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X / Re: X7-X8 never happend?

« on: April 10, 2010, 06:31:09 PM »

Clearly, I was indeed too tired to proofread my work. I'll try to fix it up in a bit.

If Copy X is only 5 years old in Z1, and all references to the Big 4's working with X were actually with Copy X... they really would be pretty new. Although it's longer than a single US presidential term, so a lot can certainly happen in that time to make them experienced. Sigma was only a few years old when he became the world famous leader of the Hunters, I guess it doesn't take that long to become legendary in their fast paced future world.

I did translate Zero's RTRZ bio a while ago, I thought I posted it here, but I'll do it again.

Zero
Back in the times of the Irregular Wars, when the units known as the "Irregular Hunters" still existed, there lived a repliroid who was infamous far and wide. With a body of red and flowing hair of gold, he cut down his enemies with a blade of light. His very name struck fear into Irregulars... that name was "Zero." The sleeping legend of the "historic ruins." She saw it before her very eyes, the body of red, the hair of gold. But when "He" awakened from his slumber, He was a man without memory. He did not know his own name, He did not know his own purpose. He simply, had to be. An instinct for battle, a heart of justice. Once He held the blade of light in his hands, the legend was reborn.


I don't think I ever did Ciel's profile though. My CDs are boxed up somewhere. I don't suppose Rodrigo has the text for that one shifting around in his bottomless pockets...?

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X / Re: X7-X8 never happend?

« on: April 10, 2010, 06:36:46 AM »

On Light's age, you never know.  A 20XX full of robotics is bound to make a few medical breakthroughs.

Unless he had one of Cain's chairs in his dining room, I'm not expecting too much in the way of lifespan extension beyond our current norm. But, maybe. I certainly can't rule it out completely.

It's probably just popular notion of Zero being sealed to go after X, since that was the best rational explanation we had for Wily to not unleash him immediately.  Now that's out the window, as is the notion that Zero was completed anywhere near the same time as X at all, unless that page was one hell of a typo.

I was thinking of a description along the lines of "Zero was the last creation of Dr. Wily's life" but maybe it was something I read at some online Japanese site. I kinda hope I never find it, since Wily being dead already answers why he always seems so ethereal whenever Zero remembers him. If he's been dead for as long as Zero's been alive... but I've already found several references in the Compendium approximated that Zero was sealed about 100 years ago like X was. If that's the case, Wily might as well still be alive. Then again, RPM said Wily most likely embedded the virus in Zero, and this current description disagrees with that too.

Actually, it could be- going with this new thing, that thats the reason for the virus itself. To control the monstrous Zero which Wily himself could not keep under control. The virus would "awaken" him, and make him more like what we see in X5

If that was what Wily was trying to do with the virus, he certainly missed the mark by a wide margin at first. According to the site Zero was damaged by Sigma before being infiltrated by the virus, so either Wily wasn't ready for its use in Zero yet and took some countermeasure to protect him from premature infection, or else Wily hadn't planned on using it on Zero at all, but after seeing what it did to him, figured that there could be some way to polarize his mind with it and thus pursued it throughout the X series.

This help? (character profiles, since I assume the rest is already taken care of)

You're always right there when I ask for ripped text... How do you do that, Shin?

No, seriously, I really want to know how you ripped that from there. PM me if you must. I'll start on the trans now.

edit: Trans is done, maybe not my best work but I'm too tired to proofread myself any more for now. This ought to do, anyway.

Zero
"If an enemy appears in front of me.... I will destroy it..."
(That's what MZOCW translated that line as)
Previously a major player in the Irregular Wars, the legendary red repliroid who was praised as a great hero.
He was discovered and awoken from a 100 year slumber by Ciel.
Because of the long years he spent out of commission, he suffered some memory loss when he woke up, and even his abilities needed time to reawaken.
In the closing period of the Elf Wars, he crushed Omega who held the world in a grip of fear, along with his master Vile's cruel ambition, but this would ultimately lead the way to a new battle.

Ciel
"To me, you are Zero."
A human young lady who performed repliroid research in Neo Arcadia.
She created Copy X to help compensate for X's disappearance, but she had misgivings when reploids started being disposed of due to the energy shortage and she left Neo Arcadia.
After that she organized the Resistance to protect the repliroids, and meanwhile worked tirelessly every day to develop a new energy source to help end the conflict.
The visor that Ciel uses were kept from her time in Neo Acadia studying Cyber Elves, allowing her to see and come in contact with Cyber Elves despite her being a human.

