Mega Man was the game that started it all, catapulting the Blue Bomber to fame and kicking off what would be a long and rich line of action games. Though the Mega Man games have all but screeched to a halt in more recent times, Capcom did decide to throw fans a bone and put out the Mega Man Legacy Collection. While this is seemingly intended to give players both old and new a shot at experiencing the classic games in their top form, a fan has recently produced an interesting take on the original Mega Man.
The 'new' game is called Mega Man Redux, and it's a largescale effort to polish the game up and make it more colorful and detailed than before. Nearly all tiles have been swapped out or adjusted, and portions of the background that used to contain blank space will now contain environmental objects that are fitting to the stage's theme. If you follow the source link, you can find the file to download; it can be overlaid on a ROM of Mega Man.
What do you think? Should the game be left alone or do you appreciate efforts like this? What would you like to see Capcom do with the Mega Man series next? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
[source retrocollect.com]
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(re)played the heck out of this yesterday, impressive effort.
Oh. It's just another unofficial hack, of which there are hundreds, if not thousands. Disappointing.
In my opinion, the Mega Man Legacy Collection felt lazy and incomplete. They could have added some more Mega Man games(Mega Man X for example) to the collection as well new artwork and replay value.
@Sticker I agree. Considering that more substantial collections have been released in the past, it was pretty lazy to not even include the next four games.
The "polished up" graphics are OK but I like the cleanness of the original more in many places. There are places where the new version clearly looks more detailed and stuff but a lot of the new look is a bit too dithered looking for my taste.
More detail and texture doesn't necessarily equal better looking.
So it's just a graphical hack from a month ago?
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2741/
It's not like there aren't dozens of hacks for each of the NES Mega Man games.
It certainly looks nice though, but the graphics are kinda "handheld" looking if that makes any sense?
Graphics like these are designed in mind with crisp displays. If sprite designers tried this on the old CRT TVs of yesterday Mega Man would look like a fuzzy blob.
Gilding the lily?
@NinChocolate
Are you asking me out?
@RupeeClock It would look like this by the way http://imgur.com/6kBbWH0
It's very flickery :/
@Scapetti
That looks like Blargg's NTSC filter.
That's excellent at reproducing the video signal from various older consoles and video cables, but doesn't do anything to replicate the phosphorus glow of a decades old CRT display, ya know?
Put the two together and it'll look really fuzzy.
I do wish that some of these Mega Man fan games like Mega Man Unlimited or Rock Force would come to home consoles, but for obvious reason wont.
@MitchVogel Agree Mega Man AC is still an awesome collection even despite the button switcharoo on the GC version. And The Wily Wars is awesome too if you can find a repro cart.
I just want Capcom to make a brand-new Mega Man game. Nothing too special and not 3d or anything like that, but just a new HD game...
@RupeeClock Yes, it's not actually Blargg's filter though. I wasn't happy with the NTSC filters out there so I did some tinkering. The main difference is that the diagonal lines now go in the right direction
@Sticker @MitchVogel
Not that I necessarily disagree with you guys about the collection feeling a bit lazy or unfinished, but I am aware that Capcom only included 1-6 because Digital Eclipses new engine was only made to run NES games, making the engine run NES, SNES, and Playstation sounds fairly complicated for something that aimed for accurate performance to the original systems these games were released for.
Mega Man 9 and Mega Man 10 look like NES games, but they aren't and they weren't developed with the same hardware as MM1-6 so adding faithful ports of those would've been yet another complication.
Personally I wish Capcom would consider releasing collections for the Mega Man Star Force, Battle Network, and Legends series, That doesn't really sound too hard because every entry in those series' run on the same hardware.
and better yet those games haven't been archived in the past, so existing fans would have more reason to invest in those, and curious newer fans could try out the entirety of some of Mega Man's sub series' for the price of one.
I can't Imagine any of these would be too expensive to make either.
I played through part of the Bomb Man stage with this hack, but it just looks too jumbled. By comparison, Sega did a much better job with "The Wily Wars".
What do I want from Capcom? New Mega Man games and more collections of old ones. Would love to get my hands on all the MMX games as well as a collection for the Game Boy games and a collection of the oddball games like Mega Man Soccer, Rock Man Battle n Chase, Mega Man and Bass etc.
I wouldn't mind them making some entirely new IPs either.
I like the more detailed backgrounds, but I do agree that the dithering is taken way too far here. Mega Man as a series has almost always been more smoothly cel-shaded, since that's what the NES does the best job of displaying. I appreciate the effort, though. I've always liked repainted games for some reason.
@MitchVogel I did appreciate the encyclopedic sections covering each game's enemies including the damage they deal and take, their weakness and the optimal way of dealing with them.
Beyond that, I also think that not including 7-10 and Mega Man & Bass was just plain lazy.
Isn't this just MegaMan: The Wily Wars? I mean didn't it do the same thing?
@Tasuki Mega Man Unlimited is one of my favorite Mega Man games which is even more impressive considering it was made from scratch by just a few people. Capcom officially endorsed Street Fighter x Mega Man a few years ago, so it would be really awesome if they did the same thing with another fan-made game.
The Graphic mod is alright, but since people complain about making something more "unique", I recommend Rockman Minus Infinity for a Great MM Hack Experience.
That tagline. Lol. So true! Im still butthurt about Megaman Legends 3 too....
@Zelda_Rocks Even though Capcom endorsed it unless yout have a PC you can't play it.
@RupeeClock
Buy a piece of clear acrylic to fit over your monitor, slather the inside of the acrylic with a slice of raw bacon.
CRT Glow enabled.
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