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.

Christopher Ruiz has been making parody videos featuring Nintendo and Smash Bros characters. Krystal appears in some of them.

In this one, the scene is from Avengers: Infinity war, where the Star Fox Team makes up most of the members of the Guardians of the Galaxy characters as they find Cloud Strife (who is portraying Thor) floating in space. The dynamic between Fox and Krystal is amazing.

In UndyingNephalim's ongoing development of fangame Star Fox Event Horizon, he presents this new CloudRunner Fortress level. An alternate path to the Walled City, a level we already covered, it's a chaotic scene that sees Krystal and Fox riding on the CloudRunner Kyte over the CloudRunner Fortress as they defend it from SharpClaws and even their own people. Voice acting hasn't been implemented in the level yet, but one of the things it does have is other forces than the ones you are actively fighting making actual progress through the level. Basically, stuff is happening even if you the player are not involved. Pretty detailed!

Estelle Ellis got her hands on a few Star Fox Adventures games (the PAL/European version) and is making them available as signed merchandise. Since I haven't heard back from her yet, I don't know what they will cost or how the shipping will be handled. Regardless, as of yesterday, there were still some available. Check out the original post and send her a DM if you're interested. She started working on this project back on February 23rd.

YouTuber Jigglylookback recently released a video detailing his experiences with the released debug build of Dinosaur Planet combined with play a more recent fan build from this year called Dinomod Enhanced. He covers the details of what was broken, what's still broken, and the state of the game today. The video also covers the history of the game's development, how it compares to Star Fox Adventures, and a summary of the entire game's plot, so beware of spoilers!

To achieve find all this detail for his video, Jiggylookback did five streams where he played through the Dinomod Enhanced 2025 build of Dinosaur Planet. If you want to see the whole game, start to finish (not counting the still missing sections and features), you can watch these:

• Dinosaur Planet on N64
• More Dinosaur Planet on N64
• Even More Dinosaur Planet on N64
• Can We Make More Progress? Dinosaur Planet on N64
• The Home Stretch... Dinosaur Planet on N64

The fan community has brought the game to a much more playable state since the original release in 2021. I suspect with all the new N64 decompilation work going on lately, this game may be next to get the decompilation treatment. If that happens, fixes, adjustments, and mods for the game will become relatively easy to make.

If you're interested in following the ongoing fan development of Dinosaur Planet, there are at least two Discord servers you can join. If you're interested in the very cutting edge of modern Nintendo 64 development, check out the videos by Kaze Emanuar, who is currently developing an unofficial sequel to Mario 64 called "Return to Yoshi's Island". He's been using every trick in the book, and sometimes writing his own, to pull out the absolute maximum performance out of real N64 hardware, and it shows, with the Mario 64-like game running above 30 frames per second with tons more detail, better textures, better physics and movesets, and 15 brand new worlds. The game will be releasing sometime in 2025 or 2026 by my estimation. Here's an example video where he shows off his underwater dome level.

I've recently become very excited for the state of N64 development, with Dinosaur Planet, these decompilations, and the soon-to-be-released Analogue 3D, a high-end, system-accurate FPGA N64 clone that can do 4K video output.

Sorry for the lack of posts recently. I had to go on a business trip where I got sick AGAIN (4th time in 2 months).

Krystal cosplayer, TechnicolorCosplay (known for the Ice Krystal variant pictured above) will be appearing as Krystal at a couple of upcoming events. This cosplay should also include the version 1 staff that I helped produce.

First is this Saturday, February 22nd at the Fan Expo in Vancouver Canada. I'm told this Krystal cosplay will be taking the stage again this year.

Then, from March 7th through 8th, TechnicolorCosplay will also wear the Krystal cosplay at the Emerald City ComicCon in Seattle Washington.

I mentioned on the Star Fox Assault 20th Anniversary post that I was working on a secret surprise project. It took my entire weekend, but here they are! The complete set of Star Fox Assault voice acting clips, annotated and categorized. I posted them on StarFox.org where you can view and play them right in your browser. Future updates will allow searching, filtering, and other stuff like that. (I also made a small update to the visual style of StarFox.org itself.)

There's a total of 3290 clips, some of which are in Japanese or pure sound effects, but the vast majority are all the individual voice acting clips from the English version of the game. It even includes some unused clips and the versions used in the E3 demos with the REALLY bad voice acting.

Also, there are over 450 Krystal clips here!

Some of you long-time readers are probably thinking to yourself. "Wait a minute! Didn't he do that years ago?" Kinda. Back on February 26th, 2015, I asked for your help in annotating these clips using a Google spreadsheet. Most of the work was done within a couple weeks thanks to many volunteers. For those of you who helped, thank you so much!

Unfortunately, I noticed some inconsistencies. I started to go through them one by one to verify the clips. Alas, that was going to be a tremendous amount of work. So much work that I started putting it off longer and longer. Without realizing it, almost 10 years had gone by! But 2025 is my year of finishing unfinished projects, so this is one more off that long list! Hopefully more StarFox.org related stuff will get released soon. I have tons to do.

So enjoy! This is my way of celebrating Star Fox Assault's 20th Anniversary.

Small language warning for the video.

Gagnetar posted a quick update video talking about Star Fox Assault and his plans for the upcoming Half Life 2 Krystal mod version 4. He's working hard on releasing it to the Steam Workshop, along with back-ports of previous versions of the mod so hopefully the installation will be as simple as a couple clicks. Unfortunately, due to illness, it's taking him a bit longer than expected.

The mod itself will feature a new model that he says was highly requested. He did a bunch of custom editing to make the proportions more like Krystal's in-game appearance. There's new artwork coming to go with it, some of which he shows off in the video. Watch the video to get additional details on what's coming.

I'm not allowed to talk much more yet, but I will say that the mod's release is going to be very soon. Looking forward to it!

Today's the day! Star Fox Assault celebrates its 20th anniversary since its release in 2005. I hope you have had a chance to appreciate the game.

I'm working on a surprise Star Fox Assault related project that I hope to release tonight. Something that's been overdue for a long time, because it's a lot of work. We'll see if I can finish it in time. Otherwise, sometime this weekend.

In the meantime, I wanted to point out other people celebrating the 20th Anniversary. There are others who are still working on their celebration projects for the game, but these have already been posted.

Takaya Imamura posted about the anniversary and expressed support for Star Fox Assault being re-released on Switch 2. (Also the 11th anniversary for Steel Diver.)

0013ysyk made a 20th Anniversary fanart. Very epic. The speed drawing video was also posted.

TriWarrior shows off an Assault fanart which me made recently.

James recounts that Star Fox Assault was his first Star Fox game and first video game EVER.

And lastly, I got permission to post this lovely Valentines fanart by ChocEnd.