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Well some of you became interested in my project I did to graduate and were asking to post my research and likewise I have been forgetting and all the typical lame excuses I've probably made. Anways here is my research data all that I did to the best of my abillity on Megaman. Warning I ask if no one copies any of this work unless with my persmission if I'm not on send me a PM. If you don't meet this requirenment I will not be happy. Anyways There are some if a lot errors on some things particulerally like history and some particuler things I apologize for. I also ask to not bother me about my errors and do not correct because I know some things may be ill accurate. Like I said I did my best. What this research will not include is the proposal and the interviews because those are a bit personal especailly to those I interviewed with on the real world and on the boards. Thank you for reading this notice.

[randomdrifter865]

5/27/08
Megaman

My name is Corey and I am a Rogers student who loves to learn and
enjoys challenges. This paper I’m writing is one of those challenges. The topic I
chose is my favorite videogame and character called Megaman. I chose this
topic, because I wanted something fun, and I knew when I first thought about it I immediately set forth my research and experiences with this game in particular. When I would look back to my childhood I would play this game nonstop, and I simply enjoyed blasting through enemies and getting to the end of each level. As time passed on, more games came and eventually I played each of them to the end.

Since I had experience with Megaman I already knew how each game was played, what systems these games came on, which company sold them and the story plus where these games came from. Obviously not here in America I tell you. I started playing Megaman about the time I was five or six which is about ten or eleven years ago and I still play them. I even remembered watching the shows on television.


Though I knew so much about Megaman. I had some questions that raised my interests even more. Why did we Americans change the original names of the characters? What is keeping this franchise alive? It’s Origins? Who created it? Where did they get their ideas from to produce it? I tell you one though I wasn’t able to answer most of my questions but, with those unanswered questions I was able to find more than I anticipated. I even revisited some that sites that featured fan based material on my favorite blue bomber. From fan fictions to flash movies I had to think about this question. How did Megaman affect the world? So with that and my experiences I searched on.

To find research for my topic I had to resort to the internet and
the help of friends on a forum site dedicated to the fandom of
Megaman. Anyways before I started my research I posted a help thread where people can post any helpful sites I could use to find my topic.
I only got a total of four people but, that was all I could get so far. With that I thanked them and took the time to view the content of each site.

One of the disappointments I had with finding research for my topic is that I could do it at home. Mainly because of the school filter Bess and the fact my topic was about a videogame character. So school was pretty much out of the question. The other thing that gave me problems was the fact that I could only get my research through personal experience and the net. Which eliminated the
use of books, magazines, and the newspaper. However, since I had experience finding research was actually a lot easier.

The first thing I needed for my paper was a timeline. Though the timeline I got was originally for my poster at the time. I was able to use some important years to help piece together a little document for my poster as well for my paper. This timeline had all the game titles, the years the games came out and the systems they were on. However, sense I already had most of the games I already about that stuff which made this piece kind of iffy but, with it I was able to back up my experiences with the game. So in a sense it was quite beneficial after. Though I didn’t like where I got it from which could potentially down my paper. I took the risk and talked to my teacher about it the next day and she said it was okay for the purpose it was intended for. With it I was able to answer part of my question.

The next thing I had to find was the creator of the Megaman franchise as well as a biography about him. Well the problem I had with it is there were very little if almost no information about him. So I simply took the best information I could find about him and put together another piece for my paper. The person I researched for was a Japanese man by the name of Keiji Inafune. “Keiji Inafune is the head of research and development and online business at Capcom, best known for being the character designer of Megaman and producer of Onimusha and Dead Rising video game series.” (Page 3, Para 1) Pretty big accomplishment , but what really surprised me was this “ In 1987 Keiji Inafune graduated from college, looking for a job as an animator, he was hired by Capcom.” (Page 1, Para 1) At this time he was just an animator for Capcom. An Animator is responsible for the design art of characters etc. So with that he did numerous jobs for games like Street Fighter, Rockman( Megaman in the you.S) and this corny title game called Professional Baseball Murder mystery. Twenty years later he still continues to produce the Megaman franchise. Recently the series just had its 20th anniversary this year. So with this info, I got closer to answering my question.

The third and final thing I searched for was the forms of media and merchandise for Megaman. This was actually another big problem to find something helpful ,but then I remembered a site dedicated to everything that is Megaman. The site is called Megaman hp a site that provides info on Megaman etc. However this not the only site the net has to offer. There are many which this site also affiliates with so it is like the grand father of many sites dedicated to Megaman. It is updated quite frequent and has the most accurate in terms of history and things about Megaman etc. However it doesn’t get into news about Megaman like a lot of the other sites a whole lot so it lacks in that department as well as for featuring fan bases made by people that just love Megaman so much that they would make their own art and what not. Anyways back to the purpose of this paragraph. With this site I found an article about merchandise as well as an article about the forms of media Megaman came by in it’s twenty years of entertainment. As for media I already knew about the TV series made in America which was animated by a company called Rubie and Spears. This company is responsible for a lot of the TV shows that were animated during the early 80’s to about the late 90’s so they have done a lot of shows like Scooby Doo and the Swat Cats. Along with that there were animes that came from Japan in the form of English dubbed versions of the original shows. The reason why stuff was cut out etc. As for the merchandise I learned about the toys, books, trading cards and apparell which got me riled up even more about Megaman. Personally now I want those items myself. This pushed me more to answering my big question.

Before we move on to anything else I would like to thank these individuals for helping find stuff for my research. Silver Stryker for willing to be interviewed as well as Hunterzero for doing the same. Chaos Tank for being helpful to make my topic to be more specific. Viruszero for providing sites that could potentially help me search things out. By the way, these people only wanted me to mention their screen names on the forum site for now in till I can get those interviews going again. Which probably won’t happen till my computer is fixed. So I never got to really finish those interviews which could have really helped my paper out even more ,but these will be used for my final product which is a poster board that will include my experiences and whatever else I found that wasn’t mentioned in this paper. So be prepared for one great product by my senior year.

Based on everything that I’ve obtained through my research. I was only able to answer a few of my questions. What is keeping this franchise alive? It’s Origins? How has Megaman affected the world? The whole idea of my project is the last question I just stated. That question was my reason to even take the time to go the distance with this project and even this paper. Otherwise this whole project would have been a waste of my time and yours for helping me to go this far. Come to think of it, my paper would probably have sounded horrible if that question wasn’t there.

As for sources go a lot of the stuff I found pretty much agreed with each article I brought up and used for this paper. So a lot of the research was quite suddle and not the least bit deceiving or useless. However, I did find a lot of information that did indeed surprised me. In retrospect to the biography of Keiji Inafune I found. I learned that Capcom was about ready to give up on Megaman because the first one was considered very poor quality and that they weren’t going to make a second one despite the fact it sold even more than any of the other game series they’ve had or made so far in that time period were videogames have greatly impacted the youth in a lot of countries especially in the United States. The reason why it’s still around is because the team that Keiji Inafune was part of wanted to continue to make the series because it had great potential than the other project they were assigned at that time. So Capcom let them and they got a potential seller which was Megaman 2 (Rockman 2 in Japan) for the first Nintendo called the Nes in 1988. If it weren’t for the team or Keiji Inafune Capcom probably wouldn’t have lasted very long. A lot of this information can be found in page three of the biography section. For the most part Capcom would have to rely on Street Fighter and Dark Stalkers which were both fighting style games that were made for the arcades more than any of the actual home systems intill the Super Nintendo or SNES however, neither were as popular as Megaman from the Nes. Megaman 2 was said to be the reason why the series got so popular and sales were at its peak which gave Capcom a new diamond in there treasury. As for my answers leading to other questions no if that’s what you are wondering about.



To sum things up I enjoyed writing this paper and the research was just fabulous because I picked something fun and I knew I would like it because it was part of my childhood and the reason why I write stories. As a researcher, I was able to go the distance to learn something that no teacher could teach me. It was something I had to find out myself if I truly wanted to do this project. I am already an experienced doing stuff like this so I was comfortable with it for the most part.. Though it doesn’t hurt to ask questions for help sometimes. Which has always been my problem but, with this paper and the research I was able to overcome that problem and did things with ease. That is how I grew as a researcher really. With this information I can show people why I like Megaman so much and prove my statements I’ve made in the past about Capcom’s blue bomber. Heck I was so happy that I did something more resourceful as well as something fun to get through times where your skills are needed for everything. This paper tested me on everything I had in my arsenal of tricks and abilities to write something as this.

















Citations page:
1. Megaman Timeline 10 May 2008 Wikipedia 6 May 2008 <ttp://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page>

2. Keiji Inafune Mobygames 7 May 2008 <ttp://www.mobygames.com/dveloper/sheet/view/developerId,59071>
3. Keiji Inafune Wikipedia 12 May 2008 <ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wikiKeiji_Inafune>

4. Megaman products Megamanhp 13 May 2008 <ttp://www.mmhp.net/#Updates>

[randomdrifter865]

Game features

Megaman Original
The original Megaman from the Nes era made improvements in each game in the series. The constant improvement of features that made the game play better each time a new one would come along.

Megaman 1 Features
Well this was the first game and was the only one with a points and score system. This one also lets you re fight bosses in their general stages. Also appears for the remake
There were only 6 bosses at the time. In the remake for the PSP there were still the original 6, but they added 2 more to keep up with a tradition made in Megaman 2.
As Megaman you could only use just a buster shot that fired 3 shots at a time in rapid secession to do damage in till you got the stage bosses master weapon. You could only just jump as well.
When you have a master weapon that weapon could be a weakness for another boss meaning you didn’t have to use just your buster and the fight would end faster than use just dishing buster shot after buster shot. You could also use some weapons for other uses instead defeating a boss.
The first support weapon you find helps make stages easier and were sometimes required to use in a stage.
The game also utilizes a life bar and weapon bar system which meant you couldn’t die easily after getting touched like Mario you die for whatever the reason.
The use of a password system.

Flaws
Megaman was a bit hard to control considering you slide just about any surface after jumps, he was very slow on ladders and could be knocked off easily on ladders and in jumps.

Megaman 2 Features
8 new bosses.
The use of a new item called energy tanks which restore health and you only had 4 of them.
The use of support items which made stages easier to get through made there appearance here. Plus some were used as requirements to get through a stage.
The introduction of Roll.

Flaws
Megaman had the same problems from Megaman 1.
A boss was weak against his own weapon.




Megaman 3 Features
8 new bosses.
Some bosses from the last game appear making the game longer.
The introduction of Rush.
The introduction of Protoman.
Megaman could now slide under obstacles.
Flaws from the last 2 games were fixed finally.
You could get more Energy tanks instead 4 you could get more and get up to 99.

Megaman 4 Features
8 new bosses.
2 new support items were introduced as secrets.
The introduction of Eddy.
Megaman could now charge bigger and more damaging buster shot that could do more damage than the regular 3 shots.

Megaman 5 Features
8 new bosses
A new support item was obtained after a boss fight with his weapon as well.
The introduction of Beat.
Beat could only obtained after finding the letters that spell out Megaman 5.
The use of the item M tank made its appearance here however you could only have 1 and it restored your life and weapon energy to max output.
The graphic of the charge shot was changed.

Megaman 6 Features
8 new bosses
The use of Rush Adaptors made its appearance with the power and flight adaptors.
2 of the bosses were based on a designs from a contest usually hosted in Japan ,but become global for the first maybe last time.
Rush was replaced by the Rush adaptors
The E balancer appeared in this game which let players grab weapon energy to fill other weapons that were empty or used without directly switching to the actual weapon.

Flaws
The sound to the charged shot was changed.










