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FAQ/Walkthrough, v1.0
All the tips for Mega Man's second adventure!
Written by Snow Dragon (C) 2002
All rights reserved
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Story, Intro, and Notes
Basic Concept
Items
Walkthrough
Credits & Legal Disclaimers
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STORY, INTRO AND NOTES
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Here is the story of Mega Man II, as taken straight from the game's
introductory cinema:
"In the year of 200X, a super robot named Megaman was created. Dr. Light
created Megaman to stop the evil desires of Dr. Wily. However, after his
defeat, Dr. Wily created eight of his own robots to counter Megaman."
[At this point, the camera moves up the skyscraper at right to approximately
somewhere in the upper stratosphere. At the top is Our Hero, decked out in
the classic blue we've all come to love, his hair blowing wildly in the
breeze. It's clear that this is a hero who doesn't take orders from just any
old schmuck.]
[Also at this point, you can choose the difficulty mode you want to play in.
Mega Man's helmet crawls magically onto his head and he zips upward into the
sky, leaving you to choose whether you want to dive into the stage select or
enter a password.]
Hi, and welcome to my FAQ/walkthrough for Mega Man II, my personal favorite
in the entire series after 3 and 7. Though as far as Mega Man games go this
is probably one of the easiest - okay, it IS the easiest, it's still an
engrossing game and a platformer that should not be missed out on. In it,
you'll fight classic Robot Masters such as Bubble Man, Air Man, Quick Man,
and the rest. If or when published, this will be my 24th published FAQ on the
Internet.
Before we get started though, there are circumstances that call for me to
include these notes at the beginning of every walkthrough of mine, which I've
written in some form or another so many times by now that they just feel
obligatory. This introductory section will help you get past your confusion
and give you a little bit of insight on how I like to write.
** Unlike most other walkthroughs covering this game, I play through the
Robot Masters in a different order than the other authors covering this
game. I just feel as though this sequence may help people who take things
a little slow and laid-back, or it's good if you want to shake things up
and do things different for a change. Hey, I'm not the boss of you. Do
what you want.
** The Items section will give you great insights not only on what your items
do, but ways you can use them effectively and creatively. Sometimes
thinking outside the box is a really cool thing.
** If you want to write down the passwords, that's fine, but I'm not going
to. Passwords vary depending on what items you picked up in a level, among
other things, and can safely be called random. Unless you do everything I
do to the letter, you won't get the same password as me. Therefore, we're
not going to mess with passwords in this guide.
** I played through this game on the Difficult setting to get as much
substantial information into this FAQ as I could. If you are playing on
Normal mode, these guides ought to be more than enough for you to get by
on, as what is in Difficult mode often is not a part of Normal. Difficult
isn't that much harder than Normal anyway, so take a stab at it, if you
would be so brave.
** If you need to get a hold of me for any reason whatsoever, I have one
e-mail address and one e-mail address only: .
Inform me of mistakes in any of my FAQs (not just this one), comment on
my methods, make suggestions for things that could be added, or make a
request of any sort. That address is the place to write to. There are
three criteria I now have in regards to sufficient e-mail (I've added one
with this walkthrough). If you want to know what makes an e-mail that
makes me happy, read these three things.
1. Put the name of the game, or, even better, the specific place or
aspect you are having trouble with in the subject line. I love to
know exactly what my readership wants additional help with, so if you
would do that first and foremost, it would be greatly appreciated. If
you don't put anything in the subject line, it could get dismissed as
spam or other useless mail, which I've been getting lots of lately. I
need to be able to weed out the crap from the stuff I need to see,
and this will help me out a lot. Also, the filesize will tip me off
as to whether your e-mail is relevant or not. If it's over 20k, I
often won't read it, as it's either unnecessarily long or a virus.
2. Please, for the love of God, triple-check the guide you're looking at
to make sure I haven't already answered your question. It rarely
happens, but I do occasionally get mail from people who obviously
didn't make an effort to look at the walkthrough before e-mailing me.
Should this happen, I have now decided that I won't even gratify you
with a reply. Instant deletion will commence, and your question will
be duly ignored. You have been sufficiently warned.
