X: "I stepped into the capsule, then I screamed Hadouken!!"

[VixyNyan]

Our prayers are finally answered: X9 is coming!!

... Well, how should we put it... our anonymous tipster fooled us. Way to go.

Thanks to you, the news got spread to these places:
Capcom Unity
Gamercafe (Chile)
MDRockman (Brazil)
Mega Man X9 Community
N-Philes
Rockman Network (Thailand)
Sonic Retro
Spriters Resource
Sprites INC
The Mega Mario Network

The tipster apologized and she sent us these messages from other authors.
* RMC at GoNintendo.com: "I'm pretty sure it's an April Fools' joke, but I'll keep my eyes open for more details..."
* Jeff at MegaManX9.com: "Hate to break it to you, but RPM does this every year for April Fool's day. Trust me I'd love it too!"

Maybe there was a reason behind this prank?

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3172027

1UP: "Will we ever be lucky enough to get a Mega Man X9 -- but with Super NES era graphics and music?"
HT: "It all depends on fans' demand! We might see that day, as long as there is passion!"

Oh well, guess we'll never know. The important thing is that everyone who commented had some good manners for once.

[Frozen Potato]

DAMN!WE'VE BEEN FOOLED!!

well,somehow it worked at other places not here though,i guess~ : P

[Blackhook]

Le gasp!

[Flame]

I NEVER saw this coming.

[Shinichameleon / Nayim]

I NEVER saw this coming.

[Protoman Blues]

You know, theoretically, it's not a lie.  Rockman X9 is eventually coming.  We just don't know when!

[Gotham Ranger]

The news also ended up on Sonic Retro, but the person who posted it only quoted the article, not where he got it from.

Even so, this is the first joke to get me in some time and I loved it!

[Rockmon]

What someone needs to do, is do that thing that was done with rockman no consistancy, a really heavy duty rockman 2 mod for those of you who don't konw, except with with X 1, 2, or 3 as the base.

[Acid]

I have yet to see a MMX hack.

[Gotham Ranger]

I was actually wondering about that myself. I'd love to see someone make an X9 hack out of the SNES games, but I'm also spoiled by the ridiculous feats over at the Sonic Community with their hacks. Sure, none of them get finished, but they at least look awesome!

[Night]

Wow, my sprite recreation from that jpeg was almost dead ON!

We should really get the guy who ever did that to work with JKB...

[Turian]

::eats lots of sushi:: 

[Zan]

... Well, how should we put it... our anonymous tipster fooled us. Way to go.

What, the words black, belt and dude aren't in your vocabulary?


Guess, I did it >.> Or Oakes, definitely Oakes.

[blackbeltdude]

Well, I know this won't come as a surprise to everyone, but I'm the one who pushed the pixels!  

Yeah, I know I said I wasn't the one behind it, but April Fools is the only time you're really allowed to lie.

It dawned on me near the beginning of March that April Fools was right around the corner, and I figured an X9 SNES mock up would be perfect. Perhaps predictable, but the intent wasn't really to fool anyone (though, that's always a nice side effect). I wasn't even counting on fooling anyone anyway; it was just something fun that I wanted to do, and I thought maybe some other people might think it's a neat idea. If anyone was upset at it, well, too bad. I was only doing it to have fun, and pleasing everyone isn't a requirement I have to meet to achieve that.

Still, overall, there's been worse reactions to pranks and hoaxes. To everyone who saw the fun in the idea, Vixy and I say "thanks!" Everyone who reacted in a sour way: "meh."

Yeah, something I need to point out is that Vixy was on board from the start. I told her about two weeks ago, before I even started to push pixels, about the idea. We actually bounced some ideas back and forth of what the levels could be, and that helped me come up with what I made. She also e-mailed the prank to other sites, which was awesome! And as always, typed up a very nice news post.

So, on to the sprites... In fact, take a look at the tiles:



(There's un-used stuff at the top).

The funniest stuff I read was about the sprites. First of all, I promise you guys have never seen that Axl sprite before, because I made it from scratch just for this hoax. The only person who saw it before anyone else, was Oakes (who gave some great crits). Axl is also NOT an edit. If you can't tell by looking and comparing, well, I don't know how else to explain that he isn't.

None of the backgrounds have reused tiles from other games either. Everything there is also made from scratch. Designing the backgrounds was probably the most difficult part; which is why there's un-used stuff. I was originally just going to make tiles to set up several shots of the same level, but then I realized that the parts I was dividing the level up into, might as well be levels themselves.

The only kind of notable thing to say about them might be Zero's screen. When I finished making it, I realized it was stupid to have spikes on the walls when there was no reason to go near a wall. So I made these enemies that shoot out tornadoes that would push you into them. I thought it kind of made sense, and then made that part seem more dangerous.


So yeah, I still had a lot of fun doing this hoax, and that's all I really care about. I hope it at least made you guys want to pick up a controller, and play some of the old MMX games, or hope for a new one! After all, with enough fan interest, we might get one...

Ah, and the sprites and tiles are PD.

[Align]

Hmm, original Axl sprite? It felt familiar, but perhaps that's just from it being an edit...
EDIT: or maybe im just stupid

I'm sure I've seen a X3 style Axl some time before though.

[Zan]

made from scratch for this hoax.

[VixyNyan]

I have to say thanks to Heat Man for admiring the effort of news submission and posting the news. Appreciate it. Would be fun to have a first-time chat someday. ^.^

Also Golden Dragon at MDRockman (Brazil) for doing a little detective work on the game's connection to X8 and XCM. </wii>

[blackbeltdude]

I have to say thanks to Heat Man for admiring the effort of news submission and posting the news. Appreciate it. Would be fun to have a first-time chat someday. ^.^

Also Golden Dragon at MDRockman (Brazil) for doing a little detective work on the game's connection to X8 and XCM. </wii>

Yeah, I loved Heatman's post! The Megaman Network's reaction was really awesome!

It was cool to see it spread to those other sites too!

[Rad Lionheart]

Who would have thought it was a hoax the entire time?

[BreakTargets]

...I saw this coming.  Does that make me a bad person?

[Night]

As I said before Blackbelt, you need to be here

[blackbeltdude]

As I said before Blackbelt, you need to be here

If they contact me and ask me to do something, I'd consider it for sure (like sheeting Axl, or maybe making some tiles). The game is looking great already though, so it's not like they NEED any help.

[Night]

You could always do custom tiles for maps...

And you should sheet axl anyway...

[Bag of Magic Food]

First of all, I promise you guys have never seen that Axl sprite before, because I made it from scratch just for this hoax. The only person who saw it before anyone else, was Oakes (who gave some great crits). Axl is also NOT an edit.

Ah, I was thinking it might have been based on The Madness.

[Waifu]

All I can say is: