Can You Beat Mega Man Battle Network 3 With Only The Mega Buster?

[@ParadigmZwei]

It's very special getting to watch a brand new channel grow like this. You're improving leaps and bounds very quickly, and I look forward to what else you put out in the future. Keep up the good work! 👌

[@creationcorporation6267]

Really appreciate the support - it makes the long hours editing feel worth it!

[@omegaderose4342]

@@creationcorporation6267 I LOVED THIS GAME SO HAPPY BATTLE NETWORK GETS A LEGACY COLLECTION FOR SWITCH; AND PLAYSATTION; MY FAV WAS TEAM COLONEL

[@raze2012_]

Leaving this here for posterity that CC had 1650 subs when this video got posted. As of this post (11 days later), CC has 2660 subs. Definitely gonna blow up lol.

[@HI-kb2cg]

@@creationcorporation6267 mystery diamond is cool use it

[@swampert564]

There is presumably an open chair in the final room with Alpha because Wily wasn't always planning on deleting Beastman's operator. It seems like a silly and lucky moment but its actually pretty justified compared to most of the things that happen in this series all things considered.

[@vanesslifeygo]

swampert is indeed a good starter your name is good

[@swampert564]

@@vanesslifeygo Thanks, I agree. I wish they would have given it the same amount of focus as Blaziken inexplicably got.

[@creationcorporation6267]

That's right! I figured this out at the end when I was editing, but was too lazy to take it out and replace it 😅

[@maskguyfromsailormoon]

@@swampert564plenty explicable: fire types sell the best

[@Keric22]

Aw ye, my favorite Battle Network game. As to the title, yes! Surprisingly enough it *IS* possible to beat the game with only the Mega Buster. I've managed it a few times myself, many moons and years ago. It ain't exactly easy though, and you certainly can't get through (most of) the SecretNet with Buster Only. You could say that "No, you can't beat MMBN3 with only the Mega Buster," because you DO have to: A) Get a plethora of Aqua and Fire-type chips later on for when Mr. Match makes a re-appearance, and during the PlantMan.EXE fiasco over in the hospital, as well as that infamous, stupid IceBall M chip for the sick kid. But you aren't really USING them, so you could argue against that as well. The Overlay is looking great! My only complaint (still) is that you're playing with a filter. It makes everything look like it's smudged around with some kind of eraser.

[@creationcorporation6267]

Thanks for the feedback! Agreed on the point about using chips for the EnergyChange sequences for Plantman and Flameman, which I also touched on in the video. About the filtering, I'll be releasing a shorter video focusing on the Omega battles and it'll be without the filter, and if the feedback is positive then I'll keep going without the filters moving forward!

[@thericeknight]

Wonder how you would beat Bass tho. If I remember it right, you need a 100 damage to break his barrier

[@thericeknight]

@ZachieBlade lol I commented before I reached that part of the vid

[@Thornbloom]

Weakest/most annoying panic music though.

[@thericeknight]

@@Thornbloom lol I'll agree on that. Really annoying

[@dxperty]

The new overlay is pretty nice and the music choice is absolutely fantastic, my only issue is that the game filter makes the gameplay looks kinda weird though maybe it's just me. I had a really hard time the fist time fighting Alpha that I had to grind hard for it so I'm actually surprised that it's possible without any chips. One of my favorite thing about 3 is that it's definitely more challenging than the past entries and they step up the storytelling in this game. Great job on this video, can't wait for the upcoming White version run and MMBN4 run!!

[@thegoodoldays911]

Yeah I like the sprites looking like sprites myself.

[@creationcorporation6267]

Thanks for the feedback! I'll be taking off the filter for the upcoming videos and seeing how people feel about it. I really appreciate the support!

[@Jon-id7ki]

With your overlay... you've put so much more effort into this than most do and I love/appreciate it so much. You deserve way more subs

[@creationcorporation6267]

Really appreciate the love!

[@brianli6562]