3. Since my address is a Hotmail address, I do have MSN Messenger. It's
all good and everything if you want to e-mail me a question, but
please, DON'T ADD ME TO YOUR CONTACT LIST. Right now, my entire
family shares the computer, and they'll start buggin' out if they
find total strangers on my contact list. I have been approached by
many to be on their buddy list, even those who just want to make some
friends and talk for fun. The only people on my list are friends and
family, and until I move out or whatever, that's how it stays. I
doubt I'll ever allow this, but for now, I don't. Just e-mail me. I
don't have time for people to be bothering me with their questions in
real time.
** That should be all for now, so enjoy playing Mega Man 2!
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BASIC CONCEPT
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As we all know by now, Mega Man is the hero in just about all of these games
(the NES Mega Man games, anyway - let's not go messing with that X junk right
now). For now, it is safe to assume that Mega Man is the hero, yes. He is in
this one. For all purposes of logic and whatnot in this FAQ, Mega Man is the
hero. I may have overclarified that a bit, but oh well.
Anyway, as Mega Man, you will first face off against eight Robot Masters,
each of which can be connected to another in terms of weaponry, weaknesses,
and other relevant factors. With your regular gun, some of these bosses are
nearly impossible to tackle, but the weapons of certain Robot Masters will
take down some of the other Robot Masters with ease. You'll have to employ
strategy to figure out which weapons will be effective in which scenarios.
Let's take a look at the eight Robot Masters exhibited in this game:
(starting from the upper left corner of the Stage Select screen and going
clockwise)
-> Bubble Man
-> Air Man
-> Quick Man
-> Wood Man
-> Crash Man (also Clash Man)
-> Flash Man
-> Metal Man
-> Heat Man
After putting findings to the test and killing all eight Robot Masters, you
will then proceed to Dr. Wily's castle, which will usually consist of a few
random bosses followed by having to face the original eight all over again in
one big lump, and then a path to the mad doctor himself. This is the way of
most Mega Man games - it's worked for the past fifteen years, why go against
formula now?
Along with knowing what's up in the fierce struggle ahead, you should also
know how to control your little Blue Bomber. Here's a list of the commands
you can summon while exercising your power over the Man In Blue:
D-Pad:
-> Move up, down, left, or right as the case may be.
Select:
-> Cycle through menu commands.
Start:
-> Confirm menu choices.
-> Bring up the submenu.
-> Exit the submenu.
B Button:
-> Fire the current weapon.
A Button:
-> Jump. Hold Left or Right to jump in that direction. Mega Man is easily
controlled in midair.
-> Enter the red dots that make up passwords.
That's pretty much the gist of Mega Man 2's control scheme - the little
bugger is not hard to get a grip on. Armed with the above controller commands
and all the aforementioned basics, there's no reason that you shouldn't be
able to take on Mega Man 2 after a few deep breaths and the caffeinated
beverage of your choice. If I may, I suggest Dr Pepper or Pepsi.
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ITEMS
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We all know that if the fate of the world in the 2000's were left up to only
Mega Man's normal gun, the Mega Buster, we'd all be in serious trouble and,
quite possibly, an insufferable bout of indentured slavery right now. (What
do you call this decade anyway? The Millennial Beginning? The Zero-Zeroes?
The Aught-Aughts? What?)
Fortunately, Mega Man comes programmed with the ability to absorb and "learn"
the abilities of those Robot Masters which he has successfully defeated. When
you learn an ability, it goes down under your submenu listed as the first
letter of that boss's name (e.g., Flash Man's would be F). You can use these
abilities to defeat other bosses. Mind you, however, that not every weapon is
effective against every Robot Master. Most weapons will have nearly the same
effect as your normal gun, with one being that RM's weakness. Usually, any
given Robot Master has an immunity to one or two weapons as well (i.e., the
Quick-Boomerang isn't likely to work on the time-freezing Flash Man). Keep
this in mind as you read the descriptions of and nifty uses for the items
listed below.
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Robot Master Abilities
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(starting from the upper left corner of the Stage Select screen and going
clockwise)
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Bubble Man
ABILITY: Bubble Lead
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Bubble Man's Bubble Lead is basically that, a bubble, though I suppose why
it's called Bubble Lead is that has a tendency to gravitate quickly toward
the ground. When it hits the ground, it will travel along it until it hits
something, presumably an enemy or a wall. There are some enemies that Mega
Man's normal bullets will travel right over because of their lack of height.
Use the Bubble Lead to get at these short-statured foes.
