Rundown:
This was the 2nd speedrun that I've ever really attempted of a game, the first being a Spyro 2 any% run which I recorded on emulator and uploaded on Youtube.
This is the 1st speedrun ive published on SDA and plan to publish more speedruns of Spyro the dragon, and its sequels.

Versions:
It is very important what version you use in Spyro the Dragon. NTSC seems to be a much quicker version because Dragons are rescued faster and the flights have quicker paths due to quicker objects (I think). Anyway, this is the PAL version and if this run was done on NTSC with me doing exactly the same things, probably another minute could have been shaved.

Anyway, lets get started

What we need for the n00bs:
- 10 Dragons to get through Artisans
- 1200 Gems to get through Peace Keepers
- 5 eggs to get through Magic Crafters
- 50 Dragons to get through Beast Makers
- 6000 Gems to get through Dream Weavers

Artisans 1:
Decided to rescue Nestor. Hes one dragon that you might want to skip, but really it takes on average about 15 seconds to get to a dragon from another dragon and Nestor speaks for about 10 seconds. Plus he's right in front of you.
Quick jump on the stones and into sunny flight

Sunny Flight:
Mistake here, Ive had worse runs. On the run before, I got 1 hour: 04 and my controller kept on making me dip for some stupid reason, glad I switched controllers to my trusty 1999 - ps1 controller (first and best controller)

Artisans 2:
Perfect

Town Square:
No Problems here, the dragon here is another people think of skipping. I get it along with the egg thief

Artisans 3:
Good

Stone Hill:
Pretty Good

Artisans 4:
Yep, Good. No Toasty or Dark Hollow because even though they have easy dragons, they have terrible amounts of gems, and this speedrun is mainly focussing on gems
Onto Peace Keepers

Peace Keepers 1:
Good, hop in to dry canyon

Dry Canyon:
Good, Skip one of the dragons here, which I believe doesn't work well with the rest of the route

Peace Keepers 2:
Fine

Cliff Town:
Always been a bit of a problem level for me considering where it is in the game. Didn't do too well on this run, but others may consider skipping some of the gems I colleted

Peace Keepers 3:
Good

Ice Cavern:
Did very well here, All 5 dragons, some people may choose to skip the last one or may choose to do the level in reverse to get the extra lives. Not me

Peace Keepers 4:
Good, made sure I killed that annoying Gnorc that controls the cannon before I tried to use the cannon

Night Flight:
Ok, bit of trouble near the end, not too bad though

Peace Keepers 5:
2nd egg thief, if I had trouble with this egg thief I had a backup in Wizard Peak

Onto Magic Crafters

Magic Crafters 1:
Perfect, 10 gem fan boxes are always worth it

Alpine Ridge:
Really good, sometimes I died from those magicians, no deaths here and a lot of gems.

Magic Crafters 2:
Good. Dunno whether to rescue the dragon near high caves before or after high caves, I think before would have been better before high caves

High Caves:
A lot of routes you could take in this level. I Really just go for the places with have the most gems and take the last time. Theres the area with the faerie that I went on some runs but decided not to on this one. And the 2 areas with the thieves, which I didn't go in either. The area near the home portal should always be gone in though

Magic Crafters 3:
Skip Crystal flight for now to get not one, but 2 25 gems and enter wizard peak

Wizard Peak:
Probably worst level in this run, usually isn't a hassle. Died, wasted supercharge, got hit multiple times, missed gems.
Last egg thief here

Magic Crafters 4:
Fine

Crystal Flight:
Terrible run, at least I didn't die

Magic Crafters 5:
Fine

Blowhard:
One of the best levels for gems, I was ok here, could of saved a few seconds though

Magic Crafters 6:
Fine, onto Beast Makers

Beast Makers1:
Used a shortcut, got a few gems. It went down good

Wild Flight
Best Flight run I did, still 20 seconds off the WR though, hehe

Beast Makers 2:
That whirlwind is a pain in the ass

Misty Bog:
Quite good here compared to usual I think. Skipped that dragon, which might be a thing to think about. Bit on other runs I chose to go for that dragon

Beast Makers 3:
Fine

Tree Tops:
Dum, Dum, Dum! Even the name of this level makes me shiver. I nearly always had a death here when I tried to go for the dragon on the island. You have to be very lucky to not die on the first go. So yeah, wasted 20-30 seconds here an nearly died twice. Oh well there's about 100 gems on that island plus a dragon, you cant afford not to take that risk.
Also nearly forgot about a shortcut I only just learned about. Woops.
Rest of the level was fine compared to other runs. I think my only death warp in the speedrun.

Beast Makers 4: Little shortcut and I'm in Metalhead

Metalhead:
Wasted 10 seconds in the "secret area" and had no sparx for the majority of the level. Not my best run of this level, but oh my does this level has a lot of easy gems?

Beast Makers 5: Open the chest and get a few easy gems. Also try a "Charge double jump" and fail at it, Im better at in on an emulator

Onto Dream Weavers

Dream Weavers 1:
No More dragons, and onto Haunted Towers

Haunted Towers:
Bah, I always do some things wrong in this level, this run especially. Have to go back to the faerie. Crash on the supercharge. Forgot the chest in the "secret area" (which was technically good seeing I went over in gems).
Wasted about 30 seconds on this level

Dream Weavers 2:
Quite long part for a homeworld. Stuff up a bit on the 'evolvo-ray' and I don't know how I should wait for the fireworks near icy flight. Otherwise it was fine.

