Mega Man Precision Aiming System Explained

An in-depth explanation of how the precision system of the early Mega Man games work and how it impacts the gameplay.

[@JulioMaassGames]

This is the qualitity content I need to see at 2am Today we have pre made functions for trigonometry, in the nes days they had to do everything from scratch. They didnt even have a programming language, and still pulled off a lot of great games. It never ceases to amaze me.

[@snufflepuspenguins1234]

Incredible research ! I thought it was always just my mind playing tricks when I felt some projectiles seemed to go ever so slightly faster than I expected. Turns out that's there's a whole set of mathematical equations behind them. Thanks for the info !

[@StarAllies]

Man's a Mega Genius

[@davidthecommenter]

due to this odd quirk being present in 4, i assume you're going to fix/have already fixed this issue for episode red

[@woodfrog9614]

Well any standard aiming implementation fixes this so I don't think any later official or fangames have this. That said I'll probably replicate this for consistency with the original

[@davidthecommenter]

@@woodfrog9614 "feature, not a bug" route, neat.

[@f.k.b.16]

Great explanation! Now I need to go play it again and see this for myself.

[@diamante_09]

This is better than math classes

[@irvingperes]

My god this is real gold. Thank you

[@nicolasrage1104]

As if the Buebeam Trap wasn't bad enough!

[@Zieldak]

Thanks, now I hate MM2 and its Tellies even more because thanks to this video, I have confirmed what that ugly routine I was looking at did exactly and why it was bad and terrible and why one operation in the code I couldn't wrap my head around probably broke it.

[@retropixel1272]

With SAGE 23 approaching. Will the next Sequel Wars demo focus on MM5?

[@woodfrog9614]

There won't be a demo for this SAGE, sorry.

[@joseph16582]

Ser diverse em português seria muito bom.

[@JumboDS64]

Ohh, so if you fired a bunch of projectiles in a "circle" around an entity, they would form a square instead.

[@GemTappX]

Please do MM3.

[@blossom6309]

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