Cyber Elf
A computer life form generally unknown to humans.
Commonly referring to a repliroid's will, consciousness, personality, etc.
While many scientists continue to study the repliroid mind for answers, the current concept is generally acknowledged as not a program itself but the "volition of a bodiless life form."
Though cyber elves are invisible, repliroids are able to see (or sense) them.
In the field of research focused on the activity of the mysterious computer virus the "Sigma Virus" on the repliroid thought program, it was proven that the virus possessed an effect of "volition."  
That "volition" became known as a Cyber Elf, and additionally any such volition that had the ability to influence things in a similar manner (Sigma Virus included) became designated Cyber Elves.  
The study resulted in reached the level where it became possible to strengthen a repliroid by means of a cyber elf.
(...That was a difficult trans, too many abstract concepts.)

Alouette
A skilled Cyber Elf caregiver, she helps the cyber elves Zero obtains to grow to their potential.
She named Crea and Prea herself.

Cerveau
A repliroid who provides Zero with technical support by developing all sorts of new weapons and chips.
He always tries to look after Ciel and Zero.

Hirondelle
A quick-witted traveler residing at the Resistance Base, he has lots of info on various locations he's visited.
As a hobby he also writes poetry.

Resistance Companions
A group of repliroids who were condemned to be disposed of as irregulars, but were rescued by Ciel.
Even though they're trying to live on short rations of energy, they extend their help to all repliroids facing similar circumstances.

"The Legendary Blue Messiah" X
The legendary blue repliroid and ruler of Neo Arcadia who symbolizes "infinite potential" and a "purveyor of justice" for all.
Though he had done so for the sake of peace, he often worried over having to destroy his fellow repliroids during the long confrontations of the "Irregular Wars", a condition which went mostly unchanged even after Zero went to sleep following the Nightmare Incident.
In the closing period of the Irregular Wars (later referred to as the Elf Wars), X cooperated with Zero who had acquired a copy body, to capture the Dark Elf, and arranged to use his anti-virus countermeasure to seal her within his own body.
When he sealed the Dark Elf, the shock forced X's soul from his body and split it into 5 cyber elves.
Eventually, 4 of these souls were incorporated into the Shitennou of Neo Arcadia, while one continued to wander the earth.

Neo Arcadia
Concerned over the Elf Wars, X formed the "Neo Arcadia" organization for the sake of providing protection for the humans.
X himself was a great man who rather than exercising control by using the Dark Elf, he successfully used his "reputation" to invoke order.
The remnants of mankind who survived the Elf Wars were able to continue living within an enormous dome, but outside the dome the conditions were unsuitable to support human life.
Nowadays Neo Arcadia is the name of the government, although the life-sustaining dome itself is commonly referred to as Neo Arcadia as well.
Humans representatives consult with repliroids to carry out Neo Arcadian policy.

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X / Re: X7-X8 never happend?

« on: April 10, 2010, 03:35:25 AM »

I wouldn't mind doing translations (if Heat Man doesn't beat me to it), but I want to be accurate, and some of the kanji are quite tiny. On a related note, does anyone know how to rip the text from a flash page? I seriously hate the way that page is set up.

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X / Re: X7-X8 never happend?

« on: April 10, 2010, 03:06:42 AM »

Hooray! I'm actually pretty okay with this whole idea. Don't get me wrong, I like the latter X games, but they really, REALLY made no sense and had nothing to do with the X/Zero series getting connected. Frankly I'm 100% fine with X's wimpy pacifist breakdown in X7 never happening, either.

Axl getting unborn is a nice bonus too.

Maybe if Zero didn't show up at the Highway, Axl would have been recaptured by Red Alert without any trouble, and subsequently used by Sigma. Then again, if X never retired, maybe Red Alert would never be founded, and Red would never have found Axl. It'd be fun to imagine what would have happened under changed circumstances.  Still it's difficult for me to want to throw out all that history, even contradictory history.

I certainly think both options are worth considering, since it's been up to a certain level of interpretation from years ago, ever since the Perfect Memories book posed the initial question of when and how Zero's sealing actually takes place, and attempted no answer at all. What if how we'd always interpreted the X Compendium's "X6 > Zero seal?" thing as a questionable later event was actually meant to be an indicator for a branching timeline? Or for that "no matter how you continue the Mega Man series" Inti remark actually being in reference to the idea that 2 differing timeline branches were both headed for the same ultimate destination?

