So, apparently the ending of the English version of Mega Man 7 was changed from the Japanese version. I wasn't aware of that. But, we still have robots allowing themselves to become Robot Masters of their own accord in Mega Man 9, so I'm pretty sure that still counts as free will. I read somewhere that Onimusha was a series of fighting games. My source was apparently wrong. The only one I've played has been "Blade Warriors" and it was only to get the footage of Mega Man for this video. I apologize for these errors, and they will be corrected during the full compiled version of this Iceberg. I edited the thumbnail because someone complained about spoilers on the thumbnail of my first Iceberg video, so I decided to change it a little. There are a few unfortunate editing errors. I blame myself for rushing, and Vegas for being difficult, liking to freeze at random moments, and having to shuffle the layers around several times. These too will be fixed in the re-release. I'll try to not take forever with Part 3. My goal for that one is September 5th. Thank you all for watching!
Robot Masters technically is an English term referring to the term boss robot as in boss of the stage. It’s been used in western media to refer to robots of higher thought capability though they don’t have complete free will since they still have a function to fulfill though have the freedom to choose the method so vague programming like Rock and Bass allow a lot of leeway in what they can do. Reploids like X have absolute freedom to choose though it seems many reploids being built with a purpose in mind have a predisposition to the job though have the choice to leave it for something else if they so choose. This is where X’s hesitation and worry are apparent since he had no predisposed purpose so wonders about his actions many times among other areas where his distinct worry and hesitation come into play… also yeah Megaman English localization has been a mess at times from what I hear from lore buffs who carry what seems to be 95% of all the sources translated from Japanese to English as well as understanding a fair amount of the nuances in language
Okay so here's the thing about the Master series of Robots. While they are very advanced in the ways they're able to communicate, "think" and emote. Ultimately this is still all programming. They are behaving has programmed. They are not able to grow or develop outside of this programming. Zero, X and the other reploids that were derived from him are different, they can grow, evolve, change over time and are free to think whatever they wish. If a robot exhibits the desire to "rebel" against people that is ultimately it's programming, either an oversight or by design. For example: in 300 years Roll would still act like a six year old girl. However if she were a reploid, though she may start out acting the same way has Robot Roll, after that same 300 years she would act and think like a 300 year-old woman. With a worldview and personality that is radically different than when she was first built. This is also why Doctor Light still always uses the term "robot"; which is derived from slave, in the classic era, but he specifically did not, nor does anyone, ever use that term for X, Zero or the Reploids.
1:08:15 That scene is actually changed in the English version. In the Japanese, he never states to be more than Human, or anything like that. He just says "..." and then puts his buster away, being unable to garm Wily due to not having true free will
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say for the Navi master part, LANs dad created megaman so it’s safe to assume he has some sort of program that monitors megaman and he probably has video recordings of his netbattles so recreating image data for navis he fought would make sense
I remember the MMBN4 Dark License rumors as well. I did eventually legitimately remove the dark chip hp loss penalty on my copy of MMBN4. For the longest time I had no idea how I triggered this. I recently asked in the N1 Grand Prix discord server about this. If I recall correctly the explanation was there being some cap on the maximum amount of hp you can lose but don't quote me on that. Thus the rumors continue lol.
@@snatcherofpeachs I remember hearing THAT method back in the day. It basically is sort of a data-cap, from what I understand. Not really related to Dark License, but still, that's how you (eventually) stop losing HP.
Videos like this really make it obvious how downright weird the Battle Network universe is. Random decorative statues have pointless computers inside them!
The thing with megaman being on all those battle chips kinda bothered me at first. but now I like to imagine that all those chips have essentially a blank place holder navi that gets replaced with the netops navi. So if chaud used an elec sword chip it would be protoman on the display and not megaman.
Sort of my thoughts on it. How else are you supposed to get battle chips from virtual viruses, if not just downloading the data to blank cards? The PETs probably have a writing function for battle chip data, so it would take and make a picture on the card of whatever your Navi is. Similar to the AI image makers we see nowadays. Though that doesn't explain the other battle chips with different Navis on them, either ones of known navis or the random unknown ones.
Man, the DarkMemory part in BN4 is probably the most interesting bit of information I've seen in a long time. If somehow an E-Reader card is found, and it becomes real, it's gonna be huge.
I think the first Rockman.exe is still a horror game If you think about it, the WWW's actions aren't terrifying in a supernatural sense, but how their actions affect the world do have a hopeless feel. Burning houses, changing traffic lights, freezing the water, trapping people, probably they still used scary situations and feelings to create the story but no making horror with monsters
@@FlashingBladesProductions BN2 is worse I’d argue. Suffocating a group of kids in a house, flooding the forest by blowing up a dam, as well as crashing a plane.
@@FlashingBladesProductions the bias factions about political unrest, War on drugs, Graphic scenery, riots, WWW's Actions, Social Backlash, the conspiracy Issues is meaningless.
When you spoke of copies of navis who are from overseas - my first thought was "they could email files, this is the internet", then i remembered... this is the battle network series, emailing files is rather inconsistent on how it actually works.
Things that baffle me the most is that there are still uncover secret inside the game to this day. I mean with how easy data dumping, modding and hacking of GBA rom have been, I thought that the game would have been searched inside out by now. But apparently there are data out there that can only be obtain during events or specific version of the game, and I sincerely want to know the whole story
About how suspicious Higsby is in Battle Network games where he knows too much, that gives off a suspicious vibe, despite how negative Higsby is towards Dark Chips, for some odd reason in BN5, some of his Numberman Lotto codes, gives free Dark Chips. Higsby, seriously, you warn Lan and Megaman about the dangers of Dark Chips, which makes you suspicious enough already, but in the very next game, you have Numberman Lotto codes that gives Operators Dark Chips, the very kind of Battle Chips you told Lan to NOT use!
I'd argue Hub/Saito being a netnavi is more of a fma reference with Alphosne's spirit being attached to suit of armour in order for his death to be prevented.
29:15 I live in Brazil and we got these figurines, so they probably aren't exclusive to Australia. My guess is that they were released when the toy line was winding down and there weren't many of these produced.
23:10 - Only tangentially related but I also loved the one-shot Ryo did to promote Mega Man 11. Mostly since I’m a sucker for good fights and power scaling shenanigans, and Ryo great at illustrating how the Double Gear used by Light and Wily in this game escalated the dynamics in power compared to the Genesis Unit from the post-3 Wily Wars, Ra Moon from the non-canon/post-5 Super Adventure Rockman, the Mega Man Killers and Star Droids from the Game Boy series, Bass and the Super Adapters from 7, and Duo as well as Evil Energy in 8. Short and sweet while illustrating the resolute optimism of Mega Man himself.
@52:32 A Digital Videoman would most likely use Dvd discs as projectiles similar to Metal Man and lasers among the other dvd player abilities (pause, rewind, etc)
I can't wait to see the video! Edit: Woah! It was a great watch! The execution was great and I can definitely see that this took a lot of time (1+ hour video literally), and the amount of entries too, I never thought that the exe series would contain so much lore :0 So yeah, keep doing your best!
59:01 - What gets me about Jack’s utter failure here is that Lan and MegaMan couldn’t even be bothered to Style Change like in immediately prior episodes. Just shows how far World Three, and ElecMan especially, fell way off as a threat at this early point in the show.
they wanted to keep mr match around for the whole Heatman part, and had to keep all of them, but after the end of the first arc, they had nothing else going for them. heck, they needed to create a whole charather out of 15 lines and a sprite for jahoot!
