Alert! Nintendo has a new Nintendo Direct incoming! It will take place on Wednesday, September 13th, 2017 at 3PM Pacific (6PM Eastern). Confirmed topics include Super Mario Odyssey and games with holiday releases for the Nintendo Switch and 3DS. I don't expect there will be Star Fox, but there might be a few surprises. Probably the most surprising thing they could announce is that they are in active development on Smash Bros for the Switch. (Note: I don't have any knowledge that they are, not even rumors.)

I always enjoy watching these things with you guys. Watching the stream while chatting is a great way to connect. In the past, we used an online chatroom. I'm thinking of something more stable, but also a little crazy. Discordant, if you will. More tomorrow.

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It's official, Miiverse is shutting down. On November 7th (less than a month away), all functions related to Nintendo's first social network will be closed, and likely all data associated with it will be hidden or deleted. Current users of the service will be able to receive a copy of all their posts after the service ends, but you won't be able to browse others' posts anymore.

I never really used Miiverse. It's nothing personal. I don't generally use any social media services, except to do basic communication and, for the Krystal Archive, repost news there for exposure.

However, I know that Star Fox in general, and Krystal specifically, had a huge fanbase on the service. Countless images of Krystal exist in the Miiverse, many asking for her to be included in Super Smash Bros. I've seen quite a number of them when reposted to other art sites. But the original posts are going away.

There is a current, ongoing project dedicated to backing up the entirety of the Miiverse, and making it available online. There is even a Github project for it. I wish the Archive Team the best of luck. They're doing God's work over there.

However, I don't want to rest on the hope that they will get it done. So, I'd like to start gathering links to all the Krystal-related Miiverse posts we can find! If you know of any Krystal posts, or you're willing to search through the Miiverse for them, PLEASE send me an email (mrkrystal@gmail.com) with your links. ANYTHING Krystal related is fine. I will worry about filtering them for quality or content. Also, DO NOT try to post these links in a comment here, because the spam filter will flag comments with multiple links.

And if you know how to effectively search the Miiverse, please advise me how. I don't use it, after all. Help me start the project!

I will take these links, and create an archive of all the Krystal-related posts. I will make it available to everyone once it's complete.

Photo by Dragonheart07. Original art by Alfore.

Here's a new fan-crafted Krystal figure by livintdark. It's built on top of a Monster High Catty Noir body. Livintdark added custom sculpting for the armor and head. He then painted the figure with Krystal's colors and added a fabric loincloth. Though the proportions are off due to the body base, the sculpting and paint work is actually pretty well done in my opinion.

Check out the livintdark's gallery post for the full image.

Site reader jimaki sent me an email with his piano rendition of Krystal's Theme from Star Fox Adventures. If you guys like it, let him know in the comments and he'll work on it some more to improve it and create music sheets.

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Jimaki also sent in a link to his sheet music for SNES Star Fox's Cornerian theme.

The interview mentioned in the huge Star Fox 2 info dump a few days ago has been translated from Japanese to English. Shigeru Miyamoto, Takaya Imamura, and Tsuyoshi Watanabe talk about their experiences developing Star Fox and Star Fox 2. Much of what's in the interview was already known from previous interviews, but there were a few tidbits.

The decision to include Star Fox 2 with the SNES Classic was made by the producer of the SNES Classic, not Miyamoto. It's almost as if that producer read the interview about Star Fox 2 being finished and decided "why not?"

We had known that several of the characters in Star Fox were based on the personalities or mascots of various dev team members, but apparently, Andross's character was based on Imamura's boss at the time. No idea who that might be, though.

The crazy detailed diagrams of the Arwing transformations were made for the instruction manual, not for the purpose of making toys or something.

Read the interview.

Here's the Japanese version of the Star Fox Assault Katina Briefing scene. You can see actual shock and surprise on the faces of the characters, unlike in the English version. Krystal is super cute in this one.

When we combine the Japanese animation with the English voice acting, you can see some severe lipsyncing issues, especially from Slippy and Beltino. Wow is the lipsyncing off!

This week's Star Fox Assault cutscene is the Katina Briefing scene from the English version of the game. Here, General Pepper reveals that he knows the true extent of the Aparoid threat. Fox is sent to investigate a distress signal at the Katina Outpost. Krystal wants to come along, but Fox want her to stay in the air with the rest of the team. Once again, this is in beautiful 4K and fixed audio.

YouTube user Captain Frezhor has posted a video showing how to make a Krystal-like Mii for the Nintendo Switch. The Mii is similar to what one could make for the Nintendo Wii and Wii U. Try it out if you want to have a Krystal-looking character in your game of Miitopia or for your own profile.

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Site reader NJFox sent in a video showing progress on his Krystal fangame, Star Fox Adventures 2. Taking place on Sauria, Krystal travels the land upgrading her Staff, fighting enemies, and even flying with a CloudRunner. Her goal: find the missing Arwing parts to repair her Arwing. The game is still in the very early stages and needs a lot more work and polish. However, given how difficult a 3rd person game is to develop, I'm pleasantly surprised at how far he's gotten in a few months of effort.

There are also videos showing the locations of all the staff upgrades and demoing the Krazoa side quest.

If you want to try the game yourself, NJFox has uploaded version 3 of the Windows Unity3D game to Google Drive. The demo in the video above is from version 4, which has not yet been released.

I'm sure NJFox will give us more information in the comments about his progress and future plans.