Original Dragon Sprites

Before DragonCave had all the amazing, user made sprites it had now, all the sprites came from various video games across the web. This led to some copy-right issues, and TJ09 was forced to replace them - with the help of various DragonCave fans, resulting in the Replacement Project. Many of the original sprites added were heavily influences from the previous ones, and some artists have critiqued the originals as having anatomy problems, most notably the Gold dragons and Split hatchlings.

As you can see, the sprites for Yoshi were, at the time, our Dinos. The replacements continue to pay tribute to Yoshi, having cartoon-ish shading and shoes. You can also see there are two sprites that are basically unchanged - the Papers and Hollies, which were originally made by DragCave.

Some dragon pages have the original full resolutioned sprite previously used available for it thanks to Bluesonic1.

The Species
In the image below, you can see many of the original sprites for species in the cave today. Here are the species' names, in that order.

First Row: Black, Water, Green/Pebble, Dark Green/Vine Second Row: Grey/Storm, Magi, Bright Pink, Purple Third Row: Red, Stone, Split/Two-Headed, White Fourth Row: Paper, Chicken, Holly, Gold Fifth Row: Mint, Neglected, Silver, Zombie Sixth Row : Yoshi/Dino (Yellow, Blue, Green, Red)