Megaman 7 Features
8 new bosses however you had to beat the first 4 before unlocking the second set.
The games had its first introduction stage and halfway stage.
The graphics were upped to match the SNES system.
The Introduction of Bass and Treble.
The Introduction of Auto.
The return of the Rush support items.
The game had a lot more secrets.
Boss weapons could be used to alter stages and find secret routes.
The use of E tanks was hindered back to 4.
You could get W tanks which recharged weapon energy to max and you could only use 4.
The M tank was changed to the S tank.
In this game you could pick up bolts to use to buy items that help make the game easier and Megaman more prepared for tougher levels.
The number of lives you could have was reduced to 9.
Eddy was taken out, but appeared with Auto when you accessed his shop from the stage selection screen.
Beat got anew purpose in this game as a safety mechanism that saved Megaman from hazardous pitfalls till you bought more beat whistles of course than you would run out and Beat couldn’t save you also if you are not near an edge of a pitfall beat would eventually get tired and you would drop down again wasting beat whistles till you get to safety or fall to your death.

Flaws
Every time you use a boss’s weakness the boss would reset his programmed attack pattern with the Exceptions of the Fortress bosses, Bass, Protoman and Dr. Wily.

Megaman 8
Introduction of Duo
Intro and middle stages could be replayed.
8 new bosses…
Animated Cut scenes
The bolts system was removed ,but you could still find bolts ,but only worth one per bolt and were used to buy parts to customize Megaman to the players liking of course you had choices and a limited amount of bolts.
The use of any sort of tank was removed because of Rush’s first Aid system support ability which could only be used in a stage a few times.
You got use a new weapon called the mega ball which was given during the intro stage.
Stages were divided in twos so that way it could load properly.
The game removed the password system sense the game was for the Playstation as well as having in game saves for the Sega Saturn.
This game had 2 versions one for the Playstation and the other for the Sega Saturn.
The Sega Saturn had more enemies in each stage and two secret bosses from past Megaman Games.
The Sega Saturn had an extra option that Playstation versiondidn’t just to spite Sony for declining Capcom’s offer of Megaman 8 not being 3d.
Megaman 9

New features
8 new bosses
The bolts system was returned.
Megaman gets his retro look back.
Megaman is downgraded to Megaman 2 standards, but not its flaws which were nice.
Downloadable content.
Bass has no appearance in this game oddly.

Flaws
It costs to buy extra content on the online networks of home systems like PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii.

Megaman X series introduced a lot more new ideas and creativity when the SNES came to being and this series began in 1993.

Megaman X Features
8 new bosses
In the Megaman X series the bosses you fought were animal based.
New character you get to play as is Megaman X or X for short.
The Introduction of Zero.
The Introduction of Sigma The new antagonist.
The introduction of Vile (he was a playable character in the remake in his own story has more of a role)
X’s Life bar could be expanded with the power up item Heart tanks there are 8 total, but 1 was hidden in each boss stage.
In addition to the heart tanks there were 4 hidden Subtanks which were superior to the E tanks in away that they didn’t disappear after a single use and more life energy items you find it would restore the tanks usage.
X could also find armor programs which improved his abilities like being able to dash, firing a powerful Buster shot, defense power increase and using his head to smash blocks. Once he found the armor part he could use it right away.
X’s abilities include being able to charge his buster 2 levels 3 with the buster part, he could dash once he found the leg parts which helps a lot in this game, he could wall climb and charge boss weapons with the buster part once found making him more versatile than Megaman.
X could obtain a special cameo attack form Capcom’s Streetfighter Series Hadoken which was optional after finding all upgrades.
X can get only get 9 lives.
The game had a sound test option.
You game has a password usage.




Megaman X2 Features
8 new bosses.
Megaman could now dash without the leg parts from the last game.
His charge Shot animation color was changed.
You fought more story bosses if you found the secret routes.
You could find Zero’s parts and restore Zero or not find them and fight Zero himself from the last game with new improvements.
X got a new armor.
The first actual Giga attack was made available in this game.
A new function to X once he found the leg parts he could now air dash which wasn’t really useful.
Another cameo attack form Street Fighter Shuriyuken was optional when finding all upgrades excluding Zero’s parts.
The sound test feature was taken out.
They added the ability to ride a land vehicle for a stage.

Megaman X3 Features
8 new bosses.
Zero finally becomes playable in this game, but couldn’t enter boss rooms and could be used once per stage. He couldn’t access any upgrades, no boss weapons, he could do about just about all actions X could do and if he died he wasn’t usable again.
X got a new armor.
The use of Ride armors appeared heavily if you wanted to access some secrets and different routes.
In addition to the 4 regular armor parts there were 4 additional program parts which enhance a particular armor part however you could only use one.
There was a new secret armor called the gold armor which has all program parts and made X practically a god. However you found it once you have had all upgrades including the ride armors.
Zero’s Z saber was secret charge part if you fought particular boss with Zero and won ,but you would lose Zero in the process and X will have the Saber giving a 4th charge level.
Different bosses would appear in boss stages and if you used particular weapon they would die off if not they would retreat and you fight them again in the fortress stages.
This game had two versions one for the SNES version for North America and a Playstation version which had animated cut scenes and an arranged version of the themes played in stages.










Megaman X4 Features
8 new bosses.
X and Zero were both playable in this game, but each had there own story in this game so neither came across each other.
Zero loses his buster, but you could use his saber without charging and he could combo bosses, get upgrades except for the X armor upgrades.
Animated cut scenes
The graphics were upped.
The password system was dumped due to the ability to save.
X gets a new armor.
The number of subtanks was reduced to 2.
The W Tank reappears, but it is now reusable so it didn’t disappear.
An item called the EX tank expanded the number of starting lives you get from 2 to 4.
The game had to in game secret codes put in which affect X’s armor and Zero’s Color Scheme.

Megaman X5 Features
8 new bosses
X and Zero are finally playable in the same story.
You could choose who starts as in this game for the intro stage.
If you chose X you start off with his armor from the last game minus a few abilities to keep the game difficult, but Zero loses the ability to use the Z buster.
If you chose Zero you get the buster, but X loses his armor from the last game.
This game has a ranking system which affects really nothing at all.
You could adjust the game difficulty.
The sound test feature was returned finally.
You can get parts to customize X or Zero based upon choices after defeating a certain level boss.
X can get two armors story wise, but can’t equip them right a way till the armor is complete. He has technically 4 if you start off with X and find a secret armor you can get whole which was a secret code option in Megaman X4.
Zero can also find armor ,but still can’t equip it because the armor was designed for X. he has his secret armor which is color scheme from X4 which has some better abilities like increased defense, a powerful saber and the saber could cut through enemy shots.
In this game only you had 16 hours to stop a colliding space colony of course you had to stop it for story purposes if you fail well the game has a back up plan.
In this game you can lose Zero and fight him as a boss based upon your success to stopping the colliding space colony.
In this game you also fight a Virus of course you can’t hurt it unless you had a particular part.
This game has 3 endings based upon the choices made and who used in the end.
Zero does die in this game in all of those ending.


Flaws
In X5 there were some spelling errors due to the translation from Japanese to English.

Megaman X6 Features
8 new bosses
X gets Zero’s saber from the last game.
X gets two new armors of course same plan as the other game. X technically has 4 because he starts off with 1 which is much downgraded from the last game and the other is a secret in game code which you start off at the bat.
You can find Zero again if you beat a certain boss and becomes playable again.
Zero’s functions are his Z saber and Z busters both of which have been improved and he could air dash and double jump right off the bat once you get him back. He can get his black color scheme if you put a certain code command.
This game ranking system is based upon on the number of nightmare souls you could get.
The higher your rank the number of parts you could have on X and Zero
You can also find 16 reploids scattered in stages of course the catch if you save them you get part for X and Zero if you don’t they remain there in till touched or if you lose them to particular enemy they fight you.
This game has 2 bosses that affect the story.
The game has a new thing called the Nightmare system which basically affects the stage layouts based upon the boss weapon you got. It doesn’t become active till you had a boss weapon.
The game yet again has 3 endings, but based upon who you played as and if you found Zero.
One of the Endings apparently leads to another Series which stars just Zero.

Megaman X7 features
8 new bosses
The game was the first of any X game to go 3D
The game had a lock on system which locked on enemies.
A new playable character named Axl appears.
Axl is like X ,but with few exceptions he has no buster ,but he uses a gun, he can dash, air dash, roll, hover and his special ability is he can become certain enemies that are his size only for a limited amount of time or get abilities from other enemies not bosses though.
X for the first time isn’t playable till later in the game.
X can now finally air dash without a particular armor on.
X gets a new armor and can now use the armor in parts in till complete.
X loses the saber.
Zero can still do just about similar things like before.
Zero has the ability to use other weapons and loses his buster again.
Zero can deflect shots back at his enemy.
This game still has a ranking system.
Again you save reploids ,but now other enemies can attack them and kill them off losing your changes for power up parts.
The game yet again has 3 endings based upon who used to deal the final blow.
To this game is the tag system in which you can now select two playable characters and use them to switch and restore any damage or if the other died off or something.

Flaws
The real main flaw is the Lock on system considering it would sometime not work at all and Zero’s playability was somewhat hindered and affected it by it.


Megaman X8 Features
8 new bosses
All characters are playable
The game features a currency system with these items called force metal which helps actually build your character with power ups.
The game has also secret power ups which had to be found in stages.
You could chose your navigator and which one you used the most they got to be a playable character mimicking a current playable character.
This game has mini games so that way you are not only just going through stages to collect force metal.
This game if the first game in the X series to ever have a re enterable intro stage.
X has a new armor that is customizable with two sets of armor power ups however if you have a complete set you could become that armor and have its own general power up.
Zero gets more new weapons.
Axl gets revamped a bit after X7 sense the game is back to 2D he can fire in all directions and all his weapons he would get from any of the bosses were are all rapid fire and require no energy like Zero’s Tech’s.
A new feature is the tag attack which can destroy all enemies on a screen or take a huge chunk from a boss’s life energy meter.
The combo system was put in so it can fill the tag meter so the higher the combo also meant you get some bonuses as well.
Vile makes a comeback and you can fight him any of the stages at random.
If you complete any of the characters upgrade chart you get a special secret armor for each of them that tweaks their abilities.
The game is 2D, but with 3D graphics.
There is only one ending and Sigma isn’t the end boss for once in the series.

Megaman Legends is technically the first set of 3D games till ever grace the Megaman universe. Plus it was an action RPG. It made its debut in 1997 for the playstation.











Megaman Legends Features
You get to play as character named literally Megaman.
The game is in 3D
Megaman has no abilities to copy any weapons from bosses or switch out weapons.
Megaman can dodge roll, walk, sneak, lock on, jump, fire his buster in areas of combat, use special weapons in combat areas; he can kick and move in all directions.
Megaman unlike his other counterparts can’t charge his buster, but instead you could customize them with parts you bought or found and had them built by Roll.
Since this Megaman can’t copy he can use a special weapon and built up by Roll and upgraded by Roll, but that costs to build up.
Since this game is an action RPG you could interact with NPC’s or non playable characters to activate side quests that have nothing to do with the main story.
You also go into dungeons called ruins where you can make your money or Zenny is the games currency. This is where you can find parts for Special weapons etc.
The games story is very in depth and actually makes you feel like you are there even if you control the main character.
Bosses are a lot more different than the ones in the original and X Series. Bosses require more strategic options than simply exploiting their weakness. So being prepared is always a good thing.
This game has no lives system in the sense if you die its game over and you don’t ever come back till you reload from your last save.
Sometimes you need certain equipment or items to get through an area.
This game once beaten on Normal you could adjust your settings and reap the rewards of Easy or be at a complete disadvantage on Hard.
This game has two versions one for the Playstaion and the other for the N64
Differences would be the N64 version had faster load times and the music was a bit off due to the music system for the N64. The Playstation had slower load time, but like wise the audio and music was a lot better due to the Playstation’s superior hardware and the game itself was a disk which heavily beat its cartridge version.
This game also featured a shield system which basically should you armor protection. If the shield broke it had to be repaired by Data, repaired with an item the was limited in stock or it would regenerate back to normal. If it didn’t do that or you didn’t see Data or have the item you could take even more damage.