CM is probably the easiest to drop, since it's been called a gaiden in a few official places,  was always a bit abrasive even to X8, and supposedly the director or someone made a remark that CM is to the X series as the Dragon Ball Z movies are to the tv shows.

Is there any reason Cain cannot be using a computer program with 41 year old copyrights (which for some reason have not been renewed)?  Because XCM could easily be early 22XX, with the Force Metal meteor having been identified in 2202.

I don't have a problem with Cain's equipment being weirdly old, but I do wonder how long Light and Wily are living. Does Light seem 100 years old in the Day of Sigma? That'd be about what he'd need to be...

Granted, we don't know how much of this is them and how much is Inafune, but I just get this impression that Inti cannot stand by what has already been established.

Since this page is on Capcom's website, I'm placing the blame on both.

The former could easily be a labeling error, or an actual plot point. If taken at face value, Wily's post mortum activities suddenly got even more interesting.

Thinking back I felt like there was something somewhere that made it seem like Wily completed Zero before death, but I can't figure what if anything concrete led me to that impression. I guess I'll dig for it later.

For now, I was just thinking about how apparently the Big 4 must have never met X while he was physically alive, and while that might make sense as to why they followed Copy X so willingly, I'm a bit confused by how intimate a relationship they seem to share with the real one in the drama tracks. It seemed like they had more of a mutual history than that.

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X / Re: X7-X8 never happend?

« on: April 10, 2010, 12:40:32 AM »

Right? It's our own fault for paying attention to the story in an action game. 

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X / Re: X7-X8 never happend?

« on: April 10, 2010, 12:35:17 AM »

They went and did it again, didn't they. They just had to do it... And what an annoying format, anyone figure out how to stop that red line from changing every few moments? Alright, I'm taking notes here.

Firstly, taking these concepts at face value, Command Mission seems to be pushed to its own timeline unless that story itself was part of the Elf Wars. Zero's 50 year first sealing, the Elf Wars, as well as all of the X series incidents are now reported to fit into a 100 year period (all 1XX years ago). The only other option would be X1's back story taking place in circa 2155, and Command Mission being one of Zero's late adventures before his first sealing.

But then Wily would have lived one hell of a long time (or perhaps have been a cyber ghost already) to still have built and sealed Zero during that same ~1XX years' period, if that is to be taken literally as well. Since X was supposed to be buried for 100 years when Cain found him, and Light seemingly sealed X late in his lifetime, Zero's backstory should really be over 200 years ago as well. Though if Light really did finish X around the time of the Roboenza incident, but didn't activate him because of the antivirus and armor projects, perhaps X could be dormant for a good while before Zero was completed and sealed, although that doesn't mesh well with Light's agedness at X's sealing in the Day of Sigma. I guess this simply must be taken somewhat loosely to work at all.

Anyway. X7 and X8 on the other hand can still fit alright with some small effort, but can't be as spaced out in as many years after X6 as I would have thought before. If they are still to be taken as a singular rather than branching timeline.

Zero Zero Zero. Of all the things they could have kept from the 3 Keys... I didn't imagine that the virus turning Zero good scenario would make it onto one of Capcom's web pages yet again. Apparently he was a failure at first, wilder than Wily could control. I guess that explains why Serges had such trouble with Zero's brain chip in X2--Wily never got it right in the first place. But the virus... leaks out of Zero's capsule? And yet Zero, within the capsule the entire time, doesn't seem to acquire the virus himself until his battle with Sigma? It doesn't make much sense to say Zero was the first infected with the virus when Sigma was purportedly infected at roughly the same time... unless the "W" is the virus infecting Zero slightly first. But moreover, the virus is said here to be the cause of the first local Irregular outbreaks that spawned the Hunter organization. So simply, there had to be those infected before that who I guess are ignored by that definition.

So Zero had some kind of shielding to protect him from the virus, but thanks to Sigma apparently the virus gets in anyway, and affects him uniquely among all robots. As 3 Keys previously suggested, Zero experiences amnesia and a severe personality shift, and seems to develop an immunity to the virus in the process. Wily's most murderous robot and his master computer virus converge unintentionally and.... somehow cancel each other out. I guess this is Inafune's proposition of irony and circumstance?