Ok new comment after finishing the video. there is actually things that can be done to make this run less hard and also doable without chips regarding Bass. Firstly you need to have the navicust part Setgreen to make the battle start with grass. With 2 or 3 weapon lvl +1s you can remove bass's first aura. Second, Bass only does his bustergattling attack after 1 or 2 single shots attacks so if you just only hit him when he does it, you can delay the aura for longer or indefinetely. His earthbreak which he uses well to break panels, as well as his Gospel Fire and Gospel CANNON are all countered by being in the front column as for the earthbreak you can go back and then stagger him with your shots or charged shot, the fire you showed that you have enough time to get in there after the attack to flinch him and the 3rd you most likely will have to get hit by the handle of the cannon in order to flinch him, really a good trade off for not using chips. Fun fact, during his earthbreak attack, he actually removes his own aura during the attack leaving you with the opportunity to hit him while he is doing it so you can still damage him even if he has his aura up and he is very low on hp( hopefully) so a charged shot would be well placed here. Also for the Antidamage program as well as shield or reflect programs. Those work when you press the B button and left button in very quick succession with B first. the anti damage will trigger and for a brief moment, getting hit will trigger the shuriken. The shield can be spammed in bn3 making it possible to survive the buster gattling from bass and wait out for earthbreak if you somehow mess up and he regains his aura. But I would say keep some grass on his side so that you have more chances to remove his aura if you mess up. Also for serenade, in White version there is a style called Ground style and if you have that with Heat, your flamethrower can break panels. How does this help for serenade you ask? well if you break the middle row so that Serenade is stuck on the sides( or any way that prevents him from moving up or down, he will not be able to deflect your attacks and will get staggered. However this is only possible in white version. And lastly I am not sure whether you used them or not but here is a tip that will actually help for future battlenetwork games as well. You can compress programs and make them take less space for example you can make undershirt only 2 squares. Those compression codes can be found online or ingame on bbs and npcs but if you hold right and input a series of A B R L in a certain order it will compress the programs. I think you need modtools to be able to do it in BN3 though. Also using the number machine and quests you can have color spins for the navicust which also help a great deal.

[@ErectCock]

Mega Man Battle Network 4 With Only The Mega Buster gonna be disaster especially the final boss

[@DaltonGoesSlow]

It's insane to think I even remember anything 20 years ago... Let alone the chances of me picking white and my friend picking blue by chance. We didn't even know we both liked MegaMan, but it was awesome to have someone to link battle with

[@Azu_Crystal]

i love how these videos have gotten better and better with each release, from the audio to the overall presentation its just really hard not to notice the insane jump in quality! i adore your content very much

[@creationcorporation6267]

Thank you so much! It's all thanks to feedback and support from all of you

[@randomcatname7792]

Battle Network is one of my favorites game series of all time, and I've beat them all, but somehow don't remember anything about the Serenade plot line.. These videos are quite entertaining, and getting better every time (just like the games did) I also appreciate that, unlike other creators, you do point out things like 'though I did use a chip here, it is possible to do with buster (in this case, in non wood style)' rather than skipping it completely. Keep it up

[@Memnion]

I cannot wait for the battle network community to take hold. Hands down mmbn was my favorite gba series besides super star saga. Pumped we get to enjoy it together online now.

[@1dayago843]

Amazing work dude! If it saves you from any tedious RNG or grind then by all means use any workarounds. The goal here is to show whether it's possible to complete the game without battle chips, and you displayed that it is!

[@BlaqueT]

On the difficulty spike with the Heel Navis, I definitely felt that spike too. And I was using Battle Chips, but I just hadn't done enough grinding to get better chips or formed any real combos or strategy. Thanks for uploading!

[@vanesslifeygo]

The buster went from a pellet thing to a military-grade weapon that should be banned in society

[@LanEXHikari]

Similarly as MMBN reached its top performance in 3, this video is really well done! The remixes and layout were great additions, and as to the challenge, kudos for keeping up with it till the secret area✌🏼

[@Ender41948]

If we wanna get technical, you could've saved some uses of batltechips during Bass GS. I noticed at one point you managed to interrupt his Slam attack at 800HP., and he didn't get his aura. So if you wanted to min-max Battlechip uses, maybe even track the minimum number of battlechips required TO complete the game, you could interrupt every electric rush, the slam, and the Gospel Laser. This is just nitpicking though. This was really good! I can't wait for more!

[@Xokis1]

If I'm not mistaken, there's a StyleChange exclusive to each version... White has Ground Style and Blue has Bug Style. Also, Wood style change was how I cheesed Alpha.. Undershirt + Grass Stage means Alpha can literally never kill you. Also, amazing job on the video and the overlay looks pretty dope!

[@micahmossa2320]

The exclusive style for blue is shadow style, bug is in both versions

[@creationcorporation6267]

Much appreciated on the feedback! That Undershirt+GrassStage idea is amazing, it probably works with a lot more bosses than just Alpha as well! As long as the field can't be broken, most enemies can't attack fast enough. Bug style is indeed in both games, as Shadow Style is the exclusive style for Blue. It's one of the rarest, however, since you have to use Invis chips but the Ghost enemy that drops it isn't actually in the game

[@lykillcorreli6740]

Fun fact! It was fixed in the international versions, but in the JP versions, it's possible to use the random style gained when at zero points in every style (ie, by using only the buster while already in Guts Style) to access the other version's exclusive Style!