Flaws
Though the lock on system was okay it was almost not even used at all unless your enemy was on the ceiling, you had to look somewhere in your environment and if you really need to focus in your shots in certain spots that was about out.
There was no other way to recharge your special weapon energy unless from your save point companion Data or by buying an item which was limited called the hyper cartridge












Megaman legends 2 Features
Megaman now can lift objects which change the game play and puzzle solving immensely. Just by adding that feature you could set you enemies for more damage than just firing with your buster and special weapon alone.
This game actually has a new feature called the tutorial where players either new to the series or new to action RPG’s could learn how to play VS the last games in game tutorial.
The lock on system was improved and now Megaman could move around while locking on to enemies.
The Equipment system was improved and now you had more stuff to work with in many areas.
New to the series was the status effect feature which besides just taking damage from your enemies you could also suffer other types of aliments which messed with Megaman weapons, movement and life bar so that meant more preparation and well avoiding to get hit by that aliment.
To access some of the games side quest ruins for riches and whatever else you had to actually take tests for a licenses which also increased the amount of Zenny received as well as how difficult an enemy can be.
A new system called the alignment system made in appearance in this game. The alignment system basically determined how NPC’s viewed Megaman which was based upon the color of his armor. Of course this does play a significant effect on some side quests and what not, but doesn’t really affect the main story any much.
Enemies could now drop weapon energy for your special weapons so you wouldn’t have to rely or go back to Data or even use the limited item to restore it to full capacity. So you could be in a dungeon without fear.
The game has a new difficulty called Very Hard after either completing the other two difficulties or by completing the game on Normal with an almost100%.
The Graphics Engine was more clean and better.

Flaws
Though the lock on system was great it was kind of flawed in the sense of you could lock on other enemies,but sometimes the enemy would be far out of you distance or the other side of the wall also kind of giving the player an advantage that the enemy was around the corner kind of also taking the surprise factor away…







Megaman Battle Network series is actually the real first ever off shoot and completely different story from the Original series and on. The series made its debut in 2001 for the Game boy Advance. At this point Capcom decided to focus on more hand held system games than home system games for Megaman in general. Megaman is actually quite short in terms of time with the exception of Legends, but you could still play it in 5-6hrs.This one takes the cake as there is more hours to it and it’s an RPG plus a ton of secrets. This series also has a lot of cameos and remake in characters from other series most notably Original, X and well Legends. Instead of robots or whatever else. The series had you fight viruses, programs, and Net Navi’s which were bosses and assumed similar roles to their robot counterparts. Plus this is a completely different story and has nothing to do with the events of Original, X and Legends.

Megaman Battle Network Features
This game had in game save feature, but one file a time literally due to it being a cartridge game.
You could actually link up with a friend and VS each other and trade chips.
The game uses the same currency as Legends like that counterpart series you have to work a lot to buy your upgrades etc.
You could level up in this game which is based upon your health upgrades and stat upgrades you either found or bought or did some side quest for it.
The game is an RPG so your enemies are not visible and appear in random encounters while on the net. Unless if you were in Main or Sub quest battle.
The main characters are Lan and his Net Navi Megaman exe.
As Lan the player would do a lot of backtracking through out the story as well as interact for clues and whatever else you are doing for the main story’s events and side quests. You were actually safe because you were in the real world.
As Megaman exe the player did pretty much the same thing as Lan except you had to do some battling to get somewhere.
The games battle system is quite interesting as it required you to string certain chips to battle with.
You also could charge his buster 3 levels and fire it normally in addition with your chip attacks.
The game had a lot of strategy behind it so really it’s harder than it looked because the chips were coded with letters so you had to use the chip with the same code or same picture in addition to the codes were the wild card codes which make combining and stacking easier.
Of course to reap rewards you had to beat battles and get a certain rank based on certain factors.
The game had a big collection library that required you to practically to do everything to complete it.
The elements system there were the 4 elements. Fire, Wood, Elec and Water each had advantages over your opponents of course each had its disadvantages.
You could also sacrifice a turn to add chips you couldn’t use and get more and maybe better ones. You start out with 5 and you can go up to 10.
Program advance was a skill that linked certain chips to build a better more devastating attack which was useful against strong enemies. Of course the catch is getting the right string of chips.

Megaman Battle network 2 Features
Megaman’s 3 levels of charge was changed to just 1 level or in till you could power up to charge.
The game had a the ability to trade with the past through a machine called the Retro Chip Trader
The Reg mem system lets you select 1 chip as your regular default chip if you of course had the mem for it which could be upgraded from 0 to 50.
Bug Frags were these useless pieces of data you find to basically collect to trade in for certain chips.
The Style change was a new feature that tweaked Megaman’s Abilities in battle based upon how the player played as Megaman. If you focused on your buster you got the Gut Style, Focused on defense you got the Shield style, you used chips a lot you got the Cust style and finally if you used Navi chips a lot you got the Team style. With that style you got a random element was assigned that you could use in that style. Of course there was a secret one as well in addition to these styles.
This game heavily forced the player to rely on program Advances to get better stuff quicker.

Megaman Battle Network 3 White/ Blue Ver. Features
After battle network 2 the series had 2 versions to the same game each also had some notable differences like getting certain chip codes, shop prices, chips in the shops, each had a unique style change in addition to the other 4 from the last game and a new secret one, a Navi or two you fought exclusively to the version as well each version hosting 5 unique chips to the version. White was for more beginners and Blue was just White on steroids. Generally the game had the same story.
You could only have one style at a time instead of two.
They removed the Level up system from the first two games.
The way you could now power up Megaman is with the Navi Cust a new feature introduced in this game which lets you literally customize him of course you had to unlock features, expand the grid and program him correctly other wise he would be bugged. You could harvest programs from your styles after your style leveled up. Of course programs had a specific color and there were rules when customizing.
The Game introduces a more detailed library by separating certain chips in these categories. Standard which was gray, Blue which was Mega and Red as in Giga.
A new thing was that ability to hit certain enemies at the right time to get bug frags which was used to raise your own virus chips and trade in for chips and upgrades.
You could now VS players with match types and trade Programs.
The Game also adds the feature of the ordered system which lets you buys chips as long as you had them already in your library. Of course these chips would cost extra and only came in one code.
The ability of 3 custom folders was removed to 2, but you could still get another folder but you couldn’t edit it.
Megaman Battle Network 4 Red Sun / Blue Moon Features
New to this game is the emotion system which adds a new twist to battling.
Normal: Megaman was fine.
Worried: Megaman took too much hits and isn’t scoring any.
Angry: Megaman is angry from getting hit way too much giving him the ability to not flinch for 10 seconds and the next chip did double damage.
Bugged: The Window is rather blurry indicating Megaman was suffering from a particular bug.
Sync: The player and Megaman countered there enemies attack at the right time and now there next chip will do double damage. Of course if the enemy hit you would lose this emotion and got back to normal.
Dark: Megaman is too influenced by the Dark side and is most likely going to use Dark Chips to battle.
The Karma system basically worked on how much you used Dark Chips the more you used The more Megaman was tempted to use one right away if he was worried or would be in the dark status for a while. As a result you would lose 1 Hp every time you use a Dark Chip forever and never get it back.
The ability to ADD was removed making the game harder and more defensive.
The only way you could get more chips was to rely on luck, folder fluidity and the cust programs.
This games story is different and random in both versions because this game is set up more tournament based.
In addition the game featured the ability to fuse with 6 other Navis in each version which had 6 different souls exclusive which adds more to the game play. To become a soul the player had to sacrifice a particular chip type to become the soul and get its benefits.
Players could now trade souls as well.
The Navi Cust was revamped in this game giving it more custom ability.
The game got harder every time you beat it so that way you could get the rest of the library complete.
Another new thing was the random chip data appearing battles which made fighting enemies a bit tougher considering if either were to hit the data it would be game, but the catch that data could have a useful prize.
Graphic design was changed.














Megaman Battle Network 5 Team Protoman/ Team Colonel / Double Team
New souls 6 again of course.
The new library feature of Dark Chips and you could buy them as well however there were only 12 of 1 type.
You could also use Chaos Union which works like a soul in which you use a Dark Chip and Megaman would get a darker version of the Soul, but as a result there were no penalties unless you charged at the wrong time.
A new feature to this game is using other Navi’s in a liberation area which was your team of 6 to get through obstacles on a big board of infected areas.
Your goal was to reach the end of the area and defeat the boss Navi with in certain amount of turns to get a special chip prize. Each Navi had a Special ability on the board.
The hard part of it was you couldn’t customize you teammates mainly because that was your Navi to begin with. Plus you had to battle and beat an enemy square in 3 turns other wise you’d fail. So it was real good to set up a good well balanced folder which required you have it fluid and a chip to stall time.
This game also had a DS version of it which made good use of the W gate feature which required you to slot in the past 4 titles as well as the newest version being Team whatever to get some special bonuses as well as some secret stuff. Too bad they didn’t make a DS version for the next and last game to the Battle Network Series…
The ability to have multiple P.A’s of the same programs advance was removed so you could technically use it once per battle.


Megaman Battle Network 6 Cybeast Greger / Cybeast Falzer
4 new elements were added in addition from the original 4.
The dark emotion was removed due to the story of the last game.
The ability of the souls was replaced with the ability called Crosses which don’t require sacrificing a chip, but rather you could select from the menu in the battle screen and use it intill you got knocked out of it by its element weakness. There were 5 Crosses per version.
In addition to the crosses there was the story cross which Megaman could fuse with one of the beasts the game is titled too giving Megaman more advantages or disadvantage depending how you played.
The beasts had a 3 turn limit and after 3 the actual beast takes over Megaman the A.I takes over resulting in a good thing or potentially hazardous thing.
Tired: Megaman is real drained from the use of the Cybeast cross.
Drained: After a super cross with the Beast A.I Megaman’s HP will drop rapidly intill he reaches 1 HP and becomes defeated or survives.
Super Beast takes Over: The beast takes over and Megaman can no longer be controlled by the player ,but rather the A.I which means it will attack at random, Move at random and Megaman is now invincible in this state.
Once you were Beast Megaman you could fuse with a Cross and get more interesting features as well as some powerful attacks.
You could now play with other Navi’s completely instead of just in liberation missions.
The return of sub quests makes a comeback, but there are requirements to access them.
Megaman Zero series another hand held set of games that spawned only 4 games making it probably the third shortest in the Megaman franchise. The game stars Megaman X’s partner Zero after either the ending in X6 or X8 after a period called the Elf Wars and Zero sealed himself away to prevent further war. The game series features a completely different art style as well as some of the most brilliant ideas the reinvent Zero. Of course the Story line is also more grim than X.