Well, if Wily's other project from PF was the revamped virus which he intended to use to control the world, it does make a bit of sense that the two be kept somewhat together in Wily's crazy doomsday time capsule. That leaves us to wonder whether the leaking virus was an accident of aging machinery, and perhaps Zero's awakening as well. On the other hand, perhaps the virus was leaked as a test to see how it fared on reploids... that would imply that Wily was already revived and concurrently plotting before Zero's awakening. Either way, the idea that it is the capsule that spread the virus to Sigma and Zero during their battle may support the notion that the place they did battle was also the place Zero was sealed. Furthermore, the idea that some ancient equipment would still be emitting some maverick-making waves or whatnot could be how that section became the forbidden area to begin with. Almost a "curse of the mummy" type thing, tomb defilers beware.

Moving right along, we have confirmation that Zero was separated mind and body for the sake of the research, as well as the assertion that it was the government's decision to seal Zero either instead or in addition to Zero deciding to submit himself for study.  Apparently Project Elpis is not the creation of the Mother Elf, but rather, the project to use her to control reploids en masse, the birth of the Dark Elf. Is this when Weil "stole" and "cursed" her? Was her use in this way actually legally approved despite X's reservations, or had Weil already done the damage, and was now merely setting up for the creation of Omega, his ultimate reploid?

According to X's and Neo Arcadia's character profiles, X established the organization known as Neo Arcadia to protect the survivors of humanity (during or after the Elf Wars?) and build the dome for them to live in. Was Weil once a member of X's organization, then subsequently banished from it? X is said to have ruled in his heyday not by totaltarianism, but by means of his own justice and leadership. He refused to use the Dark Elf to exert control, and this made him even more popular. Years later, both the government and the city itself are referred to as Neo Arcadia, but it seems that was not X's intention. It's good to have a better understanding of how Neo Arcadia existed at its beginning, though.

X seals the Dark Elf within himself so no one can use her in the Project Elpis way ever again. According to his bio, the act of doing so caused his soul to split into 5 parts, 4 of which became our Big 4, and the last becomes the drifting cyber elf that we've come to know as X proper. So now not only are the Big 4 bioroid clones of X's DNA and potentially making use of his "parts," but they're even reincarnated pieces of his very own soul. I guess that's why they can cheat death so readily, some kind of reploid horcrux scenario.

Another interesting thing was the description of Ciel and the Cyber Elves. Apparently Cyber Elves cannot be seen or interacted with by humans without some manner of aid, only reploids can see and feel them. Ciel requires her visor to interract, although she didn't seem to be using it when she interacted with Passy, but maybe just because it wasn't down over her face doesn't mean the effect wasn't occuring. I guess this must have been fixed by the time of Vent and Aile in ZX, machine bodies and all.

Do they have to rewrite history every time we get one of these things? I mean, is it that hard to reveal new things without altering old ones? I feel like I'm getting too old for this.

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News and Announcements / Re: Closer Look: Rockman 10 Original Soundtrack

« on: April 06, 2010, 06:06:42 AM »

Because it hasn't been said enough yet in this topic: Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU VIXY!

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Original / Re: Fact or fiction?

« on: April 06, 2010, 06:03:54 AM »

It's all basically true. Rockman was considered for release on an arcade platform as well as for the Famicom Disk System that had come out the year before. This was mentioned in the Rockman 1~6 Soundtrack booklet, as well as the Rockman 7 & Rockman X3 Cho Hyakka source book.

The Astro Boy thing was a little different, Capcom never actually had the rights to Tetsuwan Atom, but they wanted to get them because they thought a game about Atom would sell better than a game starring a brand new character. For that reason they first planned the game in a way that once they got the rights, they could easily insert Atom into the lead spot. They never got the rights, so it was Rockman's debut instead. This was mentioned in the interview portion of the Rockman 10 years History Book. Japanese Wikipedia says that Inafune also talked about this in the Capcom Consumer Chronicle vol 2 DVD. I don't own that, but the other sources I can attest to.

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News and Announcements / Re: Inafune & Ariga: Grilled By The Fans

« on: December 17, 2009, 03:29:39 AM »

Am I correct in thinking that this event will be recorded and made available on the one and only RPM media download section?

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News and Announcements / Re: RPM Awards 2009!!!

« on: November 24, 2009, 01:17:57 AM »

Seems like this year flew by.

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Rockman Series / Re: Megaman Doujin Game

« on: November 24, 2009, 01:16:23 AM »

His world, his rules.

