Can You Beat Spyro 2 Reignited Trilogy Without Collecting Any Gems?

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Special thanks to BetaM for discovering level storage and helping out with this video.
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Outro:
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Spyro 2 40 orb speedrun 45:18【WR】
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[@EZScape]

Hey everyone, hope you enjoyed the video:) tomorrow I'm going to begin streaming again with some WR attempts of this game so if you want to check that out my Twitch is twitch.tv/ezscape and follow me on Twitter to stay updated with the channel twitter.com/EZScapeYT

[@kelvinlocke1403]

ARE YOU INSAN?!!!

[@djhenyo]

Let me just say that I fucking hate Spyro. That series, in my opinion, is the epitome of a generic and bland Mario 64 ripoff. Despite this very strong negative opinion on the subject matter, I still watch and enjoy all of your videos about these games that aren't a livestream. You have a great talent!

[@P2xelN2nja]

i dunno why but the discord invite in the description is invalid. maybe you didnt set it to permanent?

[@dotfoxtom5942]

Every time you said super fly I just couldn't help but think of an electrical tower for some reason...

[@KingPopinLockin]

I know that the devs shortened the range that Sparx can collect gems on and also removed his ability to collect gems while Spyro is on the air. I wonder if they did that just for people to be able to try this.

[@IndigoStorm27]

Moneybags: Well, Spyro, for a measly 100 gems, I can build you a bri- Spyro: *NO*

[@Someguyhere111]

Elora: "I think Moneybags has something he'd like to give you!" Moneybags: "I most certainly do not!" No really, he doesn't.

[@dylanbepis570]

I love how there's still huge exploits being discovered

[@twistedrules1]

@@irabbit_ Spyro hasn't been patched in a few months or whenever it came out on the Switch was the last time it was patched. At this point why patch the game it's not hurting anyone for people wanting to exploit a game for a WR or just speedrunning.

[@Klemes67]

Game : Collect ALL the Gems ! EZScape : *No*

[@tape319]

This reminds me of the time EZScape tried to beat Spyro 2 in the reignited trilogy without collecting any gems

[@TheTaintedWisdom]

Fer cryin' out loud ya durn fool! It's happening *right now!*

[@Jroobelucios]

@@TheTaintedWisdom I Just have to ask, did you miss the joke? Woosh. sorry, I just dont understand if you are joking or not. Have a nice day!

[@lennyhulsmans7645]

@@Jroobelucios shut the fuck up.

[@happyone234]

Tikkachu Kirby God damn, all these stupid 12 year olds watching those stupid ass reddit compilations; misusing wooooshes and misunderstanding jokes. It pisses me off so much. Kirby, shut the FUCK UP.

[@battleonfan1]

@@Jroobelucios It's Woosh with 2 o's. Also r/ihavereddit

[@MetricZero]

That was incredible. Also, I can't believe how beautiful these remakes are to one of my favorite game series of all time.

[@TheMightyGiantDad]

I love how you also made an effort to do this in as little IGT as possible

[@SlamBolts]

Not picking gems is pretty easy since Sparx doesn't work at all

[@rustedyoda7339]

facts, i hate the way sparks works now, every single level he misses gems and im constantly backtracking around the lvl getting gems, that HE SHOULD HAVE GRABBED. thank god there's a mod for the pc version witch re enabled the mulit layer and jumping collections states for sparks. it's not perfect. but it's pretty close to the way it used to work in the OG 's

[@davidpardo3695]

@@rustedyoda7339 Where did you get it? I can't find anything.

[@jesaea]

It works for me pretty well?

[@MrDanishbuttercookie]

Brb gonna use this glitch to beat all of the spyros

[@nekonomicon2983]

Gotta say it's pretty amazing how people find glitches and stage storage tricks in games.

[@nikolaiostrander2214]

I want to upvote this but it's at a perfect number right now...

[@kesasilbzy2479]

Autumn plains 3:25 406/400 gems found .. *HEY WAIT A SECOND*

[@EnjoyCocaColaLight]

Hey wait, THAT'S ILLEGAL!

[@adambriton5394]

Something similar happened in enchanted towers on 3

[@GriffinWolf]

I had that happen in Fireworks Factory!

[@Arfy41]

Anyone else get 702 out of 700 on Dino Mines in Spyro 3? No? Just Me? Okay...

