Can You Beat the HARDEST Bosses in Battle Network 3 Buster Only?

Hey everyone, welcome back! The main Battle Network 3 video was admittedly pretty long and felt a little incomplete without the final Omega navis. Here's a "part 2" of sorts, building on top of the first video.
I've made a few changes here as well, including taking off the smoothing filter and including a tier list! As always, would love your feedback and look forward to the comments.
KZbinr song credits:
Snuffles - Japanman Theme: • MMBN3 JapanMan: Honora...
Snuffles - Serenade Theme: • MMBN3 Serenade: Descen...
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Introduction
0:32 - GutsMan
2:17 - FlashMan
4:26 - MetalMan
5:14 - BeastMan
6:43 - KingMan
8:37 - DesertMan
9:58 - PlantMan
10:50 - FlamMan
11:55 - BowlMan
12:49 - DrillMan
13:29 - ProtoMan
14:00 - DarkMan
17:54 - JapanMan
18:58 - BubbleMan
20:58 - Serenade
23:46 - Bass
27:15 - MistMan
29:46 - Alpha

[@raulrojas9253]

You madman, I'm never going to do this, fuck it XD Battle chips all the way. You deserve a trophy or something.

[@SabeNo-rh7mb]

You'll be singing a different tune once the Legacy Collection and it's *Buster Max* setting comes out.

[@veghesther3204]

Exactly and though that cheat does NOT work on Online 2 player mode battles it will still work for the MAIN games for all 10.

[@geistgrace6452]

Oh, the mistman fight DOES have a special exploit you can do. Right before he uses poison mist or soul gang, his lamp will emit a small puff of smoke. Purple for poison, black for soul. If you stun him just as the puff appears but before the attack is activated, you can stop his attack and if your quick enough, can stop him from EVER attacking.

[@Rezileen]

This is really amazing, especially the Bubbleman fight. You sir have some god-like level of patience for committing to this.

[@raymoo8504]

Damn Alpha really cheesed you with those ice panels making it impossible to dodge his lightning

[@Tai_Mk]

This is really impressive. BN3 has been one of my favorite games, I have save states for all of omega navis and fight them often with all sorts of different folders and restrictions. The combat in BN3 is so good.

[@Silver64Shadow]

For Bass, you can have him use Earthbreaker on the first row and attack to interrupt him and his aura won’t come back

[@Ar0474]

I'm so excited to jump into the collection tonight! Great job man!!

[@Rainu3279]

I love that the best way to deal with the final boss, in all his upgraded glory, is to stand right in front of him and just slug it out. Amazing work all around! I can't imagine how much effort you poured into this project. Can't wait for more, enjoy your rest!

[@KingDiaMaru]

The filter in the last few videos did not bother me. That being said, filterless looks very clean! I did a side-by-side comparison of your two BN3 videos and I think I prefer the filterless video quality.

[@Tsukiru]

I was one of the few who mentioned it, I just prefer the raw pixels compared to smoothened out filters.

[@lafbkhope5391]

@@Tsukiru Agreed.

[@dxperty]

What a pro, doing the unthinkable!! This definitely took a lot of practice and time. Filterless is much better for me since it looks more nice. I honestly love these MMBN Buster only series and I'm excited to see more content from you!! Great job!!

[@Laharl1345]

I’m so happy someone is giving these old games love. Keep up the amazing vids man.

[@TheShurimanPigeon]

Bruh I was JUST WATCHING THE BLUE CHALLENGE EARLIER TODAY, glad to have new content to watch already!

[@kazaleaf5707]

These were so fun to watch, you’re crazy for doing this 🤣 I hope there are more to come!

[@samuelturner6076]

Great vid as always, I can tell these were tough fights but glad you pulled through.

[@ultimateshadeofwar]

Damn, i wasn't expecting this, but damn it was a good one, and some of this stuff was insane that you manage to do.

[@danielpayne1597]

Your run is legendary! Loved watching all of both vids.

[@KaisertigerX]

Just finished up watching all your videos man! Love the content please keep it up! I’m sure I speak for a majority of us when I say we don’t mind the gamesharking around to get zenny, bugfrags, or chips as given enough time and grinding it’s possible to get anything!

[@KingDiaMaru]

Ooo, didn't expect another video so soon: a very nice surprise after re-watching your most recent video! Keep up the great work!

