the game are the 4 wumpa fruit at the beginning, and the collision around that area, meaning no green gem either. Similarly to High Time, however, the transition would have been seamless, whereas in the final game a cut is used instead.
• There are 4 fire traps after the first checkpoint instead of 3
• The sword enemy has been replaced with a pot carrying monkey
• The bonus is a placeholder one: a straight line with 2 life crates. The bonus box count is 0, however.

Egyptian Levels

Tomb Time

• Two of the green tiles in the first section are now red scarab tiles.
• The corridor with the first throwing monkey is narrower.
• The first mask crate has been moved to the left.
• The door to the hard path is a timed door instead of a purple gem door, which will lock out after a certain amount of time.
• The second mask crate is missing.
• The sliding platforms play a Crash 1 sound effect.
• The connection back from the hard path to the main path near the end of the level is different: The moving platforms will always be there, and there is more ground next to them, which makes entering the hard path from the back as easy as slide-jumping onto the platforms. There are also 4 extra crates on said new ground.
• There is no gem at the end of the hard path.
• The final box count is 98.

Sphynxter

• This level is known as Sphynxinator in the final game.
• There are added red bug platforms after the first checkpoint.
• The level has the green gem route instead of the blue gem route.
• There is an added hole at the end of the oil section before the last checkpoint.
• The box after the last checkpoint is now gone.
• The bonus platform is slightly clipped into the main platform on both sides.
• There are added arrow traps right before the 16 wide box section.
• There are 103 boxes.

Tomb Wader

• The portal is the same as the one used in Tomb Time and Sphynxter
• The camera angles for spawning in the level are more erratic
• When you try to jump out of the rising water, it crouch jumps automatically
• The blue gem has been replaced with the purple gem
• There was an added hole in the rising water section after the bonus
• The mask crate has been replaced with a ? crate
• The stacks of iron crates that are used as safety platforms for the water now have 4 standard crates on top
• The circular platforms are smaller
• The nitro formation at the beginning of the death route is different
• The crates behind the Sheild Carrier after the final checkpoint are now TNTs instead of Nitros

Bug Lite

• There is no wall at the beginning of the level to prevent Crash from running backwards and falling down.
• The portal is the same as the one used in Tomb Time, Sphynxter and Tomb Wader
• The crystal for this level is impossible to collect. This means that it's impossible to have Cortex's Warp Room button appear.
• Added 2x2 stack at the beginning
• The section before the first checkpoint has no shadows or lighting
• The blue gem platform is missing, making it impossible to get the gem
• There are 4 Nitros scattered after the barricade of locked crates
• The special lighting and the bazooka do not function properly in the bonus, making it extremely difficult to complete without at least 2 masks going into it.
• The bonus design uses iron crates for its solid platforms like all other Egypt bonuses, whereas in the final game Bug Lite is the only bonus to use Egypt scenery. The layout of the bonus is largely the same as final, with the beginning having twp added 4x1 crate bridges, the latter under 3 Nitro crates.
• While the gem path is completely non-existant, an iron checkpoint crate belonging to it which can be seen in old magazine pictures is the only remnant present, and is actually drawn by the game in its real position near the section with the first set of scarab platforms.

