Mega Man Megathread

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Yes very Robot Master-esque.

Astro got his own games too, some of which were pretty good. The one on PS2 by Sega looks great I played a bit of it and really enjoyed the first hour or so. Just never got far into it. And the GBA one by Treasure was great, had a blast with that.

I never tried the PS2 one but Omega Factor is great because Treasure were.

I kinda understand that Tezuka's company weren't too keen on an action game as Astro himself prefers dialogue before fighting (kinda like Superman in a way) so he's more pacifist while Megaman goes into the fray in his games.

I do love Bombman's stage having spherical building in the background.

I think these were shown in a Tezuka manga but I cannot find the right panel.

Also Bombman was really supposed to be called Bomberman but Namco said "no"?

I would've liked that kind of crossover myself.

 

[fake-chan]

Also Bombman was really supposed to be called Bomberman but Namco said "no"?

No. It's just one of those blatantly made up rumors.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Yeah I really love both Astro boy and Megaman for similar reasons. Good-spirited characters are a great and wonderful joy. I think the 2003 Astro boy was my favorite, felt like the most fleshed out and well-rounded version of the character.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Also I can’t find the source for this anymore but thing I liked about Megaman 1’s development was that apparently all the robot masters were initially concepts for the main character but they found all of them fun so they decided to just have all of them in one gameplay style, creating the weapon switch system.
Sounds kinda wild but If this is true then neat.

 

[fake-chan]

Also I can’t find the source for this anymore but thing I liked about Megaman 1’s development was that apparently all the robot masters were initially concepts for the main character but they found all of them fun so they decided to just have all of them in one gameplay style, creating the weapon switch system.
Sounds kinda wild but If this is true then neat.

It's talked about in this interview (see the "Cut Man was first" section).

 

[Deleted member 257420]

Wagwan Fakey, for you, what’s in your opinion the best well-written piece of Mega Man media?

 

[fake-chan]

Wagwan Fakey, for you, what’s in your opinion the best well-written piece of Mega Man media?

Shigeto Ikehara's Rockman 6 and 7 adaptations.

 

[_-_AceDragon_-_]

Mega Man X7 N's Edition (Hack) PS2 ISO – CDRomance

Mega Man X7 N's Edition (Hack) PS2 ISO Game ID: SLUS-20487. Languages: English. For Sony PlayStation 2.

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Is this game salvageable in anyone's opinion!

 

[fake-chan]

Mega Man X7 N's Edition (Hack) PS2 ISO – CDRomance

Mega Man X7 N's Edition (Hack) PS2 ISO Game ID: SLUS-20487. Languages: English. For Sony PlayStation 2.

retrogametalk.com

Is this game salvageable in anyone's opinion!

No.

 

[_-_AceDragon_-_]

I never tried the PS2 one but Omega Factor is great because Treasure were.

I kinda understand that Tezuka's company weren't too keen on an action game as Astro himself prefers dialogue before fighting (kinda like Superman in a way) so he's more pacifist while Megaman goes into the fray in his games.

I do love Bombman's stage having spherical building in the background.
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I think these were shown in a Tezuka manga but I cannot find the right panel.

Also Bombman was really supposed to be called Bomberman but Namco said "no"?

I would've liked that kind of crossover myself.

That's cool, I've always appreciated the attention to detail in the background (and foreground) in Megaman games. Nice when one work of art acknowledges another in this way, thanks for sharing!

I highly recommend the PS2 one even though I didn't get far into it. It's very true to astro boy anime series. And yeah Treasure were the best.

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While we're on the topic, some cool art (it's official apparently)

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

My favorite boss in megaman zero is definitely omega in all his form and his backstory.
Have anyone played GBA megaman network battle?

 

[fake-chan]

My favorite boss in megaman zero is definitely omega in all his form and his backstory.
Have anyone played GBA megaman network battle?

I did.

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

I did.

I use VBA to get all the stuff in game by quick load and save. Do you think it will work? I got shotgun and M-cannon.

 

[fake-chan]

I use VBA to get all the stuff in game by quick load and save. Do you think it will work? I got shotgun and M-cannon.

Use mGBA. It's much better and more accurate.

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

Use mGBA. It's much better and more accurate.

VBA was so useful to me I can even record my game on an old Pentium 4! Windows itself can't do that!

