Star Fox Adventures: Amethyst Edition
スターフォックスアドベンチャー
A long-running mod for Star Fox Adventures that lets you play as Krystal, adds a menu full of options, autosave, camera controls and many small fixes and comforts.
What's new
Rena Kunisaki's Amethyst Edition turns the PDA in Fox's inventory into a menu of options, which can also be opened at almost any time with a button combination. From there you can:
- Swap between Fox and Krystal at any moment. It's a visual and voice swap, so cutscenes and some animations don't always line up.
- Turn on autosave, which saves when you cross into a new area; the pause menu's Save no longer asks for confirmation.
- Pan, tilt and roll the camera with the C stick, invert each axis, change the field of view and tweak colour filters.
- Adjust aiming: switch off snapback, set the sensitivity, slow the crosshair by holding Z.
- Move or resize the minimap, change audio settings and pick the text language.
There are smaller gameplay changes too: much faster climbing, jumping off walls, skippable Arwing sections, crates that break in one hit, cannons that don't use staff energy and a Tricky who talks less. Several bugs from the original are fixed, memory handling is improved for stability, and a debug menu offers free camera and object tools.
The page lists known problems, including crashes around LightFoot Village, and notes that the mod runs in Dolphin and through Nintendont on a Wii but not under Swiss on a GameCube.
Playing it
The patch needs the American release, version 1.0 (not the Player's Choice edition). Make a copy of your own disc, check it, and apply the patch following the steps on the author's page. Credit to Rena Kunisaki.