Those soundtrack glitches can be blessings in disguise, though.  If you're lucky, the soundtrack can skip to alternate versions of the soundtrack that are unheard throughout the game.

.__. I never knew that was a glitch when that happened. I always assumed the game just thought I might be getting bored of the level music after looping the same thing five times and wanted to play something else for me.

If I remember correctly I'd always get the Magic Crafters or Peace Keepers alternate when running around Haunted Towers trying to figure out what to do. XD

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I've never really had any level loading problems, well aside from when I was going to PeaceKeepers in the Balloon, but that was a loong time ago.
He never moved from the center of the screen so I had to restart the system.

Every now and again, the music skips in certain places.(Toasty skips like no tomorrow.. gosh. Makes me sad 'cause it's such an epic track.) Sometimes it even plays different music from other levels, say I'm in Clifftown and I turn off the music, then go back to PeaceKeepers, turn the music back on, and it'll still be playing Clifftown's music.

Aside from the mess ups here and there, I still happily play it to this day~

still have my old PS1 too, I just can't bear to let it go... ♥ if your PS2 is giving you trouble playing the old games, why not plug in your old PS1 and play? I hear the PS2 and PS1 cables are exactly the same, the PS2's cables are just... black o: to match the console and all c:

Yeah, that's what I was doing for a while. (Before my sister took the Ps1 and Spyros to college) I just thought it'd be more convenient if I didn't have to keep switching consoles. I've played those games so many times over again anyway, it's probably good they're gone for a a while. XD I used to be obsessed with the skateboarding minigames in Spyro 3.

When we bought our PS2, we were planning on selling it, but they would have only given us $15, so we decided just to keep it; it's a good thing too.

I've been occupying my extra time playing Ratchet and Clank now. They're really good, and also developed by Insomniac.

Aw, that sucks. I thought NTSC and PAL were just different versions of the game, but as you could tell by my last comments, I'm not too smart when it comes to game systems.   Good thing the games I got turned out to be NTSC then, because I didn't even check when I ordered them.

I don't claim to be nerd standard either but I know enough to prevent myself from losing valuble monies :3 there are tiny differences between NTSC besides the playback~ I hear that the NTSC version has Haunted Tomb music for Cloud Spires in Spyro 3... or the other way around, I dunno XD

still have my old PS1 too, I just can't bear to let it go... ♥ if your PS2 is giving you trouble playing the old games, why not plug in your old PS1 and play? I hear the PS2 and PS1 cables are exactly the same, the PS2's cables are just... black o: to match the console and all c:

gah, you Americans are so lucky :c I don't think they have a collector's edition of the PAL version... I would have definitely bought it -weep-

Aw, that sucks. I thought NTSC and PAL were just different versions of the game, but as you could tell by my last comments, I'm not too smart when it comes to game systems.   Good thing the games I got turned out to be NTSC then, because I didn't even check when I ordered them.

Yet another reason why I want a PS3 now. I'm surprised my old PSX still works. That thing's got to be at least 15 years old now...

This is a bit unrelated, but does anyone know if you can play PS1 games on a PS2? I thought you could, but my Ps2 won't play any of my Ps1 games. It does have a problem reading regular disks though, so I was just wondering if it's a problem with my Ps2, or you just can't play those games on one anyway.

gah, you Americans are so lucky :c I don't think they have a collector's edition of the PAL version... I would have definitely bought it -weep-

my PS2 is what I'm using to play Spyro D: all PS2s should play PS1, same as PS3 plays PS2 and PS1

reckonin' it's your PS2 that's got a problem 3:

btw, definitely agree with the music skipping point, though I just get around it by muting the in-game music and playing the soundtracks on my laptop c; if anything, it works out better because I can use my awesome headphones too ♥

Not too long ago I bought the Collector's Edition PS1 Spyro trilogy off Ebay. It was very nice to have all the games nice and working again. No way I'm letting anything happen to those.