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Air Man
ABILITY: Air Shooter
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What this particular weapon does is shoot a tornadic stream of air at a
parabolic curve upward. It can be used to reach enemies on higher-up ledges,
or, for enemies that jump around a whole lot, the Air Shooter can put them in
their place.
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Quick Man
ABILITY: Quick-Boomerang
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Quick Man may be the fastest Robot Master on two feet, but his weapon moves
in an outward curve with considerably less speed. While not really effective
in day-to-day scenarios, I would most recommend the Quick-Boomerang against
enemies that are excessively slow and have an inexorable tendency to be in
your way all the time. This includes some bosses, so stay alert for those
particular opportunities.
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Wood Man
ABILITY: Leaf Shield
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The Leaf Shield will immediately surround Mega Man with a protective layer of
foliage that works until he is hit too many times or shoots it off in
someone's general direction, usually forward. I'd use this if you have a
thing for getting unnecessarily hit a lot, but you don't get too many of
them, so use them sparingly. There is only one situation where it really
needs to be used, but if you take a lot of damage, the Leaf Shield may assist
in alleviating some of your woes.
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Crash Man
ABILITY: Crash Bomb
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Crash Man's Crash Bomb will latch onto a wall or enemy and blow them up with
a dangerously explosive bang. It shoots straight forward and is hard to
attach to faster enemies. Its best use lies in using it to blow up certain
types of walls - those that are a different color than the rest of the
terrain and usually hide paths to beneficial items such as energy tanks.
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Flash Man
ABILITY: Time Stopper
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A humongous drawback to Flash Man's Time Stopper is that while using it, you
can't access the submenu to use any other weapons. The Time Stopper must be
waited out for its entire duration. Everything during this time is brought to
a halt, leaving you to move forward in peace and quiet. In this regard, you
can use it to get some of the other Robot Masters off your back for a while.
It can also be used to run from fast-moving obstacles that can easily catch
up to Mega Man. Remember, during this time, EVERYTHING is frozen, so if
you're a coward, you can make a getaway before any other enemies even notice.
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Metal Man
ABILITY: Metal Blade
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The Metal Blade is merely a sawblade that goes out and comes back to you. It
would be totally ineffectual in normal battle were it not for the fact that
about four shots equal one energy bar, meaning you're not going to run out of
Metal Blades anytime soon. While not great for casual shooting, it has a fair
impact on most Robot Masters, so if you're at a loss for stuff, whip this
gadget out. Chances are it will do fair damage.
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Heat Man
ABILITY: Heat
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Even by itself, Heat Man's weapon is a potent flamethrower, and not to be
discounted in light of the other weapons, but it has an even greater power:
if you hold down the B Button long enough, Mega Man will start glowing.
Release the B Button to shoot an enormous fireball as big as the Blue
Bomber's whole body! Don't go flaunting this one, though - one of those big
shots takes up nearly half of its weapon energy, so save the big bang for a
really good occasion.
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Common Items
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SMALL WHITE DOT
Refills two segments on Mega Man's energy bar.
LARGE WHITE BALL
Refills approximately half of Mega Man's energy.
SMALL BLUE CAPLET
If Mega Man has any weapon other than the Mega Buster equipped, it'll fill up
two segments on that weapon's energy bar.
LARGE BLUE CAPSULE
Refills about a third of any weapon other than the Mega Buster that Mega Man
currently has equipped.
ENERGY TANK
Mega Man can carry up to four of these beauties at a time. If he uses one up,
his energy, no matter what level it is at, will be totally replenished.
EXTRA LIFE
Looks like Mega Man's head. Grab one to add a life to your count. You can
have up to nine lives, like the as-yet-not-conceived Robot Master Cat Man.
THE SUPER REFILLER
I've only ever found one of these, so technically it's not a very common
item, but it is a great item nonetheless. In Dr. Wily's castle, you'll find
an icon with a lightning bolt on it. Go to enough trouble to get it, and all
your weapon energy and other energy bars will be totally refilled! Don't not
get this - hurry up and find one today.
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Dr. Light's Add-Ons
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Yes, the Good Doctor himself is not without a few tricks up his sleeve. He
has created three items for Mega Man that will aid him greatly in his quest.
He'll receive one after beating Heat Man, Air Man, and Flash Man. Each of
these is sort of a vehicular mode of transportation that will help Mega Man
out at some point during his quest.
ITEM-1
A platform with a rotor blade on bottom that moves slowly upward until it
peters out. Mega Man can only make use of three of these at a time.
