Trivia / Star Fox Adventures

• Acting for Two:
  • Estelle Ellis voices Krystal, Queen EarthWalker and Mother ThornTail.
  • Kevin Bayliss voices both Tricky and King EarthWalker.
  • Chris Seavor voices Slippy Toad, Peppy Hare and Chief LightFoot.
  • John Silke voices General Scales, General Pepper, the Warpstone, ROB 64 and several minor characters.
  • Steven Brand voices the Shopkeeper, the ThornTail gatekeeper as well as some background characters.
  • Ben Cullum voices Falco Lombardi, the dying EarthWalker in the game's prologue, the Krazoa spirit and some one-off characters.
• Ashcan Copy: Microsoft's purchase of Rare Ltd. meant that, unlike other in-development titles at the studio, Star Fox Adventure was on a timer due to its inclusion of the Nintendo owned Star Fox brand. The game came out one day before Rare's sale was completed and if it had come out any later then there's a legitimate chance it would have been indefinitely stuck in legal limbo.
• Content Leak: On February 20, 2021, a very late and mostly playable prototype of the original Dinosaur Planet 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.
• Deleted Scene: The disc for Adventures contains several voice clips absent from the game itself which indicate that Krystal originally had a more prominent role and would have teamed up with Fox to help him navigate through the final dungeon (in the retail version, she is playable only for a few minutes at the beginning of the game, imprisoned, and then released just before the end). The romantic subplot between the two is also slightly expanded upon; after Andross is defeated, Fox asks Krystal to join Star Fox, and she agrees on the condition that he kisses her first. Samples and transcriptions of the deleted audio can be found here. There is also some cut dialogue such as Fox and Tricky talking after beating Galdon or Falco helping Fox against General Scales. You can find those clips here.
• Dummied Out: A lot of things were dummied out both as Dinosaur Planet and during its transition as Star Fox Adventures.
  • Parts of the story were vastly changed, including how Tricky had a twin named Rocky who joined Krystal in the first boss fight before she gets Kyte, how the Queen CloudRunner is killed in her encounter with Scales, and Kyte would've 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), 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).
  • A boss fight for General Scales was also originally planned for the game. However, the impending Microsoft acquisition of Rare forced them to rush development and replace this battle with the cutscene we got in the final product. Unused audio also implies that Falco would help Fox take down Scales.
  • The ShadowHunter tribe, the carnivorous dinosaurs from the Krazoa Test of Fear, were originally planned to be in Walled City where they used to be imprisoned along with the RedEye tribe, according to an unused briefing by Peppy.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: As of 2023, Adventures hasn't been re-released on another platform outside of the GameCube.
• Moved to the Next Console: It infamously started out as the original title called Dinosaur Planet 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.
• No Dub for You: The Japanese release of the game includes the original English language dialogue.
• 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.
• The Other Darrin: Literally nobody from Star Fox 64 reprised their roles in this game, as Rare used their own vocal talents from Britain instead; much of the voice acting is outright recycled from an earlier prototype of Dinosaur Planet, but with less compression thanks to the GameCube's better sound chip.
• Spared by the Cut: In the original Dinosaur Planet, Queen CloudRunner was killed by General Scales. Due to the sequence being revised in Star Fox Adventures, she is rescued by Fox and survives the final game.
• Swan Song: Star Fox Adventures would be Rare's final game for Nintendo before the former was acquired by Microsoft.
• Two Voices, One Character: The Krazoa spirit is voiced by Ben Cullum while Andross is voiced by Duncan Botwood.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The game was originally going to be on the Nintendo 64, was titled Dinosaur Planet, 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 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!
  • Before the game became a Star Fox title, the game was originally intended to be a Genre Shift sequel to Diddy Kong Racing 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) while Tricky the Triceratops would have been in Tricky's role in the main game.
  • In 2021, a leaked Nintendo 64 build of Dinosaur Planet from late 2000 was released online. In it, Sabre had already been reskinned into Fox McCloud and many, though not all, lines of cutscene dialogue had been replaced to accommodate the change and explain his presence but otherwise the story and gameplay is nearly identical to how it was before the change. This likely means that the decision to make the game be completely Star Fox focused occurred after the move to the GameCube.
  • Krystal's original Dinosaur Planet design is vastly different from her finalized design. She wore a simple brown dress and brown boots, had a white face mask, and (due to N64 hardware limitations) had no Furry Female Mane or even a Tuft of Head Fur.
  • Krystal was a fully playable character in Dinosaur Planet and was the main of the two playable characters. When the game became Star Fox Adventures, voice clips imply she had a greater role earlier in development (likely remainders from Dinosaur Planet). Ultimately, she was Demoted to Extra and became a Damsel in Distress instead, with poor Sabre being written out of the story entirely and replaced by Fox.
  • Earlier plans for Drakor had him act as The Man Behind the Man to Scales, having a history with the Krazoa spirits. In the final version of the game, he is a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere that acts as the boss of the fourth major area (Dragon Rock), replacing the Kamerian Heart boss that was originally intended for that area, and he himself was replaced by Andross in his role as the The Man Behind the Man to Scales.
  • In Dinosaur Planet, Krystal had a separate sidekick from Sabre: a green pterodactyl named Kyte. In Star Fox Adventure, Kyte is reduced to the dinosaur Krystal saves in the tutorial.
  • Dinosaur Planet had two Swap Stones used to switch between Krystal and Sabre. Dinosaur Planet removed one of the brothers and only has one Swap Stone. He was renamed the "Warp Stone" due to his role changing.
  • Originally one of the cheats for the Scarab Wells for the final game was a Saber skin for Fox as a Development Gag but this idea was scrapped.
  • 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. Also, there is no boss fight against Scales in the leaked build of Dinosaur Planet, so it might have been cut for time then as well.
  • Dinosaur Planet had Brachiosaurus and Stegosaurus characters which were both cut out of Star Fox Adventures.
• Working Title: Other than the Dinosaur Planet name for the N64 prototype, the final release was originally titled Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet.

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