DotD Documentations by Dragonsoul5000

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2	The Legend of Spyro : Dawn of the Dragon Documentations by Dragonsoul5000
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4	This is currently a W.I.P of all my documentations about the video game The Legend of Spyro : Dawn of the Dragon, started on 03/01/2023. I might or might not move/copy everything in the future, we'll see. I will update it from time to time, when I find something new. Here, you'll find various explanations about the game's mechanics and tons of useful values. In 14 years, nobody really ever bothered to find even the most basic informations such as health or damage. So I basically went into Thanos mode saying ''Fine, I'll do it myself''. I wanted to share my discoveries because what's the point of keeping it all to myself? The TLoS Speedrunning Discord server was a huge source of motivation for me since we share a common interest : The Legend of Spyro, and I knew that any kind of documentation would be useful for these people. Thanks a lot. Here is the link to the server : https://discord.gg/h3dAuR99n9 Over time, I've built three huge watchlists, one Dolphin Memory Engine watchlist for the NTSC Wii version (RVL-RO8E), one Cheat Engine watchlist for the NTSC PS3 version (BLUS30205) usable with RPCS3 and one Cheat Engine watchlist for the Xbox 360 version (565507F9) usable with Xenia. Thanks to Xeirla for finding some addresses in the Wii version, notably the elements level-up requirements. You can download them and explore them as you wish : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vexBkkXaU7iKagz05g0e_Tmo2OlSn-UD?usp=sharing I will also update those sometimes. Note that PS3 and X360 DotD use Big Endian and that you need to add the 2 Bytes Big Endian, 4 Bytes Big Endian and Float Big Endian to Cheat Engine by right clicking on ''Value Type'' and selecting ''Define new custom type (Auto Assembler)'' and then copying and pasting the entire script from the text files. Only add one of them at a time, otherwise it won't work. Also, make sure MEM_MAPPED is enabled in Scan Settings. I have also included a .txt file with some Action Replay codes I wrote for the NTSC Wii version for anyone who wants to mess with them. *Last updated : NTSC Wii - 06/12/2024 / NTSC PS3 - 21/09/2024 / X360 - 21/09/2024* I have also translated some French interviews about Dawn of the Dragon. They're really interesting, since they show some early development footage. You can find them here : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qd7nPrbKl47LlF0Apt9bit8xkQIye81YO-tZLy5XxMw/edit?usp=sharing For any question or to point out a mistake, you can contact me on Discord, my username is dragonsoul5000. I speak both French and English. You can also find my YouTube channel there : https://www.youtube.com/@Dragonsoul5000 Enjoy!
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6	Table of Content
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8	1 - Welcome	A welcome page. You are currently here.	Completed, will add any new sheet there if more are needed	06/12/2024
9	2 - General Stats	Informations about Health, Mana, Fury, Level Ups, Combos, Parry, Disarming, Favorite Element and In-Game Time.	Completed, will add new things if more info is found	22/09/2024
10	3 - Input Cheat Codes	Full documentation about all the cheat codes in the game.	Completed	12/04/2023
11	4 - Armors	Informations about the true effects of armors, which may differ from their in-game description, along with hidden bonuses.	Completed for now, unless new info is found, since some things still remain unknown	13/08/2023
12	5 - Elemental Effects	Informations about effects applied by elemental attacks on enemies.	In Progress, needs more testing and documentation	21/09/2024
13	6 - Damages and Mana Costs	Tables with damage values and mana costs of all of Spyro and Cynder's attacks in the game.	Completed, although some info might need a little bit of testing	27/08/2024
14	7 - Game Flags Explanations	Some explanation about how the game uses flags to calculate the percentage of completion.	Completed	07/03/2024
15	8 - All Story% Mod Flags	Tables documenting all story module flags that count toward the final percentage, with names, addresses for the NTSC Wii version and informations on how or when exactly they are triggered.	Almost done, just needs a bit more testing regarding what happens when you load the level with the flags active (for save editing purposes)	08/08/2024