Icy Flight:
Bah, I was shitting myself when I missed that helicopter. What I was trying to do was be cocky and flame that helicopter as late as possible so I would ed up flying up into a wall and end the flight quicker. I ended up adding about 10 seconds to the flight

Dream Weavers 3:
Short as hell, onto Jacques

Jacques:
Needed 200 gems, so I killed a few enemies and stuff + Jacques who gives a stack of 25 gems. Went under by 38 which isn't too bad.

Dream Weavers 4:
Do I really need to talk about these?

Onto Gnastys World

Gnorc Gnexus:
In general, I did fine of all runs of Gnorc Gnexus, except failed a bit on searching for rats and bumping into dragon teeth.

Gnorc Cove:
Really proud of my run here, probably my best.
No deaths, pretty much no hits and really fast

Twilight harbour:
BIG death level, didn't die here with no sparx. Gosh I was happy

Gnasty Gnorc:
Very good run, and all with no sparx

My Route in general:
Many people talk about getting most gems in the early worlds. I definitely didn't do that here, but I still got quite a lot of gems in Town Square in Artisans and the peace keepers world, so I wouldn't describe my route as collecting gems in the late part of the game.

There's a few things to consider. Like Dark Hollow, Terrace Village and maybe dark passage but my route is pretty spot on in my opinion. Lets just wait for someone to beat an hour. I don't think it will be that hard, and really you could do it easily with a few mistakes fixed on my route.

This run Starts off by rescuing the first dragon in the game Nestor. Nestor is a waste
of time but I would rather not get into to much detail on why I hate this dragon so much.
Over all this run was a decent run, and I would love for someone to give me a challenge
and beat this record. This run was also done on a real console.

-SUNNY FLIGHT : The route I got for this speed way level was by ratchet5 a good of mine
who helped me practice for this run.I would say that I did real good on the speed way
I do not think I can make any improvements.

-DARK HOLLOW : Nothing really much to say about this stage ,but that it was a pretty
damn good run, also notice how I jump charged on the stairs at the end of the level to
go faster.

-TOASTY : Toasty is the first boss in the game that is dressed up as a scare crow type
creature but is really a sheep. I did make a few mistakes like getting hit once and banging
into a wall. It really isn't anything to be ashamed of, but I could be about 5-10 seconds
faster.

-STONE HILL : Is by far the longest stage in the artisans homeworld but yet again it is one of my favorites. I would have to say that I did a okay run but I did make a few mistakes like missing the whirl wind to get out of the well ,and almost exiting the level
which made me laugh when I was re - watching the run .

-TOWN SQUARE : This stage went real well , and I don't think I can make that much of an improvement on it considering the mistakes were minor.

-ARTISANS HOME WORLD : I did not make any mistakes when I was collecting gems to get to the levels in the home worlds.

-Dry Canyon : This stage is my favorite level by far in this game. There are so many gems to collect it is remarkable. I did very well in this level.

-Cliff Town : One phrase sums up this level " Those Damn Rockets ". I really just hate the rocket in this level ,but I am just happy that it didn't give me as much trouble as I expected .

-Ice Cavern : The first level that includes ice ,and also the first level I die in. When I was climbing up to the secret area in the level I slipped on the so called "Ice" ,and fell off the edge. How splended ,but overall it wasn't time consuming.

-Dr. Shemp : Nothing much to say about this level but that it is the second boss in the game.

-Night Flight : I got a pretty good time of 1:07 which in my eyes is a good time.

-Peace Keepers : Had no trouble collecting the gems in the home world.

-Alpine Ridge : I had a very good run for this level.

-High Caves : I was really suprized how well everything went in this level . I didn't ever screw up on the super charge.

-Wizard Peak : This had to be the worst level in the game seeing how I died twice trying to get to the secret island with the egg thief on it .I hope to improve this level in future runs

-Crystal Flight : I had a decent time on this flight but I could do better.

-Blow hard : This is the third boss in the game. I did very well on Blow Hard "the worst pun".

- Magic Crafters : I did very well getting the gems in this homeworld.

-Terrace Village : I did rather well .

- Wild Flight : Kind of a bad run seeing how I died in this flight.

- Misty Bog : Had to death abuse because of those darn attack frogs :C

- Tree Tops : My run of this stage was almost as bad as wizard peak but I guess I recovered from it.

- Metal Head : Had a decent run of this boss.

- Beast Makers : Did actually real well on this home world.

- Haunted Towers : I really love this level because of the infinite super flame that you get. I also did decent in this level.

- Dark Passage : Those little turtles , and devil Puppies are quite annoying.

- Lofty Castle : I was kinda parnoid in this stage because I kept thinking I was missing gems.

- Jacques : Did okay in this boss.

- Icy Flight : I think this was one of my best flights in this speedrun .

- Dream Weavers : I think I had kind of a bad route for this home world.

- Gnorc Gnexus : The smallest level in the game and by far the easiest

- Gnorc Cove : Should have practiced this stage more because honestly I was kind of confused on where all the gems were in this level.

-Twilight Harbour : This has to be the hardest level in the game but at least I did good in it.

-Gnasty Gnorc : The final boss in the game .As our adventure comes to an end we notice after Gnasty Gnorc is dead we still have a dragon to get in the home world "Gnorc GNexus". After we save the final dragon we have a secret level to complete because we have 100% of the game done.

- Gnasty's Loot : The final level in the game. The only problem I had with this level were those airplanes.

- Conclusion : Overall this run was great but it is not my best. Soon I hope to redo this run. For futher progress on Spyro
speedrunning visit my youtube which is Crash41596 .