The Weird and Terrible Mega Man DOS Games

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[@kieranstark7213]

@@StuffWePlay Mega Man X7: I am the most disappointingly bad Mega Man game. ... Fully Charged: And I am the most disappointingly bad Mega Man series. The Mega Man DOS hexalogy: Hold my willy!

[@TheGoldenBolt]

Seeing MS-DOS Mega Man's sprite finally makes it clear where Cyanide and Happiness's artstyle came from

[@StuffWePlay]

This is officially the best take.

[@TheCoolKidLmao]

Lol 😎

[@blorfgur5430]

However, when you’re a 5-year-old boy living in a house with no consoles and only a handful of PC games, Mega Man 3 DOS is freaking amazing. I played that so much as a kid in the early 90’s. I didn’t care about the lack of story or music because I had nothing to compare it to. I didn’t mind taking my time figuring out how to approach a tough jump or how to defeat a trickily-placed enemy. I remember usually fighting Torch Man first and Bit Man last because his stage was hardest for me. I think I only ever beat the whole game once or twice. It’s still the only Mega Man game I’ve ever played, but I have no regrets. (and Bit Man will forever be my nemesis)

[@GtotheNextLevel]

I always find PC renditions of console games from the 8 and 16-bit era fascinating, but thankfully I didn't succumb to getting this when I was younger. It is cool that the dev got it made though, even if it's not good. Great video as always!

[@Biscuit64]

G to the Next Level I Didn’t Even Know That MegaMan X was On Dos, Also Impressive Sonic Collection!

[@StuffWePlay]

Thank you! An absolutely, even if the game isn't good, the fact that he got his passion project published by Capcom is still admirable!

[@Biscuit64]

Wow, The MegaMan 3 Dos Game predicted the future for robot masters to come

[@StuffWePlay]

Indeed it did!

[@castroller1358]

Except for Bit Man.....or does Bit from X3 also count?

[@TheSuperiorLite]

@@castroller1358 IDK

[@Biscuit64]

Holy Cow! That MegaMan X PC looks Amazing!

[@StuffWePlay]

I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered it!

[@Pupppeteer]

My computer doesn't have a staggering 512kb of ram. Sorry I'm too weak to fight wily... 😔

[@Biscuit64]

RayareReviewing It’s Ok We All Have Potatoe PC’s once in our life.

[@StuffWePlay]

I bet your current computer isn't even running MS-DOS 5!

[@Biscuit64]

Stuff We Play B-but I’m 12 and I don’t have a computer 😢 Why are adults always mean 😖

[@Pupppeteer]

@@StuffWePlay I didn't even know they released that yet!

[@Pupppeteer]

@@Biscuit64 sometimes potatoes make for good computers and food lol. But due to the current quarantine times maybe I should eat my computer.

[@LeilaRWilson]

Back in '95, my Brother at I stopped at a Comp USA while on vacation, and stumbled across the PC version of Megaman X. If my memory serves, though, it came with a huuuuuge box that included a weird knock-off SEGA Genesis controller (all grey, and 6 buttons.) He might still even have that controller, but I'm unsure. It'd be pretty wrecked by now. I was surprised to see you could get it without those things! D:

[@StuffWePlay]

I actually saw a few box art pictures of that version of the game! According to the full big box, that Capcom PC pad was a whole $15 value... Which, actually, isn't half bad for a Capcom-branded controller!

[@LeilaRWilson]

@@StuffWePlay I was starting to wonder if I had completely hallucinated the whole thing! Glad to see I didn't! I recall the controller actually being really *really* good, too, on top of the branding.

[@june8997]

Ok, maybe it is worse than Megaman and Bass, but I still haven't forgiven mm&b

[@StuffWePlay]

MM&B is terrible, but these games are sins

[@blossom6309]

@@StuffWePlay really mega man and bass is not bad

[@castroller1358]

@@StuffWePlay Then try doing a What Went Wrong on MM&B

[@mohdadeeb1829]

@@castroller1358 I finished Mega Man & Bass As Mega Man Using Buster Only (Charged Shots) Buying No Upgrades and in one sitting

[@Biscuit64]

I Hate The Why MegaMan Looks In The Boss Select Screen.

[@StuffWePlay]

Same here

[@Wolfkaosaun]

Everything about the gameplay hurts my eyes and brain

[@StuffWePlay]

Same here bro

[@AnyaPanda]

Pour one out for ya boy, Bootleg Chinatown Togepi™! 🤘🏻🔥 Love that guy, what a true inspiration. Amazing video as always, my dude. I'm always so floored at the amount of work you put into each of your videos (also kudos to you for suffering through all of these games, bruh I could NEVER). 😫👏🏻

[@StuffWePlay]

Thank you so much for the kind words! Chinatown Togepi is great, and I actually have an entire set of bootleg Pokémon toys like that haha! I'll probably go get more once I'm no longer quarantining

[@ultrairrelevantnobody1862]

Mega Man 3 DOS has better swimming mechanics than Mega Man 8. That's just sad.

