darkSpyro

Whenever i put my Dark Spyro or Dark Steah elf that comes with the SSF dark edition in the 3ds giants game. The game screws up and shows a neverending loop of the green skylander generating animation whatchamacallit. To be simple, it crashes. I tried on a different save file with no figures installed yet and game still crashes. S1 dark spyro and other figures, no problem. Its just those. I dont have other s3 figures aside from my darks but do the original spyro and stealth elf s3 poses work? Or can no s3 be playable. So much for being backwards compatable with the game. People who own just the 3ds version without the console versions will be let down by the mislead.

there is no reason for the S3's to work in giants,the games and toys go forward not backward.

Sure they should all of my S2 and S3 Skylanders work in SSA they just don't have their new moves but they still work like their SSA equivalents.

S3 dark edition appear, welll, dark in SSF. Those weren't programmed in Giants.

Disclaimer: I have not used my S3's or SSF Darks yet, but didn't I read they had different movesets from their original base versions? If that is true, which I honestly don't know if thats true or I thought I read it somewhere, the data could be different enough so that the game doesn't recognize them at all.

If it turns out I did misread that information, just kindly disregard this.

I have the s1 versions. But for the people who dont have, gill grunt for example and got their hands on the s3 version and tried to put them in SG for example. It wont load. Its misleading for those guys. I have no issue with the s3 not loading for i have the past counterparts. Im just mad for the people who got these characters for the first time.

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Disclaimer: I have not used my S3's or SSF Darks yet, but didn't I read they had different movesets from their original base versions? If that is true, which I honestly don't know if thats true or I thought I read it somewhere, the data could be different enough so that the game doesn't recognize them at all.

If it turns out I did misread that information, just kindly disregard this.

If you actually read the controls on the 'collections menu' only Dark Spyro has la different move set than it's normal verision. (yes I checked cuz I was curious as to what changed with Dark Ninja Stealth Elf.)


On to the problme at hand, acording to the game, all S3/S2 are surposed to work in the previous versions. They're only just seen as that version on that game. (aka S2 spyro for giants and normal Spyro for S:SA) However, while I don't have any of the new dark skylanders, i do have volcanic eruptor and I've come across that same glitch... *i haven't attempted putting Ninja Stealth Elf in it yet as of this post.* and yes it is a glitch because if that toy is not compatable, it's not surposed to freeze like that but simply pop up a message that says it's not compatable.

I can say this, in giants console version, the game treats s3s as 'special' versions of the character. and the Giants 3DS don't register Special varients in the collection. They don't appear as their non special form either. (cas in point, GITD S2 Cynder) it can still transfer the level/EXP to the toy, just doesn't have a record of it. (alteast not in the collection.) this could be apart of the problem.


anyways, I'll check my S3 ninja Stealth Elf to see if I get the same glitch before I reply again.


[EDIT]: just checked S3 Stealth Elf... and it worked fine. She showed up as a Special Series 2 Stealth Elf... thus the collection didn't register me as having a S2 Stealth Elf. I duble checked Volcanic Eruptor and yep still go the glitch.

Honestly, my best guess is that it has something to do with the fact that it's a varient that doesn't exsist in the game. And somehow it's causing an unforseen glitch to accor. because it's not how the game handles skylanders that it doesn't recignize.

Well funny, I just attempted to load Blast Zone into the Gaints... just to confirm that it shows an error message when it reads a skylander it doesn't recignize..... and It said "Only 1 toy can be on the portal of power at a time." anyways, sadly I don't have a swapforce core skylander to check so yeah.

Ok, so its just the darks. Anyway, the reason why it says 1 skylander at a time is because the portal is treating both halves as 2 figures.