That actually makes me wonder If the names of dead Navi's that were eventually revived with back up data are still in the grave yard area, does that mean the revived Navi's aren't the originals and the deleted ones are still gone? This actually reminds me of that one teleportation paradox where the question is asked "is the person on the other side still you if it's made from a new set of molecules?" Or better yet the Ship of Thesius. Is the backed up Navi still the same Navi?
To be fair, the first time, I didn't really point it out until I revisited BN3 years later. If I remember, I played BN3, watched Tamers, then played BN3 some more a bit later, and it was only THEN that I noticed the similarities.
In the anime the reason why the navi mark is where all the navi's core data is stored. Similar to a copy bot being a blank body and the nave being an overlay is about the same in the anime. The navi's body is mostly a digital doll while their souls are stored in their navi marks. This also explains how rock gains a double soul by gaining some of a navi's data through their marks or how they revive rock after he was deleted in season 1.
58:32 In the RockMan.Exe Beast+ season, her death is confirmed, and apparently later Mama Zap is a hologram or something guarding a jewel in the mansion's remains. If I remember correctly it's episode 12.
I like that when describing the Cybersword/Buster toy, WATCH put combat in quotations. Like, bitch, I'd bring that to a real fight. It is both a gun and a sword, so I don't have to choose between the two. Gone are the days of showing up to ye olde duel, only to awkwardly find out your opponent left his firearm at home, but conveniently has his rapier on him.
@48:15 God Stone (Bottom right) isn't a Virus, but the golem in the image appears in Battle Network 1. Once you get Stoneman's HP down to a low enough number, he will summon these. Also, the golem in the image looks similar to some enemies that appear in Swordman's stage from Megaman 8.
Chaud being a little kid is really really fucking funny mostly because I think the idea of giving a child access to military technology because hes basically a really good gamer is amazing
The only theory I could come up with about Mega being on all the chips, is that the PET saves the chip image with the active Navi when you get it... In the anime, the chip graphic looks like it fades when it's depleted, and there has to be some way for a blank chip to have an image when you write to it...
I would like to comment on that one little bit about a plot hole being made about X being the first robot with free will. In the X series timeline, X was discovered, and all the reploids were based off of him. The original Megaman is completely unknown to these people, meaning any knowledge about Light's robotics and Megaman's tales were completely lost somehow. Plus, I believe that entry we saw about X being the first robot with free will was made by Dr. Cain, who does not have any knowledge about the original Megaman. I don't believe it's a plot hole, but rather meant to represent the loss of Light's original work. Also, great friggin' video. I consider myelf a massive fan of Battle Network, and I wasn't aware of most of the facts in the first AND second parts. Can't wait for part 3.
The X intro is a Dr Light warning and the Megaman 7 instance is localization going rampant with changes. Classic series robots show limited free will, they can choose how to reach their programming and the more vague it is the more freedom but they in the end must reach it. That’s why reploids are special where they can choose to do whatever and think about their actions more and hesitate with X being foremost in worry and hesitation making him the most human
@@Xeno-The-Wanderer Ohhhhh, I didn't know that intro was from Light. I knew about the stuff between classic series robots and reploids, but didn't think it was necessary for my comment since I thought it was Dr. Cain lol.
I'll put my two cents into the "Cybeast Cult" and tie it with the "Horror Game" bit. You see, there's this author called H. P. Lovecraft, he wrote about a subgenre of horror called "Cosmic". The narrative usually involved someone getting too curious for their own good, and discovering Cults of people speaking unknown languages and Old Gods names. Like the Cybeasts are: old and so massive you can get mad just trying to comprehend their influence. Games based on it tend to have a Bad Ending, or at least a bittersweet one. The original Alone in the Dark was inspired by Lovecraft works, and most of its creatures are locked under the sea, outside our Universe, dead or sleeping. World of Warcraft was another game that drank from that fountain, but I reckon Rockman EXE goes for more of an adult fear: you never know if your kids are going to be safe from kidnappers, arsonists, terrorists, hackers and the like. This last type is so advanced and skilled that, as a normal person, I can only imagine this world is horrible to live in. Because they can force your car to keep going over a red light, or a train to lose its brakes... And there's nothing you can do, you just have to wait for an 11 year-old to show up and save the day for you! Of course, this all ties to the supernatural entries on the Iceberg, whenever you speak of ghosts, dead humans or Navis, how they can cross the boundaries between the worlds and sometimes even those thin, blur and almost stop existing.
I think theres some dark server somewhere thats old as heck that has Shade-man on back up, and constantly stores his memory, so any time he dies it just rebuilds him and waltzs around like its nothing.
I do like the idea of some next gen Navi's being a form of digitized human. While not a megaman game. Like Halo explaining how AI are created by bombarding radiation on a donated human brain. There was also a game named SOMA where there is a possibility of how a human can become a digitized human, by performing a brain scan, while originally to help with brain based injuries like a brain hemorrhage or possibly cancer. The idea is that the brain scan itself is a form of save state before the brain can resume. And once transferred into a body, or possibly a digital body. Uptime for the brain can resume like how actual running programs would work. And the person who was last scanned end up suddenly waking up in an unfamiliar location with their last recollection of being their brain scanned.
There is still something that bugs me about the Star Force series... What happened to the Navis from the Battle Network series? or the ones that came after? and aren't they supposed to be immortal or something? I always found it weird that no one talks about them or the PETs in Star Force.
If their data is properly maintained (and they aren't Shademan), then they can have a very long life. But, if not maintained, they can just kinda fall apart like Tadashi Hikari's Navi in BN5. But, you do have a point. There ARE some NPC programs called "Navis" in SF, but none of them really have a lot of impact on the story outside of being just a tool, like to control a crane or something. Even if it DOES take place 200 years later, you'd think that such major events would be referenced because it's a fictional world, and it's a direct sequel.
@@FlashingBladesProductions And now we see why starforce failed where battle network succeeded. Tge sad part is, there are some really good concepts in the star force series. Like the post game in starforce 2.
There are Navis in starforce but think of it like pagers and I guess more recently home phones where they were heavily used but main infrastructure has changed to fit cell phones. They usually operate older systems or construction equipment in starforce universe.
@@FlashingBladesProductions Kinda late, but if i had to take a guess, they were gonna bring that up somehow in SF4. Maybe they were gonna have Kazuma (or someone else) introduce Geo to a secret society that still uses Navis? If so, that could also be a good excuse to have a few older Navis show up. Hell, they could have Kazuma use Megaman.EXE, or a Navi related to him.
@@akesan2374 man that would of been awesome still have Regular Geo and OmegaXis transformations for wave battles, and build a new navi team for a new style of liberation missions or heists, it was all supposed to be about hacking right?
Adding to the similarity with Digimon, besides Alpha and the D-Reaper, what about NebulaGray and VenomMyotismon having almost the same abdomen (with six eyes on them) and them both being mindless beasts of evil and destruction? I know this one could be a coincidence as they could simply have similar design inspirations which I don't know about, but being a fan of both series', it always stood out to me, and I wanted to bring it up.
1:05:23 - Emphasis on loosely since PharaohMan is depicted as a formidable WWW lackey like in the games rather than an a discount manga Alpha like in the anime. Also you can fight and legitimately beat Bass in the boss rush mode.
1:09:26 - probably not, it’s just as likely that whatever truck or chute that piled in the PETs just emptied out from top to bottom so that the bottom contents (the BN6 devices and prior) flowed to the top as a consequence. Some diving might reveal newer models underneath.
Fun little fact that ties into the navis in the real world bit. When Maylu and Roll cross fused with the rush synchro chip, they actually maintained the fusion after the dimensional area faded. Though they canceled the fusion by taking off their helmet shortly after.
