Spyro: A Hero's Tail Hacked: Hidden Level

This is my first video for Spyro: A Hero's Tail, and hopefully not my last!

This video is a playthrough of one of the many small, hidden test levels found in the PS2 version of the game by hacking. This level is one of the larger ones, but some of the others have some pretty interesting stuff still, including buttons, 2.5D Moneybags-es, and mammoths. Woolly mammoths. If this video goes well (and hopefully it will!) I'll go ahead and upload some more!

Oh, but please forgive my slowness in this relatively small level. Not only did I want to show the level clearly, but I also needed to keep myself alive. Those enemies can be tough!

(By the way, I really can't give away the codes for this as I have only the PAL version of the game. For the sake of fairness I would rather keep them hidden for now - sorry!)

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Spyro
• Hero's
• Heros
• Tail
• Hacked
• GameShark
• Hidden
• Secret
• Level

[TheJames6514]

What's with the butt bouncing on air

[LXShadow]

@TheJames6514 A side-effect of my 'Lift Player' code. I needed it to get to places. =X

[smileybutterfli]

where are you finging all the new parts at ?

[LXShadow]

@smileybutterfli In the game.

[Hacczilla]

I could've sworn I commented on this video when it was released. This was an awesome find! I have not played A Hero's Tail in a good while, but will do so later in the week. Keep it up, LX!

[XaneCorpProductions]

If only someone could give those tunnels collision! It looks like a fun ride!

[QueenCynder]

So cool! I would've loved to actually play this level in the game. Those tube-things are so neat looking!

[ShadowLee19]

@LXShadow

I have tryed to hack the File FILELIST.000 with the software Game Extractor. The results are so so... After the extract process of the file, I got a lot of files (approximately 500), no folders and theses files have no names. I can do nothing with 500 no-name files but I know one thing: The game is really extracted because I can listen some audio files with MFAudio. Do you use game extractor for decrypt or extract FILELIST.000? Also, how I can do a memory dump?

Thanks!

[LXShadow]

@ShadowLee19 I do indeed know about Crash: TWoC's level files. I found that stuff myself. =P

Hacking the file list allows for partial level replacement, but some levels call for separate features to be loaded, e.g Gnasty Gnorc's model. So it doesn't always work. I have a decrypter/extractor for FILELIST.bin/FILELIST.000, but I don't think it'll be very useful in this case. You still need to find the addresses, which pretty much requires a memory dump... so I'm afraid we're still a bit stuck.

[ShadowLee19]

@LXShadow

I would like to know if It is possible to access these levels by hacking the file FILELIST.000 in the game disc of Spyro A Hero's Tail ? I can't open it because the file is probably encrypted like other games except Crash Bandicoot The Wrath of Cortex and few others. CB TWOC is very easy to hack because it is possible to change files names and make cool stuff like replace a normal level by the hidden level named Fire Island. Do you know a way to extract the file FILELIST.000?

Thanks!