[@taggerung890]

you're insane - this takes "anything for the views" to a whole new level - freaking well played sir

[@Xavyoid]

He's back with the double whammy. Kinda sad that the SetGreen Navi cust. couldn't be done as it's a White exclusive, but I guess that's the Blue version for ya. And that means an A for effort with the AntiDmg Navi cust. against the Shadows. Getting those perfectly done might've been another mini-Serenade-ish battle before Darkman... An Omega level mini-boss, if you will.

[@rorbee]

You're improving your work in all aspects for every new video you drop, absolutely incredible :D Let's hope your stuff gets more attention once the MMBN Legacy collection drops!

[@bustedrims23]

dude you pump these out and ill watch on gawd

[@LanEXHikari]

It's amazing what you could accomplish by sheer perseverance, also great editing. Thanks for this video, it made me realise I would have hated MMBN3 if I tried something similar 😅

[@ParadigmZwei]

Really cool video. If there are "superbosses" in the other games then I reckon giving them their own videos like this is a great idea, 👍

[@alecrambles3259]

Love the videos bro, don’t care how long keep them coming

[@lafbkhope5391]

Yeah, the lack of filter definitely makes this look much more pleasing. Great work by the way.

[@reevesanthony8452]

Man. Got mad love for these games and it’s so satisfying seeing Omega Flashman go down. My 12 year old self thanks you, sir 👌🏿

[@shadowtoonlink-dt3ee]

This Is so cool, its been a while since a play megaman, this video bring back some good memories

[@germinal220]

I've never thought someone rather fight Darkman over Bubbleman but here we are

[@samwilliams9660]

Definitely prefer to watch these games without the sprite filters! Been awesome watching these challenge videos , keep up the great work!

[@pyrosianheir]

Aw, hell yeah! Omega versions of all bosses for the win! Good job on managing them. Like I said before, I'm not up to snuff to manage most of even the v3 versions, so this is cool to see. Elec tends to be my preferred element, just because of the built in stun from the bunny like ring. Water would be second, then fire, then wood. Wood's inability to reach the back row with its charge just kills it for me.

[@arthursnyder6935]

Unless you use an Area Grab

[@pyrosianheir]

@@arthursnyder6935 True, but I tend to play BN the way I play pokemon - all gas, and a little bit of healing, haha. I know the support chips do add some good stuff; I just never end up using them.

[@MegaMinecraft901]

In my opinion, filterless is always better. Pixel art works well because the blocky style leaves room for interpretation, allowing your mind to blur the lines. Filtering it takes away from that, it takes away the charm. In addition, it can mess with artist intended details due to melting together the pixels.

[@sonnitude]

It’s funny but your videos are helpful to me to know how useful guts style is. I probably won’t go for it when I play the legacy collection, but if I get it accidentally I know it will be good

[@rorbee]

I always loved Aqua style due to how fast and versatile the charge shot and its shotgun pierce effect is. Shadow style and anti-damage are also super fun when you get it down. Also they really should've called JapanMan YamatoMan like he's in the main series, but i guess it's par for the course for the localization quality for the entire series.

[@KarloxDarkOG]

Great video, Keep making them like that and you will have great youtube carrier

[@CarissaNomadic]

Omega Navis : I am at the peak of my power! C.C. : Hey! Perfect timing! I just switched up my style to have a new charge attack! Omega Navis : ABORT MISSION ABORT MISSION ABORT MISSION!!!!

[@xxxyzrd909]

What a great video. I am a new subscriber my friend!!

[@bayzul7405]

Flashman running out of AreaGrab is both cursed and funny. Bubbleman's spawn alone aggravating, but an Omega that's such an undertaking

[@creationcorporation6267]

I'm just grateful that the Omega version didn't have the same requirements as the v3 spawn

[@1dayago843]

Great job!

[@pkpyro2000]

The gift that keeps on giving

[@ZombieManQ]

"MistMan battle is A tier" Get yeeted to the B tier ;) Another great video, cant wait to see another challenge :)

[@dimitricamberos8709]

I don’t even want to know how much time you spent sweating with your heart beating out of your chest but I can understand why you need a break from this game. Your video quality is excellent and I’m excited to see what you have planned for future MMBN content.

[@vanesslifeygo]

I wonder how the developers of this game would react to this...

[@SOJITZL]

If you flinch MistMan with your gatling shot, it can be used to cancel his Soul Gang and Poison Mist

[@telluranskate863]

Literally, the last fight of this video is just brute force to win it...

[@andrewnguyen664]

Considering how much of a joke Bubbleman is the canon manga/animated series, for them to make him purposely a nightmare in the games is just downright sadistic. It's like giving a real life rooster the power to generate hurricanes every time he flaps his wings...

