Just started playing this. More games need to start with the "boy wakes up in the morning" trope, it's kino.

mayl soles on my face

I forgot what the old PETs looked like

>>715497283
Is that really necessary??

>>715497184 (OP)
Who gives a shit about that. The battles are really fun.

>>715498356
:(

>>715497184 (OP)
surely with the great reception the legacy collection has, capcom will revive the series

>>715497184 (OP)
Isn't this pretty common for JRPGs?

>>715498551
Not anymore

WHAT

>>715497184 (OP)
Genuinely just started or just wanted a BN thread?

>>715499318
Yes

>>715498809
no doubt dex was balls deep in mayl before lan even sniffed her panties

Mega Man Battle Network is part of a genre I can only charitably describe as kid slop. There was a lot of kid slop in the 2000s.

>>715500201
You assholes need to stop with this shit

Is there a way to organize my chips? This is getting untenable very quickly

>>715500767
press start

>>715500786
Oh sweet thanks

>>715500767
I always forget how basic the old chip designs were in BN1 and 2.

>>715497184 (OP)
is that a megaman legends 2 poster on the wall

>>715501423
Yes, BN development had people that worked on Legends so there are bunch of references from it.

Norwood

>>715497184 (OP)
always liked how "episodic" MotW each chapter felt, made it just as much anime as the actual anime adaptation. My mother randomly got me 3 when I was around 10-12, despite me not being that into Megaman or rpgs at the time

>>715497184 (OP)
>Just started playing this.
Stop right now and switch to Operate Shooting Star. You are wasting your time playing the GBA version when the definitive version has existed for quite a while.

Choose your PET

>>715502156
Even though BN4 was a shit pile, it's PET is the definitive one for me

>>715502156
*crack open a can of P.E.T.*
Yep its netbattling time.

>>715502156
3 has the most iconic one but 4 and 5 are by far the best iterations personally.

>>715502141
Do I have to?

>>715502357
Ignore him, he's about to cry about "muh impossible to navigate internet!" when early 2000's kids could navigate it just fine without a map.

>>715502357
You're barely into the start of the game and it backports many mechanics from future games into BN1. You lose maybe like 20 minutes doing so and gain an extra boss fight, multiple new chips, playable Geo (Who breaks the game so don't use him), an entire extra story section for the crossover, and a bunch of quality of life changes.

>>715502586
Nope. The map helps but the numerous amounts of quality of life improvements OSS brings to the table makes the GBA version a waste of your time. There is no value in it at this point outside of nostalgia. OSS exists.
https://www.therockmanexezone.com/wiki/Changes_in_Rockman_EXE_Operate_Shooting_Star

;_;

>>715497184 (OP)
god classic bn had so much charm to it, what happened?

>>715502695
I like to see how game series progress and improve with each successive game. I'm reminded of when /v/ recommended that I start the Yakuza series with Yakuza 0, which was a bad recommendation. I don't think it's worth it to waste the near 2 hours I've already put into this version, just for some minor extras. Plus, and this is just subjective, but the character portraits look more soulful in this version to me.

Best way to play these?

>>715502156
4 > 3 > 1&2 >> 5 > 6

>>715503195
midway through they had to grind hard to conserve cartridge space. they redrew sprites in 4, and again in 6 (4/5 to 6 leap wasn't as drastic as 1/2/3 to 4 though)

>>715503346
but even the writing took a nose dive

>>715503418
ehhh i won't argue either way on that one

>>715503195
Just the right amount of goofiness and sincerity. Some of the scenarios are so dumb and yet they fit perfectly in the setting they made. Also the BBS's are hilarious and some of them sound like they were ripped from any video game message board

>>715499420
major scandal with mayor dex

>>715503253
The thing is this isn't like playing 0 because every mechanic from OSS is found in BN2 onward anyway, it just put it in line with BN2 onward. BN1 has a bunch of issues with alphabet soups, not being able to tell how much damage you did in time stop, not having wildcard chips which further adds to the alphabet soup problem, fairly high encounter rates, the inability to run without a chip dedicated solely to running, the high busting requirements just to get chips, and more. It even buffs the major postgame boss.

You're genuinely doing a disservice to yourself by playing GBA over OSS.