[@dracko158]

Actually, in white version, you get ground style, and in blue version, you get the shadow style. Bug style can be obtained in both versions.

[@LeMuDX]

Don’t be mistaken, undershirt plus grass stage with a wood style is a great strategy but Alpha can definitely kill you through it, even base Alpha with 2000hp can kill you since he does that laser attack that hits the front middle panel and cracks it, so that strategy won’t work since the woodstyle charge shot requires you to be on that front middle panel to hit Alpha

[@sonnitude]

Another amazing buster only run! Honestly, I think its fine that you use whatever the game provides to make the runs just that little bit easier. Its not your fault that the penalties for some of these programs or codes dont affect you as a buster only player hahaha EDIT: No damage runs when? That sounds hype! You could even include some of the more funny fails~

[@EmmettMcMullan]

Great job on that Bass at the end. Really complex puzzle that.

[@CarissaNomadic]

It's really great that you're taking feedback, and... what a really crazy journey it has been through this game alone. If you do a perfect run after all, I'd definitely love to watch it! Will you do chips in the perfect run? I'd be curious to see what kind of chips you prefer using...

[@creationcorporation6267]

I think that I'd have to do chips in a perfect run, but would try to avoid them if possible. I think that I'd only use them for a boss if I'm really stuck or know that it's the only way, like Bass. I'm thinking about doing BN1, but there are some fights in that are definitely impossible to avoid damage during a buster only run, like some of the enemies during ElecMan's scenario

[@SeraphOC]

So it clicked that i was never subscribed but having watched the first two of these, and finding this in the R/BattleNetwork subreddit, you can bet your [redacted] that I made the immediate effort to come and watch this.

[@creationcorporation6267]

Much appreciated - hope I earned the sub!

[@Groundlord]

There's a little bit of nuance to the KingMan fight, namely his "Plan B" technique. It has different effects based on how you've been acting in the fight. Using Wind attacks to push his Pawns away or making holes to drop his Knight off the field will result in him swapping a Pawn for another Knight, and he'll continuously respawn Knights that you drop into holes. Hugging the back column will trigger his Area Grab and moving the Pawns forward. If you keep breaking his pieces (either with Break chips or with the BreakCharge NaviCust program that a guy in the lobby gives you), he'll spawn a Rook with a ton of HP to continuously guard him. If you're lucky and get an Aqua or Fire style, you can take advantage of their piercing charge shot against his Rook Plan B, but other elements don't have that advantage.

[@OverworkedPostalEmployee]

Yeah, super predatory the guys asking the kids about being students! Blue 3 was my favorite of the series for how well it did the world, the internet, and combat. The new over lay is fantastic, btw! Love the changes!

[@BlooBird]

The art on this thumbnail is INCREDIBLE

[@creationcorporation6267]

I agree! I can't take credit for it though, it's from the official art for the Duel Masters x Battle Network crossover

[@irtehmrepic]

Only 23 minutes in so far so I don't know if you incorporate this, but there ia a way to make navicust blocks smaller, so you can fit more. You hover over the block in your list, hold L, and put in a certain button code. It can be really helpful, like turning Undershirt into a 1 block program instead of 3 blocks.

[@whatis_goingon]

Something to remember for the future games too

[@shadowtitanx3962]

This is only applicable in 3, 5, and 6 fyi. 4 doesn’t do compression codes

[@creationcorporation6267]

Thanks! I did end up using this, and it came in really handy for BusterMax and Undershot in particular, but I didn't want to keep boring people with more info on the Navicust since it was already a long video as is

[@JYRICK]

Mystery Diamonds lol. That took me back. I’m glad I’m not the only one that strayed away from the true name. I used to say Data Diamonds lol.

[@wheatleythebrick2276]

pretty good video love how thorough you are and the stat screen is cute

[@KeiruKeiru]

The mad lad made it through the majority of the game with wood guts. Your kingdom for a ranged charge shot. Kudos to you.

[@alloounou6900]

You just convinced me to get the collection. Watching this reminded me of all the fun I had finding secrets in this game and there's so many secrets.

[@taggerung890]

wow you're insane for doing all of that with just buster- gg!

[@danielpayne1597]

As a huge MMBN3 fan, this was such a fun video. Can't wait for Legacy Collection!

[@creationcorporation6267]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@randomperson10101]

Great video! I'm excited to see more. Especially the team colonel/protoman games as those are my personal favorites. As for "cheesing" the games, I'm still on board with using non damaging chips just to see the other styles lol.