[@StuffWePlay]

I disagree. Mega Man 8's swimming mechanics actually work

[@ultrairrelevantnobody1862]

It does, but it's extremely floaty and letting go of the D-Pad doesn't halt your momentum, resulting in a few cheap hits if you don't have the hang of it, and feeling imprecise overall. I take the stiff and clunky feeling instead.

[@thatmarioguytmg369]

the Dos mega man x was actually a remake not a port, The guy who made the first two dos mega man games was tasked with putting mega man x on the pc but this time with help from Capcom. They reused all the assets from mega man x but had to remake the game.

[@emeralddragonz2.019]

Tbh, it’s sad how both Mega Man DOS and its sequel were handled. Maybe one day we could see a full-fledge fan game that does a whole lot more with these two games

[@azurecorviknight4189]

I Might Create a Megaman DOS 2, because it did not have one. "Story, Dr wily created a new threat named Diskonance, and her 8 Following Robot Masters, as megaman you gotta stop Dr Wily & Diskonance! It also has music & plays like a Megaman Game!

[@Biscuit64]

Wouldn’t it run and look better if you played it on the newest PC’s back then?

[@StuffWePlay]

I was playing it mostly on the best settings, except for some scattered clips from when I tested out CGA mode

[@MichaelF267]

after watching this video before commenting, I decided to watch a game play of it on a channel called "World-of-Longplays". I couldn't get through 3 of the 14 minutes. I had to shut the video off. YIKES

[@StuffWePlay]

Yikes indeed! It's dreadful!

[@thedailytoast4872]

I don't like how Steve rozner is looking at me

[@TankEngine75]

I felt bad for the kids who just heard of Mega Man but didn't have a console so they got the DOS versions of 1 and 3 instead(tho the X version of DOS is a solid port of the SNES version except for the absence of the Ride Armours and not really as good but still good music so I don't feel bad for the Kids who just heard of Mega Man but doesn't have a console so they bought X for DOS)

[@thecrownedninja3121]

Why does megaman have flashman's buster on the cover for the first game?

[@Silenced23]

Yes, weird and horrible but have you seen the story behind this game? It was pretty much the first fan made game that was published. The man who made it had just him and his brother. He wrote the code from the ground up in his spare time. It might be bad and weird, but you gotta give the guy credit. He's the first fan made game to get published and gave people a way to sorta play it if they didn't have a Nintendo. This was made on an Apple II !!!!

[@MarcosCodas]

Hmmm, even though I've been playing on PC since the 90s, I don't remember playing many very bad ones, to be honest. I think I was just very lucky. But I prefer to focus on the best ones I've ever played, and while some are very famously good (like Age of Empires II), I try to celebrate the lesser known gems, like Microsoft Studio's FREELANCER.

[@StuffWePlay]

Fair points! On my end, some of my most dreadful PC gamimg experiences came from trying to run popular new titles on ageing hardware haha

[@emmamaki5862]

I finally know what BDG meant when he said "Shark Man DOS... not need to exist"

[@stephenvanbellinghen933]

was only way i had to play mega man x in 95 was very happy with it. i did not know it was a console game til years later

[@Seafoamgaming]

I knew a lot about the Mega Man DOS games, but the MMX1 PC port hasn't really been discussed much, so this was a fun watch indeed. Surprised how close it was to the SNES original, I just assumed it was a ROM Copy like X3 PC copying the PSOne port, but it's indeed a port made from the ground up. I wouldn't mind seeing the other weird Mega Man PC ports looked at too, if that's a thing you decide to get back to (Mega Man Legends 1 and X3 were both PC ported and I hear the L1 port has some odd differences from the PSone game, but I'm not sure what those are outside of just being a clunkier version to play)

[@StuffWePlay]

Perhaps some time I'll disciss other odd Retro PC games in the future. Super Mario Bros. Special, perhaps?

[@Mojavekight17]

Retro Reviews1.7

[@marx4538]

Things i noticed in MMX for DOS that you haven't mentioned: -The screen resolution is actually wider and could be even called "true widescreen" -Sigma Palace in the ending looks completely different, plus different palettes in the ending. -Different effects? Maybe? Like when the rocks fall on 22:15 Aside from that, great review! By the way, i've seen someone make a mod that fixes MMX DOS's soundtrack, but i couldn't get it to work on DOSBox.

[@StuffWePlay]

If you can, definitely link me that on Discord! I think I'ld love to go back and look at all the weird Mega Man PC ports sometime

[@amso7169]

actually, you can get the hadouken in mega man x dos. it uses the snes tactic and actually makes it easier by making you not die tons of times. keep in mind you need to reach the secret area with all upgrades, all heart tanks, all sub tanks, and full health.

[@StuffWePlay]

How odd. I wonder if there was something wonky going on with my copy, as the SNES tactic just did not work for me for some reason!

[@roberthornibrook6344]

Worst pc game of all time: Stalin vs the Martians. Do a video on that and I guarantee you'll go tally ho barf barf! lol

[@StuffWePlay]

I'm game.