1:02:27 I distinctly remember getting these vibes when I first played the series way back when. Took me ages to stop being scared of the game to get past Gust-man in blue version.
so initially i thought swordman's different personalities may have been a reference to kamen rider den-o but then i realized den-o actually came out 4 years later. Maybe they share a common inspiration?
24:34 - A small aside, I personally posit that Network Transmission takes place during and directly overwrites the post-game of the original Battle Network. Besides you getting to rematch a bunch of the main story Navis from the first game, you also face the three superbosses (ShadowMan, PharaohMan, and Bass) in plot-driven circumstances before they become more relevant in 2.
For the 'dangerous' CyberSword toy, I explicitly remember stabbing at my brother with it, accidentally catching him in the eye, and subsequently having it taken away by my parents T_T So maybe 'dangerous' but no more so than any other toy sword or nerf gun, etc. ... I still miss it T_T
I still remember when I got the Nerf Longshot for Christmas and shot my sister point-blank between the eyes by accident (I didn't understand how the priming bar worked), and immediately got it taken away.
54:24 - I am so hyped to catch that review when it’s out, I wanna know what happens since I got the re-release Tomes and have no idea what’s going on. The action is great though, the Life Virus is the strongest it’s ever been in any canon and there’s a lot of great group brawls to behold.
Another instance of unexplained Cyber folks in real life, Bn2 features an hp memory that you can only get by talking to a mr. Prog hiding in the mother computer room.
I KNEW IT! I KNEW there was a random Navi or Prog in the real world of BN2 but I couldn't remember WHERE. I thought it was a Normal Navi in Okuden Valley, but I guess not. I remember that one now, though. Thank you! I was racking my brain trying to remember where that guy was!
At 47:52 I think the reason Megaman and other known navis appear in so many Battle Chips, is the same reason we see Zero or Vile Posters, Megaman Zero carpets or Roll Casket figurines: BN's World is a parallel to our world. Megaman is a famous franchise in their world so naturally people make net navis/battle chips based on characters from the Megaman Franchise. If you think about it, us players ARE technically all Megaman.EXE operators just by playing the game on multiplayer, so multiple Megaman.EXE does technically exist. This explains why Lan, Megaman and any other character never comments about why Megaman or other navis are featured in some battle chips, because in universe it's not uncommon to see the same type of navi being used. (Also note that no human character is featured in any battle chip, only navis.) This theory goes even further if you consider BN4.5, where by default you can choose Megaman, Roll, Gutsman or Numberman to be your navi... all of them already have canonical operators and there they are, being operated by other people, the player. Of course, none of this is canon in anyway, but I think it's a cool way to connect our world to Battle Network :)
@47:32 "Navis on Battle Chip Icons" God Stone (bottom right chip) resembles an enemy from Sword Man stage of Megaman 8. Look up a walk through of the stage so you can see who I'm referring to. The Hero Sword guy looks like a low-resolution Zero from Megaman X but without his long hair. That or the pink navi with horns mentioned earlier. Not sure about Old Wood and the Punch chips. Like you mentioned in a new video, it resembles an Iron Man suit but the red cape also gives Ultron/Red Cowl vibes.
@3:45 funnily enough, Network Transmission was my first Megaman game, and I saw Bug Style and was enraptured but so furious I couldn’t find how to get it. It wasn’t until years later when I finally beat MMBN3 that I unlocked bug style and Hub style and actually learned what they were.
43:33 The site actually does still exist but this particular page does not. Guess they purge archives after a while. In 2020 they gave the same warning for "WWE JUMBO SUPERSTAR FISTS" (actually called WWE _John Cena_ Jumbo Superstar Fists _Toy,_ though I am not sure why "toy" is part of the official product name) which are _plush_ fists. The Darksaber being on the list for 2020 also drew ire from Star Wars fans because of course it did. People like them are why clackers aren't a thing anymore. RIP Joseph Joestar.
I think Shademan's immortality is similar to Kreisnik's from devil survivor perhaps he may had to be killed in a specific way or by a specific person. In Kreisnik's case if he was killed in the first fight he becomes too strong to be killed by the vampire hunter since he didn't get weakened before killed which results in a character being killed during the second fight with Kreisnik
1:08:11 That part from MM7 is only exclusive for the Western release. In the OG release, Mega Man says nothing as Wily mentioned the first law of robotics to him.
1:17:01 It just occurred to me that this design is derivative of the GUMP (Gun+COMP) from the first Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers game (a spinoff of the Shin Megami Tensei series).
1:13:43 I remember that as a child Battle Network 4 confused me a lot and more because of the glitches in the game. To the point where the game got weird every time it got past that part where you beat Yuko.
I missed a popular MMBN Creepypasta BECAUSE of the EXE tagline. I found some OTHER MegaMan Creepypastas, but missed "Reaper Scythe: Dark Chip" until a few months ago.
1:29 Hades is in fact _not_ god of the dead but rather god of the underworld and also commerce (this is actually referenced in FFXIV with Nald'Thal). He has authority over the dead with his position but he is never considered a ruler of the dead in any form. Even the _Disney_ version got this right for all of its liberties, as Hades always introduces himself as "Lord of the Underworld" and that version has no qualms with abusing his position for his own gain (even resurrecting Jafar in Hercules The Animated Series and Auron from FFX instead of a KH version of him like other FF characters in Kingdom Hearts).
the thing about Duo and king chaos is that they got retconned by starforce (or, well, starforce is the whole concept of Duo's area expanded to the extreme) as EM beings and the relative breacks from the full on digital setup. gonna throw poltergeist navi in there as well, and basically all of the bull of wandering navi, bugs with a will of their own, the graveyard and specter to the setup that the net is by rules built over the ancient tribes spots of 'servers' due to how the rule of the world works not really satisfying, but it ends up very clean the navichip are supposedly created by the direct user similarly to any chip item chip like rockcube, I'd suppose that specific non-virus based chips, like muramasa work on a similar concept, a single pop, with muramasa and the other evil chip absorbing the energy from the darkchip being produced during 4&5 and altering how they work
First. I apologize if a detail I gave in my comment about GraveyardArea was incorrect. (Hakushaku's part) Second: I forgot about Zap and Gauss are brother. Regal's corspe looks shockingly detailed. And a lot of interesting details. Battle Network can get really confusing and interesting. Really good video! I'll be patient for the third part. Take your time!
Ah, The Immortal Area? Yeah, that doesn't make a lot of sense as to why Hakushaku has a Graveyard Clone for his area, unless it's supposed to be a pun on how Vampires are the Living Dead. I get that they likely didn't have the room for assets to give him his own unique area, but at least make it like a pallet swap or something. Yeah, I didn't know that until I watched the anime. I remember seeing that the first time and being like "That's weird. Why would they add that?" Kinda like how in the manga, Bubbleman and Spoutman are brothers, when in the games, Bubbleman's brother was Drillman.... for some reason. Thank you. ^_^ thanks for your contributions!
Again nice video, man (haha). But we do a have a theory on the Graveyard area. We theorize that Graveyard area "tombs" actually alter based on the Navi who is using them. Basically the "tombs" reads the battledata from the Navi who is currently looking at them. So when Megaman uses them, it reads his battledata and shows him every navi he has battled. As for why it shows Navis who have been revived, the "tombs" don't take that in account as it only goes by the Navi battledata which includes Navis who were deleted but revive. So for example, say a Navi who has deleted 3 Navis and goes to the Graveyard Area, and they use the "tombs", the "tombs" will only show those 3 navis that they deleted.
