In this morning's Nintendo Direct, a bunch of new games were shown off. No Star Fox games were shown, but we did finally see Nintendo bringing GameCube emulation to their Nintendo Online service.

The games announced so far:

• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
• Soul Calibur 2
• F-Zero GX
• Super Mario Sunshine
• Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
• Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
• Super Mario Strikers
• Chibi-Robo! Plug Into Adventure
• Luigi's Mansion
• Pokémon Colosseum

While not the rumored Star Fox Adventures 2, we could easily see Star Fox Adventures and Star Fox Assault released on the service.

Additionally, we learned that some games supporting multiplayer on the GameCube will now support online multiplayer, which could affect Star Fox Assault's VS Mode. All Krystal Battle Royale anyone?

Finally, these GameCube titles will play at higher resolution, perhaps even as high as 4K. This would be fantastic for graphically impressive games like Star Fox Adventures.

After posting the story about the Star Fox Adventures 2 rumor from DarkSamusHunter last night, I was contacted this morning by another leaker who goes by EarMustardHunks. He sent me materials proving that the original Nintendo 64 version of Dinosaur Planet is being worked on for an actual release. The plan is to use the original game bible and multiple versions of the in-progress game builds to reconstruct what would have been one of the most ambitious games for the Nintendo 64 had it ever released. A remaster, if you will, of the unreleased gem.

Supposedly, this project is part of Microsoft's ongoing attempts to have their games and IPs on every platform possible, including Nintendo's. As you know, Microsoft owns Rareware, and thus the IP rights for things in Dinosaur Planet not directly covered by Nintendo's Star Fox Adventures IP rights. Really, if Rareware and Microsoft were going to release Dinosaur Planet, they could only partner with Nintendo on this.

EarMustardHunks is pretty new to the Nintendo leaking game, but he provided material evidence that leaves me with no doubt he has real insight into this project. He shared some videos of a build running natively on the Nintendo Switch using official Nintendo developer portal tooling. There were sequences from the very late game that were not included in any build from the original Dinosaur Planet leak. Nintendo and Rareware are working on it together, planning for a release as part of the Nintendo Switch Online service, which will continue on the Switch 2.

As part of my agreement, I can't share any of these materials. Sorry, but I agreed to his terms before I realized what he had. Also, there's some identifying information in the videos that Nintendo could trace back to EarMustardHunks and his contacts. Understandable.

And before you ask, yes, Dinosaur Planet Krystal IS in this version of the game. She's in the game exactly how you'd expect, the same young girl adopted by Randorn. Not sure who they're going to get to do her voice, since they're going to need new voice clips for the newer portions being built.

Hoping to hear more about this officially in the next couple months. What I've seen has me very excited!

Update
Sorry everybody. It would appear I was taken advantage of. EarMustardHunks is just an anagram of DarkSamusHunter. I was fooled with some elaborately faked videos made by AI. What a terrible day to be pranked!

Nintendo will be revealing a bunch of info on their next console, the Nintendo Switch 2, on April 2nd in a Nintendo Direct. I suspect we'll see a ton of games, the release date, and the price. Hopefully we'll see some really awesome games. I've heard rumors that a new 3D Mario game is set to be the system's main launch title. Also, there have been rumblings about a new Star Fox, but they are rumors at this point.

The Nintendo Direct will begin at 9AM Eastern (6AM Pacific) on April 2nd, and is an hour long. You can watch it here or on the livestream page. Hope you will all enjoy.

I just became aware of this rumor today. It's from around January, and seems to point to something Star Fox Adventures related. With the Switch 2 Direct coming up in a couple days, I'm wondering if this is something we'll see soon.

So DarkSamusHunter is a Nintendo leaker. I'm not super familiar with his past leaks, but apparently he is sometimes accurate. At least, accurate enough to pay attention to.

With this cryptic series of tweets, he seems to be strongly hinting about Star Fox Adventures.

