Megaman X4: Stylish Run

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on: March 24, 2011, 01:01:07 AM
I decided to undertake a challenge for Megaman X4, called the Stylish Run. What makes this run stylish, you ask? Here I play under the following conditions:

- No damage
- No armor/heart tanks
- No boss weaknesses; weapons are okay otherwise, and Reaper Sigma is an obvious exception.
- This run uses Hypershell's custom MMX4 PC hack, which changes X's voice actor to that of Mark Gatha. (Thanks!)
- Custom BGM is added to the game by replacing the source files of the game. This allows custom music while still keeping the game's sounds intact.
- I also use X's alternate color just because it's awesome!

These conditions not only make the game challenging, but it'll be a unique run due to the modifications.  This should help it stick out from the other runs that are floating around on YT.  Anwho, here are the ones that I've finished so far:

Opening/Intro Stage
Cyber Peacock


Posted on: March 19, 2011, 00:47:05
Alright, finished with Jet Stingray now.  Definitely wasn't as easy as I thought it would be.

Posted on: March 20, 2011, 21:54:37
Web Spider is a-finished.  Switched recorders so the quality's better than the last 3, not that those were bad at all.

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Reply #1 on: March 27, 2011, 10:00:56 AM
Very cool. Keep it up.  owob



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Reply #2 on: April 08, 2011, 06:26:32 PM
Very cool. Keep it up.  owob

Thanks!

Here's Storm Owl, arguably the hardest Maverick fight in X4.  Good thing he wasn't in a bad mood when I got to him.  :|

Posted on: March 27, 2011, 16:02:33
Let's show off the fact that Colonel's sword has the dumbest hitbox ever!

Posted on: March 31, 2011, 12:22:01
Frost Walrus is down!

Posted on: April 02, 2011, 02:21:24
Magma Dragoon is out cold, thanks to some Ride Armor goodness.

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Reply #3 on: April 08, 2011, 06:42:56 PM
OK I might be late but,

how did you give the game custom sound effects and BGM?



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Reply #4 on: April 08, 2011, 09:13:53 PM
OK I might be late but,

how did you give the game custom sound effects and BGM?

Well, as for the sound effects, Hypershell made a hack a little while ago of X4's PC version.  This hack changed X's voice clips to ones from Mark Gatha (X8-CM), and Zero's to Lucas Gilbertson (X8-CM).  The Iris death scene is re-dubbed IIRC

In case of the BGM, MMX4 PC uses .SE files for the music.  Funny thing is, they're just WAV files under a different name.  All I had to do was convert some of my songs to the WAV format, and from there replace the ones in MMX4's respective music folder.

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Reply #5 on: April 08, 2011, 09:19:45 PM
Eh, sounds easy enough.

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Reply #6 on: April 08, 2011, 10:25:01 PM
Yeah! Rocking that Volcano Valley! I must ask though, what songs are you using? I know a few of them (Adabat Day for Web Spider, VV Act 2 for Magma Dragoon.) but others are kinda confusing.

So, what I'm trying to say is, can you please put up a tracklist? :)



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Reply #7 on: April 08, 2011, 11:03:51 PM
Hah, I've actually been sneaking the track titles into the Youtube video tags.  But since I'm here:

Stage NameSong Name
Intro Stage
Stage Select
Cyber Peacock
Jet Stingray
Web Spider
Storm Owl
Repliforce Fight Music
Frost Walrus Part I
Frost Walrus Part II
Magma Dragoon
Confrontation Theme
Westopolis (Shadow the Hedgehog)
Hunter Base (MMX Command Mission)
Cyberspace (Rockman Zero 4 Arranged)
Blue Water Blue Sky (Guilty Gear X)
Adabat Day (Sonic Unleashed)
Moon Light~Psylocke's theme (X-Men Children of the Atom)
Epsilon, First Movemen (MMX Command Mission)
Ice Scream (Ristar)
Ice Brain (MMZ2 OST)
Volcano Valley (Sonic 3D Blast, Saturn/Richard Jacques)
PRESSURE (Megaman Battle Network 2)

Of course, the remaining songs will be shown as said stages are cleared and posted.

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Reply #8 on: April 08, 2011, 11:25:51 PM
Nice, I like it. Thanks for posting.



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Reply #9 on: April 09, 2011, 03:55:14 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention that the boss theme is the Weather Channel Storm Alert theme (2006).  Yes, I fight bosses to Weather Channel music.  óVó

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Reply #10 on: April 11, 2011, 09:16:37 PM
I like what's going on here. Interesting music choices by the way.


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Reply #11 on: April 14, 2011, 05:50:26 PM
Thanks!  Split Mushroom is up now, this time featuring Castlevania music!

Posted on: April 11, 2011, 18:14:11
The final Maverick, Slash Beast, is up and ready for viewing! (With an outtake to boot!)

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Reply #12 on: April 15, 2011, 12:39:27 AM
Holy [parasitic bomb], Never knew the Ride Armor enemies would go on a mad chase after you.



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Reply #13 on: April 19, 2011, 07:06:46 PM
Where can I download the voice act hack?



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Reply #14 on: May 04, 2011, 03:53:05 AM
Well, with this semester winding down I was able to take a little break and clear the short and sweet Space Port stage.

Where can I download the voice act hack?

Right here

Holy [parasitic bomb], Never knew the Ride Armor enemies would go on a mad chase after you.

Yeah, I consider them the scariest "normal" enemy in the game.  They're bloodthirsty and scrolling them off of the screen is a chore in itself.  They're surprisingly intelligent, too.

