[TAS] GB Mega Man II by Tremane & Noxxa in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/...
TAS originally published on 2018-12-15
This time Wily is back, or actually forwards - in time that is; where he plans to destroy the future and bring back technology to destroy the past. Join Mega Man as he too travels to the future to prevent Wily and face his greatest enemy yet.
This run has fewer major glitches than some other Mega Man runs on this site, but it still has the same classic action, and it pulls off some very unlikely maneuvers that are enjoyable to watch.
Tremane (tasvideos.org/...) & Noxxa (tasvideos.org/...) beat the previous record (tasvideos.org/...) by 00:16.96 seconds, mostly due to improved RNG and strategy changes.
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You can watch the complete run being played back on a console ( • Mega Man II TAS by Tre... ).

[@JoLiKMC]

I will defend this game to my dying breath. That being said, I'm glad people are still TASing this thing in new and interesting ways. I love this game, screechy music and all~

[@Bimshwel]

Screechy but not half as badly composed as I constantly see stated, I think, just because people like to repeat criticisms and praise when applicable so as to seem "right." I don't understand it at all. I like this much better than tunes I have already heard from other games.

[@Phun-Bun]

Humanity sucks

[@TheMamaluigi300]

@@BimshwelUhh, yeahhh… I can kinda make out existing tunes from these. It’s like they just mangled the robot masters’ respective themes and put them to a different random robot master

[@Bimshwel]

​@@TheMamaluigi300 quite a lot of megaman music sounds like each other. I still can't always be sure if I am hearing the spark mandrill or launch octopus music when it comes up on my play-list, for example. In THIS case, doubtlessly the composer Kenji Yamazaki was told to take inspiration from existing music, but did not make the new stuff identical to the nes versions, as was the case elsewhere in the gameboy series.

[@lechaflan]

This game a played I lot in my childhood. Always thought the warped clocks in the background of Wily's stage were slabs of meat.

[@theobserver4214]

I’ve always liked in this game how powerups don’t freeze you.

[@davidthecommenter]

Is feels more natural for the health bar to advance without you having to wait for it.

[@davidthecommenter]

The same way how I like that Super Mario Land and NSMB Mario vs Luigi powerups don't stop you from moving.

[@ScrambledAndBenedict]

This game takes me back man. It was the first-ever Mega Man game I ever played, I played it to absolute death, and loved every second of it. Imagine my absolute delight when I learned this was "one of the bad ones" and there were a bunch that were way better.

[@Aura_X_000]

air man in the NES : undodgable sometimes. air man in the gameboy ; *nooooooo why can you slide??!*

[@Kylorin235]

Its a quirky Megaman game with title screen music thats complete fire!

[@n-ergythemighty2283]

The quality gap between GB Mega Man II and GB Mega Man IV is almost unreal. Really goes to show the kind of power you can wield with the Game Boy once you know what you're doing.

[@magnusprime8947]

I want to play this, but with Rushjet1's versions of the music.

[@user-dk4ui8np7e]

16:15 my favourite part

[@Water_meter_enthusiast]

Wait there’s a fucking jackhammer in this game? Sold.

[@Megaman12]

Bosses Metal Man 0:03 1:18 Wood Man 2:02 3:10 Air Man 3:43 4:51 Crash Man 5:26 6:40 Magnet Man 8:59 Hard Man 10:38 Top Man 12:11 Needle Man 13:47 Quint 14:24

[@Agn-1]

17:07 wait thats illegal

[@danamation6480]

How

[@Agn-1]

@@danamation6480 it doesn't make sence that absorbing wily

[@stevenpavelish6017]

You get Wily Missile!

[@davidthecommenter]

YOU GOT OLD

[@SpyroTheEternalNight]

it can't decide if it wants to be Mega Man 2 or 3 i'm so confused

[@danijetman]

I played and finished this game yesterday and found it too easy compared to Megaman 1. Could it be?

[@MissingnoUploader]

For me it was more along the lines of "beatable". The Gameboy Mega Man games are on NSO now and I've found Dr. Wily's Revenge pretty difficult even today, I find even the first set of bosses tough and the second set is even harder. Mega Man II meanwhile was challenging but not impossible and I was able to beat it at least once.

[@egixitchiford]

No idea why people made the Air Man music into such a huge meme, the Magnet Man music is even worse IMO... Also, now I know where Capcom/Inti got the idea for the design of the MM9 Wily Machine.

[@davidthecommenter]

They butchered Magnet Man, that was a fuckin bop in the original. Sad they messed it up in this game.

[@Phun-Bun]

I love all of the music in this game, and I don't care if it's earrape

[@amso7169]

magnet man is still a banger theme here compositionally, it just got butchered by bad instrumentation/pitch

[@abraveastronaut]

​@@Phun-Bun EarBDSM

[@psyguyyggdrasil9071]

I played this thinking it was mega man 2 for nes on my Gameboy

[@boofis8953]

Your stage in this game music isn’t good huh AIRMAN

[@rodonic01]

Why the reupload? Copyright issues or what?

[@ezgames6925]

Rodolfo Leonardo de la Riva the previous one was made without alt sync enabled, which caused some unintended audio pitches.

[@PrinceWatercressXadara]

That explains the audio sounding a bit off at the beginning in the original upload, then.

[@aranthur4866]

11:35 what happen

[@eSit0]

shooting a hard knuckle 1 frame before the screen-transition skips the next room for some kind of reason..

[@jamieisanidiot]

Is he hacking or is the game so broken, he goes through things?

[@eSit0]

it's broken due to the hardknuckle messing with values when fired 1 frame before megaman enters a new screen

[@craigmcpherson1455]

Why is music and sound so bad compared to the other Gameboy MegaMan games?

[@Zelinkokitsune]

Because they outsourced it to a different company to develop it for them.

[@theobserver4214]

Zelinkokitsune The company that did it also had no experience with the Game Boy’s sound, they were previously only developing for Game Gear and Master System. Had that been the original platform, maybe this wouldn’t have turned out so bad.

[@Bimshwel]

For a gameboy game this really isn't bad, apart from the pitch going too high at points.

[@luisjogos821]

due to a sound driver bug that appeared super late in development.

[@AliciaRodriguez-ip3yn]

The worst game from the megaman Gameboy series

[@tycoonthemaestro]

right. it's garbage in GB Series.

[@siyahseeker]

But then it was remade in Mega Man Maker...and it looks spectacular now!