Megaman Zero Features
This Game features similar features from The X series.
These games power ups were known as Cyber Elves. There were 3 different types Nurse which healed and gave Zero expansion in his life bar as well as being Subtanks. Animal basically gave Zero support in a stage as well as alter his physical abilities. Hacker altered the stage to make things easier for Zero. Of course doing this would affect your ranking at the end of each stage.
The game has a ranking system simply because it is Zero you were forced to really be a perfectionist by killing a certain number of enemies, the time, taking damage without dying, the mission completion and finally the usage of no cyber elves. If the Cyber Elf is permanent it would always mark you down your stage score.
To get and use better Cyber Elves Zero had to find them in capsules hidden in the stage as well as kill certain enemies for some. You also had to upgrade specific cyber elves so they were useable and the only way you could do it was by feeding them energy crystals which came increments of 4 and 16 at a time. You could get them simply be defeating enemies and finding them across a stage.
This game had a weapon upgrade system which worked similar to an RPG, but in order to learn a new function you had to defeat a certain number of enemies for each star.
In addition to your weapons Zero could also receive two other weapons.
You also could get certain element chips. These chips obviously work on specific bosses. Fire beats Ice, Ice beats Thunder and Thunder beats Fire. You could almost tell which element worked simply by the color of the boss of course there were those you couldn’t tell that easily. There was also the neutral element meaning the boss took no additional damage from a charged elemental attack.
This game’s missions worked like this you could escape them at any time once you got the Escape Unit, but as a result you failed the mission and eventually the game went straight to the end prematurely without any preparation for Zero.
This game has 3 settings to it, but only worked by simply beating the game. You also had a Game plus mode which was basically you accessed your beaten file and load it up back again and play through with the same file.
There is catch though you had to find all Cyber Elves and upgrade them to get the games secret.
If you had A or an S rank the boss battles were harder because the boss would had an additional attack to their current pattern.







Megaman Zero 2 Features
The ability to escape while in mission was removed for obvious reasons…
You now could find two Subtanks without sacrificing the two Cyber elves.
There was a change in the Cyber Elf line up.
Cyber Elves took less energy crystals to upgrade.
You could now get different forms for Zero to use based upon how you play in a stage. These forms affect certain functions to Zero and each had a different color scheme.
You could also trade forms and VS other players.
If you beat the stage with and A or S rank you get a thing called an EX skill which basically gave Zero an enemies move for Zero to use.
One of Zero’s new weapons was changed.
This game had only Hard Mode as a difficulty change once you beat the game.

Megaman Zero 3 Features
The weapons upgrade system was removed for story reasons.
The VS mode feature was removed.
The Cyber Elf line up was changed yet again.
The EX skills were expanded.
The Forms were removed.
The Game features a more unique way of using a Cyber Elf by introducing the satellite system allows Zero to equip 2 Cyber Elves without penalty. Of course you could use them like you would normally…
You could link up with Megaman Battle Network 4 to trade a Special chip from Megaman Zero 3.
Zero could now find Disks in stages which contain info on enemies, Cyber Elves, energy Crystals and parts for Zero.
These parts were upgrades for Zero’s Head and Leg most of the time.
The game also has Mini Games of course you had to unlock these with by meeting certain requirements in the game.
The return of Ultimate Mode is used in this game once you found every Data disk in the game.













Megaman Zero 4 Features
The number of EX skills was limited to 8…
The use of the two new weapons were removed ,but in exchange you got the Z knuckle which stole enemy weapons and lets Zero use it for a limited to infinite number of times.
The Cyber Elves were removed, but you still got a Cyber elf which was new breed all completely. It had 3 aspects similar to the regular 3 it evolves like regular Cyber elf, but adapt programs from previous Cyber Elves to level up how many aspect you could have you had to beat the stage while being under the limit of not use any Cyber Elf Aspect.
You could also adjust a Stages difficulty by changing the weather of course by changing the weather you couldn’t get a boss’s EX skill.
You could also find parts to build upgrades for Zero.
The game lets you select two difficulties right off the bat with Easy and Normal Mode, but to get hard Mode you had to beat the game.
This was the last time we got to play as Zero as himself.
































Megaman ZX series plays quite similar to the Zero series, but really its an expansion of that series and furthers the story a thousand years later when Human and Reploid finally made peace with each other and resulted in these hybrid combinations which gave humans the abilities of Reploids and Reploids getting the ability to age like Humans.

Megaman ZX Features
This Game has 3 modes of play
You can now choose between a boy and girl with the same practical story.
The boy can take recoil damage, but can’t dash further than the girl ,but the girl can’t handle recoil that well. Their names are Vent and Aile.
In this game you can assume the forms of past heroes from the Zero and X series in the form of biometal.
Each Megamerged form has a special ability and is used to meet certain requirements that require you have it otherwise you won’t be able to do much quests or get around much.
This game does use the touch screen for some functions, but other than that it wasn’t taken full advantage of.
The game does use the W gate to where you can fight four bosses from Megaman Zero 3 and 4.
Since this game was for the DS you could now attack simultaneously without switching weapons.
Bosses can comeback after you defeat more than just 4.
Model X: Gives the player the ability charge two shots. Eventually you will lose this Model due to the story…
Model ZX: Plays much like Zero from Megaman Zero.
Model H: Gives the player the ability to analyze bosses for weak points as well giving it the ability to air dash.
Model F: Lets the player edit the Knuckle Busters it has to change trajectory as well as break blocks and walls.
Model L: Let’s the player swim in all directions and Water Dash it also comes equip with an item scope.
Model P: Let’s the player use the ability of hanging on certain ledges and go up them as well increasing your visual area of darkened space and it uses a radar on the touch screen to reveal hidden locations.
Model O: This is a secret model which plays like Zero in the form of Omega the ending boss character of Megaman Zero 3. It come with an infinite Overdrive and can use a lot more move than Model ZX.
Overdrive is power up thing for Models H, F, ,L ,P and O in which the player engages the model to power up resulting in more powerful attacks. Of course Models H, F, L and P are not infinite and require you to fix them or not hit a boss’s weak point which is Level 4.
Life ups returns to this game.
You can find disks on all your enemies and friends.





Megaman ZX Advent Features
This Game features 3 modes of play.
Mini games are now back on the menu however you have to unlock these while playing the game of course.
You can play as a Reploid Kid Grey and Human Hunter Ashe.
Grey’s Buster has rapid fire and Ashe’s Buster has a laser shot.
Their stories are a bit intertwined, but neither does meet each other due to their beginning stages.
You can encounter Vent as Ashe or Aile as Grey in their on version of Model ZX.
You got a Biometal.
Biometal A: This biometal takes in the form of it user’s buster type and had its own attacks that are similar, but different. It can use homing shots, whatever version of the main character’s Buster and it can do a Giga attack which consumes Biometal Energy.
Model A can transform into boss characters by simply coping their data or DNA which can be switched manually or on the touch screen.
The Boss is usually a watered down version of the actual Boss and the attacks each costs a lot of energy to use.
The one way to improve the Biometal Energy was to find the Biometal upgrades you couldn’t repair in this game with the usage of energy crystals.
You can now take multiple side quests at once.
The Map feature was upgraded which was a great improvement.
You could also change into the past biometal in this game each with different attacks based on your character you were playing as.



Megaman Starforce is Megaman Battle Network 200 years later in the story you play as Geo and the character Omegasis. These two will fight FM aliens which are beings made of pure energy. The net barely exists in this world.

Megaman Starforce Pegasus/ Leo/ Dragon
There are 3 versions of the same game with the same story, but a few differences.
You will use Zenny again.
In this game you can fuse with your beast of that version.
You fight enemies in a more 3D field other than that is basically the same graphics as Megaman Battle Network.
You can use the Wi Fi features to VS and trade with people around the world.

Megaman Starforce 2 Zerker X Ninja/ Zerker X Saurian
Same feature as the last the only difference is the changes which are called tribe on features and Brother Bands.

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Important characters


Megaman/Rockman/ Rock Light
Megaman goes by many names most notably the blue bomber. Originally Megaman went by the name of Rock Light as an assistant robot to Dr. Light. When Wily began his scheme for world conquest and stole all the other robots. Rock volunteered to under go a transformation into what he is now Megaman. With a sense of justice he defeated Wily time and time again and at some points he captured Wily. His special ability is being able to copy other Robots special weapons and take them as them own as well as change to a specific color.

Roll Light
Roll is Megaman’s sister and her function is a house maid she is a very loving sister, but somewhat cowardly. She often wears a red dress, a green bow and red shoes and she has appeared to be a little girl most of the time. She later takes over Autos Job and builds part for her brother to use later on in the series. It was never explained why she was taken with the other robots.

Protoman/ Blues
Protoman is actually a prototype robot that both Dr. Light and Dr. Wily worked on together. This also makes him in a sense Megaman’s older brother, but after a while he ran away never to be seen again. Later on it was noted the Protoman’s Core was unstable considering he was just a prototype so eventually he found Dr. Wily and Wily modified his core to a nuclear core and he also worked for Wily for a while. Protoman is a very enigmatic character and does things his way. He is naturally a fighter and functions quite similar to Megaman. He dawns a shield known as the Proto Shield, he wears a yellow scarf and visor over his helmet. No one has ever seen his true face except maybe Dr. Light and Dr. Wily. From time to time he helps Megaman as well as challenges him to make sure he can succeed in his mission to stop Wily. He also went other the guise of character named Breakman. Wily often hates Protoman simply because Protoman has also interfered with his plans that he actually attempted and tries to frame him.

Rush
Rush is Megaman’s support unit and dog companion that does a variety of things for Megaman out in the field. Rush can change into multiple things most notably would be the Rush Jet. He is very helpful to say the least.

Eddy/ Mr. Fliptop
Eddy also assists Megaman by providing him with energy for weapons and life. Eddy was designed as a random lottery generator that hands out random recovery items for Megaman. After Megaman 6 Eddy doesn’t really do much.





Beat
Beat is robotic bird designed by both Dr. Light and Dr. Cossack to assist Megaman out in the field. Beats original purpose was to fly around and do damage to other enemies. In Megaman 7 his job was to get Megaman out of pits which weren’t really successful whole lot really.

Auto
Auto basically was built to assist Dr. Light as his partner in doing science, and building parts for Megaman.

Dr. Light/ Dr. Right/ Thomas Light
Dr. Light is considered the top Robotics Scientist of the World in 20XX for creating robots that well feel and actually think. However as a result his partner Albert Wily became jealous and did his own scheming. Dr. Light would later create a new breed of robot that could feel and think at the human level. However he felt that his creation was not yet ready to be revealed simply because man was not ready for his master piece so he sealed him and he never got to see him be born in the world. He did create sentient hologram capsules which were able to know what was going on in the world and continue experiments after he had passed on.

Dr. Wily/ Albert Wily
Formally Dr. Light’s partner and revered as Dr. Light’s shadow. He became quite jealous of that fact and began to scheme on to world domination. From time to time his plans would be foiled by Megaman that he would escape and try yet again. Dr. Wily has always been the end boss to all of the Megaman classic games. When he got a word of Dr. Light’s new secret creation he began working on a new robot on his own that would later hunt down and destroy his rival’s last creation as well as spread a virus that would cause a rift between man and robot a like as his final attempt for revenge.

Bass/ Forte
Bass is a clone of Megaman basically in terms of how he fights, but by no means similar in personality. His goal is to destroy Megaman and he’ll do it as he sees fit. Likewise he also has a support unit that went by the name of Treble and functions similar to Rush, but is more aggressive. He was created by Wily after discovering an unknown element he called it Bassium which is how he got his name and explains why his buster is different from that of Megaman and Protoman.

Duo
An alien robot from outer space who’s mission it to search out an eliminate an energy known as dark energy. He crash landed on earth and was found by Megaman to be rebuilt by Dr. Light. His sense of justice is that of a knight will sacrifice himself for his mission.




Megaman X/ Rockman X/ X
Megaman X is Dr. Light’s last creation. X was the first and perhaps the prototype for a new type of robot that could feel and think and the human level. Dr. Light never did got to see him activate because he sealed X in capsule because he felt that human race was not yet ready for him. One hundred years later X was found by Dr. Cain who later used X’s design as a template to create these new robots known as Reploids. His first creation was a Reploid by the name of Sigma. Sigma would later lead a group of Reploids devised by Dr. Cain as Maverick Hunters. As for X he would continue to remain in his capsule in till he was ready to be activated. X would later become a Maverick Hunter however X has always worried as a result of his development. X has similar powers to Megaman, but he exceeds him in the sense of how advanced he was in tech.