[@ftsand9386]

Great video! Set green, wood style, and undersht probably could have helped the run, as long as the enemy doesn’t have ground breaking chips.

[@vanesslifeygo]

That lamp virus is so cool and makes me think of Mystic Lamp and its own Genie from Yu-Gi-Oh

[@Carlet_S]

It's actually possible to beat Bass without any chips. He disables his aura for a short while when performing Earthbreaker, he did this in BN2 as well. However this would mean you'd be stuck waiting and baiting out an earth breaker in the middle or frontmost row and also would have to perfectly dodge as many of his other attacks as possible. Or use the navicustomizer shield/anti-damage programs and also perfectly block/counter the other attacks. It's a way to not get softlocked when playing normally and you jut happen to run out of chips, but a really sadistic one, honestly.

[@mayborneflower]

Heads up for Battle Network 4 since you’re likely going to allow the use of Soul Unison/Double Soul, Wind Soul completely breaks the LaserMan fight. LaserMan has a crippling weakness to the Wind element. Not the BN6 kind, LaserMan is helplessly immobilized by concussive knockback from things like Wind Rack and Air Shot. And your basic Buster as Wind Soul is a spammable Air Shot that does 5 damage, and each shot fires in succession just quickly enough to nail LaserMan before he finishes recoiling from the last hit. Meaning you can infinite combo him into the dirt from max HP with a really persistent button mashing. Good luck out there.

[@draggietwelve674]

great to see elecguts one of my favorite style combos also which element do you hope to use for bug style challenge

[@XJ-0641]

I am happy the filter is gone. It didn't bother me so much in the original video, but the crisp edges just look better for a game themed around computers and cyberspace than the messy oil paint visuals the filter provides

[@vanesslifeygo]

You ultimately do need a battle chip to remove the aura, but you can't be blamed for it.

[@alloounou6900]

Whoa now. 6 videos deep and the guy is busting out the tier lists. Very bold if I may say so.

[@stefanobiga6582]

You know what, fuck it. I saw the last video and with this one……I’ll also watch it. Keep on bringing the awesome content brother.

[@faforito1651]

your videos are the best😁😁

[@jayw3688]

IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS TO COME OUT IN LESS THAN A MONTH. I FINALLY GET TO PLAY 5 AND 6 AND ALL THE NEW FEATURES AND TRADING AND PVP AHGHHHHHHHHHHH

[@israelsanchez1017]

Thank goodness for buster max in the legacy collection 😂😂I was not about to go crazy over this game again like when I was a kid

[@williamklemp3764]

Yes, yes you can. I beat the whole game using the buster and a pacifist folder(no dmg, poison, or any other offensive type chips), save for the tutorial, where you're forced to use dmg dealing chips, so I would imagine it'd be only a little harder without chips at all

[@The_Meev]

I feel like when you talk about the speed that a boss is moving at, you should show the fight at normal speed so we can get a better idea of how fast they actually are

[@ariano1561]

I was gonna go to sleep but i just couldn't help myself : D i needed to watch it

[@creationcorporation6267]

Sleep is important! The video would've always been there the day after haha

[@noahmorgan4171]

Watch your sub count go up by the hour ! Proud :)

[@SHMEGAF]

Wouldn't mind a fun redux video with the collection using buster max mode to see how many "impossible" fights become possible. Love these videos either way as they really take me back. Probably the most important videogame series of my life. ^^

[@Semystic]

Yay more BN3 content!

[@SabeNo-rh7mb]

Oh man. Dude, you are going to love the Legacy Collections Buster Max mode when it finally comes out.

[@creationcorporation6267]

Can't wait for the Legacy Collection, but I won't be using Buster Max - the challenge would be a little too easy haha

[@SabeNo-rh7mb]

@@creationcorporation6267 Me (Power-Hungry Mad Man): *That's the whole IDEA, boy! AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!* 😈😈😈

[@animationenthusiast4199]

@@creationcorporation6267 *Don't Lie!!!!* That would be the ultimate catharsis for you and you know it! *Admit it!*

[@squirtle0528]

Something you could've tried for the mistman fight is the Reflect mod tool code. Every time he rushes forward, you can counter it with a B+Left for 100 damage and the timing is much easier than anti damage B+Left. Here's an example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKmTeZl4orKAZqs

[@yurieshicatay6309]

Question: if and when you plan to do 4, 5 and 6 how are you planning to handle the souls/ crosses I can understand not using souls since they require chips to activate but what about crosses?