[@creationcorporation6267]

Thank you! I think that BN5 is probably my second favorite in the series, but I was thinking of playing the DS Double Team game for this series, since I'd never given that a try before

[@faidreview1186]

@@creationcorporation6267 oh my god. BN5 might actually be impossible with your rules The liberation missions fights HAVE to be done in 3 turns. And the turn automatically ends when the custom guage fully fills

[@creationcorporation6267]

@@faidreview1186 that's going to be a really fun challenge - I expect it to be really interesting because I'll have to mix and match with different navis!

[@netatsake]

Lemme just say, this is a challenge I actually did for myself, albeit in White. I definitely did NOT do the Secret Area enemies this way, though, so kudos to you. I didn't know it was even possible to do enough damage in a single hit with the buster to clear the Auras used in Secret Area.

[@theonewhowrotethis5681]

You can get the Break Charge Navi Customizer Program (the one you mentioned around 34:40) before the first King Man fight if you talk with one of the NPCs in the town. This allows your charge shot to break obstacles upon a charge shot. The Guts Style gives you Break Buster later down the road, which makes each individual shot break obstacles. This also teaches you how to use Error Codes.

[@creationcorporation6267]

After you said that, I remembered that that's actually how I beat KingMan when I first played the game forever ago, using the BreakCharge from that guy. I'm pretty disappointed that I forgot, thanks for sharing!

[@Gazing-09]

When it comes to Desertman, it's too bad you couldn't unlock an Aqua Style Change. He sure is annoying when he vanishes but when he is hit by an Aqua Shot or Aqua battle chip, not only does it make him muddy and unable to vanish for a moment, but he becomes weak to Elec Shots and Elec attacks.

[@CrystalBoyMega]

I remember using the reflect program in the Navi cust to get rid of bass' aura using his own attacks as a kid

[@creationcorporation6267]

Great idea! I'm pretty sure that Reflect is only obtainable as a level up program with the Shield style, but perhaps the ModTools code for it would've worked similarly

[@delo-dreams]

Lan: Battle Routine, Set! Execute! Megaman: So anyway, I started blasting. Pew! Pew!

[@vacantvisionary]

Japanman is actually a strange localization of Yamatoman, which was his name in the main series, so you'd only find his music by searching Yamato Man stage music.

[@No1mp0rtant]

Looking today at these great videos of your „Buster Only” challenge gives me a good amount of laugh. The reason is announced yesterday „Buster MAX mode” for the legacy collection. I'm still having a great time with your work, and I wish you good luck with the continuation of the challenge.

[@creationcorporation6267]

Thank you! I won't be doing a Buster Max mode version of the challenge, but I'm glad that they're making the series more accessible to newer or more casual players

[@thomaseichler920]

The first Megaman game I bought was Megaman Battle Network 3 Blue version, and before playing this game, I thought it would be an action platformer game like Mega Man, and Mega Man X. I enjoyed playing this game.

[@nobgs4505]

Bass wasn't even really deemed "too dangerous" cause of his behavior or anything. When Alpha nearly destroyed the internet way back when, they chose to shift the blame straight onto Bass, rather than admit their own faults. Bass, an autonomous net navi created BY HUMANS, was now just a scapegoat for them to avoid admitting that their "internet" was initially flawed and nearly destroyed the world. While I fully admit we don't know Dr. Hikari's side of the story, and its entirely possible he didn't really want to just shift the blame like that, that's what everyone else did. No wonder he hates humans so much: In his eyes, they created him solely to have a scapegoat if things went south. It didn't help that he was created around the same time as Alpha either. Heck, in the NT Warrior manga (which is a bit dubious in canon but worth mentioning) Bass was initially a troubleshooter for SciLab, who had good intentions with an unfortunate lack of restraint, until the events with Alpha happened where they just blamed him when he had absolutely NOTHING to do with it.

[@raulrojas9253]

Never liked doing buster only in any megaman game, won't start doing it now in particular in an JRPG, Kudos to you madman.

[@creationcorporation6267]

I don't blame you - I feel like I messed up by starting this series haha

[@FloreyXE]

Desertman actually becomes a cakewalk in buster only if you have an aqua element style, since hitting him with the aqua charged shot will solidify him and let you wail on him more

[@blueberriesinmycoffee1234]

