Section Fireflies Frames(approx.) Frames per Firefly
Shamrock Isle Imps 2 1900 950
Gypsy Road Imps 2 2600 1300
Moon Fondue 3 3200 1067
Winter Mesa 4 4800 1200
Hunter Jumping Tutorial 1 1400 1400
Temple of Dune Thief 1 1450 1450
...I finished the first Imp game and got 2 fireflies, skipping the second game.
Section Fireflies Frames(approx.) Frames per Firefly
Hunter Jumping Tutorial 1 1400 1400
Country Farms Haystacks 1 1375 1375
Temple of Dune Thief 1 1450 1450
Tiki Tropics Round Torches 1 2100 2100
Watertopia Enemies 1 1400 1400
Moon Fondue Beacons + Radars 2 3000 1500
I don't know if this has been discovered before. It's a neat glitch where you can run around the edge of the map if you glide off the right side of the screen while holding the charge button. You have to be facing up-right to do it, and a lot of the time you'll just fall into the water, so it's probably too inconsistent to do live. It seems to lift you to a really high height, because when you jump back onto the screen you are very high up, and if you run around to underneath the map then you can run over the top of everything for a bit without interacting with it, before eventually falling and landing on the actual map (shown here on Shamrock Isle). Unfortunately, despite how cool it looks, I don't think there are actually that many uses for it in a speedrun. I might be able to get up to Country Farms or Ripto's Volcano a bit faster, but I can't think of any bigger use for it. What's really annoying is that it would have loads of uses if only you could jump off the left side of the screen, but it only works on the right side...
Yeah, this has been "discovered" several times by several people, but yeah, no real use I guess.
It just seems like a glitch that LOOKS game-breaking, but really isn't.
Another example in country farms: When you enter the "fight" to get your fire breath back, you can nullify the first CS. It will be played once you defeat the magician and thus makes it impossible to get your fire breath back due to the fact the trigger for the 2nd CS has already been used to trigger the 1st one.
It is possible to skip the dialogue after boss fights
I assume a Game Over warp would put you back into the prior overworld?
During the Dreamy Castle gauntlet-skip it's possible to cancel the Background Music. It remains silent until the next time you open the menu. The way you do it is by pressing start to open the menu as you are gliding towards the end-zone. While the screen fades to black, Spyro hits the end-zone, which stops the menu opening and instead ends the challenge. However because the BGM was stopped by pressing start (since the game thought it would instead be playing the menu music), the game gets confused and never re-starts it. This isn't just cosmetic. Because the screen is already fading out when you hit the end-zone (and it has to fade out to finish the challenge anyway), it saves ~20 frames over just gliding into the finish normally. So ~40 frames in total since you do the gauntlet twice. The timing is precise but it could be attempted RTA - it's only a small timesaver, but there's no reason not to try and you'll know if you've managed it because the music will stop. Just don't press start too early because then you will actually open the menu before you reach the end-zone, which will just waste time.
Does the music retrigger after a death?
Since it takes opening and closing the menu, it almost certainly isn't worth it.
I personally find the lack of music has a weird eerie vibe to it, especially with the birds chirping in the background!