• "Classic Zelda-like game" - Matches Star Fox Adventures.
• "Game from another series" - Not Zelda? Matches Star Fox Adventures. Or is this a niche reference to how Star Fox Adventures came from Dinosaur Planet?
• "A NEW game [not a remake]" - People have been hoping for an HD remake of Adventures for a long time, but this indicates it will be a new game. Sequel? Prequel?
• "After Zero" - Reference to Star Fox Zero? If so, he's saying it's strange that they would release the game after having "rebooted" the series with Star Fox Zero. Of course, if you know your history, you would know that Star Fox Zero is intended to be a parallel dimension version of the events of Star Fox 64, not a remake or retcon.
• "Resuming a formula from the most unique title in the series" - Matches Star Fox Adventures.

If he isn't talking about Star Fox Adventures, I have no idea what he may be referring to. I thought maybe it could be F-Zero related, but that doesn't match the Zelda-like comment at all.

So if this is indeed a Star Fox rumor, then it seems to be pointing strongly towards a direct sequel to Star Fox Adventures. Would this be a return to Sauria before Assault? Could it be a reimagining of Star Fox Adventures the same way Star Fox Zero reimagined Star Fox 64? Or could it be a brand new Adventure on Sauria set after Assault or Command? Could there be some kind of Dinosaur Planet connection? There are a lot of possibilities here.

Nintendo's directs are always fun, even if we don't see the games we hope for. I always remain hopeful we'll see something Star Fox related. It would be good to see Star Fox, F-Zero, maybe Golden Sun, and other game series that have been on pause for a while make an appearance. Hopefully there will be a little something for everyone in the Switch 2 Direct in a couple days.

For our final post of Krystal Cosplay Week, here's a new Krystal cosplayer I have never posted about before!

I was vaguely aware of Abigail (aka _the_cosmic_firefox2000_) because I would see her from time to time in image searches, but it took me a while to locate her social media profiles. She only cosplayed as Krystal for a short time in 2022, as far as I can tell, attending TerrifiCon 2022 and Anime NYC 2022 along with many of her many other cosplay characters. Other than that, she posted a lot of videos on TikTok. More on that at the bottom of the post.

I reached out to Abigail a while back, but so far have been unable to contact her to get more information, so below I piece together what I can from what I've found. Abigail, if you see this, please contact me and let's talk! I'd love to get more info and photos of your time as Krystal.

She did a Q&A video to address common questions:

• She was inspired to cosplay Krystal because Krystal is an underrated character, and that's the kind of character she usually cosplays.
• The only Star Fox game she has played is Star Fox Zero.
• Apparently, she made a fabric mask that had Krystal's nose and mouth on it, but I have yet to find a photo of it.
• She chose to do the hair as curly dreadlocks, which is how a Star Fox wiki article described Krystal's hair (not the word I would use, but fair enough).

The cosplay itself appears to be an Assault suit (unsure if hand-made or bought), modified with fabric-covered foam pads on the shoulders. She wears green cat contact lenses sometimes. The headpiece is a dreadlock like wig tinted slightly a dark blue/purple with a jeweled headband built into a forehead construction of light blue fabric to mimic Krystal's fur, which matches the fur of the ears. The tail and gloves also match the light blue coloration, with the tail fur being pretty fluffy. Lastly, she appears to have custom-made the belt and belt buckle. My guess is the belt is shiny fabric with carved and painted EVA foam for the buckle.

There aren't many photos of her that I can find. I found a few, but not enough to post yet. More research is needed. If you know of some more places Abigail was photographed in her Krystal cosplay, please contact me with the info!

Most of her content as Krystal is on her TikTok account. Here are all the videos I could find. For those unfamiliar with TikTok content, a lot of these videos are intentionally acting out scenes from memes or movies, encouraging others to grab and remix the video in their own TikTok videos.