I really enjoyed the video! Props to you, this game is challenging normally, let alone buster only I'm sure! You make a few comments about the story I'd like to respond to. Someone has already mentioned Beastman's operator not being present on Wily's base is why Lan has that spare seat to confront Wily and Bass in the finale. You mention being disappointed by the Deus ex machina of the giga freeze, which made me excited to see you complete the bit so to speak when Bass just shrugs it off, but that didn't really happen, I mean I could have missed something but beyond mentioning you were surprised when it didn't work, we just move on in the plot. This is-to be clear-a very small moment in your video, which is really impressive and very good! I just think it's worth pointing out the giga freeze isn't a Deus ex machina, which is what you opened by criticizing it as. Oh, but the you're right to criticize Mayl and Yai getting left on Beach Street, that is a pretty dated moment for sure. I will say, after replaying the game as an adult, the one character who did absolutely nothing for me as a kid but now really impresses me is Dex. This game does really interesting stuff with him, I think. As an adult, I start wondering "Why would Dex's dad and brother live in another town? What's his home life like?" And.. I don't know, it's not huge but I do like that he contributes something at Wily's base, he's just a lot more realized as a character here than Lan's friends usually get the opportunity to be in these games, so I wanted to praise that a bit at least :)

[@johndoh1000]

Fundamentally MMBN is supposed to be a social game where you discover cool codes, earn rare chips to trade, and battle your friends. Unfortunately with it being on the GBA system you're heavily restricted by your zip code. However, with the advent of the internet it just streamlines that process. Sure you don't get the same social excitement from hearing about a super cool secret from your friend group, but you get the infinite collective power of the internet.

[@NeoMusicGamer]

Late to the party but its fun watching all this BN content after revisiting the Legacy Collection myself. In case you were curious, im in the camp of any Mod Tools are on the table. Its not your fault the devs handicapped HP+700 with an irrelevant downside, challenge runs should always look to exploit what they can.

[@raze2012_]

wow, quite the glow up in presentation and overall voice delivery, kudos! Some KZbin 1000 times your size could take some notes, especially with the nice little slot crediting every track you used. For the program mods, I don't mind them being used. They are mentioned in-game and you can find ways to use them (technically. I never knew what that gibberish was as a kid lol) so I imagine they are dev intended. But if you wanted a limitation, you can treat them like Higsby chips: you can't use them until you have access to the NPC that gives you the code. You only used them in post game, so that requirement would be fulfilled. Great run overall, and thanks for taking so much time to go into detail on how you approached everything. Musta been a ton of work. My only question is why you didn't experiment a bit more with style changes. I know you're stuck with Guts style on a buster only run (unless you used bug style, which I guess you subtly teased at so you didn't want to use here) but there definitely seemed to be times where Water or Elec style would have made life much easier. Since the style changes are grindable I wouldn't mind being able to swap styles on demand to fit the situations.

[@creationcorporation6267]

Sorry for the delay, and much appreciated on the feedback! I agree, I wish that I would've been able to use the other elements, but I was actually planning on saving that "ability" for the Omega Navi video which came out afterwards!

[@ariano1561]

Im so mad youtube didnt show this to me your videos are such a delight : D

[@creationcorporation6267]

Thank you! It's better late than never haha

[@void_tex]

I appreciate the fact that you bother to put a real time overlay. Great videos dude

[@numberxx4861]

If I remember right, the Anti-damage program works the same way as the Shield ability: press both the back (left) and the Buster attack buttons at the same time as you are about to get hit. Timeing is a pain though, but the same imput works for the Shield, Reflect, and Anti-damage programs later on in the series. You know Anti-damage has triggered when the Mega-buster doesn't fire, and the button combination must be held down, or it releases the stance. I don't know how long it lasts while held though.

[@ultimateshadeofwar]

if the game gives you something, for me the answer is obvious, it's legal, if it's a cheese, it's up to the player. But the game gives you mod tools, and the game allows you to use then with then having drawbacks, that the drawback don't affect you on this playthrough doesn't mean that it isn't balance, it's that what you are doing has other drawbacks, and as such, it balance out. Also can't wait for the Bug style run, i love the randomness of Bug Style.

[@creationcorporation6267]

Thanks for the feedback and support - I have no idea what to expect, so I'll be getting started on the run soon!

[@a.gabrielarchibald5291]

Wait, for the final Bass fight there is a NaviCust Program that allows you to automatically set the stage to grass, if you combine it with Guts Fire Charge shot you might be able to do it without using any chip...

[@creationcorporation6267]

Thanks! The program is actually exclusive to White version by levelling up Ground Style, and since I was playing on Blue, it felt like a bit of a stretch since even if I was playing White, we couldn't easily get Ground Style since we're stuck using the buster which gets us Guts style

[@Keaton_Ambrose]

I LOVE bug style, I always take it when I play 3. Hope that video goes well!

[@last1standing663]

Yo good on you getting this far with your first video being the first game of this!

[@hanalereynolds-kane8484]

I spent years playing this game. I finally 100% it when I was just about to graduate high school in 2014.