[@patrikbergum5645]

@@Arfy41 finished a game with 10,002 gems. Triggered me way to much

[@FlapHedge]

10:22 Best part of the video

[@AlexisTheCrafter]

“This greedy ass bear” is my favorite line 😂😂😂👌🏻👌🏻

[@ScorpionsFatality]

This was in my reccomended. And I'm not gonna lie. Its a well done video. You've got a new subscriber haha.

[@salbabi]

Ok I absolutely LOST it at "cya Moneybags"... 😄 Thank you for this video, I love stuff like this. Such amazing workarounds. Awesome job!

[@Jesse__H]

I just read the thumbnail and clicked. Heard your voice and was like _wait, this isn't Mitten Squad, where am I?_ lol

[@TheTaintedWisdom]

As did I, we have been bamboozled!

[@jruler93]

Mitten mostly does Fallout (and occasionally Skyrim) challenges, so I didn't think this was him

[@Jesse__H]

@@jruler93 Sure but he's done plenty of others, Halo recently for example.

[@chocobofangirl]

@Heavy Metal Collector man I wonder how many hoo-rays we would have gotten for that crazy infinite fly glitch

[@matt4193]

Although I know next to nothing about the Spyro games, I have to admit your commentary is really enjoyable and I'm thinking of playing the original PS games now.

[@xboxed7202]

Why play the PS1 games over the Reignited Trilogy?

[@Mngalahad]

Oh, so this is that kind of channel now? Nice. I really like mayros and ceave gamings content so this is a great idea :)

[@thegrowers420]

The speedrun and glitch community is absolutely amazing.

[@Gaiacrusher9fan2]

The glitched out speedway reminds me of the final level for A New Beginning.

[@bdbn3376]

Can you beat crash bandicoot without collecting ANY wumpa friut

[@kutakesukato8848]

10:36 since you're on a timer; I imagine physically the world of level storage is full of toxic gas, and even dragons will run out of breath and die here.

[@BirchMonkey857]

Maybe since there's the views of what's most likely skyboxes but look like planets you're in space.

[@Rick_McDick]

The glitch is so strong it carried over to my PS1 copy and I told my friend about it and now he's got it too.

[@Alienrun]

Oh no! I've turned into a dragon and now I can't stop flying! Tryin to stay hidden so I don't get shot down by the FBI or some shit. In case your wondering I used voice to text to type this out.

[@MikeyTaylorGaming]

Long time no see! Currently working on a glitch video for this game, that loading zone pause glitch is included but I don'tttt think I'm going to be adding anything as in depth as this to the script haha! Another great video, your channel is definitely one of the ones that should peak everyone in gaming's interest, man! Keep it up!

[@harrylfc12]

Really well made video on a game I love. You’ve gained a new fan

[@StopChangingUsernamesYouTube]

There've been plenty of games where I've just casually fallen through the floor, or brute forced my way out of bounds by bonking walls incessantly (I swear that has to be some reflex you just get from old 3D platformers). Actually, I don't really remember playing any games I couldn't wiggle out of bounds in some weirdly intuitive way, at least in the "3D walkaround" genres. I just think the people who set up Autumn Plains' collision deserve a box of good donuts.

[@alexstewart9592]

Technically, you can't do that in Super Mario 64, but that's because "out of bounds" is actually a defined area, and it both has the property of stopping Mario if he tries to move into it, and if Mario finds a a glitch that lets him bypass that (there's one in Bob-omb battlefield, for example), a second safeguard activates at the start of the frame, and instantly kills Mario. Everything in SM64 is "skybox", not out of bounds.

[@StopChangingUsernamesYouTube]

@@alexstewart9592 Forgot all about that'n somehow. Man, that game would be so different if you could go OoB without learning about parallel universes.

[@dxtrum]

did you say this glitch is so strong you keep it through games

[@backlogbuddies]

Yeah it'll work on all 3 games

[@dustinleebladesmith9135]

Me: Are you collecting any gems in this run? EZ: Well yes, but actually no.

[@williamthomasmi10]

Voice over quality improvement is huge

[@lucas23453]

I am genuinely amazed by some of the ways the speedrunning community gets past what developers have in place to avoid breaking their games, I respect the ability you have to see into the game in ways the developers probably didn't expect. Here is an idea, a list of easter eggs found during speedruns/because of a speedrun. There has got to be at least once instance where someone clipped through a wall or bad texture and found something odd.