ITEM-2
A jet platform that moves forward until it hits a wall. It sucks up energy
faster than a CD player, so your ride is going to be very short when you use
this thing.
ITEM-3
A platform that bounces along the ground until it hits a wall, at which point
it will start going up. Jump on and enjoy the elevator ride. You will only
ever use one at a time, though I believe if you're having Fits of Whimsy(tm),
you may fire more at once.
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WALKTHROUGH
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NOTE: The following list of Sections within this walkthrough displays the
sequence I follow when fighting the first eight Robot Masters. You may
disagree with it, but I find it easy to use and convenient in getting the Dr.
Light add-ons in order from first to third.
SECTIONS
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+ ROBOT MASTERS
-> Bubble Man
-> Heat Man
-> Wood Man
-> Air Man
-> Crash Man
-> Metal Man
-> Flash Man
-> Quick Man
+ DR. WILY'S CASTLE
-> Mechadragon
-> Wall Boss
-> The Guts Tank
-> The Crash Bomb Scenario
-> Robot Master Reunion
-> The Final Battle
T H E R O B O T M A S T E R S
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Bubble Man
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You'll start out on a ledge in the middle of a waterfall, the only direction
to go being right. Shoot the robot frogs that shoot mini-frogs (tadpoles,
what have you) from their mouths. If you destroy all three mini-frogs in a
group, the mother frog will shoot out three more. As you decimate each mother
frog, run as far away from the little ones as you can - eventually you should
lose them. After these mother frogs come a series of platforms that fall
under your weight. Touch them lightly enough and they won't even fall.
However, don't stay on any of them too long or you'll fall to a miserable
death. Once at the safe ground to the right, drop down and hug the wall on
the left. Shoot each hermit crab robot. On Normal, they will die; on
Difficult, their shells come off and they move faster. Avoid or shoot them as
the case may be and move on down.
You'll land on a ledge that is sort of the like the diving board into the
subterranean ocean below. Hang to the right so that you don't land on another
of the hermit crab-bots below. Either skip or kill the ones you can and drop
down below. The ocean expands to the right to a horde of shrimp-like robots.
Stay back as they come at you. They're coming from the stationary robotic
lantern fish up ahead. Sock it to him in the lantern while fighting off the
innumerable shrimp spraying out of his mouth. While you're down here, make
doubly sure not to jump too high in here - the spikes kill you in one hit
regardless of your health status.
At the next point, you'll have to navigate a twisty corridor while dealing
with jellyfish robots that come from above and below the boundaries of the
screen. If they get down to your level, they'll start weaving at you, so take
them to lunch before they can accomplish that. When you drop down between the
two walls lined with spikes, you'll run into more shrimp-bots and another
docile lantern fish. It's a little harder to kill this one in such close
quarters, but do what you have to and move on.
Proceed to the next area, where you'll see the mother frogs from the
beginning of the level. Their tiny companions, like you, have much more
mobility in this deep water, but that also makes them easier targets (and
easier to avoid). Kill the mother frog first, then deal with the babies until
you get to the outside part of the level back at the waterfall. You'll now
have to go around some falling crabs, who will bounce comically upon hitting
a platform and will then walk after you. They're easy to shoot on the way
down. Just make sure you don't jump into one while you're over a pit or it's
bye-bye Blue Bomber. After the barrage of crabs, you'll be at the lair of
your first Robot Master, Bubble Man.
Bubble Man is slow in the water and is therefore an easy target, but his
constant firing can make him a nuisance if you're not careful. Walk under the
bubbles as they bounce along the ground and shoot him as he makes a beeline
down to the turf. He will then shoot some fast white bullets in your
direction that are easy to jump over. The key to Bubble Man is jumping and
staying on the ground at the right times. Do this and you'll have the victory
in your pocket. As a reward, you'll get the Bubble Lead, a useful item
against the next Robot Master in our journey.
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Heat Man
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Walk forward and kill the green guys who wind themselves up to jump. Tap the
fire button as fast as you can and walk past them, jumping over the deadly
lava. After a few of these guys, you've got a whole different kind of enemy
to deal with, and it comes out of the holes in the background. Shoot each one
as it comes toward you in that eerily irregular way. You might be caught in a
mess of them if you don't try to move forward at every available opportunity.
