Sheep wrote:

Ooh, I remember this site
The actual site is still up btw http://www.spyro1.com/
I think the Dark Hollow image might just be a normal screenshot, but with it's hue shifted a bit. It looks pretty much like normal when I shift the hue by -40 in gimp.
http://s4.postimg.org/3mkhs22jh/image.png

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wat

Morgan and i talked about this a few posts up. i've updated the original post with an archive.org link. i dunno how much of the site was archived, but it should be enough to still see most of the stuff

Ooh, I remember this site
The actual site is still up btw http://www.spyro1.com/
I think the Dark Hollow image might just be a normal screenshot, but with it's hue shifted a bit. It looks pretty much like normal when I shift the hue by -40 in gimp.
http://s4.postimg.org/3mkhs22jh/image.png

> Clicks on link

wat

shoot, you're right, Morgan. i updated the original post with an archive.org link.

edit: i know i mentioned spyro-yearofthedragon.com at some point, but i can't find any of my posts about it right now. if you happen to see any, let me know and i'll update those, too.

I found it: http://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=12878

edit: i know i mentioned spyro-yearofthedragon.com at some point, but i can't find any of my posts about it right now. if you happen to see any, let me know and i'll update those, too.

The spyro1.com domain appears to have been hijacked, and now seems to be a Chinese spam website. The spyro-yearofthedragon.com domain is also defunct.

Edit:
I ran the website in IE and installed shockwave.
Sparx follows the mouse cursor in the collage landscape, with his typical random movement, and scales as you move the mouse up and down, into and back out of the scene, to make it seem 3d.
When you click, the mouse breathes fire.
There are several things to burn: A Town Square bull charging out of the cave and towards the "camera", tents from Peace Keepers Home, a sheep bump-bump-bumping past the screen, and a thief running in a zigzag "into" the scene.
Animated text appears when you move the mouse over the dragon bases, which is the site menu.
No actual crystallized dragons. I misremembered

I looked up how to open .dcr files, and could not find any methods on how to open it successfully. Apparently it's used as Kodak cameras' raw image format, but that's all I know.
Also, why does it require Shockwave in the first place? This is the entire source of the main page:

That's really cool. I wasn't aware of any of the marketing they did for Spyro when I was young, so it's interesting to see this stuff now.

i know the layout looks really bad, but you can still navigate it. especially if you maximize the window that appears. in fact, i really recommend that.

something interesting is in the top-right corner where it has the Spyro logo and screenshots of levels, one of the screenshots shows Dark Hollow with a different sky!
https://web.archive.org/web/20041227054 … _right.gif

something else interesting is something from the "Characters" section. lol:

the overall tone throughout this site is just strange, if not funny, to me. what do you guys think? edit: here's another good example of that:
"The trouble for the dragons was that some people get very jealous, and Gnasty Gnorc, the smelly, wart-ridden sponger was one of them. "

from Beast Makers: "Gnasty Gnorc has filled the place up with some pretty bizarre Gnorcic creations of his own, and they all seem to have very large mouths. . . genetic engineering the Gnasty way." XD

this site really does have a strange tone to it. what am i reading?!