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 get the same few questions over and over again, so here's the answers. If I've answered it here, them's the answers. I'm not holding anything back. If I know otherwise, I'll post updates here, OK?

Q: Is "Enter the Dragonfly" going to come out on Playstation 1? Or are the GBA games going to playable on an console?
A: Universal has not announced plans to do so, and doing so would be a lot of work, given the very different technical specifications of each.

Q: Why don't you support the Game Boy Advance Spyro games?
A: I don't own a GBA and am not really in a big hurry to buy one. Check the Spyro GBA section for links to good walkthroughs and hints for the games.

Q: Is there going to be a Spyro 5?
A: Good question. Unless "Enter the Dragonfly" is a big flop (and maybe even then), it seems likely. You'll know when we know!

Q: Do the PS1 Spyro games work on Playstation 2?
A: Yes, they do. Make sure to use original Playstation memory cards, though, for the Spyro games and all Playstation 1 games. All three Spyro PS1 games look nice with the enhanced graphics mode turned on, too.

Q: I encountered a bug in "Spyro: Year of the Dragon" on one of the speedway levels. Have you heard about this?
A: Yes. There is a bug in the first edition of the game. The good news is that the bug is avoidable and that later versions of the game were corrected. Detailed information on how to avoid the bug is available here.

Q: I encountered another bug in Spyro 3, in the Fireworks Factory level. Have you heard about this one?
A: Yep. It only affects some people, and everyone can get around it using (GASP!) a simple code posted on this site. Detailed information from Insomniac's Brian Hastings is available here.

Q: Can you send me all the information on _____?
A: No, sorry. If I know it, it's on the site. Sorry, but I'm now getting over 1,000 visitors a day to this site (coooool!), and I get dozens of e-mails. If I spent all my time e-mailing people what's already written down, the site would go out of business because I'd get fired and be unable to keep the site online. (Alternate answer: "No. Duh.")

Q: How do you beat Tree Tops (in Spyro 1)?
A: With difficulty. And by looking on the Beast Makers page in the Spyro 1 section. There's three entries there on how to beat the level, with several alternate takes on what is easily the hardest level in the Spyro series.

Q: I can't find all the gems in Cliff Town (in Spyro 1).
A: Read the Peace Keepers page in the Spyro 1 section. (Please take the instructions literally. You did NOT enter the level through the cliff dwellings.)

Q: How do you get the last dragon that you can hear through a hole in the ceiling in the Haunted Towers level (in Spyro 1)?
A: With great difficulty. This is all spelled out on the Dream Weavers page in the Spyro 1 section.

Q: How do you finish Metalhead's level in Spyro 1?
A: Be an explorer. Read the Beast Makers page in the Spyro 1 section.

Q: Hey, my copy of Spyro 2 is broken. I finished the whole game, but I'm missing one orb and 400 gems.
A: You missed a speedway level. (And how arrogant is it to assume that you're perfect, but the programmers must have screwed up? Yeesh. You don't think they played the game all the way through? How rude.)

Q: The answer on your site about Tree Tops/Cliff Town/Haunted Towers doesn't work!
A: Yes, it does. Don't assume the hints are mistaken and do something different than what is written. (This is especially meant for those stuck in Haunted Towers who assume when I wrote "turn left" I meant "right.")

Q: Does Spyro 2 have two different names?
A: Yep. In the United States and Canada, the game is called "Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage." Elsewhere around the world, it's called "Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer." The games have different covers, even. "Ripto's Rage" can be seen in our shop, while the cover to "Gateway to Glimmer" can be seen to the right. (Thanks to Zoe Kind for sending that in!) The name"Ripto," incidentally, is what the Insomniac team thought "Spyro," written in Japanese, looked like. They got used to saying the name "Ripto," and decided to incorporate it into the sequel to "Spyro the Dragon."

Q: Why does Spyro 2 have two different names?
A: Just 'cause. Michael John of Cerny Games told us it "was just a marketing decision made by Sony Europe. No trademark violations or anything sinister ... they just liked the name better and it didn't bother us any." The games are identical. Do not buy the version not commonly available in your area expecting it to work properly on your Playstation. It won't.