Zero
Zero like X comes from the same era, but like wise his mission was much different. Zero originally was a robot built by Dr. Wily to hunt down and destroy X as well as spread a virus. Out of oddity he was activated much earlier than X and rampaged against anything that stood in his path including the Maverick Hunters. Zero fought Sigma who was still the leader at the time. The fight was long so to speck, but Sigma won that by hitting Zero’s head crystal as a result the virus was transferred to Sigma and lead to Zero to having memories or dreams that seemed like fragmented errors in his programming. Zero would later under go a change in his programming by making him into one of the good guys. He even befriended the creation he was originally meant to destroy and the two became an unstoppable force against Mavericks and Sigma.

Sigma
Sigma was one of the first Reploids built after X was found and utilized as a template to build the Reploid race. Sigma however is much more combat oriented and when Mavericks appeared Sigma became the leader of the Maverick Hunters and was considered the best. When he fought Zero and won he ended up getting the virus which eventually triggered his own Maverick nature and as result he was able to get most of the Maverick Hunters with him and lead a cue against the human race. No matter how many times Sigma was destroyed he’d always comeback to fight X and Zero with a new and more powerful form. This was a result of his virus that he contracted from Zero. Sigma has always been the end boss to every Megaman X game except X8.

Axl
Axl was a new generation prototype Reploid by the time 21XX was at close slowly entering a new era of 22XX. His origin is quite unknown and the fact his ability to morph into other Reploids is quite unknown, but was real valuable when he was a member of Red Alert a vigilante group who worked quite similar in the field of Maverick Hunting.
He would later escape because something changed his organization around that he was forced to make his escape while during a mission and as a result he was found by Zero an S rank Maverick Hunter who was at the scene of quailing a maverick assault. At this time X who also became an S rank hunter quit and held talks of peace because he got fed up with the fighting in this pointless war. He didn’t like Axl too much at first, but eventually he would re enter the fray along side his best friend Zero.
Megaman/ Rockman / Trigger
Megaman is a 15 year old digger who goes around ruins to search for Refractors a valuable energy source in his world. Megaman was found as a baby in ruins with his companion Data by Barrel Casket he eventually took him as his an adopted son while raising his only grand daughter Roll. How he got his name was explained as this Roll named him after her favorite videogame character… I know ironic isn’t it? Anyways Megaman also has a past he doesn’t know about it because he lost his original memory of who he was before which is explained later on in his story.

Roll Casket
Roll is the same age as Megaman and is in charge of lots of things. She is a Spotter which is basically a person who guides their Digger around the ruins and tries to keep them safe from upcoming threats, she also builds weapons for Megaman as well as enhances them of course with the right price and she is in charge of their air ship the Flutter. Roll lost her parents at a very early age and hopes to find them some day as well as to find the legendary treasure known as the Mother Lode. She also loves Megaman very much even though they were both raised to be like brother and sister.

Data
Data is this robotic monkey that was found with Megaman when he was just a baby. Data is able to speck and understand human language however generally Megaman is the one that actually can understand him. Data serves as the games hint, all energy recovery and save device. However there are few things that remain unknown. The one thing that may seem annoying is this Monkey is always ahead of you for obvious reasons…

Barrel Casket
He is an old veteran and retired digger he was the one that found Megaman and Data in the ruins many years ago. He also raised Roll when her parents disappeared on a Dig.

The Bonnes
This is a group of air pirates whose goal it to well make money by any means necessary.
Their leader is Teisel Bonne he likes to think of himself as the strategist. Tron is about the same age as Megaman and Roll and she like Roll is tech whiz for the family’s robots.
Bon Bonne is this massive robot that oddly has the personality of a baby, but he is a force to be reckoned with. In addition to the family Tron built 40 Servbots each with unique personalities of their own ,but they are often child like and tend to make a lot of mistakes while on the job however they are in charge of running the family’s airship and they can operate many types of equipment.








Lan Hikari and Megaman exe/ Rockman exe. / Hub
A 5th grade boy from ACDC Town who goes around with his Net Navi Megaman exe on the net stopping net crime and organizations like WWW, Gospel and Nebula. Megaman exe. Is Lan’s Net Navi and brother. At an early age Lan lost his twin brother Hub to an unfortunate disease that wasn’t curable at the time. As a result of the loss Dr. Hikari Lan’s Father was able to get Hub’s brain wave data and built Hub into what is now Megaman exe. Though the two are truly are like brothers and best friends as brothers should be. Though they sometimes get into arguments from time to time the two’s bond never withers regardless of what is put in front of them.

Zero
This is the same legendary Reploid who fought with X in the Maverick Wars and the Cyber Elf Wars a century ago. After the battles Zero sealed himself away hoping if he disappeared the wars would come to end. Reawakened a century later where war has become rampant once again Zero fought on the side of the Resistance in hopes to stop a tyrannical rule of Neo Arcadia by a copy of X.

Ciel
A young scientist who built Copy X in hopes of keeping peace ended up failing in the result of Reploids being accused as Mavericks for simply disobeying the humans who lived in Neo Arcadia. The reason behind this was the big energy crisis. She fled and led a rag tag group of Reploids known as the Resistance. However she had learned of a place where a legendary Reploid was said to be sleeping. Her goal at first was to defeat her creation Copy X then her next was to solve the energy crisis. She has a great affinity for Cyber Elves.

The Big four
These are the four reploids created with the DNA of the original X. These 4 lead the armies of Neo Arcadia’s many fractions. Their names are Harpuia, Fefnir, Leviathan and Phantom. Each has their own elements and combat styles. They are referred as the Guardians of X simply because one of their duties is to well protect X including that copy.

Dr. Weil
Was once a brilliant mind who was once a part of Neo Arcadia many great scientists intill the creation of Omega a fearsome Reploid of great power and the curse of the Mother Elf turning her into what Reploids and Humans called the Dark Elf. He was stopped in the Cyber Elf Wars by both X and Zero. Later he was sentenced to Exile in space with his creation Omega.


X
This is the same original X who fought with Zero and started Neo Arcadia a place where he hoped would be a place of peace. He sealed his original body to seal the Dark Elf in hopes of keeping her a sleep. He would later assume the role of his creator in terms of no longer existing, but appearing as a cyber elf.
Vent/Aile
Vent and Aile are both the chosen ones of Model X well neither does meet each other, but as a result of their story is very similar. They both lost their mom in a raid to Mavericks when they were both very young. They were both saved by Giro a Reploid Man who owns a transport business known as Giro Express.

Giro
The chosen one of Model Z and a member of the guardians. He was the one that saved Vent or Aile from mavericks during the raid he took them in and raised them to work in his business. He’s very nice man to say the least, but his duties as a Guardian come first when he was sent two pieces of special cargo to be delivered to the guardians.

Ashe
A human seeking her own story of being a great hunter. Her life changes when she discovers she is the chosen one for Model A.

Gray
A Reploid kid who was awoken by accident he was soon hunted down as a defective with out a reason as to know why. He escaped ,but managed to get rescued by a hunter. His destiny changes when he discovers that he is the chosen one for Model A.

Prometheus and Pandora
Mega men who challenge other chosen ones in fight to see if their worthy to participate in the game of destiny as they like to call it. They are both sibling Reploids built with fragments of Model W. Prometheus is known as the Grim Reaper while Pandora is known as the Witch.

Geo and Omegasis
Geo is an earth boy who wants to find his father who apparently disappeared while in space. He later meets Omegasis and FM alien from the planet FM and the two become Megaman. Omegasis ran away with from planet FM to protect this key called the Andromeda Key which is supposed to be a key to unlock something. As he fled though to Earth it resulted in other FM Aliens to influence humans in hopes to get that key from him by fighting and using any trick they’ve got.

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Megaman Classic series
Number of games made: 17
Platforms: Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Saturn, Gamegear, Gameboy, Playstation, Playstation 2,Gamecube, X box, Gameboy Advance, PSP, Arcade, PC and Mobile.
The very first series that started it all for the very first Nintendo when the franchise began in 1987.
Graphics: 16 bit, 32bit, 64bit and 3D.
Megaman X series
Number of games made: 12
Platforms: Super Nintendo, Sega Saturn, Playstation, Playstation 2, PSP, X box and Gamecube.
A series that continues the classic in the future and is part of the main story. Started 1993 for the super Nintendo about the time the classic series was almost at an end with Megaman 7.
Graphics: 16bit, 32bit, 64bit and 3D.
Megaman Legends series
Number games made: 3
Platforms: Playstation, Nintendo 64, Nintendo DS, Mobile and PC
The first actual series were the blue bomber jumped from the 2D to 3D graphics in 1997. The first real actual Action RPG game to the series. Currently under hiatus due to the cliffhanger made at the end of Megaman Legends 2 in 2000. It is actually Keiji Infune’s favorite series out of the whole Megaman franchise. It is considered also part of the main story in the very distant future after the world flooded over. It has like the original and X series to spawn cameos in other games notable Namco X Capcom and fighting game exclusive to Japan right now.
Graphics: 3D





Megaman Battle Network series
Number of games made: 16
Platforms: Gameboy Advance, Gamecube and Mobile.
The first off shoot to the series and based in the same timeline but, in an alternate universe and second Action RPG series were the world has become very dependent on the net to make life easier. Instead of robots they use programs called Net Navi’s to fight viruses and organized crime. This series started in 2001 and ended 2006. Its goal was to rival Nintendo’s pokemon franchise and it never did succeed and became quite popular for kids 10 and above.
Graphics: 64bit and 3D
Megaman Zero series
Number of games made: 4
Platforms: Gameboy Advance
This series stars Megaman X’s partner Zero and puts him in a new world where mavericks simply meant you were against Neo Arcadia or whatever else. Anyways this series introduces some new ideas and brings back some old things from the X series. The game itself was designed for those who get a satisfaction of playing as Zero and it had a ranking system which determined the game’s difficulty by forcing you to be a perfectionist. It is by all means a good series that started in 2002 and ended in 2005 with Zero death. This originally was to start right after Megaman X6, but chances are it happened after Megaman X8 with a period called the Cyber Elf Wars.
Graphics 64bit






Megaman ZX series
Number of games made: 4
Platforms: Nintendo DS
This series spawns after the Zero series 1000 years later. Humans and Reploids finally made a truce to end the bloodshed those centuries ago. Now the peace is threatened again when machines going haywire again caused by and unknown force. This series continues the regular storyline and generally has the same features, but introduces the ability to change into characters from the previous games giving the player the option of changing into a form to use in combat and help when the situation calls for it. It does make use of the touch screen and W gate features somewhat. In the next game to this series the touch screen features were improved resulting in better use of the touch screen.
Graphics 64bit.
Megaman Star force series
Number of games made: 8
Platforms: Nintendo DS
This series is a continuation of the Battle Network Series only 200 years later and the internet apparently doesn’t exist at the time. This game utilizes similar features introduced from the battle network series and has similar graphics. The new things would be the battles are now 3D. The games uses the touch screen and uses the DS’s wireless network capabilities so you can trade and battle friends and opponents from around the world. The first technical Megaman series to use the power of WiFi. Still focuses for the children at the age of 10 and fans of the Battle network and original series
Graphics 64 bit and 3D

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Mega Man was popular enough that he was actually featured in a few cartoon shows. Below are some brief descriptions. See the Buyer’s Guide for some information on where to find them.






“Mega Man”
Mega Man has a TV series to his name. Although the cartoons didn’t run for long, they were of decent quality. This series “American-ized” Mega Man, thus mangling him a bit, although many ideas from the games are here, including that of Mega Man swiping weapons from the Robot Masters. See the Cartoon Episode Guide for a full listing.