TikTok Videos

• Super Smash Bros Idle Animation
• Q&A Video
• Purring, I think
• She's a wittle baby fox
• She's a happy dog
• Dancing
• More Dancing
• Disco Dancing
• Attacking other cosplayers with Italian weaponry
• Her mom is hard of hearing... sometimes
• Toy Story Scene
• Chicken Run Scene
• Mulan Scene
• Dancing South Park Scene

Back in 2022, the Krystal cosplayer Rubiinikettu got in contact with me about the cosplay. She sent a bunch of photos and a video for me to post. Due to a mix-up on my end, I never posted the photos or the video. I'll need to investigate further before I can post those photos, but in the meantime, I wanted to share the video I was sent.

It's just a quick video of Rubiinikettu posing for the camera to music. The video was taken and edited by Niinkos.

Thanks for the video and your patience, Rubiinikettu!

TechnicolorCosplay, a relatively recent Krystal cosplayer who specializes in winter outfits, had a business trip out near me in Texas. We got together to talk cosplay and an idea was hatched to show off some of the behind-the-scenes knowledge about cosplays of this type. I have always had a fascination with how things work and the technical details of how things are constructed, so I hope you'll be able to share in that with me thanks to these photos and explanations. Also, for those of you interested in doing your own cosplay, perhaps this information will be helpful to you.

WARNING: I know from personal experience that some people get disillusioned when the fantastical nature of cosplay is broken by seeing behind the scenes. So if you want to keep cosplay somewhat magical by not knowing these details, feel free to skip the rest of this post.

Besides Ayano Harumaki, TechnicolorCosplay is the only other Krystal cosplayer I have met in person so far. I enjoyed our conversations! Before we get into the details, I wanted to express my gratitude for the gifts that were brought along for me. I received a Krystal pin and a Loona pin made by NaysPinClub, aka Nayel-ie (who almost did a Krystal cosplay herself). I also received two postcards and a collectable cosplayer card; all three of TechnicolorCosplay's Krystal cosplay.

In July 2024, a new Krystal cosplayer appeared on the scene along with a Fox cosplayer. You can see our previous coverage here, here, and here. We were able to contact each other and in August 2024, the cosplay duo known as Tom_MJcosplay were gracious enough to let me interview them about their experience cosplaying at Montreal ComiCon 2024 as well as their future plans. Life got in the way, but I'm making it right by posting what I know now. I don't have a lot of new info, but it's worth sharing.

They are a cosplaying couple living in Canada. Marie-Dauphin Cosplay (the Krystal cosplayer) does not speak English (primarily speaks French) and so her husband (the Fox cosplayer) had to translate for me during the interview.

They went into more detail on the staff, which is quite effective for how simple its construction was. It was literally made of 3 children's lightsabers taped together and covered in patterned foil. They used a standard LED light strip up the shaft for the light, and they used cellophane and wax paper as a diffuser. The 3D parts of the cosplay were built in Shaper 3D on an iPad (I think), and then they used a standard 3D printer to make the parts.

They showed me the Krystal head, which uses the standard system for making fursuit heads have a movable mouth.

I found out that the reason their skit was cut short because the con had imposed a hard limit of 1 minute for skits and their's was longer than that. They had hoped to do the skit fully at another con after that, only to find out that the new con's skit time limit was only 45 seconds. They would like to record the skit themselves out in the wilderness at some point in 2025.

They are working on revamps of their costumes, and are planning Star Fox Assault inspired cosplays.

They plan to attend more cons in 2025 dressed as Fox and Krystal.

• They are attending RouynCon as special guests in July 2025.
• They will be at AnimeNorth in Toronto for the masquerade in May.
• Then it's ComicCon in Montreal in July.
• The next one they plan to go to is the New York ComicCon in October.

Thanks to both of you for taking the time to talk to me. Once again, I'm sorry it took me so long to post about what you told me. We all look forward to your cosplay exploits in 2025!