 

[fake-chan]

VBA was so useful to me I can even record my game on an old Pentium 4! Windows itself can't do that!

You can do that in mGBA, too.

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

You can do that in mGBA, too.

Well I will give it a try thanks.
Funny thing happened today. In windows safe mode the sound was mute game with 3 frame skip have 350% speed! Really crazy!

 

[YoshifreakZX]

My favorite boss in megaman zero is definitely omega in all his form and his backstory.
Have anyone played GBA megaman network battle?

Played and beaten 1-3, haven't beaten 4 and 5 yet and I've never played 6. Played a tiny bit of 4.5 and Battle Chip Challenge does not exist.

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

Played and beaten 1-3, haven't beaten 4 and 5 yet and I've never played 6. Played a tiny bit of 4.5 and Battle Chip Challenge does not exist.

4 is so hard and have a lot of interesting mechanic like weather.if you beat a boss in bad weather you get new item.

 

[Vaggplus]

My favorite boss in megaman zero is definitely omega in all his form and his backstory.
Have anyone played GBA megaman network battle?

I played all the Battle Network games 1-6 including 4.5 and even the Starforce games for good measure.
I finished all those games 1-2 years ago and they became some of my favorites, I even replayed 1-4 a second time because of the experience I had by the end of BN6 and wanting to refresh the story events and craft new battle strategies with the chips that didn't make it in later entires.

Out of all the games my favorites are BN5,BN6 and Starforce 3.

When BN came out I never liked it and didn't bother trying the games out because it didn't have Zero as a playable character (Back then I was obsessed with X4 as a kid). I'm glad my friends got me to try out the games especially the Starforce series.

Edit: I played some of those games on my phone via Pizza Boy GBA

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

I played all the Battle Network games 1-6 including 4.5 and even the Starforce games for good measure.
I finished all those games 1-2 years ago and they became some of my favorites, I even replayed 1-4 a second time because of the experience I had by the end of BN6 and wanting to refresh the story events and craft new battle strategies with the chips that didn't make it in later entires.

Out of all the games my favorites are BN5,BN6 and Starforce 3.

When BN came out I never liked it and didn't bother trying the games out because it didn't have Zero as a playable character (Back then I was obsessed with X4 as a kid). I'm glad my friends got me to try out the games especially the Starforce series.

Edit: I played some of those games on my phone via Pizza Boy GBA
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My strategy: put all powerful battle chip and shotgun in one line. Load an save to always get best result.
I use this to get battle chips from fights.
I play some others gba on phone too but with gba emulator I find. It has 8 save plus its quick save. I play bookworm and FFAA(final fantasy tactics advance) on my emulator.

 

[Vaggplus]

I remember using some busted combos with Freeze + Break chips to deal x3 or x4 times the damage to certain bosses, fun times. I might replay BN5 with Team Protoman to see what that version has to offer.

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

I remember using some busted combos with Freeze + Break chips to deal x3 or x4 times the damage to certain bosses, fun times. I might replay BN5 with Team Protoman to see what that version has to offer.

I have a question. I heard some emulator let people play gba online with others like VBA. Does it work for megaman battle network too?

 

[Vaggplus]

I have a question. I heard some emulator let people play gba online with others like VBA. Does it work for megaman battle network too?

Ah you might be talking about Tango, I tried to use it in the past but I couldn't test it with someone back then. It works exclusively with the BN games and has rollback netcode. I can't help much there because Tango now became a mod for the BN Legacy on steam and it requires a legal copy of that to work as far as I know.

Beside this and Parsec I don't know of any other GBA emulators that let you play online with others as I recall most of them are local only.

Pizzaboy GBA does let you connect two phones to play multiplayer next to each other.

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

Ah you might be talking about Tango, I tried to use it in the past but I couldn't test it with someone back then. It works exclusively with the BN games and has rollback netcode. I can't help much there because Tango now became a mod for the BN Legacy on steam and it requires a legal copy of that to work as far as I know.

Beside this and Parsec I don't know of any other GBA emulators that let you play online with others as I recall most of them are local only.

Pizzaboy GBA does let you connect two phones to play multiplayer next to each other.

Like play special force iwith friends. I mean VBA I think they add something like that but perhaps like Hotspot and wifi. I think I will make a post about that.
You know play old games online is so cool. We still play counter strike 1.6 online!