[@legionofpie]

I think woodguts is almost certainly the worst form for this challenge. Kudos for trying it with the clunkiest form possible. I'm pretty sure it goes Elec > Fire = Aqua > Wood For charge shots in buster only. You really need chips to lock up as close in on your opponent if you want to hit with the twister

[@streamsg7925]

Me, casually listening while doing something else "I loved Battle Network 3 when it first played it 20 YEARS AGO" it's been 20 YEARS?!?!! Oh godddddd i'm getting old

[@joshualawson4326]

You can beat Bass several ways without chips. You can trade for extra programs to get your attack higher, and with a lv5 buster x2, and a set grass program, you can deal exactly 200 damage with a flame charge shot.

[@tylermercado1445]

In Legacy Collection, it IS possible to beat all 6 BN games with just the buster. Just enable Max Buster, and increase your attack power with power ups(BN1&2) or Attack+ programs(BN3-6) and you’re good to go. Buster Max multiplies your buster’s power by 100x your current attack power. B button power attack is unaffected.

[@yaboiskinnymalone836]

New overlay looks dope!

[@RalphThePyro]

I've been a huge fan of this series you're doing. Number 3 Buster Only is not truly possible without the support of non-damaging chips. You said earlier if this "ruins the spirit of the run" to which I feel it doesn't. Even with the Twins oopsie, you still kept from using an attack chip like Cannon. All in all I'd say this was an EXCELLENT JOB! However...you owe it to yourself to explore the Virus Breeder. :) It's kinda fun summoning viruses to battle for you!

[@creationcorporation6267]

Really appreciate it! I think I'm going to take a break from BN3 for a bit (this run really drained me), but it might be fun to do a future run with just the virus breeder as soon as it's available!

[@sillyaxel]

love the video and the new look of the right interface! cant wait for the bugstyle run, it’s my favourite of all the style changes would also love to watch streams of the runs!

[@gagejoseph91]

Few tips for you: 1) The "break" effect that lets you shoot through shields also lets you damage and temporarily break Kingman's pieces. 2) Antidamage is triggered by hitting left+shoot at the same time. It is VERY precise, though. To do it consistently, pause the fame, hold left+shoot, unpause. The inputs will trigger on the same frame that way.

[@ColdEmperor]

Video end: I understand they can only do so many things for difficulty but good lord..... I really don't like how many bosses look at your field and then "random bullshit go"! It's up in the air. If you gave it your best and you can't dodge the moves or the boss is designed to land hits you can use HP mods. At worst you can say this battle isn't doable with these rules and move on. Thanks for the hard work dude. I'll root for you to have a very successful KZbin career!

[@creationcorporation6267]

I really did try to get good at dodging everything before resorting to the ModTools, but things just have so much HP and do so much damage by the end haha

[@mayborneflower]

18:56 - Oh hey, an accurate recreation of Rockman EXE Axess Episode 1.

[@cathix]

If I remember correctly MMBN3 blue had a unique custom style called shado or ninja or something like that. It would do a stepsword attack for it's charged buster shot instead of the traditional flame, tornado, bubbler, and zap ring. I used that version to kill a few of the security programs with some added mods on the customizer. Plus you can damage the sword virus's with it too

[@casundrud]

The charge shot for Shadow style is actually an Invis chip. If you use a WeaponLv+ program, it reverts back to the regular elemental charge shot, so there is no charge shot that will deal Sword type damage. Shadow style does give the AntiDamage navicust program though, which does deal Sword damage

[@mayborneflower]

1:05:42 - Furthermore, Yai and Glide got their butts handed to them by DesertMan while he was still pretending to be a basic navi while Mayl and Roll’s been relegated to damsel or punching bag in most appearances while their best feat up to this point… is killing another Roll.

[@mayborneflower]

I figured out a way to turn Bass GS into a one-chip run. You simply need to give yourself the Poison Panel bug again, and then ditch Buster upgrades altogether with Air Shoes and Float Shoes. Despite appearances, Bass is actually a grounded opponent so Poison Panels hurt him. So simply use one (1) Area Grab chip to steal his front column and then beeline to turn every panel you can step on into Posion. Once Bass regains control of his panels again, he’ll take a light drain from posion every time he goes in front. And then every time he uses Earth Breaker late in the battle, he’ll be standing on your posion AND left open to attacks because he let the Aura down. It’ll be long, tedious, and dragged way out but you’ll get through Bass on a single chip. Also having ElecGuts for this battle would let you stop his big charge-up attacks, unload a full clip of gatling shots, and leave his Aura down for a long while to speed up the process of chipping his HP down.