The left-side of the image at the top was photographed by notsonuts_cosplay.

Update:
When the story was initially posted, I mentioned that Tom_MJcosplay were a married couple. They are not married yet, but they are a couple. My mistake! I also updated the list of upcoming cons they plan to attend to include three additional ones besides RouynCon. Finally, I added details about their plans to make new Star Fox Assault inspired costumes and finally record their skit properly in 2025. Thanks for the updated info, Tommy!

A couple weeks back, I posted about a Dinosaur Planet Krystal cosplayer I recently became aware of. I had very little information about the cosplayer and only one photo I could post.

A couple days ago, the cosplayer herself contacted me. She was gracious enough to answer my questions and provide additional photos. Without further ado, here is all the information and photos I have.

Meet the Cosplayers

The Krystal cosplayer doesn't have much of an online presence. She once used the handle GreyscaleDragon (the account that originally posted the first photos), but now she goes by Soil-licker. She has a Tumblr blog, but she doesn't really post cosplay there. She's a self-described shy person.

Soil-licker has been cosplaying since the age of 14, after her brother introduced her to the hobby. She has loved Star Fox Adventures since she was little, as it was one of the first GameCube games she had. She became obsessed with the Dinosaur Planet beta footage around 2018, hoping to one day try the game. In 2021, when the preview build of Dinosaur Planet leaked which occupied all of her time for a while. The leak, and Yume Aislinn's Dinosaur Planet Krystal cosplay inspired Soil-licker to finally make this Krystal cosplay.

Soil-licker has previously cosplayed as:

• Jet the Hawk from Sonic Riders
• Shiny Decidueye from Pokémon
• Whisper the Wolf from the Sonic IDW comics

Soil-licker plans to keep this Krystal cosplay around for a long time. Perhaps we'll see new photos in the future!

Her twin sister sister, who goes by apocalispwins online, was the cosplayer of Dinosaur Planet Fox McCloud who appears in some of the photos. She wanted to do Fox McCloud instead of Sabre because she really liked the model. I believe she only made an appearance as Fox one time, at Youmacon 2022.

The Con Experience

The two cons we knew about, Youmacon 2022 and Isshocon 2025 were the only cons where she has cosplayed as Krystal. Soil-licker never expected anyone to recognize her character, as this was just a "for me" cosplay, according to her. The fact that people did recognize her made the experience a blast for her. She is proud of the cosplay and how turned out.

She did not enter any contests at either con. Mostly, she prefers to wander about and sightsee at cons.

Cosplay Creation

The outfit was made as a romper style dress, sewn by apocalispwins. The books were normal boots with some fabric modification. The arm ring and bracer were made with EVA foam. The wig was made by Arda Wigs. The ears and tail were made by Pawstar, with some slight modifications to the ears to make them more accurate to Krystal. The necklace is a brown ribbon with a gem found on Etsy.

The downside is that it's not very warm. The only cons she has been to while wearing it were during winter months, so she got cold. Other than that, the suit is comfortable.

The staff is a spray-painted PVC pipe. It's her favorite part of the cosplay, in spite of its simplicity.

Soil-licker enjoyed creating the cosplay, with most of the work being completed in a single day. She lost part of the costume, the bracer, at Isshocon 2025. She's going to make another one.

As for apocalispwins' Fox McCloud cosplay, most of it was made from thrift store clothing altered to match Fox's look in Dinosaur Planet. The sword was made by her husband out of PVC pipe and EVA foam.

Thanks for the great info and photos, Soil-licker! Keep up the good work!

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Hey everybody! Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I'm going to fix that right now!

Each day this week, I'll be posting about Krystal cosplay. We've got new cosplayers, behind-the-scenes details, and even a lost video that I should have posted a long time ago. (Whoops!)

So check it out. The first post is happening RIGHT NOW! Reload the page if you don't see a new post about a recently discovered cosplayer.