[@ordeaux26]

Is there any gaming KZbinr that can’t escape this trend, not that I’m complaining I love these videos

[@cuteemilycringes]

this trend what do you mean?

[@ryaquaza3offical]

*moneybags cries in the corner*

[@LizaPlz]

*Can you beat Spyro without even playing the game !?!?!?*

[@3RR0R415]

credits warp!!

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

In Far Cry 4's case: Yes.

[@StopChangingUsernamesYouTube]

Get a physical copy, and try to have a convincing fist fight with a cart or disc. Finally, a more expensive speedrun than Harvest Moon for the SNES.

[@Pinkstarclan]

this is all amazing, but i gotta say, i especially appreciate the lil PS controller on the bottom left

[@00ooo000o]

9:24 i hear jinsang in the backround, great taste in music ;)

[@volixwriting887]

I recognized the background music, it's a perfect example of lofi

[@geico105]

I'm trying to beat as many levels as possible in Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz without jumping.

[@cephelos1098]

Man, if you can sucessfully beat every level without jumping, it'll finally become a super monkey ball game

[@geico105]

@@cephelos1098 36 so far kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmm1hXygnt6Srsk

[@thermophile1695]

"I believe moneybags has something for you" "I most certainly do NOT"

[@Akay4444444444444444]

Collectathon: EZScape: I know more than you.

[@jim394]

Activision sees video/be like "someone's getting fired tomorrow"

[@MDSF90]

Hell yes. Keep the vids coming. I love your content more than anything else on KZbin. Your merch is the only merch I’ve ever purchased and I put about an average of 6hrs a day on KZbin between about 40 creators (if I had to guess). Thanks for the incredible content. Typing this during ads so I can run the full time on them! Woohoo! Lol. Okay bye!!

[@CodeNameMeteor]

If anybody wants to know the music going through the background is Egyptian pools by jinsang

[@paulvictor7489]

DUDE THIS IS SO COOL. about to binge all your content while grinding rs.

[@RandomiusBronius]

Is that Jinsang? You just became my favorite youtuber.

[@crystalfoxxie85]

So level storage means I can fly around the map as I've always dreamed of?

[@Joryu.]

Yeah, I always wanted to do this when I was younger. I was disappointed that when you 100% the game, you don't get that power. XD

[@CrowwreakStevenson]

Me when I heard about Reignited Trilogy: "Huh I bet Spyro 2 will be harder to speedrun without the Double Jump" Me after watching this: "Dear GOD I was wrong"

[@Alienrun]

To be fair this requires another completed save file...but still lol

[@dinobotpwnz]

This is the construct. It's our loading program. We can load anything from Autumn Plains objects to Gulp boss fights, death planes and invisible walls.

[@ashlynn13975]

This is an amazing glitch. Makes up for ria being taken away (if it's still present in the later patches). Great job EZ!

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

Never knew you liked spyro!

[@CesareVesdani]

I did not know that you could beat Spyro 2 like this so quickly without collecting any gems.

[@shortyprogaming]

I thought I clicked on a Mitten Squad video

[@MrBastille666]

More like gamechamp, but still, yeah, I wasn't expecting EZSpace neither

[@Jesse__H]

@Shorty me too! I heard the voice and was like wait a minute this isn't Paul, where am I? haha

[@robin9793]

EZKatka proves to be the best speedrunner in KZbin once again

[@HaledwellerBlogspot]

10:22 just trust me, this is the most satisfying time stamp

[@opus5770]

DUDE! I just picked up Spyro 2 again because I felt like playing some old games during quarantine. A few things: 1) I was unaware of how intense speed runs could be. 2) It just never occurred to me to make use of glitches productively. Remember when you were a kid and you played a game and suddenly clipped through the floor? And how frustrating that was if you didn't get to save your progress first? THAT being put to any purposeful use is mind-blowing to me, I had no idea it could be done until just now. 3) Finding a way to make a power-up a permanent ability?! I first saw it on a speedrun video for the original for PS1, actually right before watching this video, and if that wasn't enough, to then come here and see him use a separate game file to do it on Reignited in a really clever way... JFC. 4) That weird Speedway from hell! Floating speedway objects and shit! I actually saw that speedrun video for PS1 and thought, "wow, would be cool if you could do the whole thing with no gems..." and wouldn't you know it? Here it is. Lastly, I just want to say, you guys doing this stuff are like warlocks. Freaking bending reality and breaking height barriers and finding death planes (fucking cool shit) and just... warping space and time. Fuck, man. I'm totally blown away. If I weren't such a spaz with a controller I'd like to try this stuff myself, but alas I will just sit back and enjoy watching these true geniuses work.