[@rawbinYT]

As soon as the Protoman fight rolled around on 1:29:06, I immediately noticed something was off with the music. While I'm sure you probably intended to use the standard WWW Area theme from BN2, you ended up using a parody version of it from a channel called SiivaGunner, which has a Love Live song they like to use on the channel as a leitmotif. Whether it was intentional or not I don't know, and seeing as you forgot to update the display since it still shows the MM7 theme it makes it harder to determine lmao. All in all, this whole little section made me burst out laughing. Entertaining run though.

[@BotSupportIronValiant]

With the legacy collection out, and the new buster max mode, you absolutely can. Though it isn't very challenging...

[@xryuran]

I am almost scared to watch any more of these because I don't want to ruin my experience replaying them in the collection. But these videos are really neat

[@Semystic]

Can't wait for the bug style streams!

[@DDavidD4A]

1:30:06 for the next protoman fights, the next challenges, here is my tip stand in the front row, and preddict his attacks from there this should make it easier for you man because that way, you can step backwards if needed and if protoman uses a wide-sword-attack, will give you plenty of space to dodge backwards and sideways also, you have to be on the offensive for his fight all the time, once you go deffensive, he will catch you in undogeable scenarios sorry for my bad grammar/broken english its not my native language and i'm from Brazil nice to meet you :D

[@timwelt9982]

Yo i just started the vid, but I want to say already, that I really enjoy this series! You put so much effort into it and that pays really off imo. Also enjoy your chill attitude, gonna check out your stream. Have a good one!

[@NightromGaming]

Great editing on this video, I really like the UI style you added on the video.

[@renepadilla755]

I remember getting mmbn 3 white version for my birthday at toys r us. Years later I traded it for a Pokémon ruby game. Luckily I re-bought it after that and still play it to this day.

[@lokasocba]

So, short answer is: Nope. But damn! I am really impressed at the great work you did to beat the game with that challenge!

[@creationcorporation6267]

Technically the main game is, but not the postgame unfortunately!

[@moonlightlunacy]

Great work as always, I'm so excited to see this series getting the love it deserves and love seeing the improvements you make with each video. Cant wait to see what comes next!

[@Quincyishidaawesome]

Honestly I think the mod tools are fine. Turning a perceived downside into a non-factor is smart and is making the best of a bad situation

[@RaptureSR]

Cheating the library completion definitely felt a little off because actually getting them is relevant to a buster-only challenge (some of the omega level viruses are actually difficult to get good enough busting ranks to get chips), but the run basically died there anyway because of the security programs. It did save a lot of grind for a portion of the game that wasn't really possible anyway, but I think it'd be best to actually try to get them normally in the future unless similar mechanics exist that would effectively kill the run in that part of the game anyway. That said, I can't really knock this too much because losing 7+ minute fights against kingman and desertman has to be taxing. The virus breeder side quest actually nets some really cool variable virus chips, and if you run the game again in the future with chips allowed, you should definitely try them out. They're actually pretty fun to play with.

[@ZX-Gear]

3 11-year-olds and one 8-9 year-old so yeah. Chris Hansen wants this man to have a seat.

[@furkankocaman356]

Finally got finished watching this and it’s perfect. The improvements r improving!! Can’t wait for bn4. Also i hav no issue with using navicust, that’s wat it’s for. No chips is already hard/impossible enough, the navicust makes the run not borderline impossible. Plus there’s so much cool things you can do with it in the coming games

[@lykillcorreli6740]

For the Bass GS battle... it's actually possible to do chipless in White Version! You can get SetGreen as a Navicust program from Ground Style, which starts the battle as GrassStage, at which point the Flamethrower works as well as expected. The catch? Since you can't use chips, you can't farm for Ground Style specifically, and thus have to rely on the purely random style gained from having everything tied at zero points (which is to say, performing only Guts-type actions while already in Guts style), though it can be savescummed, I do believe. Of course, this won't be possible to do in the Bug Style Only run, though I'm pretty sure I recall RockCubes doing exactly 200 damage when launched by a wind chip... or if Bass enters the panel as you're summoning one via Charge Shot Buster Bug Level 1, which is impractical as heck. Unfortunately, no way to launch the Cubes without a chip, but if you're allowing chips in the Bug Style Only run, RockCube Buster+AirShot is pretty fun as your first Bug.

[@BackPalSA]

Nice work man. I'm super glad I saw your first video.

