Posted by Ness

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Hi, I'm new to this forum

I just released a Mega Man V hack called Second Strike

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3343/

It intends to offer classic style Mega Man gameplay by drawing into what I consider to be MM5's untapped potential.

Gameplay changes:

a) Stages:
- All new stage layouts.
4 of them include MM6 style forking paths (Stone Man, Charge Man, Wily Fortress 1 and 2).

b) Enemies:
- Altered bosses behaviour. All of them, at varying degrees.
- A few other enemies also got their behaviour slightly altered.

c) Weapons:
Altered weapon behaviour for:
- Power Stone
- Napalm Bomb
- Crystal Eye, which was also renamed to Crystal Orb.

d) Other:
- The hit detection of the charge shot was slightly reduced, and its art changed accordingly.
- Reduced invicibily frame time of bosses after they get hit.
Both of these changes aim at making the regular buster shot a more viable solution in combat.
- Reduced item drop rate of enemies, making it more on par with previous MM games.
- Weaknesses of bosses were changed.
- Rush Jet and Super Arrow are acquired in different stages. Passwords were changed accordingly.


Credits:
- Steambull: Beta testing, ideas
- Anons of /vr/: Hacking help

Built using:
- The "rock5_bossroomjump" patch by Rock5easily
- MM5 hex editing documentation by Rock5easily
- MegaFLE X by Matrixz and Kuja Killer
- FCEU X emulator

Special thanks to Matrixz, Kuja Killer and Rock5easily.

Feedback always welcome.

Enjoy!

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