This one goes out to all our PALs in Europe and Australia who have the option of downloading Mega Man. It's not like Mega Man is hard to acquire if you don't live in one of the regions on which it's VC-available. If you're in the U.S. and playing along at home, feel free to get out your Mega Man cartridge or Mega Man Anniversary Collection disc.
Mega Man is the only game in the series with a pause option other than the menu screen, and it is this pause option that provides the game's best-known exploit. Simply put, if you pause the game while a projectile is connecting with an enemy, and then unpause, you'll score another hit. This works with any weapon, but is most effective with slower shots like the Thunder Beam. Using this method, you can beat any enemy in (effectively) one shot, and also make the game very boring and annoying! For some of us, "boring and annoying" is preferable to "freaking impossible."
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3-12-2008 @ 8:12PM
Roto13 said...
*is a real man for having beaten all of the original Mega Man series*
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3-12-2008 @ 8:26PM
Author X said...
As am I, Roto13
More to the point, I actually beat the Yellow Demon without the pause trick. The funny thing is, the guy in the video obviously knows what he's doing. I bet he could easily beat it legitimately too.
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3-13-2008 @ 12:57AM
Josh Lankford said...
"If you're in the U.S. and playing along at home, feel free to get out your Mega Man cartridge or Mega Man Anniversary Collection disc."
Right, my GC anniversary disc.
The disc that I couldn't WAIT to buy and play.
It arrived one day.
And hit "A" once i started Mega Man 2.
Did megaman jump?
No.
He shot.
I hit "B."
Did he shoot?
No.
He jumped.
WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!
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3-13-2008 @ 1:31AM
PyrosNine said...
I've beat every single megaman game, but lost my sanity as a result!
And I can only guess playing every megaman X game would either take me beyond insanity or into pure robot hating psychosis.
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3-13-2008 @ 10:21AM
worm said...
I'm with Josh Lankford. I was soooo excited about replaying all those NES games. But they UTTERLY RUINED the games by switching the A and B buttons. I simply couldn't play it like that. I tried to get used to it, and it just wasn't happening. Why, oh why, couldn't they have put in controller configuration options??!?!
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3-13-2008 @ 12:15PM
macbastard said...
Yeah, what Josh and worm said.
What in the world were they thinking?
I went back to playing the old MM games in emulation after that. Meh.
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