The Megaman thread

[Ryan muller]

Because the magnet beam is buggy, sometimes they vanish when somebody use them while jumping. In the same way, the platforms can have no collision while going up, then the player fall and dies.

Thats not the part I found hard

It was just an example. The yellow devil in particular is not hard because he is the only boss in the entire game that works as it should.

But you have to take your time to learn the pattern.

Every other robot master or castle boss is poorly coded and you either know how to beat and make it trivial or suffer the pain

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Haven't played many of the NES ones, but we had 2 as a kid. One of the most poorly balanced games ever for sure; Metal Saw is the weakness for like half the bosses, tons of spots where the time stop power is just way too good, and a bunch of other powers that are basically utter crap. Also, that one fucking bullshit fortress boss that requires crash bombs and softlocks you if you miss more than a couple shots or die after firing a few times. What a fucking dick punch.

That one is followed by the alien Dr. Wily boss that is immune to everything except the bubble weapon.

 

[Ryan muller]

Because the magnet beam is buggy, sometimes they vanish when somebody use them while jumping. In the same way, the platforms can have no collision while going up, then the player fall and dies.

Thats not the part I found hard

It was just an example. The yellow devil in particular is not hard because he is the only boss in the entire game that works as it should.

But you have to take your time to learn the pattern.

Every other robot master or castle boss is poorly coded and you either know how to beat and make it trivial or suffer the pain

I contemplated if i should stream today or what, but since theres already a thread for this, i just have chosen to record a full playtrought and link it here.

https://youtu.be/3YvboJi7kMo?si=QHu-pyWSeQReO3NG

Its a no practice no rules playthrough, aside from not using the select glitch (obviously).

i took the freedom to use weapons in the stages, but i mostly killed bosses using the buster (exceptions being the refights, Megaman clone and the bubble machine)

quite average play, not my best, not my worse

died once in the robot master stages in a silly jump and got some other deaths in the wily stages, overall it was quite easy as always.

 

[Beans00]

I contemplated if i should stream today or what, but since theres already a thread for this, i just have chosen to record a full playtrought and link it here.

https://youtu.be/3YvboJi7kMo?si=QHu-pyWSeQReO3NG

Its a no practice no rules playthrough, aside from not using the select glitch (obviously).

i took the freedom to use weapons in the stages, but i mostly killed bosses using the buster (exceptions being the refights, Megaman clone and the bubble machine)

quite average play, not my best, not my worse

died once in the robot master stages in a silly jump and got some other deaths in the wily stages, overall it was quite easy as always.

I only watched the yellow devil, you did it only getting hit like 4-5 times(way better than me lol) but idc dude that boss is hard as fuck. Just because you memorized that pattern after beating it 50 times doesn't mean it isn't hard.

 

[Damned Registrations]

I never found that version too hard- you just watch his feet, because you need to jump the first 2 rows and everything above you can safely ignore. Elec man is way more of a dick, you can't react to that shit.

 

[Ryan muller]

I never found that version too hard- you just watch his feet, because you need to jump the first 2 rows and everything above you can safely ignore. Elec man is way more of a dick, you can't react to that shit.

Elec man is one of those bosses with obscure coding

If you go to 19:05 in my video you'll notice that i managed to stunlock him even if i had more trouble with this in the refights

The reason why i manage to do that sometimes is due to how he was designed, theres 3 specific tiles in the map where the programmers coded a flag to be checked, if he is standing in any of those 3 positions and the flag = true, he shoots.

The strategy is pretty much sheer memorization + timing as you have to notice the location of the triggers and keep shooting every single time he raise his arms to attack you. Managing to always shoot in the right timing grant a stunlock as his moves will keep getting interrupted by the buster.

Clone megaman had reused the same code (but a bit trickier).

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Haven't played many of the NES ones, but we had 2 as a kid. One of the most poorly balanced games ever for sure; Metal Saw is the weakness for like half the bosses, tons of spots where the time stop power is just way too good, and a bunch of other powers that are basically utter crap. Also, that one fucking bullshit fortress boss that requires crash bombs and softlocks you if you miss more than a couple shots or die after firing a few times. What a fucking dick punch.

That one is followed by the alien Dr. Wily boss that is immune to everything except the bubble weapon.

Stuff like that I blame squarely on Mega Man 2's troubled production.

After Mega Man 1's release, the coders approached Capcom and expressed their will to make a sequel. Capcom said flat-out 'No!' at first, then relented a bit and said that they could only work on it in their free time, outside work hours.

So they did.

They spent months crunching like nothing had been crunched before, working their normal job during regular hours and then pouring every spare moment they had while awake, into giving us the game that is Mega Man 2.

Obviously that meant no external QA or testing, they had to do it all themselves. As a result Mega Man 2 has imbalanced weapons and bosses, but sometimes that works for the player. Try using Flashman's crappy-ass useless weapon against Quickman, for example.