Fake Portals

Fake Portals are portal visuals in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage and Spyro: Year of the Dragon that are assumed to result from an integer overflow glitch within the game's positional data. They are typically found high above each homeworld, where they can be reached if the player uses the Swim in the Air Glitch. If found, one can observe that although the portal visuals are present, they do not act as portals would, and rather, Spyro will pass straight through them.
== Trivia ==
* The portals are identical copies of the ones found within the main area of the level. As a result of arithmetic limitations within the game's programming, the variables handling portal rendering will overflow should the player reach a height multiple times that of the level's standard height. This results in the portal appearing to duplicate, while not actually behaving as the portal normally would.
** The portals are not representative of the existence of cut levels in any way, shape or form.