Gem finder vs Old School

[Souli Kitsugashi]

If something make us rage Spyro fans and who play the games is always missing gems in the levels and as the original didn't have the gem finder from start, it was a reward for beat the story in Spyro 2 and a Sparx power up after beating his level in Evening Lake.

So, do you activly use the gem finder or you go at the old fahioned by spending time until find the gems you missed?

[HighLanderPony]

I've already completed all these games several times, so if I miss some secret path of gems this time around I'm going to look for them for a few minutes then use every tool available to hunt them down, be it game mechanics or looking the solution up online.

[ProjectEve]

Use a controller and tap R2

[Smugass Braixen-Chan]

I do NOT have the patience for doing it the "old fashioned way," lol.

Easter Egg hunts are just a means of padding out the gameplay time anyway.

I'm not a completionist by any stretch of the imagination. So if something takes me more than a couple minutes to figure out, and it's not getting me any closer to the end credits, I'll just move on.

[Lanzagranadas]

Well, I must have somehow skipped the explanation of the Gem finder because I didn't realize it was a thing until completing Year of the Dragon. So for the few levels I had trouble finding them all I ended up looking in Youtube.

There weren't many anyway, probably around 7-8 levels across the three games I couldn't complete without help. Tree Tops was my biggest issue, since I knew where the gems were, it just took me some time to do the charge jumps properly to get them.

[EF_Neo1st]

Originally posted by SouliSoulBlack:

If something make us rage Spyro fans and who play the games is always missing gems in the levels and as the original didn't have the gem finder from start, it was a reward for beat the story in Spyro 2 and a Sparx power up after beating his level in Evening Lake.

So, do you activly use the gem finder or you go at the old fahioned by spending time until find the gems you missed?

What gem finder?
I mean, it is an external tool or an in-game feature?
If it is in-game I never knew about it, if it is external tools (cheat or youtube) . . . then I guess I will keep doing the old fashioned way ofg looking around myself.

[Smugass Braixen-Chan]

Originally posted by EF_Neo1st:

Originally posted by SouliSoulBlack:

If something make us rage Spyro fans and who play the games is always missing gems in the levels and as the original didn't have the gem finder from start, it was a reward for beat the story in Spyro 2 and a Sparx power up after beating his level in Evening Lake.

So, do you activly use the gem finder or you go at the old fahioned by spending time until find the gems you missed?

What gem finder?
I mean, it is an external tool or an in-game feature?
If it is in-game I never knew about it, if it is external tools (cheat or youtube) . . . then I guess I will keep doing the old fashioned way ofg looking around myself.

You press down on one of the thumb-sticks (Not sure the command on PC) and Sparks does a barrel roll and looks in the direction of the nearest Gem. It was a hidden feature introduced in the original Spyro 2.

[EF_Neo1st]

Originally posted by Smugass Braixen-Chan:

Originally posted by EF_Neo1st:

What gem finder?
I mean, it is an external tool or an in-game feature?
If it is in-game I never knew about it, if it is external tools (cheat or youtube) . . . then I guess I will keep doing the old fashioned way ofg looking around myself.

You press down on one of the thumb-sticks (Not sure the command on PC) and Sparks does a barrel roll and looks in the direction of the nearest Gem. It was a hidden feature introduced in the original Spyro 2.

AH . . anyway, no point in having something to find you a gem but thnks anyway.

[Rialstrom]

I didn't knew the gem finder came back til halfway through the Evening Lake worlds.

Tried holding all 4 shoulder buttons in Ripto's Rage (causes that's how it worked in the original). Then, after beating Spider Town in YotD, I was confused that Zoe didn't mention it (as that's when you unlock it in the original).

It was a thread that talking about it afterwards was how I found out.

[NBOX21]

In the original PS1 version of Spyro 2, you actually got the gem finder ability right from the very start (hold all 4 shoulder buttons simultaneously). The only way you would know how to use it in Spyro 2 was to read the manual that came with your game since in-game it was not explained once.

In the original PS1 version of Year of the Dragon, you unlocked it by beating Spider Town in Midday Garden Home, the second Sparx level. Zoe actually explains how the gem finder worked once you unlocked it. There was also a cheat code in the original that you could use to unlock it instantly.

Honestly, even without the gem finder, I never really had too much trouble finding everything in these games anyway, even my first time around. Believe me, I've played these games so many times I practically know them inside and out. Even on Switch, I barely even used it.