Q: Do you have cheat codes?
A: Yes. There are codes up right now for Spyro 1, Spyro 2 and Spyro 3 codes. I won't post Game Shark codes, though, sorry.

Q: Why won't you post Game Shark codes?
A: Game Shark is lame.

Q: I can't do ___________, even though I'm following your hints. Is my game broken (I used Game Shark/cheat codes/played Frisbee with my Spyro disk)?
A: Probably not. First off, be nicer to your game disks. Secondly, make SURE you're following the hints exactly (no one said Tree Tops would be easy, even if you do know how to do it, technically speaking). Thirdly, I find most technical problems with these games (and Playstation games in general) can be fixed by turning the machine off, removing any non-Playstation-made controllers (yes, they're more comfortable and often have neat goodies like turbo mode) and using the factory original ones/other Sony-made controllers. Restart the game and you should be fine. (For whatever reason, aftermarket controllers and memory cards have the tendency to make your Playstation go kablooey eventually. Not cool at all.) Finally, enough with the Game Shark, ya big wimps.

Q: Is there a Spyro stuffed animal or action figure available?
A: Yes and no. At the moment, there's nothing available in stores, but people in America and Great Britain have reported finding Spyro toys at amusement parks and carnivals. Prototypes have even been made of Spyro stuffed animals, some of which sit in Insomniac's Los Angeles offices, which are the photos you see on this page. (The Spyro toys in these photos are wearing Insomniac baseball hats turned around backwards.)

There was a Spyro stuffed animal given out as the under-3-years-old toy at Taco Bell in January of 2001. Since they weren't listed on the sign displaying the other two Spyro toys (a wing-flapping Spyro and a glow-in-the-dark Sparx thingy), they weren't bought up by a lot of Spyro fans, so you may have to do a lot of searching on eBay to find it. (It's the best of the three mini-toys they produced, though.)

Q: Why doesn't Universal Interactive approve more toys?
A: Nobody knows. Baffling, isn't it? In 2001 and 2002, Taco Bell has had Spyro toys in their kids meals, though, and you will periodically find some in gumball machines or other places, so there are some out there.

Q: What's the deal with your Amazon Associate links in the shop? Are you making a profit off this site?
A: Far from it. This site sucks up enormous bandwidth year-round, and the expense of running it in the holiday season (when new Spyro games are released and many more are purchased) has been closed to shutting this site down several times. The money generated through the Associate program pays a portion of those costs. And everything on the site is still free -- you don't need to shop at Amazon if you don't want to.

Q: What's the font you use for the SpyroHints.com logo? Is that the Harry Potter font?
A: Sharp eyes! It's actually a shareware font inspired by the Harry Potter logos. It's called Lumos, and you can download a ZIP file of it here.

Q: You must think I'm stupid.
A: Not at all. I wouldn't have created this site if I was some sort of game guru who never needed any help.

Q: You must think it's weird for someone my age to like Spyro.
A: Nope. I'm in my early 30s, my wife is in her 20s, and we literally get e-mail from people ages 8 to 80. There are grandparents who got a Playstation and the games for their grandchildren only to discover they were addicted to the games themselves, and there are adults with no kids who own nothing but the Spyro series and love them to death. Somehow, people of all ages and all walks of life have discovered the games, which I think speaks to the bang-up job done on them by Insomniac.

Q: You must be GREAT at these games!
A: HAHAHAHAHA! Whew! I wish! No, my wife gets infuriated watching me play. While she tears through levels at high speed and is the absolute queen of levels like Tree Tops or Speedway Levels, I'm an absolute klutz on those, and she typically has to wrench the controller from my hands in disgust and do them for me. Having said that, I'm a nut for the detailed worlds Spyro roams, and while I'm doing something "useless" like sitting enjoying the subtle interplay of background sounds and environmental effects like falling rain or so on, I also manage to find every hidden nook and cranny of the game. So, yes, together we're a great team.

Q: Are you obsessed with dragons or these games?
A: Nope. I built the original site the week I got Spyro 1 (which, I believe, was the second week it was out) for the dastardly purpose of helping me get hints in the Peace Makers world. And once I'd gotten the site all finished, it seemed only natural to keeping it going for the sequels. Once it grew to its current proportions, I decided the site might as well have its own URL and a new, more unified look.