I want a foreign cellphone

Random thought: It’s a shame that Virtual Console re-releases of games don’t include some of the unique additions that their cellphone counterparts do. I know they’re supposed to be “unchanged” emulated versions or whatever, but I mean, how cool is stuff like that? Maybe they should add some cellphone virtual console support.

I’m more for “a few cool additions” than “exactly the same.” Say what you want about Operate Shooting Star, but I’ll take playing it over the original Rockman EXE 1 any day.

Free Caskett Friday

Your free pic this week is from Tips & Tricks magazine’s May 1998 issue.

What big eyes she has! They remind me a bit of Legends 3‘s style. This early illustration of Roll has most of the finer points down, but is still missing some little details, like on the belt and the shoes. The magazine reversed the image, which is why her coat buttons are on the opposite side. I suppose I could have reversed it back to normal… but I didn’t. \_[O . O]_/ Enjoy!

Poll Results Are In

And the top three winners comprising over two thirds of the vote are: Legends, X, and Classic. Basically the three Mega Man series that already make up most of the Lav’s posts. Since Legends is the big winner, and since the Legends 3 Prototype Version is still coming up sometime in June, you can expect a lot of Legends on the horizon.

And maybe some of the others too, depending on how busy this month is. We’ll try to have something for everyone. The rest of the results: Zero, ZX, EXE, and bringing up the rear, Mega Man Star Force.


Sorry, Geo.

Thanks to everyone who voted!

Comic Cameos Continued

We’ve covered how Hideki Ishikawa’s original character W. Waltz has left her mark in various works, but what about some of the other characters?

The politician/police chief character also made his own comic cameo in Hitoshi Ariga’s Rockman Megamix. Those of you who picked up Udon’s Mega Man Megamix 1 release might have noticed these panels from the first story, “The Birth of Mega Man.”

This important man personally contacts Dr. Light via videophone to inform him of the robot situation and to appeal for help. In the panel below, you can see his female aide also makes an appearance in the background behind him.

I have a feeling this may not be the last we see of them, either.

The “Death” and Return of Zero (X1-X2)

Today, we’ve got another story digest for you! This time from the Rockman X Ultra Encyclopedia, the sequel volume to the Rockman & Rockman X Big Encyclopedia of Secrets, where we pulled yesterday’s Rockman X Confidential Chronicles from.

It roughly picks up where that one left off, and also features a rarely seen uncolored art piece of Zero in his X1 form (that is unfortunately obscured by text and other clip art). Translation ahead!

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