Every Graveyard Area Is Personalized. Could be kinda like Black Earth, where the mirrors reflect your soul. But that still doesn't answer the question of WHY it exists, though. Black Earth and Nebula Area are both apparently "Murkland", so that's kinda justified, but the Graveyard is still an oddity.
@@FlashingBladesProductions maybe the Graveyard area exists before Navi backups and Navi battles were common place, so when a Navi got deleted in battle, it would be a way of honoring them. Or maybe it was originally used by criminal's Navis or solo Navi criminals to show how many Navis they deleted, maybe as a way to brag or to show how strong they were.
@@thevenomspino That......Actually makes TOO much sense. Bass DOES jump you and say that the last grave stone is reserved for Mega Man. Maybe BASS set up the Graveyard to psyche Mega Man out before trying to kill him again?
@@FlashingBladesProductions that does sound like something post BN 3 Bass would do, physiological breaking his opponents to weakening them before a fight for power.
35:43 if this is true, than that would make an reference to Duo's first appearance in Megaman 8, since in the intro cutscene Duo was fighting against a evil robot imbued with the evil energy and we know the dark chips could be a reference to the evil energy, who knows? maybe the Chaos King true form could look like an evil version of Duo? since in Megaman 8 Duo original form and the evil robot looks almost identical, only difference being the color pallets, their unique big arm is in opside directions and the evil robot has a evil face. *(well they don't call him evil robot for nothing XD)*
I gotta be honest, I'd love to see a horror-themed MMBN game, particularly now that we live in a world where the potential for the Internet to be used for evil is more thoroughly understood. Being a young child navigating a corporation-dominated world as the digital world became more hostile, and as the physical and digital realms began to merge to a greater extent, could be pretty terrifying. It might be a bit too bleak for a kids' game, though.
I love when cartoon censorship makes something sound even worse. Like sure being shot to death would suck, but having your entire central nervous system fried. That sounds excruciating
on one side there's the fingher pointing, the endless abiss of emptyness were no time pass and the jelly donut, on the other burning your nervous system out of your body, the contorted face on the joker's victim, and the "vry close cousins"
The strange statue could be a reference to Hunter X Hunter. As it explained that different object can be used as safe to hide treasures and allow the boys to be able to continue with city arc.
Just to clear it up You can manipulate the Number Doors, to keep it short. It just requires a hard reset and a lot tighter/consistent movement/text mashing.
Ah. I knew I likely didn't get that one right. Thanks for the info! I do recall Tterraj doing a lot of soft-resets in his runs, too. So, soft-resetting and hard-resetting give different RNG. Duly noted.
So my theory for the navi graveyard is that because it's not accessible until after you beat the game, the events of what you see should be treated as future events. Like think as if you're playing with an adult Lan and an MegaMan and it makes more sense. The fact Serenade had a grave site wouldn't make any sense because Lan never deleted Serenade. However it is very likely that Serenade data eroded away as in Battle Network 5 LAN's grandfather's navi died of really old age. Also I think that the graveyard is being tracked by Duo exe as he also sends you that email when you first enter that area. Duo never stopped watching you after BN4 as he is also guiding you in the nebula area in BN5.
58:20 Beelzemon and Bass?! Sorry but what?! Impmon has a _completely different_ backstory where it's straight up shown he used to have human partners but ran away because they kept fighting over him, treating him like a toy... Bass on the other hand was _specifically_ designed to operate on his own. Moreover, Beelzemon wound up changing his perspective on life, even reconciling with his tamers. Cossack failed to reconcile with Bass and Bass _never_ changed his perspective on life, even if his actions wound up sparing Cossack. Also some D-Reapers have an "Alpha Decay" which has nothing to do with Alpha because its Japanese name is Proto and it's referring to Alpha radiation but an odd coincidence to be sure.
10:46 I mean, the adults in BN universe all reply on a 11-year-old kid and his digitalized brother to save their ass like 6 times so it's not suprising they gave Chaud the authority to run an operation to save the world.
Actually a point I just remembered that I don’t remember there being an actual explanation for - Why is both ElecMan and MagnetMan alive again in the anime? The anime makes it pretty clear that when a Navi is Deleted that tends to be permanent. Yet ElecMan shows up later and MagnetMan is put on trial and locked up for his crimes in Stream… My current theory is maybe they were remade when Bug Style Megaman remade all of NetCity but that brings the question of why revive MagnetMan of all Navis? It just seems odd that they come back with no explanation as far as I can remember…
Ok I think I may, heavy emphasis on may, have an explanation for Doc. It could be he is loosely based on the Doc Robot from MegaMan 3 due to the name and the connection to Wily being one of his creations. And since this version would be, somehow, connected to the battle network Wily, that's why the phrase is used to get to him.
So, apparently the ending of the English version of Mega Man 7 was changed from the Japanese version. I wasn't aware of that. But, we still have robots allowing themselves to become Robot Masters of their own accord in Mega Man 9, so I'm pretty sure that still counts as free will.
I read somewhere that Onimusha was a series of fighting games. My source was apparently wrong. The only one I've played has been "Blade Warriors" and it was only to get the footage of Mega Man for this video. I apologize for these errors, and they will be corrected during the full compiled version of this Iceberg.
I edited the thumbnail because someone complained about spoilers on the thumbnail of my first Iceberg video, so I decided to change it a little.
There are a few unfortunate editing errors. I blame myself for rushing, and Vegas for being difficult, liking to freeze at random moments, and having to shuffle the layers around several times. These too will be fixed in the re-release.
I'll try to not take forever with Part 3. My goal for that one is September 5th. Thank you all for watching!
Robot Masters technically is an English term referring to the term boss robot as in boss of the stage. It’s been used in western media to refer to robots of higher thought capability though they don’t have complete free will since they still have a function to fulfill though have the freedom to choose the method so vague programming like Rock and Bass allow a lot of leeway in what they can do. Reploids like X have absolute freedom to choose though it seems many reploids being built with a purpose in mind have a predisposition to the job though have the choice to leave it for something else if they so choose. This is where X’s hesitation and worry are apparent since he had no predisposed purpose so wonders about his actions many times among other areas where his distinct worry and hesitation come into play… also yeah Megaman English localization has been a mess at times from what I hear from lore buffs who carry what seems to be 95% of all the sources translated from Japanese to English as well as understanding a fair amount of the nuances in language
Okay so here's the thing about the Master series of Robots. While they are very advanced in the ways they're able to communicate, "think" and emote. Ultimately this is still all programming. They are behaving has programmed. They are not able to grow or develop outside of this programming. Zero, X and the other reploids that were derived from him are different, they can grow, evolve, change over time and are free to think whatever they wish. If a robot exhibits the desire to "rebel" against people that is ultimately it's programming, either an oversight or by design.
For example: in 300 years Roll would still act like a six year old girl. However if she were a reploid, though she may start out acting the same way has Robot Roll, after that same 300 years she would act and think like a 300 year-old woman. With a worldview and personality that is radically different than when she was first built.
This is also why Doctor Light still always uses the term "robot"; which is derived from slave, in the classic era, but he specifically did not, nor does anyone, ever use that term for X, Zero or the Reploids.
Robots in 9 were reprogrammed by Wily.
Robot Master is a term for the Robots based on Protoman
@@Xeno-The-Wanderer What about Proto Man?
1:08:15
That scene is actually changed in the English version. In the Japanese, he never states to be more than Human, or anything like that. He just says "..." and then puts his buster away, being unable to garm Wily due to not having true free will
Yeah, robot masters don't have true free will.