16	9 - All Bonus% Mod Flags	Tables documenting all bonus module flags that count toward the final percentage, with names, addresses for the NTSC Wii version and their locations.	Completed	08/08/2024
17	10 - All Misc. Mod Flags (NEW)	Tables documenting all miscellaneous module flags that do not count toward the final percentage, with names, addresses for the NTSC Wii version and their locations.	In Progress, missing only saved flags	27/08/2024
18	11 - All Game Structure Flags (NEW)	Tables documenting all Game Structure Flags, with names, addresses for the NTSC Wii version and their effects.	Not started	27/08/2024
19	12 - Allies Stats	Full documentation about allies health and damage.	In Progress, only missing Dragon City (fire and Catapult)	04/05/2023
20	13 - Enemies Stats	Full documentation about enemies types, health, resistances, weaknesses, damages and red gems and/or XP drops.	In Progress, all done up to Dragon City	14/09/2023
21	14 - Elite Enemies	Full documentation about Elite enemies health, resistances, weaknesses, damages and red gems and/or XP drops along with masks elements and durabilities.	Completed, might rename some attacks later	14/09/2023
22	15 - Bosses	Full documentation about bosses health, resistances, weaknesses, damages, red gems and/or XP drops along with HP gates for every phase.	In Progress, missing damages and some drops	29/12/2023
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24	Changelog
25	-06/12/2024- Just a small watchlist update. Sorry for the slow spreadsheets update, Iife keeps me pretty busy, heh. Welcome : Updated the Dolphin Memory Engine NTSC Wii watchlist in the Google Drive, notably with some objects stuff and chain lengths for the dragons.
26	-22/09/2024- Very small math update. General Stats : I decided to look into the XP formulas for the combos in Story Mode again and managed to brute-force the missing formulas with a calculator and Excel. Needless to say, those are pretty weird numbers, but they work.
27	-21/09/2024- An elemental update. Welcome : Updated all watchlists and added a lot of new stuff, especially for the NTSC Wii version (pointers my beloved). All versions now have watches for the elemental attack pointers, and swapping pointers is as easy as a Ctrl + C and a Ctrl + V. That means you can now see the unused attacks for yourself! Elemental Effects : Added and corrected a lot of information. Also renamed the Shadow and Wind effects to correspond with the (better) names of their particle effects in the game's files. Other effects' particles have more generic names. On a side note, I have found a lot of neat data using the elemental attack pointers, like the actual raw damage values and mana costs, knockback, cooldown, elemental effects, etc. So far I only have 4 attacks out of 20 done, and they are in the NTSC Wii watchlist.
28	-27/08/2024- Second part of a big flags and unused content update (yes, unused content, and no, I'm not done yet)! I have added links to all individual videos showcasing this content modded back into the game, but you can also find all of them in this playlist : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL80c0s9vUlzUS7TtN_X6Tgcyez0XZdfMY General Stats : Added info about unused fury gems with a YouTube link. Damages and Mana Costs : I found two unused elemental attacks, so I added their data along with YouTube links. All Misc Mod Flags : Made a new sheets with all remaining mod flags saved to the save file. Some of them are even linked to unused content! I managed to mod some of these back into the game with the XXL Editor, which you can see via some YouTube links. Only the RAM addresses for the save flags are missing. All Game Structure Flags : Created this new sheet, but it's not started yet. There are only 12 of these flags, so it shouldn't take long.
29	-08/08/2024- First part of a big update. General Stats : Added more details about In-Game Time. Game Flags Explanation : Renamed Subflag 1 to Completion flag and Subflag 2 to Event flag to avoid confusion. Also, Mod is for "Module". All Story% Mod Flags : Bit of renaming here too, and added all missing save addresses. Also made it so left and right sides in Ruins correspond to what they are internally (which is inverted from the camera's POV). Basically, it's from where you would enter the door from Warfang, so the left side has the Malefor mural. All Bonus% Mod Flags : Bit of renaming here too, and added all missing save addresses. Same thing as story flags regarding left and right in Ruins.
