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12/31/2019
- October 30, 2025 - Sonic Crossover
- A Mario Kart-style Sonic game of course needs cameo appearances from Battle & Chase! As its name implies, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds includes various characters from other games, and Battle & Chase especially was a nice fit since it already has the car designs. As of the time that I write this, Mega Man and Proto Man are slated to be part of the game’s Season Pass, but probably they will be available in other ways as well in the future.
- January 7, 2025 - The Rock Shows?
- So someone alerted me that Capcom of Japan’s Twitter/X account has announced that the Mega Shows are going to be subtitled and released in Japan. Are they in for a trip. I honestly have no idea what they are going to think of them—goofy, fun, crazy? Probably the biggest obstacle to overcome will be the art style, since it’s such a departure from the games and all of the other anime that was ever produced (with the exception of Captain N...). But once you get past that, some of the plots are pretty fun (and others are atrocious, but I’m pretending those episodes don’t exist).
- September 11, 2024 - Secret Level
- I’m not going to be able to watch this (at least not immediately), but Secret Level seems to be a TV series for Amazon’s Prime Video that involves someone (or multiple people?) winding up inside video games? Kind of like a photo-realistic 3D-animated version of Captain N, with 100% more blood, guts, and gore. It looks a little campy (what with the whole “you are the chosen” trope), but could be fun. Of course, the reason why I’m even mentioning it at all is because Mega Man (evidently classic series) is one of the numerous video games involved. Based on the previews, I’m guessing they are going to have to stretch out his proportions to make him fit in with the human characters, but, on the flip side, it does look as though they may stick more to his general game design than, say, the Mega Shows (although admittedly that body shape would fit in better). We’ll know more soon since it releases at the end of this year.
- July 20, 2024 - Mega Man X Fireball
- New information for keeping the fireball when loading a password has been added to the Mega Man X1 page. Lazy people like me can start the game with the fireball straight off and avoid having to gather 1-Ups and go through Armored Armadillo’s stage five times every time!
- July 1, 2024 - Mega Man X DiVE
- So to those of you who play Mega Man X DiVE—has there been an official in-game announcement yet that the game is shutting down? Evidently the servers will close down on July 30th. But at least the good news is there’s an Offline version you can fall back on! (I wish that was true of other online games...)
- June 11, 2024 - Mega Man Switch
- I’m a few days late on this, but if you have a Switch, Nintendo has added all five of the original series Game Boy titles to their online library lineup. You can’t buy them and own them outright, but you can play them as long as you have a subscription. One reader reports that the emulator even emulates the slowdown! I’m not quite sure that this is an improvement. Makes you wonder if it’s more along the lines that it would take too many programming resources to eliminate the slowdown so they just left it as-is. Though what would a classic Mega Man game be without the flickering of the sprites when you fire off a fully-charged Mega Buster blast at that cluster of enemies?
- May 11, 2024 - Song of the Whenever
- So I finally dug out an older Game Boy system (I had like three to choose from...) and recorded some music from Mega Man II. You can see my commentary on this month’s Song of the Whenever!
- April 5, 2024 - Mega Man in Exoprimal
- I don’t personally play Exoprimal, so I don’t have much to contribute here, but for what it’s worth, Capcom is adding a Mega Man cameo to the game in their Title Update 4. It involves a boss fight against the Yellow Devil and some cosmetics.
- March 28, 2024 - Song of the Whenever
- A visitor requested the stage select music from Mega Man II (GB) which I don’t seem to have readily available. (I pretty much didn’t record any of the music from that game, from the looks of things.) Since reaching the stage select is quick and easy, recording that tune ordinarily wouldn’t be a problem. I have the game. I have a system that can play the game. But turns out said system does not have a headphone port. I don’t think you want me doing the old-school thing of holding a microphone up to the speakers.
So just to give me an excuse to update the Song of the Whenever, here’s the stage select music from Mega Man III instead! (In the meantime, I may go see if I can dig up an older system that can play the game and has a headphone port. Stay tuned!)
- February 13, 2024 - Coffee
- If you’ve enjoyed MMHP over the years and would like a way to show your appreciation, I’ve added a button to the sidebar to buy me a coffee (or hot chocolate, or Tang, or E-Tanks...). I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has shared with me how much you have enjoyed this site! I do hope to keep it up as long as possible, even if not updated frequently.