Yeah, localization has absolutely screwed the Megaman fandom discourse and misinformation and misconception have permeated things
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say for the Navi master part, LANs dad created megaman so it’s safe to assume he has some sort of program that monitors megaman and he probably has video recordings of his netbattles so recreating image data for navis he fought would make sense
Hm.... I suppose that makes sense. I mean, we've heard stranger things BS'd in this series, but that actually makes a good amount of sense.
isn't that half of the explanation on how the navicust locks on what ppath to take, all thing considered?
I was gonna say, Mr. Hikari probably helped make all of Lan's friend's Navis... At least.
That Last Fact is surreal. It almost Feels like I remember there being a Dark License for MMBN4 but it apparently does not exist... Spooky
Mandela Effect strikes again? I actually had never heard of it until someone mentioned it in the comments on my first Iceberg video.
I remember the MMBN4 Dark License rumors as well. I did eventually legitimately remove the dark chip hp loss penalty on my copy of MMBN4. For the longest time I had no idea how I triggered this. I recently asked in the N1 Grand Prix discord server about this. If I recall correctly the explanation was there being some cap on the maximum amount of hp you can lose but don't quote me on that. Thus the rumors continue lol.
@@snatcherofpeachs I remember hearing THAT method back in the day. It basically is sort of a data-cap, from what I understand. Not really related to Dark License, but still, that's how you (eventually) stop losing HP.
@@FlashingBladesProductions i've 100% bn4 3 times and not once seen a dark license it doesn't exist at least in this timeline
Videos like this really make it obvious how downright weird the Battle Network universe is. Random decorative statues have pointless computers inside them!
Same with star force
Maybe the programs in those statues are for public purposes such as the squirrel in the park holding the computer which controls the sprinklers
Maybe it’s telling us that it’s true. And we’re being watched by the undernet
@@Scrollskillups or that MMBN and Star Force are the Future haha
The thing with megaman being on all those battle chips kinda bothered me at first. but now I like to imagine that all those chips have essentially a blank place holder navi that gets replaced with the netops navi. So if chaud used an elec sword chip it would be protoman on the display and not megaman.
Sort of my thoughts on it. How else are you supposed to get battle chips from virtual viruses, if not just downloading the data to blank cards? The PETs probably have a writing function for battle chip data, so it would take and make a picture on the card of whatever your Navi is. Similar to the AI image makers we see nowadays. Though that doesn't explain the other battle chips with different Navis on them, either ones of known navis or the random unknown ones.
Man, the DarkMemory part in BN4 is probably the most interesting bit of information I've seen in a long time. If somehow an E-Reader card is found, and it becomes real, it's gonna be huge.
Regarding the magnetman black fluid at 53 minutes, I think it's supposed to be ferrofluid, a very magnetic material.
Huh. That would make sense.
I think the first Rockman.exe is still a horror game
If you think about it, the WWW's actions aren't terrifying in a supernatural sense, but how their actions affect the world do have a hopeless feel.
Burning houses, changing traffic lights, freezing the water, trapping people, probably they still used scary situations and feelings to create the story but no making horror with monsters
Not mention the medieval dungeon traps in BN2. May as well be a SAW game.
@@FlashingBladesProductions BN2 is worse I’d argue. Suffocating a group of kids in a house, flooding the forest by blowing up a dam, as well as crashing a plane.
@@FlashingBladesProductions the bias factions about political unrest, War on drugs, Graphic scenery, riots, WWW's Actions, Social Backlash, the conspiracy Issues is meaningless.
When you spoke of copies of navis who are from overseas - my first thought was "they could email files, this is the internet", then i remembered... this is the battle network series, emailing files is rather inconsistent on how it actually works.
Things that baffle me the most is that there are still uncover secret inside the game to this day. I mean with how easy data dumping, modding and hacking of GBA rom have been, I thought that the game would have been searched inside out by now. But apparently there are data out there that can only be obtain during events or specific version of the game, and I sincerely want to know the whole story
You and me both. Maybe when the Legacy Collection comes out, maybe something hidden can be datamined from these new releases.
About how suspicious Higsby is in Battle Network games where he knows too much, that gives off a suspicious vibe, despite how negative Higsby is towards Dark Chips, for some odd reason in BN5, some of his Numberman Lotto codes, gives free Dark Chips. Higsby, seriously, you warn Lan and Megaman about the dangers of Dark Chips, which makes you suspicious enough already, but in the very next game, you have Numberman Lotto codes that gives Operators Dark Chips, the very kind of Battle Chips you told Lan to NOT use!
I completely forgot you get Dark Chips from the Numberman trader! Higsby, what are you up to??
@@FlashingBladesProductions He has always been shady
Then again it could have been maliciously planted in there by outside forces
In the manga he was a bad guy but later became good
@@RandomizerGio My headcanon is that the Bug Frag Chip Traders were planted by Higsby as well
I'd argue Hub/Saito being a netnavi is more of a fma reference with Alphosne's spirit being attached to suit of armour in order for his death to be prevented.
29:15 I live in Brazil and we got these figurines, so they probably aren't exclusive to Australia. My guess is that they were released when the toy line was winding down and there weren't many of these produced.
toy distribution is always a roll of the dice when it is not a planetary success wholesale. and sometimes even when it is...
23:10 - Only tangentially related but I also loved the one-shot Ryo did to promote Mega Man 11. Mostly since I’m a sucker for good fights and power scaling shenanigans, and Ryo great at illustrating how the Double Gear used by Light and Wily in this game escalated the dynamics in power compared to the Genesis Unit from the post-3 Wily Wars, Ra Moon from the non-canon/post-5 Super Adventure Rockman, the Mega Man Killers and Star Droids from the Game Boy series, Bass and the Super Adapters from 7, and Duo as well as Evil Energy in 8. Short and sweet while illustrating the resolute optimism of Mega Man himself.
@52:32
A Digital Videoman would most likely use Dvd discs as projectiles similar to Metal Man and lasers among the other dvd player abilities (pause, rewind, etc)
I can't wait to see the video!
Edit: Woah! It was a great watch! The execution was great and I can definitely see that this took a lot of time (1+ hour video literally), and the amount of entries too, I never thought that the exe series would contain so much lore :0
So yeah, keep doing your best!
59:01 - What gets me about Jack’s utter failure here is that Lan and MegaMan couldn’t even be bothered to Style Change like in immediately prior episodes. Just shows how far World Three, and ElecMan especially, fell way off as a threat at this early point in the show.
they wanted to keep mr match around for the whole Heatman part, and had to keep all of them, but after the end of the first arc, they had nothing else going for them. heck, they needed to create a whole charather out of 15 lines and a sprite for jahoot!
That actually makes me wonder
If the names of dead Navi's that were eventually revived with back up data are still in the grave yard area, does that mean the revived Navi's aren't the originals and the deleted ones are still gone?
This actually reminds me of that one teleportation paradox where the question is asked "is the person on the other side still you if it's made from a new set of molecules?"
Or better yet the Ship of Thesius. Is the backed up Navi still the same Navi?
56:44 - As a fan of Tamers, I’m disappointed that I never caught that extreme similarity.
To be fair, the first time, I didn't really point it out until I revisited BN3 years later. If I remember, I played BN3, watched Tamers, then played BN3 some more a bit later, and it was only THEN that I noticed the similarities.
In the anime the reason why the navi mark is where all the navi's core data is stored. Similar to a copy bot being a blank body and the nave being an overlay is about the same in the anime. The navi's body is mostly a digital doll while their souls are stored in their navi marks. This also explains how rock gains a double soul by gaining some of a navi's data through their marks or how they revive rock after he was deleted in season 1.
