The whole premise behind Enker is that you have to use the Buster. He's definitely more annoying in MM10 than in Wily's Revenge. I think his stage being so hard makes him tough. Little room for error, at least for me.

@WaveBoy - MM&B is an awesome game. I don't like how it doesn't just let you pick whomever from the get go, but the level design is good, the bosses are generally difficult and the King levels are a blast. I hear a lot of people say the game is easier with Bass, but I don't find that to be true. I would say it's better than MM7 in almost every way. I want to get the GBA player for the GCN just so I can play MM&B like it was intended to...on the TV!

I plan on picking up Megaman 10 soon.

MM&B does borrow alot of sprites and backgrounds from MM 8 but its a far better game. IMO it is what MM8 should be. The only thing I really like about 8 was the stage select music.

As for Enker if you are having problems maybe this might help.

Enker was definitely the pill of the MM10 Mega Man Killers for me. Though, the fact that I could only fight Enker for weeks and had to wait to fight the other two might have had something to do with that.

And yay, Roahm!

Well I've managed to plow my way through 4 robot masters and in no way was it easy...Aside from Cold man who was a complete wussy. Yet Ground Man's stage kept kicking my mainly because of that room full of statues which you're supposed to blow up in a certain order before the moving spikes get you. I honestly lost count based on how many times i died on that part.

Anyways, Cold, Tengue, Ground and Pirate man are toast, yippie! Really though, based on the experience so far It's been pretty solid. Definitly a smidge better than MM8, but like MM8 I'm not feeling the music. MM8 had that distinct Japanese bubble gum tencho-like ambience going on, while MM & Bass has more of a weird static-y electronic like sound going on. Either way, I'm not a big fan of either of them. Yet Pirate and Tengue man had some catchy beats and I could definitly hear the potential, but the way they were done with that use of sound just seperates it from previous Mega Man games and doesn't sound as good to the ears, and in no way does the music pump you up...It's just there, it's mellow and somewhat captures the setting and atmosphere.

As for the difficulty, this has definitly got to be one of the most challenging and frusturating Mega Man games I've ever played. Like reviewers have said, it feels like this game was designed and built more around Bass.....And I'm playing as Mega Man and some levels can be confusing, like Tengue man's for example.

As for the controls, they don't quite feel as satisfying and tight as they do in MM9 or MM10, but they get the job done. Mind you, I'm playing this on the DS Lite, and the B and A buttons are smaller and more cramped together making it a bit harder and alittle more uncomfortable when compared to playing it on the GBA. So I have that slightly going against me. Hell my right hand starts to hurt and cramp up here and there because of it. It definitly feels better playing this game on the GBA SP....But the GBA SP has horrible color, mediocre brightness and crappy contrast. If only I could switch B to 'X' and A to 'B' then the controls would feel much better.

Anyways, I'm going to try and finish the game tomorrow. And I could care less about collecting those CD's...And I NEVER ever bother using the Shop, I don't want to make the experience any less challenging, i like my games hard hehe.

And holly hell is Burner man an ! And II still haven't tried out Astro, Magic or Dynamo man's stages yet. But the most enjoyable stage I found so far was probably Ground man's, the rest seemed decent, but again they feel like they were designed with Bass in mind.

@Waveboy

Hah, yeah, it took me years, and I mean it, years to beat just Burner Man. The other Robot Masters fell pretty quickly afterwards, but it's still one of the most challenging Mega Man games I've ever played. And I haven't even tried it as Mega Man yet.

Also I'm surprised you went with Ground Man. I would've saved him for later, myself. Then again, that was with Bass...

Burner Man is a pain if you don't use Cold Man's weapon properly. I believe it's Cold Man's weapon anyway. As a seasoned Mega Man veteran, I found MM&B to be irritating the first few times I played it. It was tough just getting to some of the bosses at first.

I second the Roahm yay.

Ya normally I always choose the water themed bosses first and then the air based. Yet I totaly forgot after beating Cold man that i had more of a selection, instead I thought I only had a choice between Astro and Ground. the typical 8 Boss selection screen would of been nice Capcom. And years hey?....Well, that's Bass for ya.lol His shots are weaker and take probably twice as long to do the same amount of damage as Mega Man's.