[@asteroidrules]

Elec type styles are great for a one-two punch type attack, which is really good in BN3 due to the limited damage windows of so many enemies. I have to wonder if non-guts styles might have been more useful in some of these fights, obviously custom and team styles wouldn't be of any use, but shadow, shield, or bug could all come in handy even if bug is inconsistent.

[@WGzombie]

Oh woah, so soon! Niiice. And I just watched your other videos earlier this week, hahah

[@Danielss250]

I have a sugestion for you to consider for future videos, if you end up in a near impossible boss that takes hours to beat, maybe doing a little compilation of attemps against said boss would be cool, I was half expecting something like this for bubbleman, but again it's just a sugestion and I know you were probably very tired of the game + editing. So for feedback, anyone who played this game know of the terror that is bubbleman, I was sure you would give up on the omega version because as you said, it feels impossible buster only, and you deserve mad props for actually beating it. And as for the graphics, they are a lot cleaner with no filter in my opinion.

[@YokedDrunkard]

Funny story, i beat almost all these games without ever upgrading my health when I was a kid because I would just mash A and run around like a spazz.

[@uberotaku8536]

I don't see anyone saying this, but DarkMan isn't quite as unpredictable as you think. He can only directly attack every two times that he moves, and only if you step into his row. He swaps between his three elemental forms when he moves, and it's always in the same pattern. As long as you don't step into his row when his yellow form is ready to attack, you can get through the fight relatively unscathed. It really is just the bats and shadow attack that makes the fight hard. He's still hard enough for A rank, but S might be too high in my ranking.

[@merethvalera839]

Extremely impressive, but, I would have liked to see you try the grass stage program out on Bass to see what's possible with that setup, rather than using chips.

[@geistgrace6452]

I hate to be that guy, but the Omega NAVIS can only be fought after pretty much 100% everything else, meaning having all chips, beating the game once, doing the time trials, and forming all the Program.advamces. Then on the menu screen with all the other stars, imputing a specific code(can't remember what it is) THEN you can fight the Omegas. It's also worthy to note that although punk HAS an Omega Navi I'm the code, you technically can't fight him without cheating.

[@kiraangle2823]

if you keep going with 4, i'll warn you, you will need everything at your disposal. 4 has some REALLY nasty enemies. you'll want to plan out a route. pre-game research will probably translate into dozens of saved hours overall

[@Krowe_White]

I'm pretty sure N.Os only regenerate hp if there are other viruses in the columns behind them. So, you should have been able to bust it after busting Hard Head

[@creationcorporation6267]

I vaguely remember this from when I played this when I was younger, but I somehow didn't think of trying to beat the Hardhead first! Thanks for letting me know, I'll keep this in mind for future runs!

[@winder487]

BusterMAX mode in the collection is going to make this considerably easier

[@raschiddavids3849]

Great vids man. Just discovered your channel. You up for doing a full/complete playthrough of cybeast gregar?

[@creationcorporation6267]

That's right - I'll be working through the entire series, so that's on the list!

[@brianli6562]

Ah, I didn't know set green was white exclusive my bad. And this alpha fight, you were probably exhausted hence why you didn't notice that it wasn't the zap laser attack that did the most damage to you but the gattling gun which is way easier to dodge but doesn't trigger your s. And yeah even with the highest weapon lvl, I don't think it is possible to beat a omega n.o beam virus or that omega alphabug virus so it's fine. A tip for mistman which I am not sure you have enough time to pull off. When he is about to use soul gang, instead of purple smoke coming out of the lamp after 2-3 attacks, he has black smoke, if you can stagger him in that short window between the blacksmoke appearance and him using soulgang, you will cancel out the attack just like bass. The problem is you only stagger him after a couple of shots so idk if it is possible unless you predict and prefire where he's going to be.

[@SHMEGAF]

Also. PS. good friggin luck with BN 4 and 5 6 as well maybe. But there is some stuff that'll truly test your' metal in those two titles. Especially those liberation missions in 5.

[@loganross4026]

NEW VIDEO YAY

[@odwrksboxedtrash3730]

I absolutely expected you to struggle at Bubble Man. Bubble Man is the reason why MMBN3 players go to therapy.