58:32 In the RockMan.Exe Beast+ season, her death is confirmed, and apparently later Mama Zap is a hologram or something guarding a jewel in the mansion's remains. If I remember correctly it's episode 12.
I like that when describing the Cybersword/Buster toy, WATCH put combat in quotations.
Like, bitch, I'd bring that to a real fight. It is both a gun and a sword, so I don't have to choose between the two. Gone are the days of showing up to ye olde duel, only to awkwardly find out your opponent left his firearm at home, but conveniently has his rapier on him.
Yesss baby lets GOOOOOOO, greetings from mexico bro, your megaman battle network videos are awesome!
Amazing video, just like the last one! Already looking forward to the next one!
@48:15
God Stone (Bottom right) isn't a Virus, but the golem in the image appears in Battle Network 1.
Once you get Stoneman's HP down to a low enough number, he will summon these.
Also, the golem in the image looks similar to some enemies that appear in Swordman's stage from Megaman 8.
Chaud being a little kid is really really fucking funny mostly because I think the idea of giving a child access to military technology because hes basically a really good gamer is amazing
seeing how the piledriver has slain MUCH stronger vampires? the count and shademan are just too damn stubborn to die. that's it. they just refuse.
Taking the Alucard from Hellsing logic. They can only be slain if they "allow themselves to be".
The only theory I could come up with about Mega being on all the chips, is that the PET saves the chip image with the active Navi when you get it... In the anime, the chip graphic looks like it fades when it's depleted, and there has to be some way for a blank chip to have an image when you write to it...
I would like to comment on that one little bit about a plot hole being made about X being the first robot with free will. In the X series timeline, X was discovered, and all the reploids were based off of him. The original Megaman is completely unknown to these people, meaning any knowledge about Light's robotics and Megaman's tales were completely lost somehow. Plus, I believe that entry we saw about X being the first robot with free will was made by Dr. Cain, who does not have any knowledge about the original Megaman. I don't believe it's a plot hole, but rather meant to represent the loss of Light's original work.
Also, great friggin' video. I consider myelf a massive fan of Battle Network, and I wasn't aware of most of the facts in the first AND second parts. Can't wait for part 3.
The X intro is a Dr Light warning and the Megaman 7 instance is localization going rampant with changes. Classic series robots show limited free will, they can choose how to reach their programming and the more vague it is the more freedom but they in the end must reach it. That’s why reploids are special where they can choose to do whatever and think about their actions more and hesitate with X being foremost in worry and hesitation making him the most human
@@Xeno-The-Wanderer Ohhhhh, I didn't know that intro was from Light. I knew about the stuff between classic series robots and reploids, but didn't think it was necessary for my comment since I thought it was Dr. Cain lol.
... Raika's a dude? Huh. You learn something new every day.
I'll put my two cents into the "Cybeast Cult" and tie it with the "Horror Game" bit. You see, there's this author called H. P. Lovecraft, he wrote about a subgenre of horror called "Cosmic". The narrative usually involved someone getting too curious for their own good, and discovering Cults of people speaking unknown languages and Old Gods names. Like the Cybeasts are: old and so massive you can get mad just trying to comprehend their influence. Games based on it tend to have a Bad Ending, or at least a bittersweet one. The original Alone in the Dark was inspired by Lovecraft works, and most of its creatures are locked under the sea, outside our Universe, dead or sleeping. World of Warcraft was another game that drank from that fountain, but I reckon Rockman EXE goes for more of an adult fear: you never know if your kids are going to be safe from kidnappers, arsonists, terrorists, hackers and the like. This last type is so advanced and skilled that, as a normal person, I can only imagine this world is horrible to live in. Because they can force your car to keep going over a red light, or a train to lose its brakes... And there's nothing you can do, you just have to wait for an 11 year-old to show up and save the day for you!
Of course, this all ties to the supernatural entries on the Iceberg, whenever you speak of ghosts, dead humans or Navis, how they can cross the boundaries between the worlds and sometimes even those thin, blur and almost stop existing.
1:04:37 YO THATS TRAINER GOLD!!
I think theres some dark server somewhere thats old as heck that has Shade-man on back up, and constantly stores his memory, so any time he dies it just rebuilds him and waltzs around like its nothing.
I do like the idea of some next gen Navi's being a form of digitized human.
While not a megaman game. Like Halo explaining how AI are created by bombarding radiation on a donated human brain.
There was also a game named SOMA where there is a possibility of how a human can become a digitized human, by performing a brain scan, while originally to help with brain based injuries like a brain hemorrhage or possibly cancer. The idea is that the brain scan itself is a form of save state before the brain can resume. And once transferred into a body, or possibly a digital body. Uptime for the brain can resume like how actual running programs would work. And the person who was last scanned end up suddenly waking up in an unfamiliar location with their last recollection of being their brain scanned.
There is still something that bugs me about the Star Force series...
What happened to the Navis from the Battle Network series? or the ones that came after? and aren't they supposed to be immortal or something?
I always found it weird that no one talks about them or the PETs in Star Force.
If their data is properly maintained (and they aren't Shademan), then they can have a very long life. But, if not maintained, they can just kinda fall apart like Tadashi Hikari's Navi in BN5. But, you do have a point. There ARE some NPC programs called "Navis" in SF, but none of them really have a lot of impact on the story outside of being just a tool, like to control a crane or something.
Even if it DOES take place 200 years later, you'd think that such major events would be referenced because it's a fictional world, and it's a direct sequel.
@@FlashingBladesProductions And now we see why starforce failed where battle network succeeded. Tge sad part is, there are some really good concepts in the star force series. Like the post game in starforce 2.
There are Navis in starforce but think of it like pagers and I guess more recently home phones where they were heavily used but main infrastructure has changed to fit cell phones. They usually operate older systems or construction equipment in starforce universe.
@@FlashingBladesProductions Kinda late, but if i had to take a guess, they were gonna bring that up somehow in SF4. Maybe they were gonna have Kazuma (or someone else) introduce Geo to a secret society that still uses Navis? If so, that could also be a good excuse to have a few older Navis show up. Hell, they could have Kazuma use Megaman.EXE, or a Navi related to him.
@@akesan2374 man that would of been awesome still have Regular Geo and OmegaXis transformations for wave battles, and build a new navi team for a new style of liberation missions or heists, it was all supposed to be about hacking right?
Bummed to have missed the start. Can’t wait to comment on some highlights on the rewatch.
I was waiting so patiently for this haha couldn't have uploaded at a better time. Always a banger, thanks for the awesome content
Glad you enjoyed it! I have a lot more Mega Man content on the way, so stay tuned!
Adding to the similarity with Digimon, besides Alpha and the D-Reaper, what about NebulaGray and VenomMyotismon having almost the same abdomen (with six eyes on them) and them both being mindless beasts of evil and destruction? I know this one could be a coincidence as they could simply have similar design inspirations which I don't know about, but being a fan of both series', it always stood out to me, and I wanted to bring it up.
1:05:23 - Emphasis on loosely since PharaohMan is depicted as a formidable WWW lackey like in the games rather than an a discount manga Alpha like in the anime. Also you can fight and legitimately beat Bass in the boss rush mode.
Another great vid. Can't wait to rewatch these after beating the legacy collection
1:09:26 - probably not, it’s just as likely that whatever truck or chute that piled in the PETs just emptied out from top to bottom so that the bottom contents (the BN6 devices and prior) flowed to the top as a consequence. Some diving might reveal newer models underneath.