[@asteroidrules]

Another nice change of BN3's internet design is the introduction of "main street," the route to ACDC Square is clearly highlighted by the yellow path. Also for diagonal changing attacks a trick I always use is to get them to the top or bottom row, then jump two rows yourself, they can only jump one row per column so this is usually too fast for them. Still watching so I don't know how it all goes but I'm curious how the style changes work out for you, aqua styles are extremely useful against DesertMan, and wood styles are the only element that can damage Alpha with their charge shot. Aqua element attacks cause DesertMan to solidify and remain vulnerable for a while, also bubblers pierce one panel so you can hit through his sand pillars. Alpha has two regenerating barriers that can only be broken with multiple attacks in quick succession, which the twister shot is perfect for.

[@Red_Biker_Dude]

54:06 "which allows us to meet a navi only known as ASS"

[@yaboiskinnymalone836]

Honestly I ain’t even mad that you used the panel chip considering it doesn’t even have a damage to it

[@hawkakux]

For the Bass fight, if you get a Shield style and the Reflect Program, that does 100 damage for each attack reflected. Not using any chips, but also not technically using the buster either. That's always how I've dealt with Bass.

[@creationcorporation6267]

Great strategy! Unfortunately, there was no way for me to get Reflect without Shield style. There is a ModTools code, but I was still trying to avoid those during the main playthrough!

[@itsybutsy]

1:04:10 Technically speaking, you could've just grinded out 100 battles to change your guts style element, which would be the legitimate way to deal with this. It isn't a softlock. Considering how grindy it would've been to do that, though, I'm fine with this. Not what I would let myself do (since I'm apparently a masochist), but I'm glad you can.

[@calebtanner4919]

This is more possible in white version because if you use ground style, you can get programs that let you alter the stage from the start of the battle. So it's theoretically possible to beat Bass V2 with only buster and NaviCust

[@B-Raven]

OH YEAH, I was so waiting for this one. Time to bust the popcorn for this one, I got my midday movie fix. Will be interesting to see how it plays out!

[@creationcorporation6267]

Thanks for the support - hopefully you enjoyed it!

[@B-Raven]

@@creationcorporation6267 it was definitely fun! I was half expecting Bass at the end of the story to be a bigger hurdle than that. But now the question becomes, how can BN4 and 5 be approached like this, with no style changes? Will you allow double soul usage? Can some liberation missions be doable? I'd say the real buster only challenge begins now

[@creationcorporation6267]

It actually took me a lot more time than it showed in the video, since I spent forever trying to see if I could win with WoodGuts or literally anything that would help me avoid depending on HeatGuts like the last game haha

[@NoobyNoon]

FYI: ‘Pitch’ in the expression “Pitch Black” is talking about Tar or Asphalt. AKA, it’s so dark, the walls might be covered in pitch/tar. So “Pitch Silent” doesn’t really work as an expression, unless you’re talking about that game on Steam!

[@creationcorporation6267]

Thanks! I realized afterwards that I mixed up "pitch black" and "pindrop silent" haha

[@NoobyNoon]

@@creationcorporation6267 Haha! That makes sense! It stuck out a little awkwardly while I was listening to your video, but writing a script, then recording VO for a script over an hour long let’s some minuscule things slip through the cracks. Loved the vid though! I’ll be sure I keep checking up

[@Bakuram]

I'm excited for the MMBN Switch release! The nostalgia is real!

[@brad-leelindo25]

the first half is the reason why I don't play this challenge. I have no tips for 4 so good luck

[@mistermamamia]

Love these videos, and can't wait for the next challenge! The stream sounds super fun too!

[@chasederringer]

I can’t believe you have so few subscribers, these are FABULOUS!

[@creationcorporation6267]

Thank you so much!

[@thundrr1929]

And the long awaited threequel comes in. 2nd fave game here.

[@thundrr1929]

Ngl, I ABSOLUTELY forgot GutsMchnGun

[@ThreeAdam]

Fantastic video! MMBN is my childhood and it was great to relive one of my favorite installments through your challenge run! This was the first video of yours that I've seen, but the overlay is great! I appreciate the music section in the top right and the current navi cust programs. I imagine it's a lot of extra work so I understand if it's not feasible, but I would love seeing a little graphic of the current organization of programs within the navi cust. I also think it's totally fair game to use mod tools for +700hp, since it's available within the game and not a cheat code. I also think it's fair that you changed your style with GameShark, since you could feasibly grind it out but mental health is important. On that note, I think a no-hit run would be INSANE. By all means attempt it, but don't sacrifice your health grinding for it! Last comment, I think it would have been nice to have an overview of all the different styles when you first obtain one. The styles tie in very closely with the busters so I think it'd be very relevant information for the challenge. Well done, you've got me hyped for the Legacy collection and I'm looking forward to more of your videos!

[@47northm]

I hope more of this comes In the future it’s really fun seeing this

[@JiMMyCalrissian]

I love finding good quality channels when they are starting off. Definitely getting a sub from me.