Yep, MM & Bass definitly can be irritating....Stage design wise. The Boss battles have been a blast so far. Ground man for me was easily the most fun and intense. Cold man was a complete push over, Tengue man was basically the same as in MM8 and I wasn't crazy over it, while Pirate Man was defninitly tricky and unique. I had a bit of a problem trying to get away from his mine attacks, but I got the hang of it and luckily took him down. Meanwhile Burner man finished me off in a matter of seconds the 2 times I went up against him.

But ya, I've never found any MM game as irritating as this one....I dont know, it's just easier to get hit in this one for some reason.

Yeah, I suppose since you haven't played it in so long you wouldn't remember everything. I just played it recently, so it's fresher in my mind.

And I got my copy of Mega Man 5 for 15 bucks off eBay. Has the price gone up or something? Granted, I did see plenty of high-priced ones when I was looking (usually around $30 or so), but fifty? That's the kind of price you'd see on Mega Man X3 or Mega Man 7.

I'm fairly certain he's weak to the Ballade Cracker, just like Punk is weak to the Mirror Buster, and Ballade is weak to the Screw Crusher. And it took me forEVER to beat Enker! You only get one chance, then you have to go through the stage all over again to get another shot at fighting him (it got old fast). After I beat him, I never went back to his stage.

15 bucks for MM5 is really cheap. Usually I see it between 35 and 50 on Ebay. A local shop had it for 25. It's the only game I don't have in cart form. I got MMV for the GB for 5 bucks on Ebay, shipping included. Was pretty shocked when I saw it with such a low buy it now price. I thought it was gonna be a manual or something.

@MegaStoneSmash91: I dont know what it goes for since I dont have a NES (I let my mom have mine when I moved out years ago. She still plays Tetris and Dr Mario on it even to this day) I dont really bother looking for NES cartridges.

@StuffyStuff: Wow 5 bucks that is a good deal. I played MMV on GB years ago when I borrowed it from a friend. Maybe I will look for that game one of these days.

I think I'd rather spend $5 for it on the VC whenever it becomes available, and if I enjoy it as much as I did
back in the day, I'd definitly plunk the cash down for an actual NES copy of MM5 on eBay. For now, I have cartridges for
MM2, MM4, MM & Bass, and MMX. And I don't want my copy of MM4, as it's one of my least favorite MM games, and I had MM3 but I sold it a few years ago.. Yet I definitly wan't to add MM1 and maybe MM5 to my collection.

Anyways! Back to MM & Bass.....Now we all know how big of a pain in the Burner man is, and I still can't beat him, let alone land a hit on him for the most part and I'd like to say I'm pretty damn good at MM. Then there's Magic Man.....I can't beat him with Mega's standard pea shooter, there's just no way....He keeps running across the screen randomly and it's hard to jump over him. So I had to slice his bunz down with Tengue Man's weapon hehe. I'd imagine beating the Bosses with Bass would be a much easier. And I still haven't played Dynamo man's stage yet. I'll hopefully have the game finished by tonight once I give it another go.

You have to use the ice weapon and push Burner Man into the spikes with it. If he's not on the screen when you do it, the spikes don't damage him. He's still a pain because he moves so fast, but that's the way you get him.

Hehe, the King stages alone might make it longer then one night to finish!

...Yeah, they were hard the first time around.

Ya, I couldn't even finish this one in 2 nights. ;p I spent around 3 hours each night at the most playing it, and some of the stages were seriously kicking my . Too bad Rockman & Forte for the SNES isn't on the VC, because I'd rather be playing that instead on the big screen, rather than on a dinky little hand held.

Anyways, so far I find it pretty decent. Definitly not one of the greatest mega man's, but not one of the worst either. Some of the stage design is spotty, yet others are pretty solid. But I prefer my Mega Man 8-bit, it's just much more exciting along with the awesome chip tunes.

As far as the music goes, Pirate and Tengue man's tracks so far have to be my favorite.
And StuffyStuff, thanks for the tip.

You can always get a Gamecube and a Gameboy Player to solve that problem.

Unless the Game Boy Player doesn't fix the screen cutting that had to be done in order to port the game to GBA.....which I'm pretty sure it doesn't. It'd be nice to use the GC controller though, since playing it on a DS is somewhat uncomfortable. (I've never had a Game Boy Player, let alone a Game Boy, so I could be wrong)

And yeah, I would really, REALLY like to see Rockman & Forte on VC (especially if they translated it). It would be an insta-buy for me.

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