When entering water by charging, Spyro does not immediately begin charging once in the water.The arrow may have been changed because it could have been a little misleading. "Question Mark Jars" display a picture of an arrow instead of a question mark.The invincibility icon seen in powerup gates uses a slightly different design, appearing red and yellow instead of grey (similar to the design seen in the invincibility icon above the powerup timer).When a powerup is running out, the notes that play are in ascending pitch and are equally spaced instead of being a single pitch played at increasing speeds.When a powerup gate is inactive, the collected spirit particles float around the number inside the gate.When the character dialogue that starts a minigame ends, the green-text goal summary that follows in the final is missing here.As it turns out, this is true of many of the game's internal text strings. All character dialogue is displayed in all capital letters.Much of the gem placement throughout the demo differs from the final game.The sound played when collecting an extra life is not present.The orb collection sounds are totally silent, as is collecting a talisman.When collecting an orb, the number of collected orbs is shown, but there is no "orb(s)" text alongside the number.Sparx still uses his Spyro 1 design, as well as his Spyro 1 movement patterns.The Super-Flame breath power up has a significantly shorter delay when using it, allowing Spyro to freely spam it.The animation also does not match the speed & distance Spyro rolls. One thing to note is that it appears the mechanic was changed a bit as the rolling is clunkier than it was in Spyro 1, and the distance in which Spyro rolls is greatly increased.Spyro can still roll as he does in Spyro 1 with the shoulder buttons.Recovering the STR reveals that there are only three music tracks in the game - the title screen theme from Spyro the Dragon (duplicated multiple times, exactly the same as in the Spyro the Dragon demos), an early version of Sunny Beach's theme (as heard in the later demos) and, for some reason, the theme for Hurricos. The lack of music is actually due to the STR file being faulty.Most of the other sound effects are present, however. The Start menu also lacks sound effects, and there's no audio dialogue for any of the characters. There's no background music whatsoever.Selecting the "Guidebook" option doesn't do anything, likely just due to it being disabled for the demo.The slot for the talisman is a slightly lower resolution.Similarly, all in-game dialogue is displayed in all-caps, despite being written in standard casing in the game's text files.The title of the level doesn't fit the namespace very well, and is written in all capital letters.This might be what causes the apparent difference in animation rate. It appears to rotate more slowly, and it contains two extra frames of animation when compared to the final animation. The gem icon in the HUD is slightly different.Oddly, the image for the spirit particle count is a bit transparent in the demo.The total number of spirit particles was set to 99 by default for both levels, but was cut down to the actual number of enemies in each level in the final.The demo features slots for the orbs that have yet to be obtained, while the final just has transparent copies of the orb image that become opaque when obtained.Orbs still use their final appearance in-game, however. The image for the orb in this menu is simpler-looking and white instead of green.The demo features an early pause menu design.On the level select menu, an early version of the game's logo is displayed.
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