After completing and releasing the previous Krystal mod for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, AngelTheVixen is at it again! This time, the legendary game is the GameCube version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess!

AngelTheVixen released a video in this tweet showing Krystal taking out numerous baddies. The tweet implies (confirms?) that Estelle Ellis is on track to provide her voice for the mod as well.

Not much detailed information is available yet beyond the ability to play as Krystal where players would normally control human Link. The game uniquely allowed Link to turn into a wolf. Not a humanoid wolf, an actual feral-style wolf. I wonder if this mod will allow a Wolf Krystal form.

Watch for further developments at AngelTheVixen's Twitter/X account.

This takes a bit of explaining, but dedicated fans have been working for the last few years on decompiling Nintendo 64 games. This means that they take the output ROM data from their games, and using advanced techniques, they attempt the imperfect and artistic task of reverse engineering that back into human-readable code. Once in this form, the games can be recompiled again, this time for any system, not just the Nintendo 64.

This appears to have been what happened with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time a while back with the Ship of Harkinian project. Now, people associated with that project, have done the same for Star Fox 64. Their code has been released at the Starship GitHub page. Using this code and your own (LEGALLY SOURCED!) Star Fox 64 ROM, you can compile the game for your own PC, Mac, Steamdeck, or other system.

The project also supports modding if you know what you're doing. This kind of thing can open the door for full-speed, HD versions of Star Fox 64. Remember, this is NOT emulation! It will play better than on an Nintendo 64 with no slowdowns or incompatibilities due to issues with Nintendo 64 emulators. (Well, that's the theory. There are still many issues on the project remaining.)

Who knows how Nintendo feels about this, but it would be very difficult for them to argue this is illegal, as the project has no copyrighted assets. I think the future of game preservation will have a large wing for things like this: reconstructing the original game's intent by rediscovering the code that made it. What do you think?

To all the fans of Krystal and readers of this site, I want to say Merry Christmas to you all. I hope you are well and enjoying your holiday, with family and friends where possible. I haven't been the most consistent this year with posts. Ok, I've been terrible. Life has been very busy for me. But I will not abandon you or the site. I'm going to go forward into the new year with a renewed focus on the site. Stay tuned.

UndyingNephalim will be joining the Twitch streamer FoxDaddy for an interview today (Saturday, October 12th) at 4PM PST (6PM CST) about the progress of the fangame Star Fox: Event Horizon, his plans for the future, Star Fox, and game development in general. You can watch the stream live below.

Stream is over, guys. Stay tuned for a replay once it's uploaded.

Hard to believe it's been so long! The love for Krystal remains strong. If you haven't checked it out recently, be sure to keep an eye on UndyingNephalim's Star Fox Event Horizon project. He's continuing to provide frequent updates.

Also, Jacob's Star Fox Adventures short film was delayed due to filming issues, but he will be releasing some scenes from it later today. You can watch the premier on his YouTube channel.

CamChu22 has made this custom Krystal figure (along with several others like a Fox McCloud) and wanted you all to see it! Check out the numerous poses on the first post and second post. Nice work, CamChu22.

Long time site reader Jacob is planning to release a short fanfilm featuring his own Fox McCloud cosplay in a recreation of the landing scene at Thorntail Hollow from Star Fox Adventures. The short film will be released on Monday, September 23rd, 2024, the 22nd anniversary of Star Fox Adventures. Check out the trailer above.

Jacob has been doing numerous Star Fox projects in the past. We featured his work previously with his ShopKeeper Short Film, his human-styled Fox cosplay, and most recently, his Krystal Bionicle. He had also done some other works not featured here. He has done other Star Fox lego creations and more recently, he participated in the Tampa Bay Comic Convention 2023 by entering the cosplay contest with his updated Fox McCloud cosplay, now featuring a muzzle mask and a game-accurate backpack. Check out his livestream appearance.

A frequent visitor of the site, Jacob, has been emailing me a bunch of his Krystal and Star Fox related projects. I've even posted about a couple before. We featured his Fox McCloud cosplay with light up staff a while back, and then he followed up with an amazing recreation of the Shopkeeper from Star Fox Adventures.

Alas, I had been too busy to post about his more recent work (or anything really). But I'm rectifying that tonight! I'm making several posts about his work, culminating in a recent project that isn't yet released. Stay tuned for more.

To start us off, Jacob attempted to recreate Krystal using Lego Bionicle parts. That's not something I'd ever considered. Looks like he did some custom painting to get the suit texture and nice textured fur of her tail. The creation also features what looks like a large gatling gun.

