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Krystal Archive Podcast
Episode 22
Recorded: September 7th, 2009
Released: September 7th, 2009
*** Notice ***
Problem with headphones added annoying clicks throughout the podcast. Sorry about that.
Old News
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Paths of Fate Krystal video added
Added the audio clips from Brawl as well as a page about Krystal's presence in the game
Added new Krystal article called "Krystal: Did You Know?"
Nysut got the rest of the Krystal sprites from Command, which were uploaded
Z!ff from SFO found the French instruction manual for Adventures, no mention of Krystal's last name. There's no real evidence now that Krystal's last name is Buranetto. It's a myth until proven otherwise.
Added a bunch of small page changes
cryrstalfox sent pictures of his near-complete Krystal sculpture
Added Nanogrrr's San Andreass Mod
Added the Resident Evil 4 Mod
Added the Krystal Fallout3 Mod
Added page for Paths of Fate
Added page for Project Kursed
Added page for Unreal Tournament 2k4 Mod
Added Nanogrrr's Brawl and Assault models
Added page for Crystal's Krystal fursuit
Added a page for Rockyy's costly page
Added a page for Kat the Leopardess
Added a bunch of fanfilms
Added a bunch of fanarts
Added five new fanfictions
Krystal Archive now supports donations!
Asper-Sarnoff sent in a Krystal Archive fanart, which I much appreciate
jrose0555 added a new video that features Krystal playing as Fox in Adventures
GammaRay256 is got high resolution videos of the Fox as Krystal cutscenes
Updated the site color scheme to dark blue instead of grey
Updated the site's header
Added a mobile stylesheet
New Saurian research
Podcast fiasco (feeds.feedburner.com/KrystalArchivePodcast)
Bunch of smaller updates
- New Dinosaur Planet video found
- Added info for ToonyCoon's fursuit
- Added pages for mods
- - IMVU
- - Second Life
- - GetAmped
- - Sims 2 Skin
- - And other custom characters in Soul Caliber 4, Spore models, and the LittleBigPlanet Krystal sack girl
New News
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Facebook group titled "Krystal For Super Smash Bros 4"
Pig-Kay from Starfox-Online sent me some pictures of a custom Krystal character in Drawn to Life. I'll put them up soon.
Fanfilms will update every day for a while.
Throwing around a Star Fox game idea.
Star Fox News
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Beginning an SFO redesign. The forums have already been upgraded, and the site will not be long behind.
There will be a canon-wiki soon, featuring ONLY canon data that will all have references to the original sources, so no more guessing about what's truly canon.
Weekend Fan Creations on hold after almost 2 years of one per week.
Shadows of Lylat released a new trailer revealing amazing improvements, and corridor mode (shadowsoflylat.net).
*** Personal Update ***
Unrelated Furry News
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Keep a lookout for Dean Dodrill's "Dust: An Elysian Tail" XBOX game, and "Elysian Tail" a full-length anthro movie (elysiantail.com).
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Send your questions and comments to mrkrystal@gmail.com
krystalarchive.com
Krystal Archive Podcast
Episode 22
Recorded: September 7th, 2009
Released: September 7th, 2009
*** Notice ***
Problem with headphones added annoying clicks throughout the podcast. Sorry about that.
Old News
--------
Paths of Fate Krystal video added
Added the audio clips from Brawl as well as a page about Krystal's presence in the game
Added new Krystal article called "Krystal: Did You Know?"
Nysut got the rest of the Krystal sprites from Command, which were uploaded
Z!ff from SFO found the French instruction manual for Adventures, no mention of Krystal's last name. There's no real evidence now that Krystal's last name is Buranetto. It's a myth until proven otherwise.
Added a bunch of small page changes
cryrstalfox sent pictures of his near-complete Krystal sculpture
Added Nanogrrr's San Andreass Mod
Added the Resident Evil 4 Mod
Added the Krystal Fallout3 Mod
Added page for Paths of Fate
Added page for Project Kursed
Added page for Unreal Tournament 2k4 Mod
Added Nanogrrr's Brawl and Assault models
Added page for Crystal's Krystal fursuit
Added a page for Rockyy's costly page
Added a page for Kat the Leopardess
Added a bunch of fanfilms
Added a bunch of fanarts
Added five new fanfictions
Krystal Archive now supports donations!
Asper-Sarnoff sent in a Krystal Archive fanart, which I much appreciate
jrose0555 added a new video that features Krystal playing as Fox in Adventures
GammaRay256 is got high resolution videos of the Fox as Krystal cutscenes
Updated the site color scheme to dark blue instead of grey
Updated the site's header
Added a mobile stylesheet
New Saurian research
Podcast fiasco (feeds.feedburner.com/KrystalArchivePodcast)
Bunch of smaller updates
- New Dinosaur Planet video found
- Added info for ToonyCoon's fursuit
- Added pages for mods
- - IMVU
- - Second Life
- - GetAmped
- - Sims 2 Skin
- - And other custom characters in Soul Caliber 4, Spore models, and the LittleBigPlanet Krystal sack girl
New News
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Facebook group titled "Krystal For Super Smash Bros 4"
Pig-Kay from Starfox-Online sent me some pictures of a custom Krystal character in Drawn to Life. I'll put them up soon.
