Krystal Archive Podcast 38 Recorded Live on Google Hangouts December 14th, 2016 Featuring special guest Lylat-Mobius Adventurer! --- Almost one year since the episode 37. The reason: roommates! Last podcast, the latest news was the Krystal Archive's 10th anniversary. 11th anniversary coming up on January 10th, 2017. --- This podcast was done now because of my arm surgery and lack of ability to type. --- 2016 Year in Review News * We'll mention each thing briefly, then come back to add details on some of the larger stories. Ayano wished the KA a happy 10th birthday. In early January, Ayano visited Further Confusion in San Jose California. Brian, FJ McCloud, and Datahog were in attendance. Lots of photos were submitted to the site of both Ayano's Krystal and FJ McCloud's Fox cosplays. * Brian - talk about the event later The Smashified Team did a Smash Bros. inspired Krystal painting, with full commentary and speedpaint video Ayano completed her Star Fox Command jumpsuit, something she'd been working towards for about a year, and showed it off publicly for the first time at Japan's Wonder Festival 2016. Lots of photos from that event were posted too. FoxType1973, aka Richard, needed some support as he dealt with health issues in the hospital. He created a Twitter account and I encouraged everyone to follow him at Volpfoxtoon. First4Figures revealed a scale-model Arwing for sale. The Fox McCloud statues from GameStop arrived. March brought a Nintendo Direct talking all about Star Fox Zero and Star Fox Guard. * We'll talk about Star Fox Zero in detail later. After the Direct, there was a landslide of Star Fox news. I did my best to keep up: - Europe got a special edition case - There was going to be a transforming Arwing amiibo, but it got cancelled. - Lots of people interviewed Mr. Miyamoto - Tons of trailers, spoilers, and Star Fox retrospectives April Fools Day joke this year: Adding "Favorites Mode" to Star Fox Zero, where you can switch out any characters for any other characters in-game. Ayano visited the Tokyo Game Show, a huge mecca for cosplayers. We had a collaboration with Abdallah, who would post video walkthroughs of the entire Star Fox Zero game. Fun.com created a massive infographic visually showing off the history of all Star Fox games and the many cameos of the characters from the series. Posted about Krystal cosplays by GatrayProject and LaMascotaFursuits. Nintendo shows off the amazing Star Fox animated short: Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins. Right afterwards, during a Nintendo livestream, a whiteboard is seen with a picture of Krystal on it. Nintendo NY's store had several exclusive types of Star Fox merchandise available for purchase. The huge amount of posting on the KA actually hurt my hands (I'm still recovering). That forced me to take a break from the site for a while. This in addition to lots of family and real life issues that took place this year. I commissioned OxygenImpulse at Furry Fiesta Dallas to make a Krystal charm, and many of you readers also expressed interest. I commissioned viwrastupr at Everfree NW to do a Krystal commission artwork. It came out really well and you guys loved it! E3 came and went, with most discussion being on the next Zelda game (which looks amazing by the way). By now, Nintendo knew that Star Fox Zero wasn't going to be the revival they had hoped for. The cancelled Star Fox: Lylat Legacy comic was concluded and re-released to the internet, thankfully. The previously Japanese only FoxMcCloud DLC for Monster Hunter Generations finally arrived in the US. CakeInferno, aka Greyfirefox, posted a new Krystal render at 4k! I made a huge update to how files are posted on the KA, improving performance and adding security. I posted a backlog of official photos from Ayano's trips to Further Confusion 2016, Japan's Wonder Festival, and the July Kigurumi Meetup. Ayano showed off her new, lighted staff upgrade. The staff was accidentally damaged at Further Confusion 2016. First progress shots of OxygenImpulse's Krystal charm were posted. Ayano did a huge photoshoot for the Star Fox Command 10th anniversary. I commissioned Manic-Bunny to do a fun little Krystal commission, using a different style combat suit. Max and his crew hosted a livestream about their Dinosaur Planet Animated Series. Progress continues to be posted on their Tumblr. Nintendo announced a surprise collaboration with Apple to bring Mario to mobile games in Super Mario Run. I posted two new videos from Ayano posing with her staff and gatling gun. The OxygenImpulse Krystal charms became available, and can be ordered in many different styles, albeit at a higher than expected price due to the cost to produce them. inostupid recreated Krystal in Minecraft. Abby Davis started posting a Patreon-supported Star Fox Adventures comic, with a young Krystal and CloudRunners currently featured. Progress continues on the comic on Tumblr. Nintendo