History Trivia / StarFoxAdventures

** The game was originally going to be on the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}}, was titled ''VideoGame/{{Dinosaur Planet|Rare}}'', and, based on the cartridge size (512 Megabits), would've probably been the most ambitious game yet on the system. Eventually, it was decided that the game was a little ''too'' demanding for the system's limited hardware and would've come out dangerously close to the end of the console's lifespan, so it was released on the [=GameCube=] instead. Some early material from the original game concept such as screens, gameplay and trailers, can be seen [[https://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/04/dinosaur_planet_n64/ here]]. Curiously, some content that seems like a fairly obvious ''Star Fox'' insert was actually present in the original, such as the entire segment on Ice Mountain, ''including the hoverbike chase''!

* Orphaned Reference: The very start of the game when Krystal boards Scales' Galleon. In the original Dinosaur Planet, she was specifically trying to find the Galleon to rescue Princess Kyte and hijacks it to free her. In Adventures, after being ambushed by it and damaging it, there is no discernable reason Krystal why boards the Galleon, other than a tutorial. Granted, there is still an imprisoned baby Cloudrunner on board in Adventures, but it was not mentioned if Krystal knew of it beforehand and after Scales throws her overboard, she simply flies off on her adult Cloudrunner, with no further attempt to free the Cloudrunner child anyways.

* MovedToTheNextConsole: It infamously started out as the original title called ''VideoGame/{{Dinosaur Planet|Rare}}'' for the Nintendo 64. It was moved to the newer [=GameCube=] to take advantage of the system's greater hardware and the larger storage capacity of its optical discs compared to cartridges. Shigeru Miyamoto then made a comment about how it resembles a ''Star Fox'' title, which motivated Rare to rework the title.

** Scales was originally going to have a boss fight in this game as well. Remnants of his boss fight have been found within the game's code, along with a few unused animations of him slashing and jumping back as well as unused dialogue, but it was cut due to the rushed development cycle of this game. Interestingly, there seem to have been two intended ideas for a Scales boss fight: the unused dialogue seems to take place on the galleon seemingly against Fox's Arwing, while animations for an earlier version of his on-foot battle are present as well. Scales being intended to be a boss actually dates back to the condensed story draft of Dinosaur Planet that was leaked online. Interstingly, the is no boss fight against SCales in the leaked build of Dinosaur Planet, so it might have been cut for time then as well.

** Scales was originally going to have a boss fight in this game as well. Remnants of his boss fight have been found within the game's code, along with a few unused animations of him slashing and jumping back, but it was cut due to the rushed development cycle of this game. Scales being intended to be a boss actually dates back to the story of the draft of Dinosaur Planet that was leaked on line. Interstingly, the is no boss fight against SCales in the leaked build of Dinosaur planet, so it might have been cut for time then as well.

** Before the game became a ''Star Fox'' title, the game was originally intended to be a GenreShift sequel to ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing'' with the main character being Timber as shown in the files for Sabre's character. If they hadn't replaced Timber with Sabre, Nintendo might have shoehorned DK into the game instead with Wizpig taking Andross's place (in fact that was the ''original'' intention to begin with).

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* ExecutiveMeddling: At the time of its development, Rare's owners had begun openly trying to find a new buyer for their company. In late 2000 they had held meetings with both Activision and Microsoft. The move to include Nintendo owned characters into ''VideoGame/{{Dinosaur Planet|Rare}}'' meant that once Microsoft acquired Rare in 2002, the game was still a ''Franchise/StarFox'' installment and Rare had no rights to any of the characters.

** Parts of the story were vastly changed, including how Tricky had [[{{Expy}} a twin named Rocky]] who joined Krystal in the first boss fight before she gets Kyte, [[spoiler:how the Queen [=CloudRunner=] is killed in her encounter with Scales (that Fox witnesses in ''Adventures'') and Kyte would've [[PassingTheTorch taken her place end-game]]]], how Sabre would've been trapped with Galdon with a choice between freedom or the [=SpellStone=] before Galdon is killed, many dropped characters (such as Sabre's brother, father, and Randorn), [[spoiler:an actual fight with Scales, Andross and the Arwing segments being nowhere in sight]], and it being Fox's choice to save Krystal (complete with extra dialogue for her) rather than needing all the Krazoa Spirits to save the planet in addition to the [=SpellStones=] (also, Krystal may have been released much earlier).

* FanNickname: Thanks to WebVideo/JonTron, some have taken to calling this "Stairfax Temperatures".

* ContentLeak: On February 20, 2021, a very late and mostly playable prototype of the original ''VideoGame/DinosaurPlanet'' incarnation of the game (dated to December 2000) was leaked onto the internet.
** Interestingly enough, this prototype has not Saber as the male lead, but rather Fox as a "Royal Knight of the Lylat System", making the change to a Star Fox game much earlier than expected.

* WorkingTitle: Other than the ''Dinosaur Planet'' name for the [=N64=] prototype, the final release was originally titled 'Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet''.