[@supersysscvi]

No way! :o I didn't know you can ignore using the joystick and just use the d-pad to skip the flying height limit. So cool!

[@KnightNC]

Got it to work, but I exit Metro Speedway instead of Icy Speedway. Thanks for the vid :)

[@UprisenGaming]

This is awesome :O Very interested in doing that run myself, what would be the best method to learn the entire route and glitches (I got no experience in routing/running the game)? Also, is every physical release of the game v1.1? Only got it digitally so I would have to buy a physical copy ._.

[@EZScape]

Could join the Discord server on speedrun.com or mine in the description and I could help you out. Or just come into my stream and I can show you step by step

[@UprisenGaming]

@@EZScape awesome, joined both discords :) Will message you as soon as I find the time! If your streaming schedule doesn't overlap with my German sleeping schedule I will also definitely come watch! :)

[@EZScape]

UprisenGaming I should be live in about 30 mins or so

[@UprisenGaming]

@@EZScape going live myself in about 10 mins 😅 But if you're still live in a couple of hours, I will come over :)

[@jare3459]

No but actually yes (If know this mirror meme then you meme history master)

[@PowerZordan]

Mirror meme? The "No but actually yes" you mean...?

[@jare3459]

@@PowerZordan (meme) Yes but actually no (Mirror meme) No but actually yes

[@PowerZordan]

How is reversing 2 words making you a "meme history master"? You just used the meme, that's it

[@jare3459]

@@PowerZordan no if know meme that be mirror then you know meme history

[@zaori2785]

me: read headline me: instant like

[@theredeft5319]

What an amazing glitch. I’m a bit afraid to do this on my own copy though.

[@keenan725]

Awesome to watch this video... ezspace awesome job too.

[@kidsIIIII009]

Next video: is it possible to beat spyro 1 without collecting gems and dragons? and is it possible to beat spyro 3 without collecting gems and dragon eggs?

[@ShingerZero]

You may find this strange, but for Spyro 1 you only need 10 dragons to beat the game and no gems. As for Spyro 3 - sadly you can't. Even if you pick up level storage - there is no way to bypass even at least 100 eggs cause there's no skip to Sorceress door. But level storage greatly speed up the game so it's better than nothing :)

[@protocol37-t1n]

@@ShingerZero actually you need 70 dragons to progress to Dream Weavers and 6000 gems to progress to Gnasty's World

[@ShingerZero]

@@protocol37-t1n there's balloonist skip that present in game. Unless you mean no balloonist skip - then sure

[@protocol37-t1n]

@@ShingerZero oh, I thought you meant glitch less, my mistake

[@FlatHeadScrewDriver-d6g]

whaaa??? i never would’ve expected you liked speedrunning

[@iDanceStyles]

Anyone else a fan of VGMyths. Really like these kinds of challenges 👍

[@stewartbugler]

As this is the reignited version... I suppose the glitch popping you out the speedway gate makes some sense because of the flight animation between worlds. I noticed that unlike the original game all the flight controls kinda work during loading. Including the air roll and flame.breath as well as pitching. So I assume glitches to do with what world you should be in pair with that flight animation state being active... which if you were in any level it would only make sense to a speedway.

[@XXOVR]

Amazing and fascinating video!

[@PotatoToon]

Could we expect a no gem category in speedrun?

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

2:37 Wow. What an explosion! Nothing blew up. I didn't know this was possible.

[@Zorgdub]

Those bug exploits hurt my head.

[@link_team3855]

You can use superflame to skip Glimmer's 100 gem bridge -- First, make sure that you kill ten enemies to activate the superflight gates. (I think it's ten..) Then, just light the torches inside. You'll need to aim get em, but its not very hard. After you light the torches, the cutscene will play and you will spawn with the guy that gives you the orb for this. You can then just take the superflight and fly across.

