Megaman is awesome, isn't it? If you like all things related to the Blue Bomber (or that have his name plastered on the title, even if he's not in it), then let us discuss it here!

Megaman battle network? anyone here like it? :unsure:

Uhh, yes! ^_^ Very much!
Never beat one though, I was always stuck looking for one stupid chip... >:\
Megaman Zero 4 is coming out Oct. 4! :o Didn't even hear about it.



If any of you out ther play Megaman, you know that (apart from the godly Megaman Vs. Bass) Megaman Zero is pretty much the most awesome and hardest one out there. Well, now we have a sequel to the series... truly amazing.

Taking MMZ's play style and MMX's style, the Rockman-like male and (much-needed) female protagonists Vent and Aile star in this dramatic new addition to the MMZ series. Instead of pinning on more and more and more boring repeats of the same game, MMZX switches it up, hopping to new protagonists and new gameplay techniques mid-series to give it that extra umph. Now you can look like your enemies again! Pwnage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaman_zx

And in this Megaman Game: MEGA PANTS!



Pic from VGCats.com, but it's a real pic.

I saw a preview for the anime of this. It looks like this could be really cool. ^_^

Though on that subject of anime... I really wanna see a series for the classic Megaman (I know they already had that 3 part OVA, but that's not enough), plus a series for Megaman X.

Anywho, this game looks cool, too... I really need a DS, now, too many good games coming out for it. And also a PSP... not that many good games for PSP, but they do have Megaman Powered-Up.

I've seen that before. Very nice game, I've already preordered it. But who knows what they'll say instead of 'Rock on!' in the game?

Now that I think about it, I think that preview I saw wasn't for an anime series... it was just cutscenes from the game... oops, my bad. ^_^;

Okee dokee. Well, since I've really been in a Megaman mood lately, I'll bite.

BlueRush... tell me everything you know about Rockman.EXE! I'm willing to give it a chance, I suppose... ^_^;

Go, BR!

Use "Tell me everything you know!"

Megaman Battle Network fainted!

Hmm... OK!

First off: it's like Pokemon! XD
In a way.

The star is Lan and his friends Mayl and Dex. In this world, most everyone has a PET, a Personal Electronic... uh... Thing. <.<; Point is, this PET is better than a computer in that it not only surfs the internet, but it gets mail and has a battling system!

Getting the mail isn't that cool, but here, surfing the internet and battling is done through a digital person, the official term for which I forget! But this digital person travels the internet (in this case a glowing, awesome environment) and can fight (using battle chips). Megaman.EXE is Lan's PET, Roll is Mayl's, Crunchman Dex's, etc.

So Lan runs about his world in a 3rd-person, Link-like, Pokemon-like style, and talks to people and collects things. Every now and then somebody will fight PETs with him: Megaman vs. Metalman, for example. And sometimes he goes to a port and connects his PET to the internet, or to a machine, and Megaman (who is his own, sentient being) travels inside this world just like Lan in the real one, except in this world everyone's digital and the world is glowy and awesome. He can fix your coffeemaker from the inside by killing viruses (which he runs into like wild pokemon) and/or other digital people, who are occasionally evil! Also he travels the digital world.

The battling is the best part. It combines all the best parts of pokemon, yu-gi-oh, digimon, and a real-time fight! You stack a "deck" with chips, and you get a few at random to use in battle. The battle goes in turns, and he uses these chips like moves... but he also has his blaster to fall back on...
...And it's in real-time. B) Megaman moves around 9 squares and his enemies do too! You have to be quick and move him, while choosing moves! It is seriously great. ^_^

Hmmm... interesting. Well, I kinda already knew that it was a bit like Pokemon due to there being different versions of the same game... which leads me to believe that there's probably trading involved.

I also know that unlike all the other Megaman series (which, as different as they are from one another, are actually all in the same continuity... just taking place several hundred years apart from each other), this one is actually its own continuity, taking place in an alternate reality.

Of course, I'm sure the games might be pretty fun. Heh, I dunno... the reason I've always been a bit wary of this series is because some elements of the storyline seemed like a great departure. Also, the characters look radically different from their respective dopplegangers from the main continuity. I've also wondered if they act differently, as well.

>_> I've seen people on the 'net pair up Rock and Roll from this series... I guess in this dimension they're not related, but it still weirds me out. :heh:

At the moment, I'm flat-broke, particularly since all my money lately has been invested in a trip I plan to take during mid-June. However, I might pick up one of the games once money is no longer a problem. Perhaps I might try to get into the manga, as well.

