A number of HUD elements across several levels are missing or differ from the final.The player also has the option to restart the level from the pause menu.The pause menu option for this menu does nothing when selected. The Atlas is also still referred to as the 'Guidebook' (a term used in Spyro 2) by the pause menu at this point, despite its graphics saying 'Atlas'.The Atlas is not yet accessible, though some very limited functionality corresponding to the Atlas is present, though at this point it functions as not much more than a page-turning simulator.The level names used on portals and loading screens are entirely generic at this point, with all levels given the name 'Level x' where x is replaced with the level ID.The pause menu displays names for each of the levels, many of which differ wildly from their final names.One sublevel of both Seashell Shore and Lost Fleet are still not present at this point.Specifically, the crash is on load stage 6, which corresponds with the loading of the mobys - model ripping tools have shown that at least one of the mobys seems to misbehave in its animations, so it's possible that loading this particular moby is causing the crash. The game will instead crash upon attempting to enter the level. Seashell Shore appears to not be easily accessible with memory editing, possibly due to errors in the data corresponding to that level.

See the level list below for more details. In order to enter the level, the player must fix one of the level ID variables as 10 (dec) on the title screen and start the game - access via any other level will not work. Sunrise Spring appears to only be accessible with memory editing, as using cheat codes to enter the level results in a crash.Crawdad Farm, Spike's Arena and the remaining areas of Sunny Villa and Molten Crater are accessible with the use of cheat codes.Data corresponding to an additional four levels - Sunrise Spring, Seashell Shore, Crawdad Farm and Spike's Arena - is present, as is the rest of Sunny Villa and Molten Crater.Only 13 of the game's 37 levels are playable by normal means, with only one sublevel playable in each of Sunny Villa and Molten Crater.The pause menu is replaced with a level and minigame warp menu, allowing the user to move from place to place more easily.Starting the game from the title screen immediately puts the player into Bamboo Terrace (which is called 'Rice Paddies' in this version).There are a number of Spyro 2 leftovers, notably including the game's title screen.Either way, the build appears to have been built at some point in April 2000. This, in combination with the fact that no primary volume modification date is listed, and the fact that '4.25 E' so closely resembles some of the build date and version strings used in other Spyro 3 builds (5.25.a, 7.27.a and 9.4) suggests a possible date of April 25th instead, which may be more likely to be accurate due to its use as a versioning number. Oftentimes, the modification dates on the files of Spyro builds (and PSX titles generally) do not match their true modification dates. Its original disc was labelled with '4.25 E', which likely represents a burn date of April 25th. The disc's file dates and primary volume creation date lists the prototype as being built on 5th April 2000 as opposed to the final's 14th September 2000, but no primary volume modification date is included. This build seems to match the one used at E3 2000, as well as the one used in a number of previews and gameplay B-roll footage. An early prototype of Spyro: Year of the Dragon for the Sony PlayStation.

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