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The development history of "Star Fox Adventures", including unused content and left over aspects from when the game was originally being developed and nearly completed as Dinosaur Planet, a game unrelated to the Star Fox series.

Development[]

Adventures was originally being developed and nearly completed as Dinosaur Planet, a game unrelated to the Star Fox series. The plot concerned Sabre (who became Fox) and Krystal, along with their sidekicks Tricky and Kyte (who appears briefly at the beginning and near the end), and Randorn, a wizard who was Sabre's father and Krystal's adoptive father (who was dropped entirely). The SwapStone twins (which became the WarpStone) would let the player switch between Krystal and Sabre.

Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned in an interview that, after reviewing content of Dinosaur Planet for the Nintendo 64, the similarities of Rare's anthropomorphic designs to Nintendo's Fox McCloud design were striking. The title was later changed to be a Star Fox-brand launch game for the Nintendo GameCube. Before this, Rare released MP3s from the unreleased game, along with numerous trailers and screenshots of gameplay, many of which appeared in Star Fox Adventures.

The original GameCube title was "Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet", but "Dinosaur Planet" was later removed. The game resulted in being Rare's final console video game released under Nintendo before the United Kingdom-based studio was sold and became a first-party developer for Microsoft.

Since its release, "Star Fox Adventures" has been designated a Player's Choice game by Nintendo, recognizing it as a game that has sold many copies and was available at a reduced retail price.

Game Mistakes / Plotholes[]

Game Mistake

Fox carrying Krystal's staff despite Krystal taking it back after rescuing her.

  • An error they made is at the end when Krystal is freed from the crystal. She takes the staff out of Fox's hands, but after the battle with Andross, when he's on the Great Fox, it's on his back.
  • Krystal At the start of the game, the player attack General Scales' ship by shooting blue fireballs while flying a Cloudrunner, hinting that Cloudrunners have this ability, but they don't. Because later in the story, Fox rides Cloudrunner himself, and he doesn't shoot blue fireballs, Fox just uses the staff to destroy the security system on Dragon Rock. The Cloudrunners can breath fire, but it's red fire, not blue. The blue fireballs are made of magic that Krystal can shoot from her hands, an ability that only Krystal and Saber possess in early versions of the game. After this, Krystal does not use this ability again in the game or in future installments of the franchise.
    • This could be attributed to recycled taken from the game's early development.
  • When Fox meets Tricky at the Hot Spring and they have a heated argument involving Tricky saying: "My dad's a King EarthWalker and he'll bash you up!", Fox responds by saying: "I don't think he'll be doing any bashing, he's been captured". However, there was no mention made beforehand about the King EarthWalker being a prisoner until they meet with the Queen EarthWalker after saving the Mother ThornTail's eggs.
    • This could be attributed to recycled dialogue taken from the game's early development.
  • While battling Boss Galdon in the second phase, Galdon swallows Fox and when Fox defeats him, the creature coughs out both Fox and Tricky, even though Tricky wasn't ingested, only Fox.
  • When Krystal contacts Fox and Tricky at Moon Mountain Pass, she is still speaking in Dino, despite Fox already having the translator.
    • Yet when Fox gets the staff, he appears to be able to understand Krystal's message. It may be because it was mystically recorded in Dino.
  • Although Tricky refuses to go with Fox to CloudRunner Fortress, he can still be seen boarding the Arwing.
  • Fox has a conversation with the rebel CloudRunner about Krystal, without having known her name at that point.
    • This could also be attributed to recycled dialogue taken from the game's early development.
  • In the title screen intro, Fox has three Foxheads units of health throughout the entire gameplay montage, including stages in the game where he would have earned more than three after earning the SpellStones. This also occurs throughout the instruction booklet, and Cape Claw, the units of health turned blue color.
    • However, it may have only been footage from gameplay testing.
  • After Andross's defeat, Falco's Arwing is not producing any jet fire from its fuel thrusters.
  • During the cutscene where Krystal encounters General Scales and he grabs her and is about to throw her overboard after he questions her daring to challenge him, the quote: This is not over! (Kxaj aj dek eloh!) is spoken but not scripted on-screen for unknown reasons or a programming error. Since he says it again after Krystal says "Bad luck, General. Maybe next time!", it is likely that he was not intended to speak it the first time, and the lack of subtitling reflects this.
  • When General Scales interrogates Queen CloudRunner, he interrogates her by asking where the fox is? When he never met Fox, the only fox he knew at that point in the story was Krystal.

Behind the Scenes []

  • Early images and video footage of the game's development revealed that Peppy and Slippy would actually leave the Great Fox and join Fox on CloudRunner Fortress, presumably in Tricky's place. This is evident on the game's box artwork.
  • Unused voice acting has revealed that Falco was set to appear much earlier and join Fox in a fight against General Scales, having somehow heard of the mission and deciding to join in, "for a small fee of course". Fox himself would ask Falco if that’s really him.
  • More early voice recordings tell that ROB was originally set to be used as the game save icon, before being replaced by the Nintendo GameCube memory card.
  • Unused dialogue also revealed that Krystal would have been rescued a lot earlier and share more screen time with Fox, agreeing to join the Star Fox team if he kissed her. This was cut in favour of the final outcome.
    • Further unused dialogue shows that her distress calls within Moon Mountain Pass were recorded in English as well as Dino talk. It is unknown why Rare used the later, considering Fox had his working Translator at that time.
  • On the back cover of Star Fox Adventures, you can see an early version of one of the cutscenes inside the Great Fox, where the planet looks orange, which is not seen in the final version, only in the Kiosk version.

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