“Mega Man NT Warrior”
For those who can’t tell from the show’s title (which would be just about everyone...brilliant, whoever chose the title), this is a cartoon based off the Mega Man Battle Network series. This TV series originated in Japan as a “Rockman EXE” anime, and thus matches the games better than the Mega Shows. They still took a few liberties with the game material, but overall it’s relatively close. Sometime in the future I may post full episode summaries like I did for the Mega Shows; in the meantime, I can summarize the series by saying it’s made up of nice serious plot intermixed with completely ridiculous silliness.








Mega Man Star Force
Presently you can find this on Cartoon Network (e.g. Toonami) and probably it’ll soon be available from Viz. I’m a little surprised they translated it this quickly, but why can’t they find boys to do the voice acting for the elementary school boys’ voices like they do in other cartoons? Anyway, this show originated in Japan and was brought over here, like the NT Warrior shows. Thanks to Hoshikage for the screen shot.








“Captain N — The Game Master”
Mega Man was also featured on an older cartoon show known as Captain N. These shows brought together many worlds from many video games and had each one’s characters interact. What is ironic is just about everything the Mega Shows mangled, the Captain N shows got right, and vice versa. In Captain N, Mega Man is a short cyan dude with a weird voice, but his personality is about bang on target. Dr. Wright (Dr. Light), Dr. Wily, and most of the Robot Masters from the first three games are also featured.








“Upon a Star” - Mega Man Anime DVD Special
This was an old 3-episode set of anime (“Appearance in Japan,” “Wish upon a Star,” and “Future Beware”) that Capcom had made back in 1993 or so but never released until 2002. Even then, it was initially only released in Japan (even though it had already been dubbed into English). Three years later it was finally imported to region 1 folks by ADV Films. This may have some remote connection to the Mega Shows, primarily before the drawing style was changed (see the Promo), but this is pure speculation, and the plot is new. (The plot is also rather...off the wall. Mega Man and Wily are from the “game world” and know it. Most of the characters are somewhat wacky. For example, Dr. Wily opens a window in a second or third story room and jumps out without looking down first, and leaves a Wily-shaped print on the pavement. And that’s just the beginning. Also, apparently this show was created in association with a group which wants to spread knowledge of Japanese culture, because there’s a lot of explanations about Japan tossed in along the way. (Apparently, Mega Man is American. ))
Manga
In Japan, comics are referred to as “manga” and they are often more along the lines of graphic novels. Most manga are black and white paperback issues and volumes. Mega Man has a small collection of manga written with their own style and flair. They seem to have been made by third parties with permission from Capcom, meaning they don’t always exactly follow the games.
Here’s a list of manga that I know of:
Rockman (1)
Rockman 2 (“Dr. Wily’s Scheme”)
Rockman 4
Rockman 5 vol. 1-2
Rockman 6 vol. 1-3
Rockman 7 vol. 1-3
Rockman 8 vol. 1-2 (vol. 3 planned, but never published)
Rockman & Forte vol. 1-2
Blues’ Resurrection
An original story chronicling a clone of Blues (Proto Man).
Irregular Hunter Rockman X vol. 1-2
Rockman X vol. 1-3
There are evidently two adaptations of the first X game.
Rockman X2 vol. 1-3
Rockman X3 vol. 1-4
Rockman X4 vol. 1-2 (more planned, but never published)
Rockman X5 vol. 1-2 (Chinese only I believe)
Battle Network Rockman EXE vol. 1-13?
The EXE manga seems to pay more attention to the plot devices of the games than the games themselves do.
Rockman Zero vol. 1-?
Rockman ZX vol. 1-?
Ryusei no Rockman vol. 1-?
Rockman World 1 & 2 (Game Boy adaptation)
This manga combines the first two Game Boy games into one story.
Rockman World 3 (Game Boy adaptation)
Rockman Megamix
A collection of original stories which tend to be on the wacky side.
Rockman Megamix 2
Rockman Remix (below)
This is similar to the Megamix.
Thanks to Maru and paperacechase for additions to this list.
The following scans are from the Rockman Remix. Note that the text is in Chinese, not Japanese. (Yes, manga are quite frequently translated to Chinese.) Also, the pages are read from right to left.



This one is a bit cut off, but it should give you a basic idea of the drawing styles.
Ice Man booting Dr. Wily, along with Roll and Elec Man. Did I mention that in the manga all of the Mega Man (1) robots are on Mega Man’s side?

Conversations are interrupted by the Yellow Devil, who comes in, scares everybody, and promptly leaves. (“Thank you for that distraction.”)
Cute SD pict of the Yellow Devil scaring the living daylights out of Mega Man and Shadow Man.

X on a hoverbike in the X portion of Remix (no, the two series are kept separate and do not cross).
Zero in Remix.


Non-Japanese Mega Man toys used to be quite the rare breed indeed. But with the popularization of “NT Warrior,” such toys have become much more common. Since I can’t possibly list every single toy, I’ll restrict myself to categories instead. Here is a brief list of some of the available items.
Note: This page by no means lists every toy available. These are only some of the ones I was personally able to get a hold of. Actual models may differ from what is shown. Usual disclaimers apply.
For some tips on where to buy these, see the Buyer’s Guide. I cannot help you beyond that. None of my toys are for sale. Sorry
Mega Shows Action Figures
Modeled after the appearances of the characters in the cartoon shows, these toys are the Mega Man equivalent of the typical poseable action figures that kids play with. The figures available include Mega Man, Rush, Proto Man, and many of the Robot Masters that were featured in the show. The robots came with removable arms (weapons) that could be interchanged between the various figures, thus emulating Mega Man’s ability to “take” other robot’s weapons.

Mega Shows Vehicles
There is at least one vehicle (the Air Raider), and perhaps more, modeled after the Mega Shows and made to be used with the action figures above. The Air Raider has a car mode and a plane mode, and fires missiles. (Photo from JTMitchell87.)
Non-Poseable Collector’s Figures
Again based off the cartoon shows, these are basically small figurines, about three inches high. They are made of sturdy plastic and painted, but are not in any way poseable. They’re mostly good for decorating your computer monitor. Sold often in pairs of two, these toys include Mega Man, Roll, Rush, Dr. Light, Proto Man, Dr. Wily, and a good assortment of Robot Masters.
Jazwares Figures
These are not based off the Mega Shows, and are much more recent, coming out for Mega Man’s 15th anniversary. The “small” versions, at six inches, are larger than any of the Japanese figures, and the ten inch figures are huge. The figures cover the most prominent characters of the X and original series, along with a few Robot Masters and such, and are pretty poseable.
Jazwares Mega Minis
According to the marketing, there are supposed to be multiple sets of these, one for each series. However, so far I’ve only seen the X series set.
Model Kits
There are now model kits, like the ones in the Japanese section below, being sold in English packaging. They are largely the same thing, but tend to be a little bit bigger, and generally have more details pre-painted on for you. Note that if you can’t find your desired character in an English box, you can probably still make do with a Japanese import, since the instructions are very easy to follow even if you can’t read Japanese (shh, don’t tell anyone).
NT Warrior Figures
These are being released by Mattel. From what I’ve seen, they are fairly well made and pretty poseable. Most of them are quite large, measuring in at around 6 inches or more. There are some 2 inch mini-figures though. There are lots of varieties, including an assortment of characters and lots of different forms and weapons for MegaMan.
PET Toys
They finally released some of these in English. This is the new model PET, rather than the original style that was released in Japan. Note that these PETs are tiny. They’re about the size of a large cell phone. However, you can in fact slot chips into them and fight viruses, as well as link up with a buddy and fight his Navi one-on-one. There are two colors available as of this writing (Lan’s and Chaud’s) but you get MegaMan.EXE as your Navi either way. Note that Japanese Battle Chips do in fact work in the English sets, and so I would assume the other way around is true as well.
Live Action Play Toys
That’s what I call them anyway. For example, you can buy MegaMan.EXE’s arm cannon sized for a small child and he can pretend he’s MegaMan busting viruses. That sort of thing. You can also get a foam X-Buster, and so forth.
Board Games
I guess this counts as a toy. There’s a Battle Network (“NT Warrior”) board game released in English and probably other languages. (I also recall seeing one in Japanese, but it’s probably a different thing.) The board game comes with little figurines for pieces and even a miniature PET for using the game’s Battle Chip cards.
Capsule Toys
Capsule toys that you get out of vending machines, but actually Mega Man this time and not Rockman. I haven’t seen these particular versions myself (there are others in the Japanese section below), but if you don’t mind paying an arm and a leg, you can buy them flat out (but you’d end up with a merchant’s stock—that is, 250 of them—so this is only viable for the insane collector). Thanks to Andy.
Marvel VS Capcom Action Figures
A few figures were made for the game Marvel VS Capcom in which Mega Man is featured. The Mega Man toy comes packaged with War Machine and includes clip-on Hyper armor. It doesn’t look terribly like him, but it’s pretty poseable, and the included backdrop is of Mega Man’s stage (with Dr. Wily in the background).
Mega Man 8 Collector’s Figure
I don’t know if this counts, but Capcom created a non-poseable super-stretch figure of Mega Man to sell with their game Mega Man 8.
There are tons of Rockman toys in Japan. I’m only scratching the surface with this list, but this is a start.

Model Kits
These are kits which come with a set of plastic frames holding various pieces, plus stickers. You must pop the pieces off the frames and put them together to form the figure. Because of this, the resulting figures are extremely poseable, but they do tend to fall apart easily. For this reason I don’t recommend them for small children.
These figures basically fall into three categories:
Original series: The only original series figures of this type that I am aware of are modeled after Mega Man 8 and include Rockman (Mega Man), Blues (Proto Man), Forte (Bass), Duo, Tengu Man, Sword Man, and Rush (Rash).
X series: There are a ton and a half of these. Most are of X and Zero and differ only in what armor they are wearing or what weapons they have. Some armors are from the games; some are original. You can also build Vile (Vava) and even some of the robot walkers (ride armors) from the X games.
Legends series: I’ve only seen Rock (MegaMan) so far, but there may be others. There are several weapons to choose from, and the figures are more poseable than most.
EXE series: The Battle Network characters can now be found as model kits as well.
Rockman EXE Figures
These look similar to the model kits above, but you don’t have to put them together. They are also extremely poseable and usually come with lots of extra accessories.
Key Chains
There are so many of these I can’t even list them all. I’ve seen key chains of characters from the original series, the X series, and even the Legends series (Capcom was giving away Servbot key chains a while back). Some of the key chains are the same figures as the various mini-figure sets, just with key rings attached to them.
Plushies
So far I’ve seen original series characters and EXE series characters of these. There are probably more. There are plushies of the standard main characters, but also some lesser known characters such as Pharaoh Man.
PET Toys
These are replicas of the PETs in the EXE games. (Note that the Japanese toys were originally the old style PET, that is, the appearance from the original games. They may have also released the new style PET toys in Japan as well.) You get physical Battle Chips that you stick into the PET like in the anime/manga, and you can use them to do battles on the low-res LCD screen. Note that as far as I know, if you buy the old-style Chaud PET (the red one), you get ProtoMan as your Navi instead of MegaMan. This isn’t true for the new-style PETs, at least the English ones.
Battle & Chase Remote-Control Cars
These are fully-functional, battery-powered (they even come with batteries!) remote control cars modeled after the cars in Battle & Chase. So far I’ve seen Rockman and Blues. Each car is about six inches long and mostly pre-painted, with the remaining details applied using stickers. The cars are well-built, go forward and reverse, turn in either direction, and even have a wheel alignment adjustment. Each one comes with some props including ramps and traffic cones for driving over.
Rockman 5 Non-Poseable Mini-Figures
These are figurines done much in the same style as the American non-poseable collector’s figures above. However, the Rockman ones follow the original Capcom drawing style circa Mega Man 3 or so (i.e., before super-stretch and the weird-knee syndrome kicked in). They are very finely crafted from a solid rubber and intricately painted. The level of detail on these things amazes me. Figures available are Rockman (Mega Man), Blues (Proto Man), Rush, Dr. Waily (Dr. Wily), and all eight of the Robot Masters featured in Mega Man 5.
“Rockman Series” Mini-Figures
I’ve seen two separate sets of these so far. They’re basically boxed collections of mini-figures. Most of the figures are original series characters, but there are a couple of X characters included as well. The figures are based off the Mega Man 7 era art style. Like most mini-figurines, these are not poseable.
Rockman X2 Wrestling Mini-Figures
Similar in size to the Rockman 5 figures above, these have movable arms and are designed to be used on a wrestling platform. Due to their small size, they are slightly SD when compared to normal X2 art. The entire set comes in one big box. Figures include X, Zero, Sigma, and a few others.
Rockman Battle & Chase Cars with candy
Little plastic cars modeled after the PlayStation game Battle & Chase. They are similar to the model kits, above, in that they come in pieces on plastic frames, and you must put them together. However, the only stickers you get are the eyes/headlights of the vehicle, so basically you must paint them if you want them to be more than two colors. Cars come in sets of two, and each set comes with a little white plastic pull-back motor thingie to allow you to pull the cars back and let go, and they will roll forward. Unfortunately, you only get one motor for every two cars, and cars without the motor cannot roll. Parts on cars are intentionally interchangeable, so that you can mix and match pieces much as is done in the game itself. Included cars are: Mega Man and Roll, Proto Man and Ice Man, Bass and Spring Man, Quick Man and Guts Man, and Shadow Man and Napalm Man. Each set also comes with a tiny packet of candy, for which I see no purpose whatsoever, as the cars are not in themselves candy dispensers. Oh well.
Miscellaneous Others
I don’t know if these count as toys, but there are lots of other things with the Rockman brand stamped onto them, such as lunch boxes, towels, pillows, and so forth. Maybe eventually I’ll give all of these sorts of things their own page...

