Soundtrack Differences

This is a sub-page of Proto:Spyro the Dragon (PlayStation)/July 18th, 1998 build.

Pretty much every level in this game uses a different track to the one used in the final game. This page lists the differences in the soundtrack files and the differences in the tracks used by each level.

All levels presented here use their final name, and all tracks listed are named by the level they're used in in the final game, to avoid confusion.

For the most part, the music seems to be unchanged from the June 15th prototype.

STR Files#

Track No.	Jul 18th Prototype	Aug 12th NA Release
PETEXA0.STR
Track 0	Stone Hill	Artisans
Track 1	Artisans	Wild Flight
Track 2	Dark Hollow	Stone Hill
Track 3	Alpine Ridge	Dry Canyon
Track 4	Ice Cavern	Haunted Towers
Track 5	Title Theme	Gnorc Cove
Track 6	Peace Keepers	Sunny Flight
Track 7	Alpine Ridge	Terrace Village
PETEXA1.STR
Track 0	Credits Theme	Doctor Shemp
Track 1	Dark Hollow	Wizard Peak
Track 2	Ice Cavern	Icy Flight
Track 3	Title Theme	Night Flight
Track 4	Magic Crafters	Dark Passage
Track 5	Terrace Village	Ice Cavern
Track 6	Stone Hill	Lofty Castle
Track 7	Artisans	Beast Makers
PETEXA2.STR
Track 0	Ice Cavern	Blowhard
Track 1	Title Theme	Peace Keepers
Track 2	Stone Hill	Crystal Flight
Track 3	Title Theme	Gnasty's Loot
Track 4	Magic Crafters	Title Theme
Track 5	Terrace Village	Misty Bog
Track 6	Stone Hill	Alpine Ridge
Track 7	Artisans	Metalhead
PETEXA3.STR
Track 0	Stone Hill	Twilight Harbor
Track 1	Artisans	Gnasty Gnorc
Track 2	Dark Hollow	Town Square
Track 3	Alpine Ridge	Cliff Town
Track 4	Ice Cavern	Jacques
Track 5	Title Theme	Tree Tops
Track 6	Peace Keepers	Dark Hollow
Track 7	Alpine Ridge	Magic Crafters
PETEXA4.STR
Track 0	Stone Hill	Dark Hollow
Track 1	Artisans	Toasty
Track 2	Dark Hollow	Dream Weavers
Track 3	Alpine Ridge	Dream Weavers
Track 4	Ice Cavern	Credits Theme
Track 5	Title Theme	Alpine Ridge (Alt)
Track 6	Peace Keepers	High Caves (EU, Alt)
Track 7	Alpine Ridge	Wizard Peak (Alt)
PETEXA5.STR
Track 0	This STR file is not present in the July 18th prototype.	High Caves (NA)
Track 1		Peace Keepers (Alt)
Track 2		Credits Theme
Track 3		Alpine Ridge (Alt)
Track 4		High Caves (EU, Alt)
Track 5		Wizard Peak (Alt)
Track 6		High Caves (NA)
Track 7		Peace Keepers (Alt)

Notably, also, the Peace Keepers theme's intro is significantly shorter on the first loop than it is in the final game. All prototype tracks are quieter and more dynamic than the retail tracks.

PETEXA0.STR, PETEXA3.STR and PETEXA4.STR are all identical. As PETEXA4.STR was not present in the June 15th prototype, and its addition allows music to be played in more of the Gnasty's World levels, as discussed below.

As the themes used in-game match the order they appear in the STR files, tracks 3-7 on PETEXA4.STR are unused duplicate tracks.

In-Game Tracks#

The tracks used by levels in-game perfectly match the order they appear in the STR files:

Level Name	Track Used
Artisans	Stone Hill
Stone Hill	Artisans
Dark Hollow	Dark Hollow
Town Square	Alpine Ridge
Toasty	Ice Cavern
Sunny Flight	Title Theme
Peace Keepers	Peace Keepers
Dry Canyon	Alpine Ridge
Cliff Town	Credits Theme
Ice Cavern	Dark Hollow
Doctor Shemp	Ice Cavern
Night Flight	Title Theme
Magic Crafters	Magic Crafters
Alpine Ridge	Terrace Village
High Caves	Stone Hill
Wizard Peak	Artisans
Blowhard	Ice Cavern
Crystal Flight	Title Theme
Beast Makers	Stone Hill
Terrace Village	Title Theme
Misty Bog	Magic Crafters
Tree Tops	Terrace Village
Metalhead	Stone Hill
Wild Flight	Artisans
Dream Weavers	Stone Hill
Dark Passage	Artisans
Lofty Castle	Dark Hollow
Haunted Towers	Alpine Ridge
Jacques	Ice Cavern
Icy Flight	Title Theme
Gnorc Gnexus	Peace Keepers
Gnorc Cove	Alpine Ridge
Twilight Harbor	Stone Hill
Gnasty Gnorc	Artisans
Gnasty's Loot	Dark Hollow

*Note that Gnorc Gnexus uses Toasty's theme in the final game.

Due to an audio glitch, all themes played in the Beast Makers worlds loop every 2 minutes and 4 seconds, the same length as Stone Hill's theme.

Changes from the June 15th Prototype#

Due to shifts in the level IDs of some of the Gnasty's World stages, as well as the addition of an extra STR file to cover the stages which didn't have music assigned yet, these levels changed in their music the most.

Specifically, in the June 15th prototype, due to there being only 32 themes present despite the presence of 33 levels, no theme plays in Gnasty Gnorc's level. Two more levels were added since that version, and so the extra STR file covers the final three level's themes.

Level	Jun 15	Jul 18
Gnorc Gnexus	Not present	Peace Keepers
Gnorc Cove	Peace Keepers	Alpine Ridge
Twilight Harbor	Alpine Ridge	Stone Hill
Gnasty Gnorc	No music	Artisans
Gnasty's Loot	Not present	Dark Hollow

Dragon Dialogue Tracks#

Several themes which aren't present in the soundtrack files are present in the background of some of the dragons' dialogue. This suggests these themes had been worked on but hadn't been added to the game's STR files yet:

Several dragons in Dry Canyon use the Dry Canyon theme.
Several dragons in Ice Cavern use the Cliff Town theme.
Both Beast Makers dragons use the Beast Makers theme.

Missing Tracks#

The following tracks are nowhere to be found in the game's soundtrack files, despite being in the final NA build:

Alpine Ridge (Alt)
Beast Makers
Blowhard
Cliff Town
Crystal Flight
Dark Hollow's duplicate variant (with no silence at the beginning)
Dark Passage
Doctor Shemp
Dream Weavers
Dry Canyon
Gnasty Gnorc
Gnasty's Loot
Gnorc Cove
Haunted Towers
High Caves (NA)
High Caves (Alt)
Icy Flight
Jacques
Lofty Castle
Metalhead
Misty Bog
Night Flight
Sunny Flight
Toasty
Town Square
Tree Tops
Twilight Harbor
Unidentified unique unused theme
Wild Flight
Wizard Peak
Wizard Peak (Alt)