>>715503303
Go back in time to 2003 and play them on a GBA while watching the series on KidsWB. Alternatively you can just emulate. I was gonna say the Legacy Collection since it's at least possible to play and trade with other people, even if not likely, but everyone hates the filters so there's that

>>715503253
yeah you're perfectly fine just playing the gba version of 1. it might be a bit simple if you're used to the other games, but if it's your first game and you could get down with yakuza 1 (assuming you played that), bn1 really isn't that rough
>>715503303
yarrrr
the legacy collection's perfectly fine if you don't want to pirate though; it cleanly integrates the patch card content from 4-6 and even had the postgame content that was gutted from the original english release of 6

>>715503602
only trannies play remakes as stand-ins for the first playthrough

>>715498356
why in the everloving fuck has nobody recreated BN's battle style in indie games or whatever?

>>715503771
Retard

it's still shocking to look back on all the shit CoA cut back in the day. bn6 straight up had a postgame chapter removed. and this habit persisted through megaman star force 3

>>715503954
One step from Eden Mr developer

>>715503771
you lose pretty much nothing by playing oss over gba

>>715504049
to be fair for the star force games, the peripherals like the wave scanner never left japan and they never cut actual post game content

>>715503984
Remakes and even late ports are derivative. With that said, I still recommend the legacy collection version of BN1 over the DS game with a "spoiler-y" intro and fanfic crossover chapter you can't opt out of, retard.

>>715497184 (OP)
He was dreaming about fuckin maylu

I had an idea a few days ago that seemed pretty good.
MMBN + Monster Rancher
You mix the navis for more unique builds and participate in some kind of net battler competition.

>>715498063
Yep.

>>715502695
Why do kiddies always refer to the removal of challenge as "quality of life"?

>>715503303
OSS for BN1. It's a straight upgrade in every single way to BN1.

BN2 through 5 have relocalization patches to put them more in line with the JP versions. The downside is you can't take advantage of anything the Wii U VC roms or LC give you.
>If you play with the Wii U VC roms you can instantly unlock the multiplayer-exclusive, e-Reader-exclusive, or Chip Gate-exclusive content but they're using the original translation.
>You can also play the Legacy Collection as that implements the same things the Wii U VC roms do but in a more natural way, but it forces you into the way they scaled it and with worse text unless you mod it on PC. These also only use the original translation and as far as I've seen the rerelocalization hasn't been ported to it yet.
5 DS is the best version of 5 due to the added content, bug fixes, and gameplay changes added into it.

BN6's best version is the translation patch of it due to just how much content was removed in the western versions.
>Legacy Collection is your second best option due to it bringing it all back.

Battle Chip Challenge is best played on GBA. You can use the Chip Control Mod if you want but it's intended to be played with randomness. Depends if you hate it or not. This is also on the Wonderswan but has no translation patch on that end.
4.5, Network Transmission, and WS all only have one version.

Best way to play Star Force 1 and 2 is with the DX and "Not So DX" romhacks respectively. There's virtually no differences between the versions outside of the form and giga cards which DX provides you with whenever you want in addition to restoring the cut content like the Lunar Knights crossover in SF1. SF3 is fine on its own.

>>715504223
By your logic Yakuza 1&2 HD shouldn't be played over PS2 1 and 2 because it's a late port despite them being objectively superior in every way to the PS2 versions.

>>715504434
my mental map gets wiped when random encounters start and I don't have graph paper or pencils around anymore

I like the aesthetic of this game. In the early 2000s people had such optimistic and life-affirming ideas of what an internet connected world would be like. They had no idea about the dystopian big tech serfdom hellscape the world would soon become.

>>715504434
Why do people act disingenuously and zero in on a handful of changes that were constantly complained back in the day to avoid the cornucopia of changes for the better in terms of gameplay including buffs to certain enemies?

>>715503195
a lack of interesting/engaging scenarios is a big one for me. picrel's an obvious example, but the plane arc for bn2 in general was great, giving you a mountain of constantly changing npc dialogue and even occasionally rewarding you with a chip or two if you really go out of your way to chat everyone up. bn2+3 had most of them, but i still find a few of the scenarios in bn1 to be fairly memorable
consequently, i can't really name off a scenario from bn4-6 that really stuck with me (for a good reason, shit like toyrobo comp is certainly seared into my mind though). there's more i could list off (graphics, story tone), but i haven't thought about them well enough to eloquently type them out

>>715504604
I mean our judicial system isn't handled by a giant tree. So there's that.