revealed the Nintendo Switch (formerly known as the Nintendo NX) as a portable tablet console with detachable controllers and lots of interesting ideas. LucasJG1994 sent in another musical arrangement, this time for the Krazoa Palace Theme. I posted an amazing live-sculpt video of Sculpture_Geek making a very accurate Fox McCloud. In addition to posting on Twitter, Krystal Archive news is also mirrored to the new Gab.ai microblogging network. Incidentally, the posts are now public, so you can see them without an account. gab.ai/krystalarchive UndyingNephalim posted more slow progress on Star Fox: Event Horizon in between other projects. I informed everyone about my upcoming surgery. We watched the 2016 Game Awards together. It was a great show, except for the rappers they brought in for musical performances. Star Fox Zero was put on holiday sale for $35 LyricWulf played a rendition of Krystal's theme from Star Fox Command on piano. Ayano made her final trip for 2016 by attending the first ever Tokyo Comic Con. Rumors surfaced that the Nintendo Switch will support GameCube games via VirtualConsole. A Star Fox Warriors game was rumored to be in development, but was shot down by Nintendo. The rumored Super Smash Bros. port for the Nintendo Switch from the Wii U is now rumored to add new characters as part of the update. Is Krystal in the running again? Who knows! Mr. Brownstone sent in a translated 2002 German game magazine review of Star Fox Adventures, which looked at the game favorably. Last week, in an interview, Mr. Miyamoto lamented that Fox McCloud was not as popular as he had hoped, and he would be putting more energy into the series going forward. Odds and ends: Several epic and funny Star Fox fanfilms appeared this year, like Endgame by Megasteakman, Star Fox Zero vs Star Wars Battlefront:Battle for Earth by King Bob Videos, and Star Fox Paint by ToastyKong. --- Now that we've gone over 2016, let's talk in detail about some of the major stories. * Brian talks about Further Confusion 2016 experience: the trip itself, the parade, following Ayano around, hanging out with FJ McCloud, the Bird Incident (and banned video), the Staff incident, all the different outfits (and the wardrobe complication), funny stories, etc. * Brian talks about his playthroughs of Star Fox Adventures and Assault, both with and without commentary. * Mr. K and Brian talk about their Star Fox Zero experiences, with Mr. K asking Brian about it, since he's played it more. * Talk about Dinosaur Planet Animated Series livestream and fun times had by all. The question and answer session got out of hand quickly. * Talk about Game Awards 2016 briefly, and what we thought was interesting. Mr. K thought Zelda and Death Stranding was interesting. * Talk about the possibility of Krystal in Smash again. --- Upcoming Posts I have received my Krystal charm, and will be showing it off soon. I also ordered a Krystal charm (Assault version) for Ayano as a gift, and will be sending it to her soon. Another site reader, Haiiro, sent in a translated Japanese interview about the development of Star Fox Assault. Lots of interesting details about what they were trying to achieve. Notably, the switching between arwing, landmaster, and on-foot, was intended to be the main mechanic of the game, but one that I personally found kind of annoying. During the week without the ability to type, I will try and finish reviewing the Star Fox Assault audio, so we can finally bring all Krystal audio quotes to the site. I started doing research into emulation again. Not only do I have to record HD versions of the Assault cutscenes, but I'm looking into doing 8K videos of a few Adventures cutscenes, because why not!? For a while now, there has been a mod to add Krystal to Skyrim. I sat on the story due to where the mod was sourced from, an adult modding. HOWEVER, I have permission to post the mod on the Krystal Archive, and will soon for download. Finally got in contact with CharleyFox, trying to find out what he's up to and where Little_Dragon is. Unfortunately, even CharleyFox lost track of him, but I'm trying to work with CharleyFox to host his Krystal model on the site. Brian and I continue to work with Ayano. We can't reveal anything yet, but there will be more collaboration with Ayano in the near future. Whenever I can get to it, I want to bring the KA posts to Facebook and a few other social media places, preferably automatically posting for me. As before, I want to bring my Star Fox knowledge to a separate site, allowing the KA to focus on Krystal, and this new site to focus on Star Fox and Nintendo news. The site has some updates to be done. I still need to redesign it (I have artwork for that) and I need to upgrade to HTTPS (which will take some testing). Thank you all for your patience. --- Instead of email questions, we'll take questions from the audience! --- Comments and Questions: mrkrystal@gmail.com krystalarchive.com