#Wily Wars

[you-cant-fuck-megaman]

i'm curious about why the robofuckers couldn't get their hands on mega water s. gotta need an explanation for this one

are you familiar with the phrase "plowing water"

[jolikmc-stuff]

Mega Man: The Sequel Wars (v1.1) - Brightman Stage as Super Roll by Jo Li KMC at YouTube

This might be the coolest thing I've discovered so far.  Seriously!  Even without actual sprites, this is just so cool~!

[jolikmc-thoughts]

… totally not freaking out right now. (,: Thank you, @hyper-storm-h~! That means a lot to me!

[jayextee]

Mega Man: The Wily Wars

Because of course my journey through classic Mega Man would take me through the versions officially made for my favourite console ever.

Wily Wars is an odd beast. On paper it's fine; a Megadrive remake of the first three games with some additional content for those who complete said trio of titles. They look fine enough and sound okay (YM2612 variants of the tunes are in my eyes a large case of Your Mileage May Vary™) but they've got some weirdness about them for sure.

To start with, the visuals are usually wonderful in their own way; not really showcasing the Megadrive's visual flair as much as they could, but servicing as a slightly-fancier redraw of the originals. Mega's sprite looks a little weird though, and there's some slight hitbox dissonance that may throw-off fans of the original. By and large, I've no problem with the rest; it's sometimes actually kinda nice to see a large boss sprite without a flat black background accompanying it. But then again, other times have a completely different atmosphere because of this. Again, it's fine.

And they sound fine, too. As in 'okay' -- the Megadrive renditions of the tunes largely being inoffensive and having minimal 'twang' associated with the format; but as a side-effect of this, very few of them are memorable. Indeed, the only tune I can bring to mind right now is Shadow Man's from MM3, because dat Megadrive bass actually does wonders in giving the piece a funky new feel. Most of the rest are serviceable, forgettable, alright.

Gameplay, then; the most-important element of any videogame (ignore the haters, all three of them, it is!). Mega controls fine, perhaps a little on the sluggish side when trying to 'twitch' toward a platform edge for a further jump, but nothing majorly serious. Firing, however, is another story. Most of the weapons function fine, but there's the odd occasion (Hard Knuckle I'm looking right at you) where the speed is so out of whack that it becomes almost unusable as it was in the original game. That, plus the plain old buster shots seem to move in slow-motion, three of them lingering onscreen; especially when running in their direction; for much longer than desired. As if to knowingly 'fix' this little problem, the potential firing rate of them has been slowed down from "almost as fast as you can mash" to something like 1/4 a second. It's not ideal, although it serves as something of an incentive to use the special weapons more, I guess.

It's worth noting that a fan-created patch exists that fixes the buster shot speed among other things. I may play with this in the future, if it improves the proceedings, but I digress here.

So the three games are fine-but-not perfect. If you want a 1:1 recreation of the NES trio, it's probably better to stick to those unless you really want the fixed Top Spin this collection has. But! There's that 'Wily Tower' thing, a whole new minigame unlocked when beating the three main titles, as something of a challenge for those who've mastered them.

Except it's not. The interesting thing it does offer is a user-chosen 'loadout' of eight weapons chosen of any of the game's selections; plus three of the various support items, be they Magnet Beam or the numbered Items or the Rush support tools. However, probably because of this, Wily Tower is actually very easy indeed. It's little more than a curio, and not too interesting one at that; the mix-and-match nature of the weapons extends to the level gimmicks and enemies and gives the minigame more than a little of the same feel a fangame or hack may have. It's there if you want more Mega Man, but it won't absolutely Rock (Man) your (Mega) World or anything. 3/5

[sweaters-and-vertigo]

me, a future child psychologist, watching the bad batch:

[unfinished-dream]

kutaka, kyouko, lily, luna, mai, mamizou (K, L, M)

[divorcewars]

[pyrobuyo]

More Steam Powered Robots !!

[missjukebox8bit]

I think there was a brief period where Dr. Wily genuinely tried to better himself by studying classic literature, but then he read Journey to the West and his takeaway was “WAIT A MINUTE, I COULD MAKE SOME EVIL ROBOTS OUT OF THIS!”

and the Genesis Unit was born

[crabsinvideogames]

Mega Man 2 / Mega Man: The Wily Wars

The Claw robots appear near the end of Bubble Man's stage, floating down a waterfall. They also appear in Mega Water S's stage, in The Wily Wars's Wily Tower mode.

[jolikmc-stuff]

Hi, I was looking for your previous version of the patch of fixer upper, the prior to 1.0.5. My pcb has an eeprom and you patch changes the save to sram type. thanks in advance

Greetings, joaco!

I have good news. I've created a GitHub repository which has every released version of every ROM hack I've shared with the public! You can find Rockman Mega World Fixer Upper v1.0.3 here, specifically.

Thank you for your interest in my ROM hacks!

[jolikmc-thoughts]

Just a friendly reminder to fan game developers: Minakuchi Engineering Co, Ltd. made five Mega Man games (eight, if you count each of the four Wily Wars games independently) which play almost exactly like their NES counterparts, right down to the weird quirks and game mechanics of each enemy and stage hazard… and they did so without using even a speck of the original games' source code.

What's your excuse, fan game devs? (;

Okay. To be fair, the first Mega Man World wasn't exactly spot-on… but, they learned quickly!

[regaleur]

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[elidrawsthings]

journey to the west brainrot so bad you remember megaman characters that like 5 people are aware of

[bassforte]

Don’t put Mega Man and Bass behind a paywall, Don’t put Mega Man and Bass behind a paywall, Don’t put Mega Man and Bass behind a paywall, Don’t put-

[megiddo-ichi]

[Now Live with Mega Man: The Wily Wars]

Now Set up for the New Adventures of Jump & Shoot Man.

Hopefully it won't rock me to my core like Rondo and Chronicles have, but CV and MM are notorious for that.

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