30	-03/06/2024- Small update. Welcome : Updated the Dolphin Memory Engine watchlist for the NTSC Wii version (added some memory addresses for the dragon's states). General Stats : Added just a bit more precision about fury points.
31	-21/05/2024- Not really a sheets update, but an update nonetheless. Welcome : Updated watchlists and added a new Cheat Engine watchlist for the Xbox 360 version to use with Xenia. Also added a .txt file to help with RAM searches.
32	-07/03/2024- Flags keep surprising me. Game Flags Explanations : Found even more flags with very minor purposes. Won't bother with level-specific Mod flags since these are lost upon exiting the level and are never saved.
33	-07/02/2024- Here's the big bonus update! Game Flags Explanations : Added some info about the total number of Mod flags (438) and Objective flags. All Bonus% Mod Flags : Finally decided to get all the bonus flags along with their objectives for all levels, with their real-time USA Wii addresses and their internal names! Only missing the Save addresses and the miscellaneous Mod flags now!
34	-30/01/2024- Small update before a big one :O Damages and Mana Costs : I never tried using the chain swing version of Earth Boulder (used for elemental puzzles) to damage enemies. It actually deals quite a lot of damage depending on the level. Added these new damages.
35	-25/01/2024- I messed a lot with HxD (hex editor) and XXL Editor (a level editor for Astérix games made by Étranges Libellules, but that (kinda) supports DotD since it runs on the same engine, which is ELB's kal engine) and found some new stuff about flags, notably all of their internal names! Here's the link to the XXL Editor if you want to mess with it : https://github.com/AdrienTD/XXL-Editor Game Flags Explanations : When experimenting with save data, I noticed that one real-time flag made the game write 1 to two different offsets in the save file. Turns out that flags are a little more complicated then I thought and each real-time flag gets split in two, one subflag for the % (if applicable) and one for the event trigger, so I re-wrote the entire explanation. All Story% Mod Flags : Updated everything with internal names, but now it's missing all secondary subflags that I didn't know existed until recently.
36	-29/12/2023- Sorry it took so long, I was kinda busy with other things, haha. Last update of 2023! General Stats : Added more info about In-Game Time. Bosses : Added more info about how bosses stats are handled in RAM. Also added The Catacombs Golem's stats and its gem drops. However its damages and its Dark Crystal's durability (when the Golem loses its arm later in the level) still haven't been documented yet.
37	-14/09/2023- Hey, look! An update! Welcome : Added a .txt file containing Action Replay codes for NTSC Wii DotD in the watchlists folder. General Stats : Added some minor info for Health, Mana and Level Ups. Enemies Stats and Elite Enemies : Very minor edit for XP and HP drops to show the total. Bosses : Finally added gems drops for Malefor and found a damage counter for his stuns.
38	-23/08/2023- Very small update. General Stats : Added one thing about disarming. Game Flags Explanations : Fixed some minor mistakes. Elite Enemies : I forgot that Fury is powerful enough to disarm Elites too.
39	- 13/08/2023 - Big update today! I added a lot of things, so I thought it would be neat to keep a changelog to explain all the new stuff! General Stats : Added some info about disarming enemies, although incomplete. Armors : It's confirmed, Spyro's Silver Bracers do work, but only for his melee attacks. Added some info about these bracers. Elemental Effects : Added and changed some stuff, like the combo rate for Burned effect, nothing too important, it still needs a lot of testing. Damage and Mana Costs : Added grab hitbox for Twister, I somehow missed it when testing. Allies Stats : Added info about Cheetah Warriors and Chief Prowlus. Enemies Stats : Added info about all enemies up until Dragon City. Elite Enemies : Added disarm and elemental effect values along with an attack for Elite #3 that I somehow missed due to bad RNG.
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