[@marx4538]

That game is peak art.

[@roberthornibrook6344]

Noo don't drop that dreamcast! lol Megaman for dos, wow.

[@StuffWePlay]

That reminds me, I need to work more on that Dreamcast guide

[@jomon324]

I have a very odd question: what was the background music used from 7:22 to 7:54? It sounded very interesting and I would like to hear it standalone, plus know who composed it if at all possible.

[@stephenvanbellinghen933]

commander keen used pc speaker and that was also 1990. iD software considered it innovative at the time and originally made it as a mario game they though would stun nintendo for PC market. As a dos game these are not bad at all for their timeframes

[@doozy5184]

As someone who actually likes these games, I guess I can see where you're coming from. It isn't as good as the nes games, and unless you're someone like me who enjoys stuff that is generally considered to be terrible, it isn't really worth giving it more thought than it's worth. Though I should really play that Mega Man X port sometime, I haven't played the X series in a while.

[@maximussampson2218]

"Why is torch man in a sewer" - Hahhahaaha

[@unknown_guy5366]

hey heat man also in the sewer

[@El_Febo_Abel]

¿Megaman 3 was released before to this DOS game?.

[@cloner-x9760]

Darn it seeing the comment section makes me feel that I should have arrived earth sooner I have never played mega man

[@allhailthewhale1423]

Dude that track was fucking groovy what are you on

[@refth6893]

You know, the nes mega man 1 is better then that awful dos version

[@StuffWePlay]

MM1 is legit pretty good!

[@alwaysangry2232]

what hurts the more is that ID software and space ludite and 4th dimensional arbiter of reality Jhon Carmack wanted td do megaman but not, capcom choose shit tech expressions,

[@VampireA1056]

I played Street Fighter 1

[@blossom6309]

Where is mega man dos 2

[@GBlastMan]

worst PC port i ever played? easy Megaman X7 and RE4 for PC, its so bad that at one point Zero's ponytail always glitched out at the very begining of his stages and it refused to even load properly, several stages crashed on me and the PC that i had at that time was quite beefy to play Doom 3 on decent settings. As for RE4 i never got that to work properly the first time i brought it, it always crashed right after the first cutscene rendering the game unplayable, i do remember getting a 100% save file to circunvent this issue so i could replay the first part after the cutscene and save it but since RE4 doesnt allows you to do that i had to play the end boss and even that worked like ass, never touched the PC port ever again since how busted was at launch, and i had recently at that time brought the DMC3 PC port and that worked just fine (it isnt the best one by far but still pretty decent if you didnt had a PS2)

[@samuel_rowbotham]

I knew mm1 was awful but i still enjoyed playing it when i was 12 or whatever, 😄.

[@BrunoPolar]

Great video, thanks!

[@StuffWePlay]

Glad you liked it!

[@cowgaming7186]

smh megaman dos is the best megaman game ever created!

[@intel386DX]

the greatest review for that topic ever! I wonder why he just did not took the graphics from the NES versions, but made those ugly and poor new ones :(

[@StuffWePlay]

To be fair, that was easier said than done back in those DOS days! I'm glad you enjoyed the review, though!

[@intel386DX]

@@StuffWePlay belive me it loud be easier to directly took NES graphics, and not drow the new uglier ones :(. BTW I made a Mega Man MOD of one very cool new homebrew DOS game in Text mode called MagiDuck with a help from the games author :) the target PC is 8088 with 256KB ram and CGA :) take a look :) so I took the graphics form the mega man 1 for NES and reduce the resolution to fit in the graphics limitations :)

[@TheCoolKidLmao]

My dodo code F8T1G

[@GamingPlayer123]

Wow, this version looks way worse than Mega Man for the Game Gear. At least that one had content for being on a smaller-scale console.

[@StuffWePlay]

Mega Man Game Gear is actually pretty decent! My biggest issue with that one is the insane price!

[@GamingPlayer123]

I have tried it myself and it isn't bad compared to those two atrocities. It's actually decent, as you said.

[@austinreed7343]

@@StuffWePlay Meanwhile these at least have some original content. Game Gear MM doesn’t.

[@adraxas13]

Second

[@StuffWePlay]

Woop woop!

[@Alex_Off-Beat]

It might just be your DOSBox settings but the MMX PC version looks awful. It's like they tried to hide the fact that it can barely hit 20FPS by just running the game at double speed.

[@hrvallejoMKT]

Agree to disagree about MM on DOS being the worst game ever. Sonic 06 is delicious top cringe, but as mediocre as the MM DOS game is: it isn't developed by a big company with a large budget and lots of wasted talent! Not to say that Rozner is kinda free of sin, but him working mostly alone and being an upstart programmer at that time was probably pretty hard.

[@MrRudePolite]

The mega man 3 box has the same image of mega man as the game boy box which is the same as the dos version box. Did anyone notice?

[@jimnorris9765]

Blow Sonic Man?? Surprised they let this one go without NC 17 rating.