The original PlayStation version of Spyro: Year of the Dragon contains a well-known anti-piracy system in response to how effectively the preceding titles had been cracked upon their retail releases. If any of the game's executable code is modified to remove encrypted cracking detection/protection, a handful of anti-crack measures will start quietly affecting gameplay. One of these measures is a unique, dedicated message from the fairy Zoe while in Sunrise Spring, informing the player rather bluntly of the illegitimate copy being played, and to expect occurrences in gameplay which wouldn't occur otherwise.

For the Spyro Reignited Trilogy version of the game, Toys for Bob re-recorded Zoe's original statement verbatim and it can be found in the game's files, but there is no known method to trigger this voice clip during gameplay.