I have been playing the orginal Mega Man for the NES on my PC. The emulator I am using is called VirtualNES. I have been playing Mega Man among other games and I have a question.
On the original NES console, while playing Mega Man 1, did the select button pause the game? The reason why I am asking is because every walkthrough I have found on the internet says I have to either use the Cutblade or the Electric beam, shoot the Rock Man, Cyclops, Yellow Bastard, whatever it is, in the eye and then press select. I tried this for hours last night. When I hit select it pauses the game, is that what it suppost to do, or is there a problem with my emulator?
I hate that fucking thing.
jackfrost
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Posted:
May 22 2009 08:51 am
On an actual NES if you repeatedly and quickly pause/unpause the game as soon as the elec beam makes contact you will do multiple hits. I have never tried it on an emulator, but I would assume it should still work.
phantasmzombie
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Posted:
May 22 2009 08:54 am
Okay, then I guess I just need to keep trying and time it just right. Thank you.
phantasmzombie
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Posted:
May 22 2009 09:27 am
I am doing something wrong. My thumbs are some strange purple color now. I even searched you tube and couldn't find anyone with a video of them beating this thing. Does anyone know where I can find one?
Syd Lexia
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Posted:
May 22 2009 09:50 am
You could always... not cheat?
Or cheat without it. Fire the Elec Beam at his eye. If you hit him, save your progress. If you miss, reload.
I didn't think trying to find a video of it would be considered cheating. lol
GPFontaine
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Posted:
May 22 2009 10:07 am
I'm sure that Not Sure could demonstrate this.
phantasmzombie
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Posted:
May 22 2009 10:13 am
After atleast 300 attempts,,,
I am very pleased with myself.
Andrew Man
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Posted:
May 22 2009 10:22 am
Syd Lexia wrote:
You could always... not cheat?
Or cheat without it. Fire the Elec Beam at his eye. If you hit him, save your progress. If you miss, reload.
Haha, so many times have I been there, instantly save stating after 1 hit of damage, and then reloading if I'm hit. Its gets pretty frantic on my keyboard during these processes, lots of times I will get hit or die and then accidentally hit "save" rather than "load" and it just fucking kills me.
Watching a video isn't cheating, what you were trying to do in the first place is cheating. The thing where you press Select to make the Elec Beam hit multiple times is a glitch, not a game feature, and using it is cheating.
Haha, so many times have I been there, instantly save stating after 1 hit of damage, and then reloading if I'm hit. Its gets pretty frantic on my keyboard during these processes, lots of times I will get hit or die and then accidentally hit "save" rather than "load" and it just fucking kills me.
So you used to keyboard to do this? I can't imagine how hard that would be! I just took my PS3 controller, plugged into my USB port and found a driver for it on the internet.
Syd Lexia
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May 22 2009 10:43 am
I can't imagine using anything other than the keyboard for NES games. There's only a D-Pad and four buttons, and most games only really use two. You set it up like this:
Directional arrows = D-Pad
Z = Select
X = Start
CTRL = B
ALT = A
Simple and easy. And it's not like any NES games require Ryu Fireballs or Dragon Punches. For anything else though, you really need a controller of some sort.
I don't see how doing the saving and reloading trick is any less cheating that using the select glitch, since in the NES game you didn't have the option to instantly save and reload if you were hit, however the select glitch has always been there.
Syd Lexia
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May 22 2009 10:56 am
Oh, I'm not saying it's not cheating. I'm just saying that if you're going to cheat anyway, this option might work out better for you.
Maybe I will try to fight him for real one day, and dodge all of his rocks , but for right now I am just going to bask in the glory of beating him with the select glitch, since it took me hours.
Wow. Amazing. When I play it on Virtual NES, whenever I jump into the air I emit the electric beam, so something must be wrong with the way I configured my controller or something.
Not Sure
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Posted:
May 22 2009 01:40 pm
After all these years of using this method, I stumbled across another video which shows a much easier way to avoid the 2 successive low attacks. You can clear both of them in one jump very easily.
And I was just thinking, "Let's see if I can find a reason to hate Not Sure today". Thanks. That did it.
The thing about this bastard is that he shouldn't be as hard as he is.. He has a set pattern and everyone knows what to do with him. But for some reason dodging him is really tough. And it takes a minute and a half. I say why not cheat?
And while the Demon gets the reputation, it's the NEXT boss (the clone) that's the real pain in this game. I can -not- beat him without the select trick.
Wow. Amazing. When I play it on Virtual NES, whenever I jump into the air I emit the electric beam, so something must be wrong with the way I configured my controller or something.
