Nitrofski | Spyro 3: YotD - 117% TAS (WIP 15/16) @Nitrofski | Uploaded September 2014 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Second last WIP of this TAS!

Crystal Islands took an unfortunate while to route, which is the reason this TAS didn't come out earlier. Route is good. Although it doesn't look the best, I don't think there is any better route with our current knowledge of the game.
A few things: Bentley's area can be entered as Spyro, the same way you do Agent Spyro in Fireworks Factory. Unfortunately, you can't avoid using Bentley as both the moles and the metal crates can only be destroyed with a club smash (although wizards can be hit with charge and flame...). If you could have only hit the lizards with spyro, this area would have benefitted from a very interresting route, which would have implied going back into Bentley's room from Oob to talk to him and start playing as him again.
Later in the level, I used what I call a Map Glitch to load every metadata from the slide area into the main level, allowing us to completely skip the slide and, instead, travel through the main level with Swim in Air to gather the egg and the few gems that did not instantly home in when doing the glitch. Overall, this glitch is only slightly faster than doing the slide normally.

Haunted Tomb was much shorter... It was actually done in a mere 2 days span. During the first day, I did Tanks... Redid Tanks, lost my progress and had to redo Tanks. I basically had to do Tanks 1 three times and Tanks 2 1 and a half time. On the second day, I did the rest of the level. I think the result is very nice. Of course, I had to wait in a few places and that sucks, but it was necessary and does not really hurts the look of this level.

Timer after Haunted Tomb was around 2h13m40s, which is more than on track for sub 2h30m. Coming next are the last 2 levels before SBR, i.e. Dino Mines and Harbor Speedway