What art programs were used for that kind of thing back in the day? Paint? Photoshop 3? Paint Shop Pro 4? I was never much of an artist so I only have vague remembrances.
Was trying to think of some other examples of old T/Fs... That Dr. Light's middle name is Xavier was one, although the US Official Guide to Mega Man book claimed that to be his first name. But "Thomas Xavier Light" was just about everywhere for a while. And that the W in Albert W Wily stood for William, there was something circling about that as well.
Some X series stuff, there was that saying that the X series was originally going to be a cop saga that had nothing to do with Mega Man. I know I'd read about it several times on MMHP, but given how much we've been shown now about the making of the early X series games, I'm not sure how that could have ever been the case. Perhaps it was a theory grown from the early terms calling the Hunters the Robo-Police.
Come to think of it, for a long time nobody seemed to figure that the X series would be much more than 30 years after the original. Some agreed it should probably be more, since the tests were supposed to take 30 years and came out green before it was found, I don't think too many people figured on it being more than 50 years. Even though that would mean Rock was fighting Wily for something like 70 years or so. But mostly I remember a lot of people being surprised by the interview where Inafune was said the X series took place some 100 years after the original.
And the various rumors that someone had dumped the original Rockman X demo with the white city and RT-55J in the intro stage. Every so often you'd hear that someone had done it/found it, search around the darkest corners of the net, and have nothing to show for it. It's one rumor I really wish would come true, though. This many years later it feels ever increasingly unlikely, but who knows... the world is full of surprises.
I wanted to mention this earlier, that Mega Man Neo was going to be the original blue bomber gone 3-D was one popular rumor. I remember finding a page showing the 3-D Rockman render where Rock's in the capsule where you can see half his schematics and Rush is curled up next to it sleeping (the one on the Rockman Complete Works 1-3 screens, you guys know what I mean right?) with a big MEGA MAN NEO logo above it. Even though around the same time I think there were already early screenshots of the actual game circulating, but then people were saying how the capsule was Light giving him new armor so that he'd wind up looking like the one in the game.
Somewhat more recently, I remember a lot of confusion over Copy X's name being Omega, so much so that several Brady Games guides used the name, even after the real Omega was introduced. And some debates over whether Serenade was a girl or a boy, who turned out to be something like neither. The popular but none-too-consistent belief that the original and EXE universes represented a split timeline where computer networks are chosen to be funded over robots. Oh, and how about all the speculation about X7's new character, that it was Dynamo with a haircut, or MIDI repaired, or a female hunter, or some character from the original series returned all X-ified... As a community, we do love to speculate.