Trivia / Star Fox 64

• Acting for Two: Quite a few voice actors played multiple roles in the game.
  • In the Japanese version:
    • Not only does Shinobu Satouchi voice Fox McCloud and Leon Powalski, but he also provided the voices for Caiman and the Sarumarine captain. Takashi Ohara voices his roles in Star Fox 64 3D.
    • Falco Lombardi, Wolf O'Donnell, and Granga are voiced by Hisao Egawa in the original and Kosuke Takaguchi in Star Fox 64 3D.
    • Peppy Hare, James McCloud, the Meteo Crusher pilot, the Shogun pilot, and the narrator are voiced by Tomohisa Asō in the original and Kunpei Sakamoto in Star Fox 64 3D.
    • Slippy Toad, Katt Monroe, and Spyborg are voiced by Kyōko Tongū in 64 and Kei Hayami in Star Fox 64 3D.
    • ROB-64, Andrew Oikonny, and Bill Grey are voiced by Daisuke Sakaguchi in 64 and Atsushi Abe in Star Fox 64 3D.
    • General Pepper, Pigma Dengar, Andross, the Attack Carrier captain, and the Forever Train engineer are played by Daisuke Gōri in the original and Tsuguo Mogami in Star Fox 64 3D.
  • As for the English version:
    • Fox McCloud and his father James are both played by Mike West. He also voices Andrew Oikonny and Wolf O'Donnell in 3D.
    • Bill Johns voiced Falco Lombardi, Andrew Oikonny, the Meteo Crusher pilot, and Caimen.
    • Peppy Hare and Andross are both played by Rick May.
    • Slippy Toad, Katt Monroe, and Spyborg are voiced by Lyssa Browne.
    • Jock Blaney voices Wolf O'Donnell, Bill Grey, and Granga.
    • David Frederick White provided the voices for General Pepper, Pigma Dengar, ROB 64, and the Attack Carrier pilot. He also voices Andross in 3D.
    • Ja Green voiced Leon Powlaski, the Shogun pilot, the Sarumarine captain, the Forever Train engineer, the general at Area 6, and he also provided the Opening Narration.
• Creator Backlash: This game was birthed by it! In an interview in the Star Fox 64 Nintendo Player's guide, Shigeru Miyamoto said he had never been happy with the visuals of the original SNES Star Fox, and that dissatisfaction was the primary impetus to remake it as Star Fox 64.
• Killer App: For the Nintendo 64. It had voice acting (Peach and Mario in Super Mario 64 had a few lines, but this was the first N64 game to be fully voiced) and controller vibration via the Rumble Pak, which it came packaged with.
• The Original Darrin:
  • After being replaced by Steve Malpass for Adventures and Jim Walker for Assault, Mike West returned to voice Fox in Star Fox 64 3D.
  • Lyssa Browne also returns as Slippy in 3D after being replaced by Chris Seavor for Adventures and Mike McAuliffe for Assault.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Due to the tragic suicide of Daisuke Gōri in 2010, all of the original Japanese cast for Star Fox 64 was replaced, beginning with 3D.
  • In the English version of Star Fox 64 3D, everyone besides Mike West (Fox and James), Lyssa Browne (Slippy and Katt), David Frederick White (General Pepper, Pigma, and ROB 64) and Ja Green (Leon and some other voices) were recast.
• The Other Marty: The game's developers originally voiced the characters, but were eventually recast with professional voice actors.
• Unspecified Role Credit: The cast section in the game's ending credits lists the voice actors, but not their roles. The English voice actors' roles were eventually confirmed in April 2016.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The walker from Star Fox 2 was intended to be added, but was cut because it wasn't enjoyable to use and broke the pace of the game. Miyamoto responded to this by having the Landmaster and Blue Marine be added instead, with the latter being planned for more levels than just Aquas.
  • The code for the "Lylat Language" mode was created early in development just in case having fully-voiced dialogue proved infeasible from a cartridge space standpoint, and Dummied Out from the North American and Japanese releases due to the developers thinking that nobody would choose to use it over actual spoken dialogue. It was re-instated for the European Lylat Wars release, possibly due to the infeasibility of creating different dubs for every additional country that the game would be released in (France, Germany, Italy and Spain, specifically).
  • The Japanese voice acting was originally recorded by the developers themselves until they were told it was terrible and the dub was re-recorded with professional actors.
  • The Nintendo source code leak in 2020 revealed that early builds of the game featured remixes of some of the music tracks from the first SNES game, evidently before the decision was made to go with an entirely new soundtrack.
• Working Title: The 2020 Nintendo leak revealed that in the early stages of development, the game was called Star Fox: The Cosmic Crisis.

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