Jump to each stationary block positioned over the bottomless pit and make
your way to the little floor-crawlers up ahead. If you must, use your Bubble
Lead to hit them. To jump over them is admittedly pretty difficult, so if you
have to off one with your bubbles, be my guest.
Going down the ladder, you'll have your first experience with the
sequentially appearing and disappearing blocks. Jump on top of the first one,
then jump straight up immediately to catch the next one. It's the only way
you'll get out of here alive. Once on the highest level, jump to the left all
the way to the ladder opposite the one you came down. You'll have hell to pay
if you get caught in the lions' den, so to speak, with that little floor-
crawler. Go down the next ladder and get the screw machines that come out of
the holes. You'll have to fend them off while jumping to more disappearing
and reappearing blocks. Since you don't have Crash Man's ability yet, you
can't break through the walls here. Keep going until you get to the floor-
crawler. Jump to the platform above him the moment you see him and get ready
to do some major block jumping.
Again, here the blocks appear and then disappear, and they throw in some of
that above-your-head junk to throw you off and make you start over. You're
far enough back right now that you can go back to the platform and try again
if you fall, but if you get in a groove, you'll have to go with it. Hop to
the first one, the second one, and the third one. At the third one, make as
big a jump from the edge of that block as you can and hold Right. If you make
it, continue to do that with the next few. From that block that you just made
the huge leap to, wait until you go down to the middle row, then repeat that
jump at the second of those blocks. The path from here remains
straightforward until you get over a pit, when it becomes really scary. You
need to count when you drop from really high to really low. That first low
block is "one"; at "three," repeat the stretching jump. A few more blocks and
you should be on stable ground.
Drop down the ladder and prepare to face a gunner in a large hopping machine.
On Normal, he's easy enough to kill. If you're playing Difficult, let him hit
you once and then pass by him, jumping to increase your lead on him. If you
let him wail on you, you won't have enough strength left for the epic battle
with Heat Man. Luckily, he's just down that next ladder. Get away from the
hopping gunner as quickly as you can and equip the Bubble Lead before
entering his lair.
Heat Man is impossible to beat with the stupid Mega Buster because he moves
so dang fast. However, Bubble Lead will ensure victory. Fire one at him from
the edge of the room to start the round. After being hit by anything once, he
charges at opponents in a ball of flame. Jump over it, but stay close to him
so he can't fire more tiny fireballs that turn into fire walls. Whenever he
regroups, toss another bubble in his mouth. Eventually the mighty Heat Man
will succumb, and you'll get not only Atomic Fire, but also Dr. Light's
awesome Item-1, a useful floating platform that will get you to places you
can't ordinarily jump to. (This system predates the mighty Rush Coil by a
good two years.)
In any case, it's time to engage in some lawful deforestation. Let's hit Wood
Man's stage next.
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Wood Man
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The beginning of this stage is full of woodland creatures that are anything
but cute and fuzzy. First off, take on the swarm of mechanical bats that come
at you. Make sure the area is cleared of them before you move on, and be sure
to advance rather slowly. It's a good idea, considering the mechanical purple
rabbits riding your tail. When they stop hopping, they'll fire deadly carrots
at you. While it may not _sound_ threatening, it most definitely _is_
threatening. Once at the ladder to the right, descend and kill the three bats
before descending once more.
Here you will take on a series of large blue wolves that paw the ground, a
sign that they're about to send an arc of flames your way. There is a method
for killing each one while taking minimal damage, though. I'm sure you're
interested in hearing them; they're listed below in sequential order.
Wolf #1
Stand on the step opposite him and jump when he blows fire. Shoot until
he dies.
Wolf #2
While the corridor may be narrow, it's still not impossible to remain
unscathed. When he blows fire, jump over it to the right while shooting.
As he prepares to blow more fire, walk left. Jump over the fire when he
blows more. In this way, you'll be moving in a half-circle pattern. Fire
until he is deceased.
Wolf #3
The hardest, but there's an easy method to it. See the small piece of
ledge jutting downward in front of the wolf's forehead? Every time you
jump, catch yourself on it. Move in the same semi-circular pattern as
with Wolf #2, but let yourself catch on that small stalactite. When you
fall straight down, you'll avoid the fire while at the same time getting
in a few hits. Repeat until he's gone.
After this, proceed to the ladder going up.
Since it's impossible to totally bypass the two bats in the next room, shoot
them down and head on up. You'll come out of the cavern to a bamboo ledge.