I don't think he's announced any of the other unique characters' names, just W. Waltz. That I know of, anyway.

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X / Re: Rate and Discuss: Eagle Ride Armor

« on: November 24, 2009, 01:02:05 AM »

The Eagle's infinite hovering was pretty slick, although if it were up to me, you'd be able to move faster with it, and also have freedom of directional movement. An auto scrolling shooter stage done entirely while flying in the Eagle would have been great fun for me. The Rush Jet stages of R8 were also favorites of mine, and the Rush Space stage in World 5.

And I'm all for bringing back 3's free flying Rush Jet. Fighting the Wily Machine while riding on Rush's back is one of my favorite moments of that game.

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Original / Re: When Megaman is about to shoot Wily...

« on: November 24, 2009, 12:49:07 AM »

Tezuka had something around 10 or more laws (I think he rewrote a few of them in the course of the stories) by the end of Astro Boy, I saw a web site somewhere that listed them all in Japanese, I'll track it down later. I remember that Wily broke quite a few of them throughout the classic series.

In Tezuka's world, robots are often considered morally superior to humans by their very nature. That most robots will take abuses from humans shows their higher capacity for tolerance and faith that the good nature of the human heart eventually prevails. However, all they need it so be convinced, through personal experience or logic, of the intolerable evils of mankind to turn themselves on humanity. The old manga is full of such cases of robots that do just that, some human was awful or violent and so the robot realizes their unworthiness to be assisted. Robots with kokoro (heart or emotions) become increasingly common throughout the stories, and these robots need only to be pushed to learn hatred. Even the Pluto manga, which certainly took its own liberties with many aspects of Tezuka's vision, demonstrated consistently that there was essentially no malfunction or defect in any of the (spoilers?) 5 or so robots that put humans to death throughout that manga. It remained a matter of the robots' own will, own sense of righteousness, own feelings and desires.

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Original / Re: Is the Rockman World series truly dead?

« on: November 24, 2009, 12:30:46 AM »

World 5 was excellent and a worthy ending to the sub-series. If they wanted to do another sub-series title, I'd rather they just come up with a different title. If the battles are going to be in space like the World series always wound up, how about calling them Rockman Cosmos, Rockman Galaxy or Rockman Universe or something instead? Shooting Star Rockman is already taken, but something along those lines. Ryuusei would probably see some kind of cameo in it anyhow.

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Original / Re: When Megaman is about to shoot Wily...

« on: November 13, 2009, 07:02:54 AM »

In Osamu Tezuka's original Astro Boy mangas, he wrote up some robot laws that were actual legally enforced laws rather than hard-coded programs of robot conduct. Although robots were expected to follow these laws, they were able to break them of their own accord. Supposedly Tezuka wrote these independently, without in-depth knowledge of Asimov's laws. Naturally enough, one of them was a robot may not harm or kill a human being, but he didn't make use of the second half of the first rule, that a robot could not through inaction allow a human being to be harmed. No forced heroics there. In that singular aspect, Rockman's world seems more like Tezuka's laws of robotics than Asimov's. Though it wasn't Tezuka didn't bother to number his laws with any consistency, so it wasn't really his "first" law. I don't think Rockman subscribes to Tezuka's laws or Asimov's laws, I'm just exploring another potential influence.

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Rockman Series / Re: Megaman Doujin Game

« on: November 13, 2009, 06:25:54 AM »

[spoiler][/spoiler]

This one's actually not Inafune's, nor is it strictly fan art. Hideki Ishikawa (a freelance artist often employed by Capcom) made this parallel world-style image for Capcom's old fan club newsetters. He also did a similar Ghosts'n'Goblins re-imagined piece.

And the girl does have a name, it's "W. Waltz." And apparently...

[spoiler]...she was reprogrammed to be Roll's sexual pet after she was defeated. From Hideki's site, NSFW!
[/spoiler]

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Rockman Series / Re: Ancient Theories/Fanon

« on: October 29, 2009, 07:01:11 PM »

Here's all the pre- and post-manga extras, then. Go ahead and peruse/translate what you'd like, marsh:

You spoil me, Miyabi. Thanks for these beautiful scans!

You're right about the Megamix pages, they're just teaser story synopses about the older chapters.