>>715504703
but maybe it should be

was this scene really necessary?

>>715504604
>They had no idea about the dystopian big tech serfdom hellscape the world would soon become.
I mean, they did, I just don't think they expected a lot of it to actually come to fruition. What do you think the Mr. Match stuff was about if not showing how Smart Homes and The Internet of Things are a really stupid idea?

>>715504139
not the same

>>715503954
Some have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XANMjwy-WKs

>>715504789
>tfw Dr. Regal attempts to corrupt humanity with evil using SoulNet IRL but nothing happens when he turns it on

>>715503954
shanghai exe

>>715504640
every change I see in there looks like shit.
especially the chip changes.
it looks like a bunch of souless bullshit for zoomers crying about the smallest of mechanics and who can't stand anything challenging.
>NOOOOO THE ENEMIES HIT ME TOO HARD NERF THEM ALL
what a fucking bitch

i have my darkaura on. your shitposts can never hope to reach me

>>715504604
>people had such optimistic and life-affirming ideas of what an internet connected world would be like.
The first thing that happens in this series is terrorists planting a bomb in your oven. Then they invade your school and try to brainwash kids to become terrorists. Also all of the cops are useless.
I get what you're saying, but shoot me in the head before sending me to the BN universe. Or really any Megaman universe.

Where can I get a decent NON bitch made OSS version?
Like, keep a few of the the quality of life changes but strip out the vast majority of their "improvements" so it isn't just making everything easier for no reason

>>715505036
>NOOOOO THE ENEMIES HIT ME TOO HARD NERF THEM ALL
If you actually read anything the three enemies they nerfed were because the armor system has been removed entirely because of Geo's existence and in return buffed Bass because he was too easy. Anubis was "nerfed" to put him in line with his own chip because doing the opposite (Buffing the chip) would make an already broken chip even more broken for the low HP values most enemies had. They even outright nerf you by preventing you from Navi stacking someone like Roll x5.

>>715505072

>>715505332
>blah blah blah blah blah blah
nigger you took a massive list of enemies and cut their damage in half.
shut the fuck up.
you took sharkmans attack and made it slower as well.
shuuuuut the fuck up, bitch boy.

>>715505336
ACK

>>715505406
>you took a massive list of enemies and cut their damage in half.
>PharaohMan
>IceMan
>Swordy3
>SharmMan
>"Massive list of enemies"
You also, again, missed "to account for the removal of the armor system" i.e. you take more damage in general.

>>715505506
nigger.
read you own bullshit.

>>715505529
Fair enough, and you're still ignoring the "to account for the removal of the armor system" point. The damage values have changed to account for you not having something that negates damage anymore.

>>715505618
there was no reason to fucking remove it.
it was fine how it was.
some fucking nigger decided to meddle with shit and was a bitch that wanted to 100% things
he removed the armor to have another excuse to 100% it, then he reduced the random encounters at all.

>>715505789
>there was no reason to fucking remove it.
It straight up states it's because they added Geo in.
>Armor system is removed in place of the ability to switch MegaMan. Because of this, library completion is required to obtain Lv.100.

>>715505883
I am not hearing a reason to remove it.
All I hear is
>I wanted to meddle with it and add this random shit from a different megaman game lol

>>715497184 (OP)
Is there any app that could make phones into PETs and NAVIs real now that AI is a widespread thing

>>715506784
I want a shota liviing in my phone NOW. This is the future I EARNED.

>>715506784
>now that AI is a widespread thing
AI hallucinates, provides false information, and has a limit on how much data it is able to record. That one guy who married a chatbot is sort of the example here of where we're at with these things. We are not at the point where Net Navis exist, and even if they did they would be equivalent to Alexa or Cortana in terms of usage. Are you someone who is a proponent of The Internet of Things? Do you like your privacy or are you willing to give up tons of personal data and conversations? Because the reality of a Net Navi is an Alexa or Cortana that is constantly phoning home recording you to iterate on itself.

Reminder we will NEVER EVER get a game about the Alpha Revolt.
Just like we'll never get a game about the Elf Wars or Castlevania 1999. It would never live up to the hype.

>>715507174
considering how they actively ignore the events of bn3 afterwards i'm not surprised or disappointed.