Future Levels

Future Frenzy

• This level re-uses Gee Wiz's Warp Room portal.
• The UFO enemies are glowing red, similarly to the indicator normally used for "hot/fire" objects that will kill Crash upon contact. The death animation for hitting them is the same one used for the lava in the prehistoric levels.
• The elevators in the 2D sections of this level are buggy, and it's very easy to get stuck on them. They are also colored orange, as is most of the level.
• The music is the same as the warp room.
• The plasma gates in the 3D sections play the same sound effect as the ones in the 2D sections.
• The blue conveyor belts are much faster.
• The mask crate was moved to slightly after the iron crate section and is now in the air
• The glass behind the final checkpoint is nonexistant.
• Some of the backgrounds near the end of the level are different
• The bonus platform model is offset upwards. The actual collision is still below the model.
• There are no power-up hints in the bonus
• The box formation at the end is different, with the boxes being higher
• The plasma formation after the last checkpoint is different, with the 2nd one being higher and the 3rd one being removed entirely.
• There is an added red-green disc after this section where the hole is
• The nitro detonator is not present, despite the level having nitros.
• The final box count is 130
• The level 29 button sends Crash to the normal beginning of the level.
• Various crates are partially or almost fully sunken into the ground in the 3D sections.
• The secret path is mostly the same, with the exception of all green-red platform sections being replaced with conveyors belts, and the last stack of crates is surrounded by two overlapping UFOs, which produce a terribly loud noise.
• The secret gem is placed slightly lower, while the platform out of the secret path is misplaced half-sunken and in front of the gem.
• The platform back into the main path - not the one out of the secret path - is a death route platform, which in the final game goes unused.
• It is not possible to backtrack from the 2D section back to the beginning of the level as the platform will not be there, making the box gem impossible to get through normal means.

Gone Tomorrow

• This level reuses Sphynxinator's warp portal.
• The missile firing robots are colored red instead, and shoot 4 fireballs from a random side each.
• Similarly to Bug Lite, the crystal for this level is impossible to collect.
• The mask crate was removed.
• The first crate bridge in the 2D section consists of 2 sets of ghost crates. Hitting the ! crate will fill in the top row, which is supposed to make the bottom row inaccessible. The bottom row is triggered by a ! crate in the gem path. The bottom row can still be broken by tornado-spinning and jumping out of the spin.
• The bonus is a placeholder one: a straight line with 2 life crates. The bonus box count is 0, however. It is also not accessible as the platform is locked.
• True to its internal name, the gem platform is purple instead of green. Consequentially, the gem path has purple shading on the floor instead of green.
• There is a box removed in the final section.
• There is a total of 75 boxes.

Atlantis Levels

Under Pressure

• There is no background.
• There is a small added fanfare at the beginning.
• The pufferfish are now purple instead of red.

• There is a random added iron crate right before the last checkpoint.

Deep Trouble

• There is no background.
• This level now has the blue gem instead of the red gem.
• The TNT layout is different.
• There is an added nitro to the bottom right of the first nitro, with a wumpa path to go over the nitro.
• There was an added steel crate in the first tube section.
• You have to manually lose the submarine to go backwards into the death route section by taking damage.
• The checkpoint in the death route is missing.
• There are less nitros in the final downstream path of the level.
• The texture for the exit tube is mostly missing.
• The final box count is 87.

China Levels

Orient Express

• The door scenery at the beginning is missing.

• Floating crates do not automatically give you the contents whitin, causing you at times to lose them when running towards a floating crate.
• There were added enemies after the final checkpoint.

• There was an added barrel to the right before the final jump.

Midnight Run

• None of the flying crates are life crates, although the final one will give you one despite being a ? crate.

Jet-Ski Levels

Aye Matey

• This level is called Makin' Waves in the final game.
• There's a bomb behind the start point.
• There is a dong sound effect at the beginning.
• This is the first level to contain Time Crates in Time Trial mode.

Tell No Tales

• The crystal is now on the final ramp at the end, replacing the life
• It is incredibly difficult to even get a silver relic in this level, since there are no time crates and you need to get a time lower than 2 minutes

Ski Crazed

• It is actually Hot Coco.
• With the exception of checkpoint crates, every crate is a 3 second time crate instead of 2 second.
• One of the bomb formations was changed: the bombs form a U-shape in this build, whereas in the final game it's only the 2 parallel lines.
• If you pause the game, the level is called "SKI3".
• Pause menu says this is Level 27.

Highway Levels

• The start boost is automatic.

Road Crash

• The alien sign that leads to Hot Coco is missing.
• The box near the construction signs has been moved to the left.
• A lot of the box placements are different, including some more 4 stacks and some that are from jumping off ramps, which require you to not get the boost in order to get and also have multiple boxes at once.
• Some of the ramps are angled to the right.
• The final box count is 36.