The letter is from Ryuuji Higurashi, and talks briefly about his childhood memories of Bombom comics and how he was happy to be working with Ariga for the first time during R20's production and how they had fun and future generations should enjoy Rockman and yadda yadda. The Wily picture is from him, summarized as a "what would an Ariga style Wily look like if drawn by Capcom artists?" pic. Pretty cool. He ends with a B&C anecdote about how he got his arse handed to him in Rockboard one time, and so took revenge in Battle & Chase by tearing it up with the Pop'n Beat. I know what he means, that's probably my fave car body, and the only one I can consistently beat Wily with on Level 4.

I have trouble reading Ariga's handwriting, but basically the "Atogaki (Afterward) Gigamix" comic tells the story about how he had been trying to get these two stories published nearly a decade ago but for various reasons was unsuccessful until now.

Nothing much about Breakman or game story here. Oh well.

Koshinda (his publishjer)

Do you mean Kodansha?

Who knows, there's still a chance he might include them in these future Gigamix volumes.

I'm kinda hoping so too.

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Rockman Series / Re: Ancient Theories/Fanon

« on: October 28, 2009, 02:56:20 AM »

That is pretty cool he responded in English. The last time I can remember him doing that was on his old old blog, when he had to ask English speakers not to steal his artwork for their own sites.

Doesn't sound like he had much to say about game version Breakman. Doesn't bode well for my hope that there's a special talk section discussing it in Gigamix. Hey Miyabi, you have the book, right? Is there a discussion section in it?

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Zero / Re: MegaMan Zero, then and now.

« on: October 28, 2009, 02:52:03 AM »

On another note, I still wonder how the whole dome concept is supposed to work.

Me too. Sure doesn't resemble the domes of Paradigm City.

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X / Re: Timeline of X

« on: October 28, 2009, 02:48:57 AM »

X's early days with Cain has the hunter commander.

Under Cain's guidance, but not as commander. The Rockman X Chou Hyakka has a basic diagram of Hunter unit groups, and Cain is listed as an Advisor over all the units, but it also shows an upper department of Hunter brass that went above him, the Hunter general they were talking about is likely a member of that higher group.

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Original / Re: About Time Travel...

« on: October 28, 2009, 02:38:22 AM »

I'm talking about X. I had heard a long time ago from somebody that in some Japanese source it says X is powered by all the celestial bodies in the solar system.

Hmm... I don't think I've read anything quite like that. X is solar powered, with a reactor and an internal fuel tank to hold a reserve for rainy days. Besides reflecting certain energy wavelengths from the sun, I'm not sure what else the other celestial bodies could offer him.

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Original / Re: Mega Man 9's secret?

« on: October 28, 2009, 02:13:47 AM »

From the regular Japanese sites I visit and the few searches I've done, I couldn't find that anyone in Japan is looking for this Easter egg. I also haven't read them mentioning finding anything cool that we haven't already guessed. I'm not sure they're looking.

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Rockman Series / Re: The PC games

« on: October 25, 2009, 06:08:35 AM »

Technically, they didn't even have any art for the WS games themselves; they got their sprites from Sprites INC just as they got the Nintendo Power stuff from me.  So don't think it's inclusion in R20 is all that special, they didn't go out of their way to contact Bandai or anything.

The WS game didn't have any pubished art outside what appeared in the game itself in sprite form. The cover art is borrowed and no original art is featured on the box or manual. There should be production sketches somewhere, but Capcom doesn't have them.

I think Ariga said on his blog back when they were working on the book that they couldn't get permission from Bandai to reprint Mega Mission card images, which is why only a few concept art designs from that appear. If RFWS had art, they probably wouldn't have permission to use that either. I'm not sure why the sprites were allowed to be printed in that case, though.

So it's a comic in XZ Advent.

Just a few of the boss characters have become manga heroes, not the entire game itself. There was also a slight reference in the first ZX game, Sardine talks about a toy (the older guardian mechanic?) made for him that looks like a stove with legs, a reference to Conroman. He hated the toy and doesn't play with it however.

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Rockman Series / Re: Ancient Theories/Fanon

« on: October 25, 2009, 05:50:38 AM »

They don't make guides like this anymore!

Especially using that kind of paper. Hope you guys enjoy it. Maybe we can hold a book discussion or something.

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Rockman Series / Re: Ancient Theories/Fanon

« on: October 24, 2009, 09:14:46 PM »

The first was the events of Mega Man 1, the second was Mega Man 2, and the third Mega Man 3.