So... which game is the first one in this series and what system is it for? There's so many of these buggers out there. XD

Also, I think I remember Lan's father's name being Dr. Hikari. o.o And Hikari is the Japanese word for Light... heh. Is that guy supposed to be this dimension's version of Dr. Light?

I also heard that Dr. Wily is in this series. What is this version of Wily like as compared to the original Wily?

So many questions... only one BlueRush. XD

And coincidentally... I just realized, BR... although I know what your name means, it can also be a Megaman related name, too. XD

OH!! That reminds me... is Rush in this universe in any way, shape, or form? Come to think of it... I wonder how many characters are paralleled into this dimension...

1. The only trading involved is for rare chips (moves).

2. It's not clear if this is a different universe. There is a time gap between Original and X, and between X and Zero. In between these serieses are indeterminate spans of time in which humans lived in peace and Megaman and co. weren't around. They make no references to these other series, but it's not a closed door.
Though it likely happened before X.

3. They don't act differently! Well, I guess they do. XD X was always more serious, and Zero less... uh... virusy. XD They're different from the later series, but I don't know much about the originals.

4. Uh, yeah! ^_^ Rock/Roll! The other way around is odd for me, I have to remember Roll is his sister in the other series. Though, to be noted, except for the Zero Virus, which later comes to be affiliated with Zero, as far as I know these *NetNavis* (I remembered!) are not officially connected with the originals, so as far as I know they have different minds.

5. I have never read the manga or watched the show.

6. The first game is simply "Megaman Battle Network." ^_^

7. Maybe, Dr. Hikari is a scientist but he has no beard and is young.

8. Dr. Wily is the leader of NetCrime organization WWW.

9. I used to have a Blue Rush in my sig. XD

10. I haven't seen any hint of Rush since the original series. Also, Megaman, Roll, Gutsman, Bass, Zero, Protoman, MetalMan... and more, I'm sure. ^_^

Anything else? :D

There's been sources stating this is an alternate reality, but now that you've said that it's very ambiguous... and thereby, it might be in the continuity of all the other series... this brings some interesting things to the surface.

Though... now I think this is diving into coming up with theories rather than anything else. ^_^;

So... assuming for just a moment that this isn't an alternate reality... is this Dr. Wily related to the other Dr. Wily? Is he, perhaps, either a descendant OR an ancestor (depending on whether this is before or after the Classic series).

If this isn't an alternate reality, like I highly suspect it is, then I'm more akin to think that it definitely takes place after the Classic series and not before it. That being the case... are the NetNavis really based on the robots of a past long forgotten? Who created the NetNavis and is it just coincidence or is it intentional that they have the same names as the robots of a past long forgotten?

And going back to the whole Wily thing... heh... Wily Nega. XD Sorry, had to say it!

Okay, so another thing... can the NetNavis come into the real world or are they forever bound to the internet?

That's all I can think of for the moment.

Hmm, good question. After Dr. Light (the original) sealed his creation X into a canister, it was 100 years before Cain revived him and production of the Reploids who would become the Mavericks even began. There is no recorded history in that time. Was X's 'soul' really sleeping inside the robot all that time? Is Megaman X an updated Megaman or a different robot altogether? If so, where did Megaman go?

Interesting to note:

1. Later on in the Zero series, X becomes a "Cyber Elf," a tiny energy creature who is pure data... like a NetNavi... except this time, he floats around.
2. Megaman Legends is as alternate-universe as you can get... but... the creators set it thousands of years into the future. They seem reluctant to leave their continuity.

Anyway! No, NetNavis never enter the 'real' world. ^_^

Heh, now I can answer something! XD

What happened to the original Megaman? Heh... my latest fancomic, The Dawning, is actually all about that! Hmmm... but I need to finish it first! XD

However, canonically, nobody knows what happened to Megaman or any of the other Light robots. However, it is FACT that X is NOT Megaman. Keiji Inafune (the creator of Megaman) has stated this himself.

And, ya, for a long time I always wondered about Megaman Legends, but it actually is part of the main continuity... just... it takes place after everything else. However, I have some theories about this one.

As all good little Megaman playing children know, the Megaman in Megaman Legends, just like X, is NOT the original Megaman. Before I played the game, I was a little confused about this myself, because unlike X, this guy actually is named Megaman. HOWEVER... he doesn't get this name right away. His name was actually Trigger, but Roll Casket gave him the name Megaman, because that was the name of a character in her favorite video game. Now, as to there being a Megaman video game in this universe... it's possible that, although we know that written history was, for some reason, wiped out in-between the Classic series and the X series, perhaps someone kept a record of the original Blue Bombers exploits. Somehow, this in turn would eventually become a video game that Roll Casket really likes!