Hog Ride

• The pre-race countdown is completely silent.
• The music is slowed down and plays different instruments halfway through.
• The first box is moved more to the right.
• The box that is behind the cop car has been moved more to the right.
• The gem at the end is on the right hand side instead of in the middle.
• You can drive backwards with no restraints. However, eventually you'll fall off the map due to sections behind you not being loaded, which results in the game getting confused on where to place you and eventually crashing.

Orange Asphault

• It has the same portal as road crash
• It is mispelled from Orange Asphalt to Orange Asphault
• A lot of the box placements are different, with some being added, moved or removed

Area 51?

• There's only one UFO in the level.
• The UFO model is untextured.
• There's an extra segment at the end of the level, when jumping off of the final ramp, there's a set of cars (the models are unique to this build) underneath you on the ground.
• You are given a crystal for winning the race instead of a gem
• There is only one other enemy racer who you encounter very early on
• Like with the other bike levels, some of the boxes are in more annoying spots
• Even after getting the crystal, it is impossible to do the time trial for this level
• Pause menu says this is Level 26.

Baron Levels

Bye Bye Blimps

• There are only 5 blimps instead of 7.
• You have full control of the plane during the intro cutscene segment.
• Boxes can often despawn if you shoot the balloons making you unable to get the box gem.
• There is a glitch where sometimes you wont get the crystal after destroying the blimps meaning you cant complete the level without either dying or resetting.

Mad Bombers

• Instead of giving you the crystal automatically, you're required to obtain it from an (obviously stretched and broken) balloon once all 5 planes are shot down.
• The boxes come out from the first 4 planes, 3 each, and you need to break them in time before they sink
• The music is the same as Bye Bye Blimps

Rings of Power

• The portal is the same as Mad Bombers
• There is no Death Tornado Spin icon on the first ring
• The music is the same as Bye Bye Blimps
• Shoot boxes from too far and they just disappear and won't count to the counter
• Level entrance HUD shows a Crystal, a Gem and a Relic. The Crystal is unobtainable normally, and the Gem is the box Gem, winning the race gives another of Future Frenzy's Gems.
• Pause menu says this is Level 28.

Boss Battles

Tiny Tiger

• There is no music.
• The boss icon isn't shown on the right when you are about to enter on the warp pad
• The front of the colosseum podium is completely different in design, with the bottom part completely missing.

• Cortex doesn't appear at all.
• The lions cannot be jumped on in this build.
• There are no sound effects, with the only sounds being Tiny's stomping and his roar, re-used from Cortex Strikes Back.

Dingodile

• The entry portal is the same as Tiny's.
• Dingodile's HUD shows a crystal, gem and relic to be collected, despite none of these being obtainable here.
• The music is the same as the warp room.
• The only sound effect to play is the landing of the fire attack.
• Dingodile has no animations while firing his gun, and will just spin in place.

N. Tropy

• The entry portal is the same as Tiny's and has the crystal, gem and relic collectables on the top left that you can't get. The box gem corresponds to the second gem in Sphynxter, however.
• The music is the same as the warp room.
• The texture of the spawn platform on both sides is different.
• His orb attack is much harder to dodge, since it homes in on you and follows you around until it despawns.
• The patterns of the laser attacks are always the same.
• The patterns of the platforms that appear to reach Tropy on the other side are also always the same.
• The color schemes for phases 2 and 3 are completely different, with phase 2 being more akin to the china levels and phase 3 being more dark and muddy.

N. Gin & Cortex

• These boss fights do not exist and thus neither of their buttons will do anything when stood on. The game automatically awards the last two power-ups upon acquiring 20 Crystals. Cortex's button is also not normally accessible as only up to 24 crystals can be obtained without glitches.

Internal Oddities

As said before, the game over and title screen files contain even older menu code, in which is present all of the text used for them including level names:

• Future Frenzy is referred to as Fast Forward.
• Gone Tomorrow is referred to as Future2.
• Bug Lite is referred to as Egypt4.
• Area 51? is referred to as Highway4.