Don't walk too far forward yet - robotic monkeys spring up from the pit,
latch onto the ledge, and jump up to get you. Stay as far back as you can and
pump them full of plasma when they hop up to your level. Be sure also to keep
an eye peeled for the birds that drop the eggs. Don't ever let these touch
the ground, because a swarm of baby birds will home in on you if they hatch
prematurely. Once at the other end, you'll be back in a cavern. Go down the
ladder to fight one rabbit per room. Just cram a boatload of bullets into the
first one, get the second one from the step above the one he lands on each
time he hops, and take out the third one as he jumps from a safe ledge. When
you get past these three Little Robot Foo-foos, you'll be back in a wooded
area much like the one you started in. Do not attempt to shoot any of the
chickens. If you freeze as soon as one pops up on the screen, it should jump
over you. When it does clear you like a hurdle, walk past it to make sure it
doesn't land uncomfortably on you. Repeat this until you find yourself at the
foot of Wood Man's lair.
A lot of people will tell you to use the Metal Blade here. I, however, find
Atomic Fire a much more effective weapon for the job, since a fire can
decimate a forest much faster than saws and bulldozers can. In case you
didn't know, Heat Man's Atomic Fire can be charged up into a super-shot of
sorts if you hold down the B button. Charge it up as much as you can (it
takes about three or four seconds), all the while jumping over the Leaf
Shield as he tosses it at you. One of these maximum-charge shots will be
enough to kill Wood Man instantly on Normal, while two will get the job done
on Difficult. Don't waste these shots. They take up a substantial portion of
your weapon energy.
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Air Man
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With the Leaf Shield in your arsenal, you're now ready to take on Air Man.
Enter his stage and move forward to the enemy that pops up. Wait for the
rotating spikes to go back in before you jump on each one. A block between
each of them will help you cross along them faster. Kill those floating
enemies that come out the sides until you get to a series of cloud men that
throw lightning. Shoot rapidly at the first one and board his cloud. You'll
have to kill the next few quickly to get to their respective platforms. If
the cloud you're on revolves out of the line of sight after you kill one of
the cloud men, you'll have to kill him again when he comes back around. Board
each cloud until you make it to the sturdy ground. Shoot the bird eggs (watch
out, they ambush from behind clouds occasionally) until you get to the end.
Fall behind the cloud to go down.
Jump past the machines that spit out little upright energy worms and fall
behind the cloud to the left. You'll come down in an area much like the
beginning, except now you have to jump from one of the big machines that
appears in the air to another one. When you accomplish this, you'll have to
kill some robots with fans in their stomachs. These are like weaker versions
of Air Man himself, so just push against them and keep firing. Deal with
these guys and more of the egg-dropping birds as you trudge forward through
air currents and baby bird attacks. Once you're finally through the seemingly
endless assault, you'll be in Air Man's domain.
Equip the Leaf Shield, but don't bust one out until he's open. There are a
few different patterns he has on his tornadoes. It's not them that are
keeping you back, but the fan lodged in his torso. It's kind of hard to jump
through the tornadoes while that stupid thing is going, but find gaps that
you can get through and press B twice immediately - once to activate a Leaf
Shield and again to throw one at him. Don't let too many of them hit his
tornadoes or you'll run out of Leaf Shield power and you're essentially toast
with only your Mega Buster to use. Three or four hits with the shield ought
to take him out, so you do have some leeway.
At the end of this level, you'll also receive Item-2 from Dr. Light. From
here, go to Crash Man's level.
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Crash Man
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Kill the turning enemies that come out of the pipe as fast as you can. They
appear in the first two screens and have a tendency to hoard the ladders,
making it hard for you to get up there. Know your stance and their points of
regeneration and shoot the ones that are keeping you from upward mobility.
Kill the hardhat guys at the first side-scrolling area and head up the
ladder. Here you will have to ride the platforms on the guided paths. There
are three that you must hitch a ride on while avoiding more turning floaters,
and each is more complex in design than the one before it. When you get past
all of them, move to the right.
The slithering column robot will toss his pieces at you if you playing on
Difficult, and will die in one hit on Normal. If you're playing Difficult,
run to or stay in a safe place when you shoot him the first time, then kill
him the second time. Head up the ladder to the right.