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Reply #15 on: May 04, 2011, 04:28:23 AM
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Reply #16 on: June 07, 2011, 04:23:20 AM
Well, I've been putting this off for a while due to a number of reasons (college, general laziness, etc), but here's the next installment of the run; Final Weapon Part I!  For whatever reason Fraps didn't want to record the cutscene involving Double slaughtering the reploids, leaving only audio with a black screen.   X(

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Reply #17 on: June 07, 2011, 07:55:14 AM
Boss theme is Weather Channel music... just for that, I'm gonna have to check this out.

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Reply #18 on: June 07, 2011, 09:35:03 PM
You win for using Battle for Survival for the double fight. Well done, one more stage to go.


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Reply #19 on: October 06, 2011, 08:44:52 PM
For those curious, yes, I am still working on getting the last part done.  I hope to have it finished within the next couple of days; losing out to Sigma's dumb debris attack is soul-crushing after trekking it through to him without prior damage.  X(

Posted on: July 15, 2011, 00:28:03
Well, I finished it, though not in the way I would have liked.  I ended up having to split it between the mavericks and Sigma due to a certain move (more in the excerpt from teh video description below):

[spoiler]NOTICE:

As a note, I did in fact do the bosses and Sigma separately this time around. This wasn't my initial plan, but due to the luck needed to effectively get through Sigma's rock barrage w/o damage (more on that below), starting all over from the 8 bosses would be near impossible and would have taken far longer than this already has.

Stage Notes:

Anywho, onto the actual stage. The 8 bosses aren't any harder than they normally are, but doing them in succession takes a toll on your concentration, especially if you're trying to perfect Sigma in the same run. I caught myself making dumb mistakes on several occasions, and Storm Owl accounted for a lot of lost runs on his own.

As for Sigma, reaper's still as much of a joke as he was before, though it's slightly risky to attempt to hit him before the scythe comes out. He does attack with orbs, though if you stand right under him they don't hit you. Odd.

His 2nd form's not much harder, provided you let the scythe hit the wall and not the floor. I try to get stylish by jumping over his head, which makes the scythe hit the wall behind him. The timing for this one's extremely tight, and a mistake could have consequences ranging from being whacked in the head by a scythe, to it hitting the floor and you having to get through his harder pattern.

Now the final form is the beast here, and the reason I had to do the bosses and Sigma separately. I'm not talking about Big Gun Sigma, and I'm not talking about the heads. It's that Ugly Head that makes this so bothersome on its own. First off, despite all of the rumors floating around, I can guarantee that there is NO way to coerce him into performing the wind attack. Standing in the bottom-right corner won't do it, hovering in the top right corner won't do it, and putting X's right foot on the floor and left foot on the wire won't do it (I'm not making that last one up, either). Unless you get really lucky, you WILL see this attack and some point, and you've gotta be as ready as possible when it comes.

I will point out that though this attack is dodge-able without armor, it's not a 100% thing. Having a charge shot ready is key, and you've got to carve a path that you can get through until the sucking stops. On a good day, you can get through with a charge shot and a dash, and on a bad day one of the rocks will appear from under the screen before you can react; if this happens, you're getting hit. No exceptions. Special weapons don't make this any easier, either. The best candidate would be the Frost Tower, but it has it's own issues. First off, it's not completely impenetrable. The hitbox on the larger rocks is big enough to hit you clean through the ice, and the fact that you're being pulled to the left doesn't help matters either. Furthermore, you just destroyed the blue head, so have fun trying to jump up to the red head without touching the spikes or being pulled back before a piece of debris hits you!

That said, I'm willing to call this incarnation of Sigma the hardest in the series to do without taking damage, or hardest period, in some cases. X5's purple block attack has nothing on X4's rocks, and I don't think any other attack requires so much sheer luck to get out of unscathed. I realize that the difficulty of this fight goes down with the plasma shot and weaknesses (Ground hunter makes this so much easier), but at a base level this fight's a pain due to one move, which says lot, really.
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Posted on: August 03, 2011, 19:58:44
Well, wasn't sure if I wanted to or not, but I'm gonna go through it as Zero now.  So the first segment is up now!  Same conditions as before, more or less:

- No damage
- No sub/heart tanks
- No boss weaknesses; special techniques are okay otherwise, and Reaper Sigma is an obvious exception.
- This run uses Hypershell's custom MMX4 PC hack, which changes Zero's voice actor to that of Lucas Gilbertson. (Thanks!)
- Custom BGM is added to the game by replacing the source files of the game. This allows custom music while still keeping the game's sounds intact.
- Black Zero FTW!

Intro Stage

Some songs will be changed around and some will remain the same.  

Posted on: September 05, 2011, 18:52:37
Cyber Peacock is up!

Posted on: September 09, 2011, 23:27:50
Storm Owl is up!  That's gotta be one of the most intense Marverick fights I've ever been in...

Posted on: September 17, 2011, 18:36:59
Frost Walrus is a-go!

Posted on: September 21, 2011, 00:13:55
Magma Dragoon is uploaded!

Posted on: September 27, 2011, 22:36:05
Web Spider has been stepped on.

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Reply #20 on: October 06, 2011, 08:51:34 PM
Crap, I missed a lot.

Interesting music choices.



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Reply #21 on: December 13, 2011, 08:54:21 PM
Good-bye Split Mushroom!  Also, that miniboss got styled on. XD

Posted on: October 26, 2011, 16:48:58
Slash Beast is down!  Shoutouts to Capcom spelling the name of Zero's move wrong.

Posted on: November 08, 2011, 20:23:22
Jet Stingray's demise is now available for your viewing pleasure.

Posted on: November 28, 2011, 18:04:14
Space Port is up!

Posted on: December 01, 2011, 15:04:14
Final Weapon Part 1 is completed!  Now with better cutscene voice acting!

Posted on: December 05, 2011, 12:47:09
Phew, Final Weapon Part 2 is finally complete!  Thanks for watching!

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