Many games have such excellent music that a trend started years ago of placing game tunes on music CDs and selling them as collections. Gone are the days of old of having to listen to the music directly off the game’s sound test in order to enjoy it. Most of the songs utilized in the Mega Man games now exist on music CDs, although there are yet a few gaps.
Mega Man”
Although this is technically the Mega Man cartoon show soundtrack, nothing could really be further from the truth. Most of the songs on this CD already existed prior to the Mega Shows; they were not made for the shows nor were they even played during the shows, except during the closing credits of some of them (as an advertisement for the CD). Tunes you would expect to hear on a soundtrack for the cartoons, such as background tracks or even the title theme to the cartoon, are nowhere to be found. Really, I can’t imagine what they were thinking when they put together this CD.
Game Soundtracks
Japan does have some actual Mega Man video game soundtracks, but for some odd reason they were never released anywhere else as far as I know, even though most are game tunes that need no localization. Oh well. As far as I know, the list includes:
Rockman X remix album
Rockman 8 single
Rockman X4 single
Rockman X7 soundtrack
Rockman DASH game music (Mega Man Legends)
Rockman Battle & Chase game music
Rockman: The Power Battle game music
Rockman 2: The Power Fighters game music
Rockman EXE game music
Rockman EXE anime music
Rockman Zero game music
Rockman Zero remastered album
Rockman Zero 2 remastered album
Rockman Zero 3 remastered album
Rockman Zero 4 remastered album
Rockman ZX remastered album
Rockman ZX Advent remastered album
Rockman 1-6 Collection (2 CD set)
Rockman X 1-6 Collection (3 CD set)
Rockman Theme Song Collection (collection of the songs with lyrics from various games, e.g. Rockman 8, Rockman X5, and so forth - thanks to Michael for this)
Drama CDs
There is also at least one, if not more, drama CD which tells a story through the use of voice actors and sound effects, similar to the radio dramas of old. The CD I have also includes some NES game music (preserved perfectly in its full NES glory) as part of the “Rockman Game Music Countdown 5.” Basically, this is 10 stage musics intermixed with commentary by Rock, Wily, and Reggae.
Tee-Shirts
First, a dirty little secret. If you pre-order Mega Man games from Capcom, you get free Mega Man tee-shirts. This has been going on for a while, but now it seems that Capcom has begun supplying stores with some of these same shirts to sell. Note that I’ve also seen a few other Mega Man tee-shirts for sale that I haven’t seen Capcom give out; I don’t know if they are properly licensed or not. Please be careful when buying tee-shirts.
Costumes
There are a couple of official Mega Man Halloween costumes, though I’ve never been fortunate enough to find a local store selling them. You can probably find them online. See the Buyer’s Guide.
Others
This category is really just starting to take off as of this writing, so I haven’t yet fully documented everything. I’ve seen many more tee-shirts as well as sweatshirts, and there have been mentions of pajamas and things though I’ve not seen those in stores yet. Still, keep your eyes open. Most of the apparel right now is “NT Warrior” based.
Used to be, trading card games were limited to things like Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon. But now Mega Man has joined the game as well...
Mega Man NT Warrior
Decipher Inc. has created a trading card game based on the Battle Network series (called “MegaMan NT Warrior” after the cartoon shows).
Mega Man
Artbox Entertainment is releasing Mega Man art cards for Mega Man’s fifteenth anniversary, apparently featuring all of the different Mega Man series except for the Battle Network series.
www.mmhp.net/#Updates

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Keiji Inafune

Developer BIO
In 1987 Keiji Inafune graduated from College. Looking for a job as an animator, he was hired by Capcom. At first he was to work on Street Fighter, but he got pulled off of that team, and re-assigned to a new project team responsible for Rockman (Megaman in the US). His job was to design all of the characters and the instruction booklet.

The first Rockman sold more than expected, but still did poorly. Capcom did not want to continue on with a second one. The Rockman team was to develop Professional Baseball Murder Mystery, but they wanted to develop another Rockman. After the team begged to continue, Capcom agreed, but they had to develop Professional Baseball Murder Mystery on time. After spending 20 hours a day developing both games at the same time, eventually they met their goal in creating both games. The Rockman IItook off, due to its better graphics, better music, and more enemies.

Rockman continued on to be successful, and Keiji Inafune (often credited in games as Inafking) became known as the father of Rockman. There are now 40 titles under the Rockman trademark.

These days Keiji Inafune is the General Manager of Capcom Production Studio 2 and senior corporate officer for Capcom. He is also the producer of the Rockman, Onimusha series of games
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Also Known As
• Inafking

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Games Credited
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (2008), Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
Mega Man Star Force: Leo (2007), Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (2007), Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
Dead Rising (2006), Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
Final Fight: Streetwise (2006), Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (2006), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man Powered Up (2006), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man ZX (2006), Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
Mega Man Battle Network 5: Team Protoman (2005), Capcom you.S.A., Inc.
Mega Man Battle Network 6: Cybeast Falzar (2005), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man Battle Network 6: Cybeast Gregar (2005), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man Zero 4 (2005), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Resident Evil 4 (2005), Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django (2004), Konami Corporation
Capcom Fighting Evolution (2004), Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (2004), Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Mega Man Battle Network 4: Blue Moon (2004), Capcom you.S.A., Inc.
Mega Man X8 (2004), Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
Mega Man Zero 3 (2004), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (2004), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man Battle Network 3: Blue Version (2003), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man Network Transmission (2003), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man X7 (2003), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man Zero 2 (2003), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man Zero (2002), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man Battle Network (2001), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man Battle Network 2 (2001), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man Xtreme 2 (2001), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Onimusha: Warlords (2001), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man Legends 2 (2000), Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
Mega Man X5 (2000), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man XTreme (2000), Capcom Co., Ltd.
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne (1999), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man & Bass (1998), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Resident Evil 2 (1998), Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
Mega Man Legends (1997), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man X4 (1997), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Rockman Battle & Chase (1997), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man 8: Anniversary Edition (1996), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man 7 (1995), Laguna GmbH
Breath of Fire (1993), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man 6 (1993), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man 5 (1992), Capcom you.S.A., Inc.
Mega Man 4 (1991), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man 3 (1990), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man 2 (1988), Capcom Co., Ltd.
Mega Man (1987), Capcom you.S.A., Inc.
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Keiji Inafune
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Keiji "the Killa" Inafune
Keiji Inafune (稲船 敬二 Inafune Keiji?, born 8 May 1965) is the head of Research & Development and Online Business at Capcom, best known for being the character designer of Mega Man and producer of Onimusha and Dead Rising video game series. In most game credits, he uses the name "INAFKING". Characters from the Street Fighter and Mega Man series have become some of the most well-known and recognizable video game characters, making Keiji Inafune a large part of Capcom's success.
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1 Biography
1.1 Early Projects
1.2 Later projects and beyond
2 Works
2.1 Rockman/Mega Man
2.1.1 Original Rockman/Mega Man series
2.1.2 Rockman X/Mega Man X
2.1.3 Other Rockman Series (Producer)
2.1.4 Other Mega Man Games
2.2 Biohazard/Resident Evil
2.3 Onimusha
2.4 Other games
3 References

Biography
Early Projects
In 1987, 22-year old Keiji joined the corporation of Capcom not long after graduating in search of a job as an illustrator. His first assignment as graphic designer was Street Fighter (1987), which became a very popular fighting game series after the release of Street Fighter II in 1992. At the time, Capcom focused on the expansion of the home video gaming market; particularly the Famicom from Nintendo. Previously, most games released to the system were ports (release of a game to a different system). Now wanting to capitalize on the fledgling Nintendo system, Keiji's superiors directed him to create a new video game character called "Rockman." Capcom's artist and developer teams were still diminutive at that period in time, and so Keiji was directed to be one of the leading artists to the new project.
When it came to the design for the Rockman game (which was later changed to "Mega Man" in North America), Keiji developed all the character art and designs. Due to the small taskforce, he also constructed the characters into pixel form, as well as the game's respective logo, package design, and instruction booklet. As the Famicom was an early gaming system, only 56 colours were available for display, the majority of which were blue-tinted. Keiji noted that this affected the decision to colour the character blue (a result, fans have nicknamed the character "the blue bomber"). The designs of Keiji's character was also heavily influenced by Japanese animation, and he notes that he took observations from other video game characters present at the time, such as Mario.
In development of the game, Keiji incorporated many references to various music genres, such as Rock, which is the source of the Japanese name of "Rockman." Along with this, the team made a gaming system pertaining to the rock-paper-scissors concept, one which the various Mega Man series still revolves around today. The first Rockman/Mega Man game was released in December 1987, after which sales in both countries were competent, but as Keiji later notes, "While it did sell more than we had expected, [Rockman 1] wasn't a huge success as far as the numbers go." Noting this, Capcom superiors dictated that the team begin on a new project called Professional Baseball Murder Mystery, which was only released in Japan. However, the team felt strongly about the Rockman series, and urged that they be permitted to construct another iteration in order to amend the previous failings of the original and continue in the light of creativity. Capcom allowed the Rockman team to continue, with the prerequisites of completing Professional Baseball Murder Mystery as well. The team did so, completing the project on their own time, and on December 24, 1988, released Rockman 2, with Mega Man 2 being released later in North America in 1989. The project proved to be a huge success, earning more than its previous iteration. Mega Man 2 is Inafune's favorite Mega Man game. Coincidentally, fans widely consider it to be the best Mega Man game, because of its production values, such as graphics, music, etc. Capcom realized that the Mega Man series was a profitable investment, and many ports were constructed along with regular installments released on a yearly basis. The next game in the "Classic" series was Mega Man 3, released in Japan on September 28, 1990 and later released in North America in November 1990. Inafune considers Mega Man 3 as one of his least favorite Mega Man games. From an interview with Nintendo Power in the October 2007 issue, Inafune explained the reason why is because of "...what went into the game and what was behind the release of the game." He also stated that he was forced to put the game out before he thought it was ready and during the game's production, the developers lost the main planner, so Inafune had to take over that job for completing the game. Inafune concluded, "I knew that if we had more time to polish it, we could do a lot of things better, make it a better game, but the company (Capcom) said that we needed to release it. The whole environment behind what went into the production of the game is what I least favored. Numbers one and two - I really wanted to make the games; I was so excited about them. Number three - it just turned very different."
The success of the Famicom began to fade into obscurity in light of its successor, the Super Famicom, and Keiji set his sights on the development on a new series called "Rockman X," which continued the plot of the original series, but set a darker tone and took place 100 years after the previous storyline. Keiji developed the characters X, and Zero, and as before, released yearly installments of the series, beginning with the first game, Rockman X. Originally, Zero was meant to be the leading character of the X series, but Capcom executives convinced Inafune to continue with the analogous design from the original game. Ironically Zero became quite popular anyway, obtaining his own game series years later (Mega Man Zero).
During the 32-bit era, Keiji produced the three-dimensional Rockman DASH/Mega Man Legends series after receiving requests from Sony to develop a new 3D Rockman series exclusively for the Playstation, he concurred. Although, he envisioned high sales and was an ambitious supporter to the development of the game, it wasn't a massive success. The series is currently on hiatus and has spawned the fewest sequels and is mostly released in parts.
Originally, Keiji had intended to end the series' plot at the installment of Rockman X5, and had begun development on the Rockman Zero series, in order to elaborate on the character of Zero. However, he had departed to another studio in cooperation with Inticreates, and unbeknown to him, another installment (Rockman X6) was created. This set a slight continuity error in Keiji's intention for the plot, but through some changes in the storyline, was alleviated.
Later projects and beyond
One of Keiji Inafune's recent creations is the popular Rockman.EXE/Megaman Battle Network series, which is set outside the continuity of the rest of the Mega Man story lines and introduced RPG and strategy elements. According to Inafune, he received the basis for creating the series from observing his son. On April 2, 2005, Inafune was promoted from corporate officer to senior corporate officer. Keiji also developed another series, called Onimusha, which has spawned various sequels, and focuses on past Japan, Samurai warriors, and magic. Also, Inafune is involved in Inticreates' creation of the latest Rockman project, Rockman ZX.
Inafune and his team's next creation was Dead Rising for the Xbox 360. Dead Rising, released by Capcom in the you.S. on August 8, 2006, is a zombie-slaying game heavily influenced by George A. Romero's 1979 movie Dawn of the Dead. Dead Rising is the second zombie game Inafune has worked on, the first being Resident Evil 2.
Inafune's most recent project was another Xbox 360 game, titled Lost Planet: Extreme Condition. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is based on the scenario of an entirely frozen planet, and swaps between on foot and mech based gameplay. Inafune has said that the setting is based in part on John Carpenter's The Thing. The game was released in Japan on December 22, 2006, and in the US on January 12, 2007.
According to a recent interview in Dorimaga Inafune is currently working on a Wii game, although details about the game
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[randomdrifter865]