>>715507174
at least you can still understand the stories AoS/BN3 without experiencing those key events. mmz has a chronic problem of key plot details being locked behind supplementary material, and the elf wars is a shining example of that. 3 gives you a broad strokes version of it and nothing else

>>715502156
5>4>3>6>1/2

>>715502790
Still baffles me that devs decided to scrap NetNavis in such a way, like I'm pretty sure Wizards should have been on the floor even during SF1 development. They're the next evolution of Net Navis, something SF3 seems to ignore despite the obvious.

>>715507402
The fact that Mr Match both wasn't brain dead or arrested on sight in 4 shows the writers didn't care.

>>715507545
Could be worse where they can't decide what happened.
>Copy X's guardians died in the Zero Explosion
>No, they actually survived and were helping humans in areas away from the 4th game
>No they actually did die in the Zero Explosion and became elves like X

>>715507402
>Mamoru goes through a whole character arc of finding the strength to live thanks to Lan
>Turns out he's the admin to the Undernet and the Operator of the Undernet's King
>the fact that he continues to reign over a hierarchy of criminals isn't even addressed
>Mamoru, Serenade.EXE, and his rivalry with Bass disappears into a puff of smoke after 3

I'd cream her land alright

>>715508161
Speaking of the Guardians, was there anything stating that they, along with X and Zero, actually lived on in the Biometals, or were they just implanted with the memories of those characters? I know Model W is straight up Weil's soul fused with parts of Ragnarock.

>>715502156
4 because I had the toy as a kid

>>715508391
>No massive bags under her eyes

>>715508085
he had a good lawyer

>>715508305
He was going to be in 6 but the devs ran out of cartridge space. It still hurts

>>715508391
Careful anon, she's packing a big RWB

>>715508432
Also, I'd like to have Model C.

>>715503303
Legacy collection, ignore the shitters. If you're REALLY autistic you can use MGBA to give yourself the patch cards on the original roms and play on original hardware.

Obligatory Crashman EXE comment.

I'm jackin in rn

I miss the MMBN Collection threads...

>>715504761
The day I stumbled upon that doujin where Mayl fucks Lan's dad when I was 12 changed me forever.

>>715509527
Chrono X never ever

>>715510367
Why said it has to be a fangame, faggot?

>>715510251
I miss the animu threads.

heh

>>715502156
5 and 6 look like the only ones that would actually fit in your pocket comfortably.
3 looks the most ergonomic.
4 would be the best if it didn't have that dumb handguad(?) around the fingers there. I'd undo the screws on that and remove it if possible.

>>715506784
You can make one from the API, Gemini would be the best since it has a token window of 1-2 million (1.4 million word conversation)

>>715510913
this awakened my femdom fetish

What possesses someone to behave like this?

>>715511749
Based. I fucking love people that obsess over their childhood games and provide me with content to this day.

>>715511842
Same. I work from home on 4/5 days a week and always have vids like this running on my 2nd monitor.

>>715497184 (OP)
>Battle Network 1
I'm sorry to hear that, anon.

>>715504604
bro, the battle network world itself is a dystopian tech hellscape.

>>715502156
4 is the best and 1/2 is the worst.

>>715514370
No because people are in charge and have agency. Literal children can hack their hard and software and have freedom with their technology. It's presented as a utopia where tech enriches their lives, generally speaking.
The tech isn't opressing them.

>>715504761
wtf is this real?

>>715497283
Fpbp

>>715515703
this

>>715497184 (OP)
wake up in the morning and start your adventure ahh game lmaooo

Need a Pandora exe

>>715507174
>>715507402
>>715508305
>>715508719
thats enough plot for an alternative timeline game don't you think ? so new game when ?

>>715502156
3 is the best. Improves upon the original design, widescreen, has everything you need. Fags that like 4-6 talk about ergonomics and shit but forget instances of needing to throw it at people to knock their asses out cold. Those flimsy things look gay and will explode if you do that.

>>715503954
People have but they always fail to wrap it in a competent RPG. The collectible aspect is what makes the variety of chips interesting.

MMBN in The Sopranos
https://youtu.be/0VLj9ZXAJxA?si=kM7dogwSDln-wjMA&t=1744

Reminder that Mayl got betrothed to Lan, had his dick in her, took his cum, and bore his child.

You did NONE OF THAT.

>>715525787
Baste