You did beat it without cheating, right?

>>11846067 (OP)
Is it cheating to look up a preferred boss order online

>>11846067 (OP)
Yes, who do you think I am?

>>11846067 (OP)
Yes, and it's not even hard. The pattern is the same every time, so just count the moving parts until you have to jump over the low flying ones. It's much easier than, say, Dracula in CastleVania 1, which is also a slow and tedious fight that requires a ton of patience.

>>11846067 (OP)
I watched a video of someone who didn't cheat which might be harder than beating it yourself without cheating.

>>11846071
I didn't even think of that, I just went clockwise. I guess in retrospect doing electro man before ice man would've made things a lot easier. But I was referring to the pause exploit.
>>11846076
Dracula is easy if you're willing to grind.

>>11846083
>Boss becomes easy if you practice hard
Enlightening

>>11846083
The trick to Dracula (at least his first form, the second form is easy) is to always keep moving. He does that bullshit move where he spawns right on top of you sometimes, and if you're standing still then you probably won't have enough time to avoid the hit.

>>11846067 (OP)
Yes. Once you learn the pattern it's a fun boss from what I remember.

>>11846089
No, I meant you can grind the drops by going up and down the stairs. That's the classic Castlevania strat. With a fully upgraded cross and enough ammo Dracula is really easy.

>>11846067 (OP)
Yeah, it's not hard at all. Dodging his pattern is like second nature at this point.
I don't understand why people make such a big deal out of this when RGN shitfest bosses like Quick Man are a hundred times harder.

>>11846067 (OP)
Played all the Mega Man games back to back on the PS2

Fuck no I cheated. This is without question the hardest Mega Man boss besides Wily in 7 if you don't know the weakness.

>>11846067 (OP)
Yes.
Using unlockable weapons counts as cheating, BTW.

>>11846071
>Is it cheating to look up a preferred boss order online
Yes, obviously.

>>11846067 (OP)
Hell no, also, are glitch exploits even cheating?
For me cheating is looking shit up or gamegenie i guess i cheated then, cause i looked up how to do the thunder thing

>>11846067 (OP)
Sure didn't.
Sure don't care.

>>11846448
>are glitch exploits even cheating?
Yes.

Inventory/pause screen exploits are some the gayest "strategy" in video game history and Resident Evil speedruns are ruined because of it

>>11846067 (OP)
Hey, I just used my ability to stop time! Totally legit, guys.

It's really amazing how jank early Capcom NES games were (and I'm not just talking about the outsourced Micronics crap). But they kept at it and ended up one of the best devs on the system.

I've never even played this shit game

>>11846076
It's literally just a skill check to see if you figured out that holding down the jump button gives you higher jumps.

>>11846124
You would have more than enough ammo just by walking up the stairs once. Why would you need to grind?

>>11846605
To get the III upgrade and a ton of hearts so you can just spam crosses until you win.

I picked Megaman 2 and 3 on 3ds cause they were some of my favorite games as a kid cause I could regularly beat them, I was getting trashed. And I came to the unfortunate conclusion that as a kid I had just memorized everything about those games and could beat them on muscle memory.

I did once. Then I cheated the rest of the times I faced him just because it's not a fun fight.

>>11846067 (OP)
I did. It's not even that hard, just tedius and mindnumbing. I'd rather just do the exploit so I don't have to sit around all day.

>>11846948
ikr? that 90 second fight is too much for my ADD to handle

>>11846067 (OP)
Obviously, all you do is dodge tiles and hit an eye.

>>11846071
Yes. If you didn't discover the information yourself then you cheated.

>>11847205
I had to figure out all the boss patterns again by myself thanks to the boss rush at the end. Guts Man couldn't stand a chance against my Hyper Bombs.

I feel like I've seen this thread before.

>>11847262
>announcing a sage
See ya kid

>>11846067 (OP)
I don't remember it being super hard if you use his weakness, but I've never done it buster-only.

>>11847262
>>11847401

>>11846067 (OP)
Yes I have but what difference does it make? In what way does legitimately beating mega man 1 for the nes improve my quality of life? Nothing matters

>>11846067 (OP)
it took me a few tries but it wasn't that hard. just learning a pattern. i had more trouble with the copy robot.

>>11848564
Wow, you must be fun at parties

>>11848571
I found out a way to cheese the copy boss. Only use your default blaster. Every time you shoot, the copy jumps. I've used that to my advantage.

This thread inspired me to run through the game again. It's definitely way harder without save states (a lot more run-backs), and I've no idea how it would be possible without exploiting the bosses weaknesses. Especially Fire Man, it seems impossible to dodge his attacks, and Electro Man can wipe out your HP with three hits???

The Yellow Devil is my favourite thing in the game. Beating it with the buster is totally doable, you just have to master the jumping and the pattern, and then it feels great when you can beat it and avoid it consistently.

>>11848571
Just now I found that by just standing still and mashing A with the buster for the entire fight pretty much worked and the copy shoots over you... like >>11848950 said

>>11849343
>Especially Fire Man, it seems impossible to dodge his attacks, and Electro Man can wipe out your HP with three hits???
https://youtu.be/uoqJkAtF-Pw?

>>11849410
lol, ok maybe Fire Man is easier to dodge than I thought. Electro man's dmg is still insane though

>>11846067 (OP)
Yeah I have. First time I cheated, then I ran through the game to beat it without the pause glitch and I made it through here. It's such a long endurance test. I actually couldn't finish my no pause glitch because Fire Man is baloney and I couldn't get through the boss refights with enough health to even have a chance against Wily. So as far as I'm concerned Yellow Devil is not the hardest thing in the game, Fire Man is.

>>11847205
I don't have that kind of time

>>11847205
Are you saying that, once you learn the information, it becomes impossible to not cheat anymore? That's dumb.
We had magazines and strategy guides and shit back in the day. Having the Internet isn't cheating.

>>11846067 (OP)
Yes, but never replayed the game. It's 4/10 at best.

Not at first and I wear that scar on my soul forever

>>11849505
>Are you saying that, once you learn the information, it becomes impossible to not cheat anymore?
NTA, but yes. Once you have that information in your head you can never unlearn it, you can never go back and learn it for yourself, and every experience you have with the game will be tainted by this outside knowledge forever.

>>11849505
Just apply the logic to the ultimate example which is puzzle games. If you cheated once to look up a solution you can never uncheat.

>>11850190
Capcom cheated first by not putting the levels in order for the sake of increasing the difficulty. Looking up the boss order is unironically making the game fair

>>11850204
>I have to cheat to make the game fair!
Whatever helps you sleep at night. The base difficulty of the game is a buster-only run, figuring out the boss weaknesses is a bonus trick for making the rematches and subsequent replays easier. If you look up the boss order you're cheating yourself to a lower difficulty playthrough.