Keep going up until the night sky turns pitch black. Here you will have to
choose between two ladders, one on the left and one on the right. Head up the
one on the left, and then from there the one in the middle. This path has the
biggest payoff, as eventually you will come to an Energy Tank. Grab it and
use Item-1 to get to the ledge from where you can access the next ladder up.
Take the one on the left to go all the way up to an extra life. Watch out for
the wind-up jumpers though - they'll land right on top of the ladder you're
trying to get to the top of. When you get the extra life, don't worry about
killing them. Walk under them when they're airborne and you'll soon come
face-to-face with Crash Man.
Crash Man is one of the easier bosses. It just takes a little bit of
calculation with the upward curve of the Air Shooter to make sure you score
the hit. He'll stay on the ground unless you fire that Air Shooter - he seems
to be afraid of it when he sees it. Get up close to him and fire it then to
ensure a hit, or try to get him when he's in the air. In any case, this isn't
a difficult battle - in fact, it'll probably be over a lot faster than you
think. When you're through with him, go to Metal Man's level. We don't have
anywhere else to go right now, so we'll tackle his (easy) stage.
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Metal Man
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Jump to the left-moving conveyor belt at the beginning and jump against its
push for an easy Energy Tank. Get past these moving floors and wait on the
spikes hanging from the chains. Pay attention to the direction that the floor
carries you in so that you move against it and you don't plant your face in
some major spikage. Next is a set of screw robots that dart from the floor to
the ceiling and vice versa. These guys provide a good way to build up energy
and extra lives. They're a little harder once you hit the conveyor belt, but
when you come out on the other side, things get a little easier.
Jump along the conveyor belts and use Item-1 to get the extra life if you
need. Once you have it or have decided to pass it up, move down two screens
and start going right. You'll have to face some small clown-like robots
decked out in pink garb that use gray gears as vehicles. Shoot these gears
and the pink guys will take care of themselves. You'll also have to deal with
the tall column-bots from Crash Man's stage. Stand at the edges of the raised
steps when you shoot at them to avoid the pieces they fling at you. Only go
for the second Energy Tank in the level if you are confident that you can get
past the hole. You can't jump your way out, so Item-1 ought to do nicely.
Just ahead, after a few more gearheads, is Metal Man.
This could very well be the perfect battle for a five-minute staredown a la
Dragonball Z. Metal Man won't fire a single Metal Blade unless you provoke
him. Stay on your side of the screen at all times and jump constantly to get
in hits on him here and there. Jump forward when he throws sawblades at you
and you'll successfully clear them nine times out of ten. It takes a little
more effort to steer clear of him when he changes the direction of the
conveyor belt to right, but as long as you're not on his side, he won't move
from that spot. Repeat the jumping and firing until he's dead.
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Flash Man
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Take the low road as often as possible at this point in the level. When you
find the point where you can get to the highest floor possible from the
bottom floor, use Item-1 to get there and you should come upon an extra life.
Use it again at the next section to remain on the top floor. Use three Crash
Bombs to get through and take the pit at the far right to the area below.
From here, if you follow the correct path, you will absolutely breeze through
this level.
Taking that far right pit allows you to stealthily go under the jumping
robot. While under him, take the hole downward nearest you. Keep going down
until you land opposite a Crash Bombable wall with a large energy refill
behind it. Blow it open and get it. Keep Crash Bombs equipped for this fall.
When you get to the bottom, your CBs will be nearly replenished to the max.
Go down the winding steps and take the pit to the near left. You should soon
land on a ledge above a jumping robot. Take the path over him, then fall down
the pit ON THE RIGHT. You'll be in a safe place above a bunch of nasty
jumping robots. Stay on this upper path (you'll get an Energy Tank along the
way) until you have to Crash Bomb an opening at the end. By this time you'll
be at Flash Man's oddly-shaped main chamber.
He'll freeze time whenever he gets to the middle of the room. While you're
suspended, he'll take the time to fire shots at you - badly, I might add,
like the villains in action films who fire 500 rounds but never hit the good
guy target. Fortunately, you have the upper hand with the Metal Blade. Fire
it at him constantly while jumping around and over him. It doesn't matter if
you get hit a few times, and if you use it fast enough, he may never get to
freeze time once! When you beat him, you'll get the Time-Stopper and Dr.
Light's final add-on, Item-3. It's a sort of elevator that travels along
walls.