Yes! Thus, Roll becomes a big Megaman fan and names Trigger Megaman because he wears blue armor! As for Roll being named Roll... there's 2 possibilities:

1) It's just a big fat coincidence OR (and I like this next one better)...

2) Roll isn't her real name, but she likes to go by it since she's a Megaman fan!

Man... talking about Megaman is fun! I haven't done this in such a long time! XD

EDIT: Since we're starting to discuss other Megaman series and... well, because I like doing this... I've decided to merge the different Megaman topics.

I love Mega Man since I was a kid. I know something Interesting you know what that is?

CPOC told me: They are not going to make mega man as fun & old series I guess anymore I really really upset & mad at CAPCOM & same with Street Fighter Games too. What's with Capcom know days?

Does anybody know?

I don't remember ever saying that (what little bit of that I could decipher), but if I did say that then I was horribly mistaken. :p

As DP accidentally made me aware of, Mega Man 9 is going to be full of retro goodness.

So, to celebrate the occasion, here's a bunch of videos!


First off, the obligatory Okkusenman related videos.

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Also, of course, the "Can't Beat Air Man" song!

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Now some interesting anime OP and/or ED parodies using Mega Man sprites!

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Here's a hilarious Mega Man flash video!

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And last, but most certainly not least, an awesome Mega Man AMV that features an even MORE awesome OC Remix!

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Sorry, guys, but it's just that there's not really a whole lot of information on Mega Man 9 at the moment (outside of the little bit I mentioned in Chatty-Chat), but I'm so totally stoked about it and had to post something.

Hmmm... well, I guess I could also mention that Mega Man's 20th Anniversary was last year. Dunno how many people were aware of it, but...



Okay, I think that's all I have to post for now.

Curses to your thread bumping getting the cartoon's theme stuck in my head!!

And you forgot I Can't Sleep Until I Clear! (Kuria made nemuranai <-- I believe that's what it is in Japanese)

EDIT: Also this :ENDEDIT

(are those remixes of megaman tunes, though? I don't know every tune off the top of my head, which is why I ask :heh: )

Heh... the cartoon's theme is pretty catchy, though.

At any rate, I wasn't aware of those two songs and, in addition, they don't seem to sound like any Mega Man tune that I've ever heard. They're pretty cool, though.

Also, I found something interesting... a fanmade 8-bit version of the Rockman 8 theme. Dare to compare:

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Original Version

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8-bit Version

This would be considered a double-post of justice! Because now I actually have something relevant to MM9 to post!

Although you can only barely see them, you can make out official art of two of the robot masters from Mega Man 9. Concrete Man and Splash Woman:





Speaking of which, is anyone else surprised that there's finally a female robot master?

Anywho, we've already seen the teaser trailer. Now here's a slightly longer trailer:

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Megaman 9:

Opening story part

Gameplay in one of the levels (though I could probably play better than whoever was in control in that video, and I'm horrible at Megaman games :LOL: )

Chun-Li as an anchorwoman is just total epic lulz! :LOL:

And ya, the guy playing this demo seems to be a total n00b. Also, I believe that is Concrete Man's stage (don't quote me on that, though).

And I think this might be Plug Man's stage:

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I think this seems appropriate, considering the video of an 8-bit version of the MM8 opening on this page... (quoted from OCR thread about it)

Ah, yes, I've heard about this game. I'm a little saddened that the intro stage and middle stage were taken out. However, other than that, I think everything was done quite perfectly.

The same person/people is/are also working on an 8-bit version of Rockman 8. I think he/she/they wanted to finish Rockman 7 first, though.

I'd love it if these games were translated into Mega Man 7 and Mega Man 8. :) I'd love it even more if they were made playable on a real NES, but somehow I doubt that's possible when you stop to take many things into consideration.

As for Rockman 8 FC, there's been a little progress so far and my favorite portion of this progress would be the music.

3 bosses from Mega Man 9 have been revealed in detail.

Where the heck did you find all these clips they are so bad ass!!!! Thanks CPOC!!!....

I won't to keep the Mega Man 9 a Secret to me I don't won't to know to much about the game.

I don't have any news regarding Mega Man 9 or anything, but I do want to share some good news. I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico! I just received my "R20 Rockman & Rockman X Complete Works" artbook in the mail today! :)

It's truly awesome. Oh my gosh, SO much Mega Man art!