#fossil fighters frontiers

[awful-little-goose]

I live in a barren land

[fan-file-stack]

Same here honestly. Cryo’s original design just slaps insanely hard and turned it into one of my favorite dinosaurs in-game and irl.

No NO. Look how they massacred my boy. All they had to do was use the DS design with the new model/textures. Why would you give it two crests? Why would you make them bunny ears? This is one of my favorite dinosaurs, too, so I'm taking this one personally.

[very-best-vivosaur]

OUR WINNER FOR THE VERY BEST VIVIOSAUR NORMAL CATEGORY IS SPINAX!!!

Congratulations buddy!!!

[wonderbeests]

ok now here are some regular ff doodles

[captainmvf]

Some Fossil Fighters humans that were requested on BluSky.

[beast-feast]

Hey...........bites lip....runs away ......

[techno-dragon]

Literally cannot find melonsaurus anywhere. Please share the horror I'm so curious

Hi I just reblogged that post with an explanation but I'm happy to put a longer version here too lol

So like six years ago when I was a member of the Fossil Fighters Amino (hell app) I was looking at stuff about Frontier on YouTube when I stumbled across this video.

Birby here uses emulators and managed to find a lot of unused stuff for Frontier, including unused Paleo Pals (like Stryker, Professor Little, etc.) but they also found a bunch of "unused" vivosaurs. These were really placeholder vivosaurs cuz the assets/models of what they were supposed to be weren't actually made (unlike the Paleo Pals, which uses characters that already exist in the actual game.) These included the Dummy vivosaurs and what we refer to as "Melonsaurus."

And yeah these things are weirdly enough kind of creepy. First we have this "wooden dummy dino."

Yeah it's literally just a theropod with a wooden texture. Maybe these were originally going to be training dummies or animation testers but whatever they were they somehow move. Also it has a placeholder icon in the Battle Prep menu!

Now onto the famous "Melonsaurus." It's this thing.

Once I found this video of course I started talking about it on the Amino, and we sort of dubbed it "Melonsaurus" because its body kind of resembles a watermelon. It's also a better name than "pict_book_help." There's actually multiple of these which means there were probably going to be more vivosaurs in the game but were ultimately axed (if I had to take a guess I'd blame crunch time.)

So yeah. This creepy little thing even spawned some fan art that may or may not still exist. I still have my drawing of it from back in the day!

[wild-battlebond]

36 minutes of fun with the first fossil fighters game has revealed that there is something deeply, deeply wrong with the 3DS title and i am now very curious why/how spike chunsoft screwed it up so bad

[wizardlol]

So for a while now I've been working on a 4k texture pack project for Fossil Fighters Frontier (bc sometimes it feels like I'm the only person in the world who had a positive reception of that game) and it's been going well so far. I've got a good workflow going on and ironed out a bug in displaying custom textures on lime3ds (my textures were corrupted and i had to remake them) But I'm proud so far even though I've only got a handful of dinos and fossil park Asia done. What i really wanna show off though is a redesign i did. One major gripe a lot of fossil fighter fans have with frontier is that they changed the designs for a lot of dinos. While I don't think the new designs are that bad there are some standouts. It turned out that doing this redesign took a lot more work than I anticipated but I like what i did with it. Left is the original without enhancements (other than higher internal resolution) and Right is my redesign with enhanced normal maps

I believe Edapho was originally designed after a theremography heat map given that a popular theory of the use of its sail was to serve as a heat sink. I wanted to keep that hot-cold theme while making him look less like a kids play place lol. I think next i want to redesign Alxas to look less like a tomato but I don't have a concrete design made up for it yet. If i ever do choose to release a full version of this pack for others to use I would probably upload any of my redesigns I make as a separate download and keep the original upscaled designs in the pack (Side note: does anyone have frontiers' models or know how to rip them? I spent like a whole day trying to figure it out with no luck 🙃 and i don't want to have to use ninjaripper to get them just to have references for how the uv map is projected.) Update: ninjaripper didn't work lmao

[dinobeates]

Next set of Vivosaurs, from #021 to #030!

[glidecrescent]

I wanna give some frontier some love with a fanart so here’s Nibbles 🥹

(Flat colored version)

[awful-little-goose]

More shenanigans with your favorite warden trio!!!

Sean is always the lure and is always happy to be the lure

[andydrarch]

Hello fellow fossil fighters fans 😏

Recently I have decided to pursue my current pop dream of attempting to recreate fossil fighters frontier in unreal engine 5. My main goal is just to recreate the battle system of champions in it first and then, perhaps, if I feel good about how things are going, I will try to build the rest of the game around it. (Probably combat system > cleaning > storyline).

THAT BEING SAID, I just want some general feedback on how frontier could have been improved. Obviously we prefer the champions battle system, but was there anything in frontier you liked? Was the storyline not fossil fighters esque enough for you? What could improve that? Did you prefer the clean on the spot method in frontier, or did you like collecting fossils and bringing them back to base more?

Anything at all you can think of let me know. I’m learning how to use unreal engine in real time so having specific mechanics in mind would be helpful when learning how everything works. I’m making ZERO (0) guarantees that this will ever happen. This is a fan passion project at its heart.

Thanks for your time!

[very-best-vivosaur]

OUR WINNER FOR THE VERY BEST VIVIOSAUR SPECIAL CATEGORY IS DUNA!!!

Congratulations!!!

[tiggyloo]

Need everyone to see this absolutely horrible thing I just saw on Reddit, posted but u/HoodedSpex

There's no way they're not trolling here right. What Is This Fucking Thing.

[captainmvf]

Diplo by memory kind of night…