He did some other Lego-related Krystal and Star Fox work that I'll feature in another post.

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Update:
I was contacted by the cosplayers directly. Their cosplay name is "Tom_Mjcosplay", not "Tom and Jay Cosplay" as I originally suspected. They have a shared instagram account with a bunch more photos. Working on getting more details from them.

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Smikimimi Cosplay has posted the video of the Montreal Comic Con Masquerade, where the cosplayers compete in small skits. I can't embed it here, so you'll have to watch it on YouTube. It is timestamped to 29:35, where the Fox and Krystal skit begins.

The Fox and Krystal duo cosplay were entry number 17, in the Journeyman division (just above the Amateur division). Their skit, "How it Should Have Ended", appears to have been a recreation of the final scene in Star Fox Adventures. Fox congratulates his team and Krystal shows off her staff. Not sure who they got to do the voice acting for Fox, but it sounds just like the original voice actor. As for Krystal, her voice was pretty good too, just different.

Krystal shows off that yes, her staff does indeed light up, and very brightly. Both Fox and Krystal's masks have moving jaws. Unfortunately for everyone, the audio system cuts out right as they started getting into the middle of their skit, so we don't know what the rest of the skit was supposed to be. Perhaps they were going to use some of the unused audio from Adventures where Krystal asks for a kiss. Smikimimi Cosplay cut the video until they walked off stage.

It was hard to hear, but it sounded like the cosplayers were "Tom and Jay Cosplay". And that's all I could find out...

OR WAS IT?!

Because while researching this video, I found the actual Krystal cosplayer!

It's Marie-Dauphin Cosplay, who has a Tik-Tok account. There are multiple videos posted with photos and other details about their experience. In the descriptions, we get a much clearer picture of what happened.

• Cosplay Creation Photos - Lots of details about how the Fox and Krystal cosplays were made. The heads were 3D printed and then covered in fur using a duct-tape cutting method to create the pattern. The jewelry was 3D printed as well. With the heads done, they moved on to clothing and accessories. The clothing was made from scratch with a lot of customization. Additional pieces were 3D modeled and printed from scratch. The staff was created by using light saber parts and then a shaft that had blue window tint with gold pattern around it. (Say, that sounds familiar!) The tails were made with internal supports to keep them relatively stiff. And lastly, Fox's wrist armor was made from foam. They have been working on these since January!
• Fox + Krystal Con Photos - A collage of photos of the Fox and Krystal cosplays.
• Krystal Con Photos - A collage of photos of Krystal running around the convention being silly and posing for photos.
• Quick Turn Around Pose - Krystal shows off the suit and staff before striking a quick pose.
• Complete Masquerade Performance - We see the sections that were cut from Smikimimi's video. They were unable to get the audio restarted and had to walk off stage. From the description, after they were unable to restart the skit, Marie was devastated and was crying as they walked off stage. However, the two of them plan to redo the skit themselves at a later date. Marie also says they plan to modify the cosplays a bit and do another con to show them off sometime in 2024.
• Receiving Prize - Krystal and the guy I assume was in the Fox cosplay earlier find out they won in the accessories category for Krystal's staff, and they rush up to the stage to get their ribbons.
• Award Photos - Photos from the awards ceremony where they got ribbons in the accessory category. According to the description, the earlier tragedy had turned to joy as Marie was crying again inside the suit, but this time they were tears of joy.

Looking forward to seeing the full skit! Well done Marie-Dauphin Cosplay!

Montreal ComiCon 2024 was July 5th through 7th, just a few days ago. This was the stomping ground of two other Krystal cosplayers, Technicolor Cosplay and Moonllita. And it was TechnicolorCosplay who informed me of this new Krystal cosplayer a few days ago.

At this point, we don't know much about the Fox and Krystal duo cosplay. From the photos, it's a fursuit-style head and a very nice staff that appears to internally glow (very cool). The suit is zentai style, which seems to work really well for Krystal cosplays. Apparently these two did a skit during the cosplay portion of the show, and also apparently won in at least one category! There are no public videos of it yet, but I think there might be some to be posted soon. Fingers crossed.

We have no information about who exactly these cosplayers are, but we're hoping to find out. If you know these two, please get into contact with me! If you ARE the cosplayers, first of all, great job and welcome to the site. Second of all, please get into contact with me! I'd love to hear about your experience.

For now, we have a small appearance of the two of them in the background of another shot, which you can view below along with the full photos I have so far.

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