[@creationcorporation6267]

Honestly, I was in agony - the fight actually felt extremely unfair compared to every other boss in the series haha

[@odwrksboxedtrash3730]

@@creationcorporation6267 Imagine if they doubled down on BubbleMan.EXE's difficulty in the Legacy Collection and made him even more difficult. 1. More Bubbles. 2. A Life Aura instead of a Bubble Wrap. 3. The Bubble Mines are now indestructible unless Breaker Chips are used. 4. BubbleMan.EXE gets 4000 HP.

[@geistgrace6452]

I know multi comments can be annoying, but I just realized it's actually VERRY good you didn't use break charge on King man. If you destroy his pawns, he'll use Plan B, replenish his pieces and can swap a pawn for another knight, or both for a knight and rook, which stands in front of him and blocks all damage.

[@TheLinkhawkins]

When I played this years ago I never figured out how to use the Gatling buster reliably, how do you do it.

[@train4292]

are you going to be using the legacy collection for the BN4 challenge?

[@megametexe5129]

Just for the hell of it. Can you do this all again in Buster Max mode When the legacy collection comes out. It won’t necessarily be challenging but it will be fun to see how fast you can mow down all the bosses with a Buster Max guts style

[@creationcorporation6267]

I would absolutely do a "how fast can you beat with BusterMAX" video! A lot of ideas and runs rolling around, but that's a great one to include on the list

[@TakumiJoyconBoyz]

I wasn't one of the people who complained about the filter on the previous video, but boy does the game look much better without it.

[@arthursnyder6935]

Fun Fact: Serenade was originally supposed to have Alpha and Beta forms of its own

[@alexisdipoalo9443]

how did i never fight theses as a child... i played this game for like 3 years XD

[@NyrinTriball]

Oh you did get rid of the filter. It bothered me, but I wasn't about to tell someone to change what they might've liked. I just don't like how it blobs the graphics together, it doesn't achieve quite what a CRT did. Just the raw sharp pixels are the nicest to look at for these older games sans filters if you can't get a CRT set up (and I don't blame you if you can't)

[@Ender41948]

I admit to being a little disappointed at skipping over the impossible enemies with a gameshark. I was hoping you'd take to my idea of tracking how many battlechips is the minimum for completing Battle Network, as I think hearing you contemplate that kind of loadout, a unique one that tries to use as few chips as possible, would be a fascinating addition to the challenge, though I understand you put a lot of work into this already.

[@creationcorporation6267]

Thanks for the feedback! I agree, it really would've been interesting. The suggestion for keeping track of the minimum number of chips is a really good one, and I think that I'll start doing that from BN4, but I think that I was just really tired and ready to let go of BN3. It's definitely still my favorite game in the series, but the amount of time spent playing and editing this and the main video was really starting to get to me, so I took some shortcuts that I would have preferred not to

[@Ender41948]

@@creationcorporation6267 Oh, I totally get it! Watching this video, it's pretty clear how much work and tribulations this game was. I'm a little worried how you'll feel during BN4, but I'm glad you like my idea!

[@calemr]

​@@creationcorporation6267 For 4, Would it be possible to have a tiered system of chip requirements, like moving up to "Non damaging chips only" to "Damaging chips only for summons and shields" to "Just use chips"?

[@valyrieanson3893]

​@@creationcorporation6267 I'm thinking about starting a discord for mbn collection could I pin a link or would that be a insult?

[@creationcorporation6267]

@@valyrieanson3893 That wouldn't be an insult at all - I really appreciate you sharing!

[@GoldDragon20]

Pretty sure this was explained in the first video, but I couldn't find it, so here goes... What's with the 40 HP difference on the stats?

[@galaxian23]

good job hahaha

[@markmessi9020]

Ofc you can beat every enemy with just the buster. It's literally how you end up with guts style in BN 2 and 3

[@keyshalvern7350]

Skips to the Bass fights (exe 3)

[@fe7fe8yellowphoenix77]

Buster MAX mode: YES

[@KingYoshiGoD]

I must be blind cuz I don't even notice a difference with the filter is on or off

[@Lightwaves7984]

yeah, bass should technically be S tier automatically since you have to use a chip to get rid of his aura, which negates the buster only rule. Nice vid btw

[@cesargomez80]

bn 3 is one of the best of the series and my first one, the only reason why I didnt 100% is because I didnt have anyone to tarde bowlman chip, i remember i could kill protoman whole my friend just die trying.

[@dirilazami4166]

WE ARE NETBATTLER, WE DO NOT NEED CHEAT TO WIN IN NET BATTLE

[@matthewperutelli-zj7fc]

Buster only is going to be a lot easier in about a month