I have some bad news, friends. My friend and someone many of you knew has passed away. Lucas succumbed to his brain cancer treatments early last month. There wasn't much left of him after the chemotherapy, but he was able to receive and watch the Krystal DVD gift Foxtype1973 sent him (which I will be posting soon). His brother told me that Lucas really enjoyed it. So, sad news, but I thought you all should know.

For those who don't know, Lucas was a long-time Krystal Archive reader. He has had brain cancer for about three years, and occasionally I would post updates on his conditions in previous podcasts.

I commissioned The Burning Donut for two Krystal fanarts. He has made three! I hope you like them as much as I do. He put them up on his FurAffinity page along with links to the full res versions. Enjoy!

Commission 1
Commission 2
Commission 3

While you're waiting for the site to get completely back online, I'll temporarily upload specific files by request. I've gone ahead and uploaded two of the more popular files. If you want any other files, leave a comment requesting what specific file you want and I'll try to get it online for you.

Updated with new requests:

• GTA San Andreas Star Fox Mod - Krystal + other characters
• GreyFireFox's Krystal Rig - Version 1.4
• Burmecian's Fallout 3 Mods - Krystal + other characters
• Assault Krystal Mesh - Krystal
• Brawl Star Fox Meshs - Krystal + other characters
• Sinaherib's WarCraft III- The Frozen Throne Krystal Mod
• Gadonstriom's Adventures Model

Mystery Assault Cosplayer

The incident with the server deleted not only the Krystal Archive proper, but also the sub-sites. Namely, the Saurian Translator and Star Fox Command: All the Words. Both sites have been reuploaded, good as new. I also added them as links in the sidebar.

Coming soon... another couple of project sites related to the Krystal Archive...

Fire Yoshi sent me some high resolution screenshots he took a week or two ago. These will be going into the screenshots section eventually. Meanwhile, enjoy the high res Krystal goodness! A few of these shots were taken immediately after Krystal was sealed in the crystal, but with the camera zoomed in and rotated so we can see details.

Screenshots

I've done a quick pass at making the site mobile-compatible (try resizing the window to really small width). You can also see all the other changes as you resize and hover over things.
Design v1

Tested it on my iPhone 4, and it works well!

I'm working on a new theme for version 4 of the Krystal Archive. The new theme will focus on simplification of the visual style, the site design itself, and the content design so that people that other myself will be able to help maintain the Krystal Archive. Take a look, and tell me what you think. The image of Krystal was specially rendered for the Krystal Archive version 4 by Greyfirefox.

Edit

The first comments I've received on the above design called for a background image. The above image does have a subtle background in the form of noise (like the previous version 3.5 of the site). So far, commenters want a large, Krystal-centric background image, which is probably not going to happen due to the inherent limitations of such backgrounds (see comments), and the fact that this site expands and contracts its size based on the width of the browser window (and in the future, will adapt to mobile devices). I am not opposed to a more agressive, repeating, small background image though. Here's the site with some of the background imagery from the Saurian Translator. I think it works pretty well here, but tell me what you think.

Predictably, everyone yearns for another spacefaring adventure with our favorite group of anthropomorphic animals: Star Fox! IGN held a poll for the Nintendo game series that most needed a revival. Star Fox beat out close second and third winners Earthbound and Metroid, respectively. F-Zero, Donkey Kong, and Ice Climbers followed them.

Source

The site's back. None of the content, all of the hope! Here at home, I'm limited right now. My computer is simply not powerful enough to deal with the huge task of rebuilding this site.

Fear not! I have ordered a new computer. It should be here in a week. In the meantime, I'm going to try and prepare for the huge change that the new capabilities will entail, and focus on giving you NEW news right now while you're waiting. You ready? Me too. Let's get to that. Right... now.

PS

For those of you just joining us. Beginning in mid-March, the Krystal Archive was hacked by dubious interests in a foreign nation, along with millions of other blogs in a massive attack. I managed to get the site back in working order within a few days, though some content was lost. Then, in cleaning up the remainder of the infection, a mixup at the hosting company deleted all files and pages associated with the site, so I now begin again. I still have the backups, but this time, I'm going to focus on rebuilding, rather than maintaining.

Krystal Archive Podcast: Episode 29

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