[@nikolaiostrander2214]

This is genius and yet somehow I'm the only one acknowledging this

[@felixiaccarino8399]

great video always liked spyro, meaby one day i will try to runnit

[@TheRealSparkplugTheFox]

If a game can be broken, a speedrunner will find away.

[@wegogiant]

Great video. Any chance you'll do a WR progression vid on Skyward Sword once it calms down again?

[@thebeatmiserz]

Very nice! Keep it up!

[@PerpetualCamel]

I'm willing to bet that each level is assigned a value, say 0 to 255 and Spyro has a set state he exists in that has a number corresponding to which level he's in at the time. Because you can only enter a level from a specific point on the map, it's easy to make it so that in Zone A your value is one, and to go to Levels 1-4 you would enter through the arches. Each level would increment your counter by a set number for its value, so level one would be +1, level two would be +2, etc. Leaving the level would just increment your counter down however much it was incremented up to send you there, so -1 for level one and -2 for level two, etc. I'm willing to bet that when you pause and the game thinks you're in the level, it hasn't incremented your level counter up yet, because when you unpause you're still entering it. But when you hit exit level, it increments your counter -2 or -5 or whatever, without actually incrementing it up at all. That's why it sends you to a seemingly random location, because you incremented the counter backwards.

[@christopherburr7857]

Mate that's mad....I couldn't be bothered to even try this but good job

[@THEREALSPARTAN]

Yo is that world-famous Twinsanity speedrunner BetaM?

[@MrShellbuster]

i freaking love these vids

[@Dolei]

So after you get the flight you can just exit gulp? Or do you die or what

[@EZScape]

After receiving flight you have to guidebook warp out.

[@Dolei]

@@EZScape cool, thanks for replying!! Love your vids my dude

[@munchie3616]

This has always been my favorite game ever.

[@cookiesontoast9981]

Agreed mate.

[@jonny9398]

How about trying to do something similar in Spyro 3 Reignited Trilogy, with the Infinite Flight glitch carried over from Spyro 2 into a new game of Spyro 3. I doubt that it's going to be both gemless and eggless though, It's a completely different game from the classic PS1 version of Spyro 3, as they removed the duplicate invisible portal entrances in the remaster.

[@NanoGamingGamer]

3:11 You already collected gems in the other save files, thus rendering your challenge failed. If we can use other save files then just load one up right before the final boss.

[@Drianikaben]

You are wrong. The entire point is can you have an end game screen that says 0 gems. And using another save file is fine, per those rules.

[@RoderickEtheria]

@@Drianikaben No, the entire point of the run is to get through the game without collecting gems, orbs, or talismans, which he immediately fails in Glimmer, by collecting the Glimmer talisman.

[@stephenholt6956]

Step 1: Open game Step 2: Be a fucking Wizard Step 3: Done

[@poika22]

Oh cool gamechamp3000 uploaded again.

[@RandomMusik]

11:50 why couldnt you use this on the previous level ?

[@MrAlemonte101]

My brain hurts

[@amirgarcia547]

*sees title* Wait, CAN you?!??! I mean, I wanna screw over Moneybags as much as anyone, but it’s basically almost impossible to beat the game without him!

[@lenmarfox2947]

4:08 - 406 gems out of 400!?

[@Cameron-xl9en]

That’s just a misplaced gems glitch

[@DumbCnt]

What I am grateful for is that bears don't exist

[@TheProfProfessor]

Was that a Ty the Tasmanian Tiger talisman at the start?

[@Aladite]

10:23 I'M WHEEZING

[@Cutejess2407]

10:23 whoa!!

[@Drewski909Ti]

I’m turning myself in, in a couple hours and this is what I choose to do beforehand.

[@AVALARMusicOfficial]

What did you do?

[@Sencilia]

This... is... AWESOME!

[@ArnorAndBjarki]

3:24 406/400 gems

[@ProtoPropski]

That's cool, and all, but can you speed run American Dad's Intro

[@pastydavie]

i like dat woozy at the end

[@zackreese488]

So I know this is 2 years late, but the reason Sparx doesn't magnet to gems in speedways is because the gems exist within the targets, so it wouldn't just be pointless but also noticeably annoying if he was constantly zipping to each object

[@mickeybloodstoned9007]

How did you get passed Glimmer to Summer F. without there Talisman?