Fun little fact that ties into the navis in the real world bit. When Maylu and Roll cross fused with the rush synchro chip, they actually maintained the fusion after the dimensional area faded. Though they canceled the fusion by taking off their helmet shortly after.
rush in the anime is a full on headscratcher that somewhat continues to be perfectlly consinstent
1:02:27 I distinctly remember getting these vibes when I first played the series way back when. Took me ages to stop being scared of the game to get past Gust-man in blue version.
so initially i thought swordman's different personalities may have been a reference to kamen rider den-o but then i realized den-o actually came out 4 years later.
Maybe they share a common inspiration?
Could be possible.
24:34 - A small aside, I personally posit that Network Transmission takes place during and directly overwrites the post-game of the original Battle Network. Besides you getting to rematch a bunch of the main story Navis from the first game, you also face the three superbosses (ShadowMan, PharaohMan, and Bass) in plot-driven circumstances before they become more relevant in 2.
A bridge to the human world and afterlife,”cyberspace…this is very interesting.
For the 'dangerous' CyberSword toy, I explicitly remember stabbing at my brother with it, accidentally catching him in the eye, and subsequently having it taken away by my parents T_T
So maybe 'dangerous' but no more so than any other toy sword or nerf gun, etc.
... I still miss it T_T
I still remember when I got the Nerf Longshot for Christmas and shot my sister point-blank between the eyes by accident (I didn't understand how the priming bar worked), and immediately got it taken away.
28:13 - I only just learned about this but I already love it since that means Geo can canonically take Bass. 0:
Megaman: Get your homework done, Lan!
Lan: Okay okay! ONE MORE NETBATTLE!!
Megaman: Ugh...
1:09:38 Why is that odd? They would have run out of power at least decades beforehand.
1:09:35 You can literally see Lan’s PET at the front of the others. A single, blue beacon of a bygone era.
Thank you for making these iceberg videos they are great.
54:24 - I am so hyped to catch that review when it’s out, I wanna know what happens since I got the re-release Tomes and have no idea what’s going on. The action is great though, the Life Virus is the strongest it’s ever been in any canon and there’s a lot of great group brawls to behold.
Another instance of unexplained Cyber folks in real life, Bn2 features an hp memory that you can only get by talking to a mr. Prog hiding in the mother computer room.
I KNEW IT! I KNEW there was a random Navi or Prog in the real world of BN2 but I couldn't remember WHERE. I thought it was a Normal Navi in Okuden Valley, but I guess not. I remember that one now, though. Thank you! I was racking my brain trying to remember where that guy was!
Really worth the wait! Can’t wait for part 3🔥🔥
At 47:52 I think the reason Megaman and other known navis appear in so many Battle Chips, is the same reason we see Zero or Vile Posters, Megaman Zero carpets or Roll Casket figurines:
BN's World is a parallel to our world. Megaman is a famous franchise in their world so naturally people make net navis/battle chips based on characters from the Megaman Franchise.
If you think about it, us players ARE technically all Megaman.EXE operators just by playing the game on multiplayer, so multiple Megaman.EXE does technically exist.
This explains why Lan, Megaman and any other character never comments about why Megaman or other navis are featured in some battle chips, because in universe it's not uncommon to see the same type of navi being used. (Also note that no human character is featured in any battle chip, only navis.)
This theory goes even further if you consider BN4.5, where by default you can choose Megaman, Roll, Gutsman or Numberman to be your navi... all of them already have canonical operators and there they are, being operated by other people, the player.
Of course, none of this is canon in anyway, but I think it's a cool way to connect our world to Battle Network :)
28:04 I mean there's also the Clock Men. ClockMan wasn't based on them but he also shares their individual names.
@47:32
"Navis on Battle Chip Icons"
God Stone (bottom right chip) resembles an enemy from Sword Man stage of Megaman 8. Look up a walk through of the stage so you can see who I'm referring to.
The Hero Sword guy looks like a low-resolution Zero from Megaman X but without his long hair. That or the pink navi with horns mentioned earlier.
Not sure about Old Wood and the Punch chips. Like you mentioned in a new video, it resembles an Iron Man suit but the red cape also gives Ultron/Red Cowl vibes.
So proud that I knew about almost if not all of these! Can’t wait for part 3 where I’m sure to not know much
@3:45 funnily enough, Network Transmission was my first Megaman game, and I saw Bug Style and was enraptured but so furious I couldn’t find how to get it. It wasn’t until years later when I finally beat MMBN3 that I unlocked bug style and Hub style and actually learned what they were.
43:33 The site actually does still exist but this particular page does not. Guess they purge archives after a while. In 2020 they gave the same warning for "WWE JUMBO SUPERSTAR FISTS" (actually called WWE _John Cena_ Jumbo Superstar Fists _Toy,_ though I am not sure why "toy" is part of the official product name) which are _plush_ fists. The Darksaber being on the list for 2020 also drew ire from Star Wars fans because of course it did. People like them are why clackers aren't a thing anymore. RIP Joseph Joestar.
I'm French and I will happily help with this Battle Story manga thing !
This was amazing!
Keep up the good/hard work!
1:12:18 - Godspeed to those madlads.
I think Shademan's immortality is similar to Kreisnik's from devil survivor perhaps he may had to be killed in a specific way or by a specific person. In Kreisnik's case if he was killed in the first fight he becomes too strong to be killed by the vampire hunter since he didn't get weakened before killed which results in a character being killed during the second fight with Kreisnik
You mean Kudlak. Kresnik is the good guy Vampire
1:08:11 That part from MM7 is only exclusive for the Western release. In the OG release, Mega Man says nothing as Wily mentioned the first law of robotics to him.
Man, what a flawless work!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations, my friend!!!!!!!!!!!
1:17:01 It just occurred to me that this design is derivative of the GUMP (Gun+COMP) from the first Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers game (a spinoff of the Shin Megami Tensei series).
1:13:43 I remember that as a child Battle Network 4 confused me a lot and more because of the glitches in the game. To the point where the game got weird every time it got past that part where you beat Yuko.
1:03:06 kinda fun coincidence how both Mega Man and Sonic has some sort of connection with horror themes and .exe in those horror themes.
I missed a popular MMBN Creepypasta BECAUSE of the EXE tagline. I found some OTHER MegaMan Creepypastas, but missed "Reaper Scythe: Dark Chip" until a few months ago.
1:29 Hades is in fact _not_ god of the dead but rather god of the underworld and also commerce (this is actually referenced in FFXIV with Nald'Thal). He has authority over the dead with his position but he is never considered a ruler of the dead in any form. Even the _Disney_ version got this right for all of its liberties, as Hades always introduces himself as "Lord of the Underworld" and that version has no qualms with abusing his position for his own gain (even resurrecting Jafar in Hercules The Animated Series and Auron from FFX instead of a KH version of him like other FF characters in Kingdom Hearts).
In classic robots have free thought but must obey the laws of robotics.
X, the reploids, and Zero have free will and can choose how they wish to live
the thing about Duo and king chaos is that they got retconned by starforce (or, well, starforce is the whole concept of Duo's area expanded to the extreme) as EM beings and the relative breacks from the full on digital setup. gonna throw poltergeist navi in there as well, and basically all of the bull of wandering navi, bugs with a will of their own, the graveyard and specter to the setup that the net is by rules built over the ancient tribes spots of 'servers' due to how the rule of the world works
not really satisfying, but it ends up very clean
the navichip are supposedly created by the direct user similarly to any chip item chip like rockcube, I'd suppose that specific non-virus based chips, like muramasa work on a similar concept, a single pop, with muramasa and the other evil chip absorbing the energy from the darkchip being produced during 4&5 and altering how they work
i always hated the way megaman looks with proto soul the green shades and head piece just ruin it lol
First. I apologize if a detail I gave in my comment about GraveyardArea was incorrect. (Hakushaku's part)
Second: I forgot about Zap and Gauss are brother. Regal's corspe looks shockingly detailed.
