Some students at the Ringling College of Art and Design created a Star Fox inspired scene in the Unreal Development Kit, a game engine. It shows fly-through of the Great Fox and the launch of an Arwing showcasing their knowledge of UDK. Some on the internet have speculated that a Star Fox game on the Wii U might look like this. The platform is certainly capable of similar quality graphics. Unreal Engine 3 does in fact run on the Wii U.

In related news, there is a Star Fox Animated Short Film in the works by a mystery animator named Joe. Starfox-Online.net has all the details that are available.

I attempted to upgrade to the latest Wordpress, but something's wrong with it. I think I switched too early. The site's fine, all the data and pages are here. Something's wrong with the administration. I might have to downgrade or fix something tomorrow. Sorry for the outages earlier tonight.

Update: And everything fixed itself...? Everything seems fine now. Not sure why, the code's the same. Maybe it was an external issue. As you were!

Why is this not a real thing?!

Lego: Starfox by WesTalbott

Somehow I missed this when I posted that hour of Dinosaur Planet footage. IOnEI Falcon has a site called Rare Minion where he collects and displays a huge amount of information on Rare games. He has somehow obtained a ridiculous amount of details on the story and background of Dinosaur Planet. Just look at the info in that image! That's just half of one page on Krystal. There are many pages and pages of documents on his site. I haven't even had time to read them all.

I've spoken with IOnEI Falcon yesterday, and he has allowed the archiving of his information here. Just like I'm doing with some of my Star Fox assets, I will be making a Dinosaur Planet Archive when I'm finished restoring the Krystal Archive. I already have permission to post the content of celebi23's Dinosaur Planet Media Archive, which also contains a bunch of new information.

With the research obtained last weekend, I was able to reclaim data from after the hack, including the posts, comments, and edits to pages made between January and March 2012. Kat the Leopardess is assisting me in modernizing old posts (fixing links, changing how we do YouTube embeds, etc). I added the YouTube hiding technique code to the Podcast page as well, so it takes less time to load. And with all the progress I've made restoring pages to the site recently, we may have the site fully operational in a very short time.

Sorry for such a delay getting everything back together. This has been a very busy year for me. It's still busy. It's just that I've learned some key techniques at my job as a game programmer that allows me to do more work more efficiently.

The Video section has been restored! I've cleaned up the display so videos are easy to view without being too intrusive. As with the Audio section, the content is divided up by game.

I found several new videos of Dinosaur Planet (and am working on getting permission to post them here directly). You will find links to those new videos on the Dinosaur Planet Videos page.

Back in 2010, when I was still co-owner of Starfox-Online.net, I finally got around to posting all of the voice acting files I found in the source code of Star Fox Adventures. It took a long time because I wrote out all the subtitles for every single file! That's 730 sets of dialog, folks!

While the files are still on Starfox-Online, they are no longer in an easily consumable format. So, for historical/archival reasons, I'm making them available here. I put these up because someone was asking about them. I still have tons of other Star Fox-related stuff that's not specifically Krystal-related. Once the KA has been fully restored, I will organize and upload those Star Fox things too.

The other half of this weekend's project. I've finally restored another section of the site, the Audio section. It's been reorganized slightly to consolidate several pages into one. All audio files have had their ID3 tags updated to be consistent. All external links for the voice actresses have been updated and checked.

Working through it, I found a couple of tasks to do. Anyone who wants to help work on either of these research tasks is encouraged to do so. Just email me.

1. We have no audio of Krystal's cameos in the Japanese version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. We don't even know who the voice actress is in that version
2. We still don't have ripped versions of the audio from Star Fox Assault, so all voice clips have some background noise or music

On Saturday, I was doing some maintenance. Some of you may have seen the site go down briefly. I just wanted to let you know that I've finished some research and now I'm confident that I can fully backup the Krystal Archive at the database level. This means we will never have another hacking incident on the scale of the one we had last March. Every single feature on the site will now be restorable with relatively little trouble. It's now just a matter of getting everything back online. More on that later tonight.

The Krystal Archive has always had the goal of being completely family friendly and appropriate for all ages (or at least teen-friendly). We have quite a few pre-teen readers of the site, believe it or not. When it comes to fan-made content, there's always a judgement call. Fanart can be judged appropriate or not with a mere glance, and fanfilms just take 5 or 6 minutes tops. Fanfiction, however, takes a really long time to read and review.

Here on the Krystal Archive, we've always accepted incomplete fanfiction, reviewing only the parts complete at the time. This should generally be ok, but there's always the chance that the author could create later chapters that go against our guidelines. After thinking hard on this, and discussing this with Kat the Leopardess (who is helping with the KA Restoration Project), I've decided that a change is in order.

As soon as I can do so, I will be removing any fanfictions from the list that are not complete, including my own. If a fanfiction has become complete since it was reviewed, I'll try and get those final chapters reviewed quickly so the stories can be put back on the list. For those fanfictions that are still incomplete, I will attempt to contact the authors and work out a solution. Newly submitted fanfictions will not be reviewed until they are complete.