Fanfilms will update every day for a while.
Throwing around a Star Fox game idea.
Star Fox News
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Beginning an SFO redesign. The forums have already been upgraded, and the site will not be long behind.
There will be a canon-wiki soon, featuring ONLY canon data that will all have references to the original sources, so no more guessing about what's truly canon.
Weekend Fan Creations on hold after almost 2 years of one per week.
Shadows of Lylat released a new trailer revealing amazing improvements, and corridor mode (shadowsoflylat.net).
*** Personal Update ***
Unrelated Furry News
--------------------
Keep a lookout for Dean Dodrill's "Dust: An Elysian Tail" XBOX game, and "Elysian Tail" a full-length anthro movie (elysiantail.com).
*** Listener Mail ***
Send your questions and comments to mrkrystal@gmail.com
krystalarchive.com
![[8K] Krystal in 8K! Maximum Possible Dolphin Settings](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OkN6VDgeegM/mqdefault.jpg "[8K] Krystal in 8K! Maximum Possible Dolphin Settings
This is an experiment in 8K (7680×4320) rendering on GameCube via the Dolphin emulator.
I used a hidden EFBScale=12 setting to get the Dolphin to render the game at an astounding 7942x4752 pixels. This was recorded via the Dolphins frame dump feature at 60fps. I used the maximum possible settings for anti-aliasing (8xSSAA) and anisotopic filtering (16x). The encoding was done via the FFV1 Lossless Video codec, resulting in no lost data due to compression. These are the highest possible settings for their respective categories without modifying the source code of the Dolphin. Note that at these resolutions and settings, I had to change my desktop resolution to 1080p to prevent the GPU from crashing when trying to render 8K footage. Even then, enabling 8xSSAA often caused the emulator to crash. I had to carefully re-enable it during the gameplay.
At these massive settings, the game only rendered at about 10-20fps. When recording frame dumps, however, the emulation slowed down to less than 2fps. Thus, it took over an hour to record this video.
The resulting video file, just over 1 minute and 20 seconds long, created a 28.6 gigabyte file. Since I do not have a player capable of viewing video at this size, I had to to down-convert the video to a lower resolution just to preview it. All of my work with the video had to be done via FFMPEG, the command line tool, rather than a non-linear video editor.
After several false starts and glitches, I managed to correctly cut the video to remove unwanted portions of the beginning and end of the video. I also removed unneeded portions of the audio dump wav file, so that it would be shorter and synced with the now-cut video. In the final step, I did several operations in a single conversion: I merged the audio and video, resized the resolution down to 8Ks horizontal width (7680), then cropped the top and bottom to give a perfect 8K resolution (7680x 4320), and converted it to the low-compression, highest-possible-quality version of ProRes (prores_ks -profile v:4 yuv444p10). Cropping didnt delete any data, because this cutscene has black bars on the top and bottom.
Most encoding, especially at full resolution, took anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour and a half to perform on my computer (Intel i7 with GeForce GTX 760 and 32 GB of RAM).
The resulting ProRes file was 63.1 gigabytes! YouTube recommends uploads using the H.264 codec. However, H.264 only supports resolutions up to 4K. As a result, after some recommendations I found online, I went ahead and uploaded the 63 GB video directly to YouTube. Thanks to my amazing Google Fiber connection, it only took 30 minutes to upload! YouTube took about an hour to get 1080p 60fps footage available, and another 4 or 5 hours to make 4K 60fps and 8K 60fps available.
It has been an interesting experiment. I do not think I will do any more 8K videos for some time, at least while standard computer hardware is unable to properly play it (let alone display it). I hope that this will be instructive to people wishing to do their own game recordings, and to recognize how powerful the Dolphin and GameCube games truly are.
Read more at the Krystal Archive:
https://krystalarchive.com/2017/03/8k-video-krystal-experiment/
Disclaimer: I own multiple, legally purchased, physical discs of Star Fox Adventures. In order to obtain the disc image, I ripped my own game myself.")
![Queen Escapes - Star Fox Assault - English [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PO5KOgiULXA/mqdefault.jpg "Queen Escapes - Star Fox Assault - English [4K]
Fox fires the self-destruct program into the Queen, only for her to suppress it and try to escape. The Star Fox team follow her even deeper into the planet in this final showdown.
Star Fox Assault does not support widescreen. So, instead this video was uploaded at higher than 4K resolution (3840 x 2948 to be precise). Textures and characters look stretched if the video is formatted to widescreen.")
![Pigma Appears - Star Fox Assault - Japanese [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PRVR9BoIojQ/mqdefault.jpg "Pigma Appears - Star Fox Assault - Japanese [4K]
Pigma stops running to confront the Star Fox team as a mixture of his old self and Aparoid technology.
Star Fox Assault does not support widescreen. So, instead this video was uploaded at higher than 4K resolution (3840 x 2948 to be precise). Textures and characters look stretched if the video is formatted to widescreen.")