Classic Series
This is the original Mega Man series, in which he battles Dr. Wily. This series spawned multiple spinoffs.
Game Platform Release Year
Mega Man
NES 1987
Mega Man 2
NES 1989
Mega Man 3
NES 1990
Mega Man 4
NES 1992
Mega Man 5
NES 1992
Mega Man 6
NES 1994
Mega Man 7
SNES 1995
Mega Man 8
PlayStation, Sega Saturn 1997
Mega Man & Bass
SNES, GBA 1998, 2003
*Mega Man 1 to 3 was re-released in Mega Man: The Wily Wars, Mega Man 1 to 6 in Rockman Complete Works, and Mega Man 1 to 8 (with the two arcade games) in Mega Man Anniversary Collection.
Game Platform Release Year
Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge
Game Boy 1991
Mega Man II
Game Boy 1991
Mega Man III
Game Boy 1992
Mega Man IV
Game Boy 1993
Mega Man V
Super Game Boy* 1994
*A peripheral for the Super Nintendo. A Game Boy Advance remake for all five Game Boy games was planned, but was soon cancelled.
Mega Man: The Power Battle -Arcade-1995
Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters -Arcade-1996
Mega Man's Soccer -SNES-1994
Mega Man: Battle and Chase -PlayStation (Europe)-1997
Mega Man (PC) -PC-1990
Mega Man 3 (PC) -PC-1992
Mega Man (Game Gear) -Game Gear-1994
Mega Man: The Wily Wars - Sega Genesis-1994
Mega Man: Anniversary Collection PS2/GameCube/Xbox-2004
Mega Man Anniversary Collection (Game Boy) -Game Boy Advance- On Indefinite Hold
Mega Man: Powered Up - Playstation Portable-2006
Mega Man 1 (Mobile)- Mobile phone
Japan-Only
These are games of the Mega Man original series that were released only in Japan or nearby countries.
Rockman Battle and Fighters -Neo-Geo Pocket Color-2000
Wily and Right's RockBoard: That's Paradise -NES-1990
Super Adventure Rockman -Playstation/Sega Saturn-1998
Rockman Complete Works -Playstation-1999
Rockman and Forte: Challenger From the Future -Wonderswan-1999
Rockman Collection Special Box -Playstation 2-2003
Rockman Power Battle Fighters -Playstation 2-2004
Rockman Gold Empire - PC - 1999 (China)
Rockman Strategy - PC-2001 (China)
X Series
The Mega Man X series is the continuation of the original Mega Man series. It shows the future of the world Mega Man protected. It's about Mega Man X and Zero fighting Mavericks and the seemingly immortal Sigma.
Mega Man X7, X8, and Command Mission are not considered canon to the series.
This series introduced advanced techniques such as dashing and wall-climbing, and introduced wearable armors.
Game Platform Release Year
Mega Man X
SNES 1993
Mega Man X2
SNES 1994
Mega Man X3, X3 Remix
SNES, PlayStation, Sega Saturn 1995, 1996
Mega Man X4
PlayStation, Sega Saturn 1997
Mega Man X5
PlayStation 2001
Mega Man X6
PlayStation 2001
Mega Man X7
PlayStation 2 2003
Mega Man X8
PlayStation 2, PC 2004, 2005
Game Platform Release Year
Mega Man Xtreme
Game Boy Color 2001
Mega Man Xtreme 2
Game Boy Color 2001
Mega Man X: Command Mission
GameCube, PlayStation 2 2004
Rockman Collection Special Box -Playstation 2-2003
Mega Man X Collection-Playstation 2/Gamecube-2006
Maverick Hunter X - Playstation Portable-2006
Collectable Card Series:
Rockman X MegaMission
Zero Series
The next series off the Mega Man X series. Continuing from Mega Man X6's alternate ending where Zero shuts himself down, which is considered canon. It tells the story of what happened to Zero after the events of the Mega Man X series and many other things.
Mega Man Zero -Game Boy Advance-2002
Mega Man Zero 2 -Game Boy Advance-2003
Mega Man Zero 3 -Game Boy Advance-2004
Mega Man Zero 4 -Game Boy Advance-2005
Mega Man ZX
This series is 200 years after the Zero series and all previous heroes has been turned into Biometals the humans can use to turn into Reploids.
Mega Man ZX -Nintendo DS-2006
Mega Man ZX Advent -Nintendo DS-2007
Legends Series
The Mega Man Legends series is the series after ZX and the thought-of-end of the Mega Man series. It takes place in a world made up of 90% water, with only a few islands tiny islands over the vast oceans.
Mega Man Legends -Playstation/N64-1997
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne -Playstation-1999
Mega Man Legends 2 -Playstation-2000
Battle Network Series
The MegaMan Battle Network series takes place in a more realistic area, in which the internet is one of the largest things and people have Net Navi's (small fighters who inhabit the internet.) This series does not take place in the timeline. This is a different timeline altogether.
MegaMan Battle Network -Game Boy Advance-2001
MegaMan Battle Network 2 -Game Boy Advance-2001
MegaMan Battle Network 3 White -Game Boy Advance-2002
MegaMan Network Transmission -GameCube-2003
MegaMan Battle Network 3 Blue -Game Boy Advance-2003
MegaMan Battle Chip Challenge -Game Boy Advance-2003
MegaMan Battle Network 4 Red Sun -Game Boy Advance-2004
MegaMan Battle Network 4 Blue Moon -Game Boy Advance-2004
MegaMan Battle Network 5 Team ProtoMan -Game Boy Advance-2005
MegaMan Battle Network 5 Team Colonel -Game Boy Advance-2005
MegaMan Battle Network 5 Double Team DS -Nintendo DS-2005
MegaMan Battle Network 6 Cybeast Falzar -Game Boy Advance-2006
MegaMan Battle Network 6 Cybeast Gregar -Game Boy Advance-2006
Japan only
Rockman EXE WS -WonderSwan-2003
Rockman EXE N1 Battle -WonderSwan-2003
Rockman EXE 4.5 Real Operation -Game Boy Advance-2004
Star Force series
The MegaMan Star Force series happens after Battle Network and 200 years into the future of the series. It's in the same timeline as Battle Network.
Mega Man Star Force: Leo -Nintendo DS-2007
Mega Man Star Force: Pegasus -Nintendo DS-2007
Mega Man Star Force: Dragon -Nintendo DS-2007
Mega Man Star Force 2: Berserk × Shinobi -Nintendo DS-2008
Mega Man Star Force 2: Berserk × Dinosaur -Nintendo DS-2008

[randomdrifter865]

Table of contents

Page 1: Proposal Letter
Page 2: First paper piece with old rubric
Page 3: Parent Acknowledgement Form
Page 4-8: Culminating Project Learning Logs
Page 9: Actual final Draft of Paper
Page 10: Original Rough Draft of Paper
Page 11: I Search Paper: Megaman Release Dates
Page 12: I Search Paper: Keiji Inafune Bio
Page 13: I Search Paper: Megaman Merchandise and Shows.
Page 14: Game Features Packet.
Page 15: Series Overview Packet
Page 16: Important Characters Packet
Page 17: Interview Template
Page 18: Interview with Silver
Page 19: Fan Art by Wings of Nina
Page 20: Title Art Packet
Page 21: Original Character Art Packet
Page 22: Work Cited

[randomdrifter865]

Well that is it for all text based items for the most part.
I can't find all my work cited and urls and images for pics, fanart, and anything with images. Thanks for looking at all this which I bet was read, and I apologize if I like posted a ton too much at a time... Anyways all research and stuff belong to their respective owners and Megaman is naturally belongs to Capcom. Thanks for reading you may comment on anything I did or whatever else ,but please no corrections and or copying any of the material without my consent thank you.

[Silver Stryker]

wow.

Good job. I, too needed a project to graduate, but that was in the 11th grade, and not nearly as large. Congrats on your victory and graduation. It might be a little late in saying so, but who cares. We have graduated. OHW NEIN!!!!(09) ;D

[randomdrifter865]

I started this in the 11th grade and finished about Febuary of 2009 is when I aced this puppy of a masterpiece ,but yeah graduating was the best thing ,but my memories of senior year will always have negative ,but charming feel towards it. If you read one of my journals on deviant art you know that. But th point is to happy and now i search for job, pass car knoweledge test work on drawings and try to relax without getting stressed out beofre College.

[Chaos Tank]

I'm going to echo that wow, I had no idea you were going to put in so much time and work when you first opened the thread asking questions. Can't imagine how one would present all this inormation but it sounds as if you have, and I bet it was one long presentation. I hope you got a nice grade on it, and I hope you're pleased with how it turned out.

[randomdrifter865]

This was stuff for my portofolio to show I did a bunch other things before I had to cut some things off for the final product the two people I had were in awe in what I can do. I did excellent that day and it helps when your teachers know something about videogames and other things form their childhood to teen hood. The Final product was a posterboard showing just a few examples from all the selections and stuff I did. Wiht in an almost one and a half year period of time.