This is an NTSC-U review build dated September 4th, roughly ten days before the final NTSC-U Rev 0 date of September 14th 2000, and nearly a month before the final PAL Rev 0 build date of September 29th 2000.
The build date of this version is not known with complete certainty due to the fact that both the modification dates on the files and the primary volume dates seem to have been recorded incorrectly, similar to the final game. The date has been inferred from the game's version string, which is thought to be closely related to the actual build date - in this case, it's v.9.4.
Given how late this build is there's not a huge number of differences! But it's still interesting nonetheless.
Cutscenes are an area which saw quite a few differences in this build, so I've compiled them all into this video. There's slight colour differences between the two videos but that's likely due to my recording and emulation setup as opposed to actual differences.
At present, Hwd405 has 157,604 views spread across 29 videos for Spyro: Year of the Dragon, and about 7 hours worth of Spyro: Year of the Dragon videos were uploaded to his channel. This is 42.66% of the total watchable video on Hwd405's YouTube channel.
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