And a lot of interesting details. Battle Network can get really confusing and interesting.
Really good video! I'll be patient for the third part. Take your time!
Ah, The Immortal Area? Yeah, that doesn't make a lot of sense as to why Hakushaku has a Graveyard Clone for his area, unless it's supposed to be a pun on how Vampires are the Living Dead. I get that they likely didn't have the room for assets to give him his own unique area, but at least make it like a pallet swap or something.
Yeah, I didn't know that until I watched the anime. I remember seeing that the first time and being like "That's weird. Why would they add that?" Kinda like how in the manga, Bubbleman and Spoutman are brothers, when in the games, Bubbleman's brother was Drillman.... for some reason.
Thank you. ^_^ thanks for your contributions!
Again nice video, man (haha). But we do a have a theory on the Graveyard area.
We theorize that Graveyard area "tombs" actually alter based on the Navi who is using them. Basically the "tombs" reads the battledata from the Navi who is currently looking at them. So when Megaman uses them, it reads his battledata and shows him every navi he has battled.
As for why it shows Navis who have been revived, the "tombs" don't take that in account as it only goes by the Navi battledata which includes Navis who were deleted but revive.
So for example, say a Navi who has deleted 3 Navis and goes to the Graveyard Area, and they use the "tombs", the "tombs" will only show those 3 navis that they deleted.
Every Graveyard Area Is Personalized.
Could be kinda like Black Earth, where the mirrors reflect your soul. But that still doesn't answer the question of WHY it exists, though. Black Earth and Nebula Area are both apparently "Murkland", so that's kinda justified, but the Graveyard is still an oddity.
@@FlashingBladesProductions maybe the Graveyard area exists before Navi backups and Navi battles were common place, so when a Navi got deleted in battle, it would be a way of honoring them.
Or maybe it was originally used by criminal's Navis or solo Navi criminals to show how many Navis they deleted, maybe as a way to brag or to show how strong they were.
@@thevenomspino That......Actually makes TOO much sense. Bass DOES jump you and say that the last grave stone is reserved for Mega Man. Maybe BASS set up the Graveyard to psyche Mega Man out before trying to kill him again?
@@FlashingBladesProductions that does sound like something post BN 3 Bass would do, physiological breaking his opponents to weakening them before a fight for power.
Oh man can't wait!!!!
This was just what I needed after my horrible day
I hope you have a better day tomorrow. :)
It feels weird thinking how the Battle Network and Star Force games could be connected... But the concept for Star Force 4 does sound intriguing...
35:43 if this is true, than that would make an reference to Duo's first appearance in Megaman 8, since in the intro cutscene Duo was fighting against a evil robot imbued with the evil energy and we know the dark chips could be a reference to the evil energy, who knows? maybe the Chaos King true form could look like an evil version of Duo? since in Megaman 8 Duo original form and the evil robot looks almost identical, only difference being the color pallets, their unique big arm is in opside directions and the evil robot has a evil face. *(well they don't call him evil robot for nothing XD)*
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32:12 Not sure why ZX is with the crowd Capcom still cares about in this image.
I gotta be honest, I'd love to see a horror-themed MMBN game, particularly now that we live in a world where the potential for the Internet to be used for evil is more thoroughly understood.
Being a young child navigating a corporation-dominated world as the digital world became more hostile, and as the physical and digital realms began to merge to a greater extent, could be pretty terrifying. It might be a bit too bleak for a kids' game, though.
Sucks that I wasnt able to catch the premiere live, but I'm glad to see this get uploaded. Hopefully we get part 3 lol.
I'll give you specifically a good enough advanced head's up!
I love when cartoon censorship makes something sound even worse. Like sure being shot to death would suck, but having your entire central nervous system fried. That sounds excruciating
on one side there's the fingher pointing, the endless abiss of emptyness were no time pass and the jelly donut, on the other burning your nervous system out of your body, the contorted face on the joker's victim, and the "vry close cousins"
Great stuff, I've been looking forward to this!
Thank you for being patient enough to see part 2!
Imagine a homebrew scene for the pet
I like how you also took the big dumb sticker off the toy megabuster.
Keep the good work
The strange statue could be a reference to Hunter X Hunter. As it explained that different object can be used as safe to hide treasures and allow the boys to be able to continue with city arc.
Just to clear it up
You can manipulate the Number Doors, to keep it short. It just requires a hard reset and a lot tighter/consistent movement/text mashing.
Ah. I knew I likely didn't get that one right. Thanks for the info!
I do recall Tterraj doing a lot of soft-resets in his runs, too. So, soft-resetting and hard-resetting give different RNG. Duly noted.
@@FlashingBladesProductions No prob! It's on us since a lot of the more minor info is scattered around the discord and the notes.
So my theory for the navi graveyard is that because it's not accessible until after you beat the game, the events of what you see should be treated as future events. Like think as if you're playing with an adult Lan and an MegaMan and it makes more sense. The fact Serenade had a grave site wouldn't make any sense because Lan never deleted Serenade. However it is very likely that Serenade data eroded away as in Battle Network 5 LAN's grandfather's navi died of really old age. Also I think that the graveyard is being tracked by Duo exe as he also sends you that email when you first enter that area. Duo never stopped watching you after BN4 as he is also guiding you in the nebula area in BN5.
58:20 Beelzemon and Bass?! Sorry but what?! Impmon has a _completely different_ backstory where it's straight up shown he used to have human partners but ran away because they kept fighting over him, treating him like a toy... Bass on the other hand was _specifically_ designed to operate on his own. Moreover, Beelzemon wound up changing his perspective on life, even reconciling with his tamers. Cossack failed to reconcile with Bass and Bass _never_ changed his perspective on life, even if his actions wound up sparing Cossack. Also some D-Reapers have an "Alpha Decay" which has nothing to do with Alpha because its Japanese name is Proto and it's referring to Alpha radiation but an odd coincidence to be sure.
Technically, you can use Dark chips without Consequences if you use the junk soul recycle glitch.
Yes, indeed. We covered that in part 1. :P
10:46 I mean, the adults in BN universe all reply on a 11-year-old kid and his digitalized brother to save their ass like 6 times so it's not suprising they gave Chaud the authority to run an operation to save the world.
Actually a point I just remembered that I don’t remember there being an actual explanation for - Why is both ElecMan and MagnetMan alive again in the anime? The anime makes it pretty clear that when a Navi is Deleted that tends to be permanent. Yet ElecMan shows up later and MagnetMan is put on trial and locked up for his crimes in Stream…
My current theory is maybe they were remade when Bug Style Megaman remade all of NetCity but that brings the question of why revive MagnetMan of all Navis? It just seems odd that they come back with no explanation as far as I can remember…
1:02:26 This sounds like it was a spooky joke entry like Wario's apparition to jump on the Sonic.exe style of creepypasta.
Sounds like it should be, but it's legit.
Another thing about battle network 4 is unused preview of possibly early version of ACDC town
Ok I think I may, heavy emphasis on may, have an explanation for Doc. It could be he is loosely based on the Doc Robot from MegaMan 3 due to the name and the connection to Wily being one of his creations. And since this version would be, somehow, connected to the battle network Wily, that's why the phrase is used to get to him.