Mega Man 9's secret?

[Bag of Magic Food]

Well, the most you can get, without a New Game+...

[xnamkcor]

Hmm, the order you play through levels might make a difference.  In addition to ending on a different level each time, you could try going in reverse weakness order (so you'll only have the correct weapon for the 8th Robot Master), alphabetical order, numerical order of "creation", or anything crazy like that.  I admit we'll probably never test all 40320 orders of level completion unless we divide up the work among a lot of people, and even then, how do we know there isn't some other condition to fulfill along with that particular order?

And hey, has anyone ever tried just collecting screws and dying over and over at the beginning of the game in order to fill up on items before even completing the first level?   

My strategy was:
Get the two screws in HornetMan's Stage until I have enough to buy 9 E-Tanks. Then beat JewelMan. Then go back to HornetMan's stage and in the group of Missile Silo Pots near the end, stand in a spot so two Pots are attacking you, turn on Jewel Sat., then bake a cake or watch TV.

[Flok]

Buy Roll's outfit 999 times.

[xnamkcor]

Buy both of Roll's outfit 999 times.

Fixed.

[VixyNyan]

Buy both of Roll's outfit 999 times on the same save file.

Double fixed.

[xnamkcor]

Beat the game with Helmetless ProtoMan.

[Dr. Wily II]

Use Jewel Satellite on Splash Woman perhaps?

[Turian]

This may be it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjqLh5IwT9c

[borockman]

First time seeing a jet black Rush there. And lol glitch is lol.

[Rad Lionheart]

That's a funny glitch.

[Satoryu]

interesting, but i doubt that's the big secret.

[Bag of Magic Food]

I thought it was a little secret.

[Solar]

This may be it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjqLh5IwT9c

Heh, so that ninja actually found something interesting...

[Bag of Magic Food]

Jumping and shooting into doors can really pay off sometimes!

[Gauntlet101010]

If this is it, then it's a totally lame secret.  

On a similar note, it reminds me of the trick where you can knock yourself under the floor of Concreteman's boss rooom ... and subsequently dying  by falling intot hat pit.  It was in some demo of the game (can't remember who posted the vid).

[N-Mario]

This may be it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjqLh5IwT9c

Unless Capcom says otherwise, I highly doubt that is it. I'm 99.99% sure that is not it. Capcom wouldn't be pulling our legs with something like this.

[Gauntlet101010]

Unless Capcom says otherwise, I highly doubt that is it. I'm 99.99% sure that is not it. Capcom wouldn't be pulling our legs with something like this.

This isn't Capcom, this is some higher-up at the Capcom Unity forums. 

In other words, a nobody who played the game a lot or who heard rumors around the office.

[Turian]

This isn't Capcom, this is some higher-up at the Capcom Unity forums. 

In other words, a nobody who played the game a lot or who heard rumors around the office.

At first I was inclined to believe S-kill. I even made the original news post. But you know what? I think he's full of [parasitic bomb] now.

[marshmallow man]

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. He's not just some nobody exactly, his name does appear in the credits of the game, even though it's nothing to do with the programming or making of it. Being part of the company does give him a unique vantage point to have been informed or discovered whatever this secret is. And I have no problem believing that there is still something about the game we have yet to discover. Or even many somethings.

That said, I greatly doubt that this secret he has in mind is anything earth-shatteringly amazing. I don't expect a secret boss or new mode or amazing contra code that gives you items during time attack runs. I'm thinking this thing is probably something small along the lines of "Oh, hey, that's a kinda neat little easter egg there."

[Acid]

Probably just a little cameo or something. Like Bass' blue prints atthe end of the game.

[Splash]

Secret?When you Use the Mistery Tank when all your units(Health,weapon and Rush are Full)all enemies will turn into 1-Ups

[Turian]

Secret?When you Use the Mistery Tank when all your units(Health,weapon and Rush are Full)all enemies will turn into 1-Ups

No. Freaking. WAY.

[Splash]

Wha?

[Satoryu]

Secret?When you Use the Mistery Tank when all your units(Health,weapon and Rush are Full)all enemies will turn into 1-Ups

old. old since MM5.

[Rad Lionheart]

Yeah, it's the same function as in MM5, no big secret there.