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Quick Man
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Old Speedy is the last stop on our tour of the eight Robot Masters. Start his
level by using Item-1 to get the easily accessible 1-up, then fall down and
jump past the leech shooters from Air Man's stage. The next screen will make
you have to take a big drop, and what's down here may or may not shock you,
so take a deep breath and get ready.
The beams that come out from the sides of the screen can kill Mega Man in one
hit regardless of his health status, so you'll have to move fast to get past
them. At the second screen of these, head off to the right and stay moving in
that direction on the third screen. If you fall in the right place, you'll be
rewarded at the end with an Energy Tank, an extra life, and a large weapon
energy refill. Use that weapon energy refill on your Item-1, then head back
to the left. When you fall down into the next room, you'll meet some guys who
keep the room lit. Shoot each one until he is dead and you'll notice how the
room goes dark (it also goes dark when you pause, for some reason). Reach the
next one to re-illuminate the room, then shoot him. Continue the alternating
spells of light and dark until you get to the end of the room, at which point
the place will light up again.
Once you go down the hole, you're going to have to move to get out of the way
of this series of beams. There are several items placed in the path that are
tempting to get, but DON'T GET THEM. They're too far out of the way and
you'll probably die in the process of going after them. Always take a path
that will give you as big a headstart on the next set of beams as possible.
If you hit one, you'll have to start back at the beginning of them. Also, I
cannot stress this final beam-related point enough:
D O N O T U S E T H E T I M E - S T O P P E R H E R E ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Even though it will stop the flow of beams long enough for you to escape and
most likely take a detour to get a few items, you will need it at the end of
the level in the fight against Quick Man. When you do get out of this
situation, you've got some jumpers to deal with. Only take them on one at a
time - you don't want that nasty backtracking regeneration to get in your
way. The second one is the hardest to deal with. Back up too far from its
starting point and you'll have to fight them indefinitely. They are by far
easier to deal with on Normal. Once you're past them though, Quick Man awaits
not far from there.
Use Time-Stopper on Quick Man first thing. It will drain half his energy
while he is suspended in midair. He'll come right after you as soon as the
match starts, so have it out when you go in there and press B as soon as his
energy is up to the top. After Time-Stopper wears out, equip Crash Bombs and
shoot them at him until he dies. All in all, an easy fight.
Now that you've beaten all eight Robot Masters, it's time to navigate Dr.
Wily's castle!
D R . W I L Y ' S C A S T L E
Note that at this point, your weapon energy will not be automatically
refilled when you beat a level. You must power them up yourself along the
way. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
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Level 1: Mechadragon
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As soon as you start to move forward, birds will start dropping their eggs
like bombadiers. Shoot them before they hit the ground. The air attack will
stop as soon as you come to a large gray brick wall. Use Item-1 to get up to
the top of it, and when you come down, shoot as many of those leech things as
possible. It's a great way to catch up on health and lives. You'll have to
use Item-1 one more time to scale another large wall. Use Item-3 at the very
end. It's more dependable than Item-1, given the situation.
Up one screen is a guy that shoots three bullets at a time, then holds up a
shield while he's not shooting. Make it so that Mega Man's head is above the
ladder at the top but he's not standing on the ladder. When you point to the
left, Mega Man will be able to shoot the guy in the foot. When he's gone,
refill either of your add-on items using the large weapon energy refill that
was behind the guy. Use the same tactic on the next one. Once past that
screen, you'll see a little floor-crawler going very slow. Wait until he's
off the screen to come up and go up the next ladder. You'll need to use four
Item-1 platforms to get to the ladder in the opposite corner. Shoot the first
one from your position on the ladder to make it there. While it's true that
you can't have more than three Item-1 platforms on the screen at the same
time, just make the fourth one when the first one disappears and you should
do fine. Be sure to equip the Mega Buster once you get to the ladder, because
you'll have to shoot those annoying turning floaters on the way up. Once at
the top of the ladder, start going right.
As you jump along the blocks, a large Mechadragon should start following you,
destroying all the ledges in your wake. Don't let him touch you or you'll die
instantly, and be sure not to fall while you're running away. Hug the right
side of the screen while you're retreating until you feel uncomfortable doing
that, then wait for ledges to come to you. Once at the three blocks that he
backs you up against, use only the middle one. Jump to make his flames go up
near you, then shoot when you land. Repeat as necessary until he's down for
the count. Use the upper block if you have to, but never the lowest one. This
battle doesn't take long using the Mega Buster. You don't want to waste any
precious weapon energy on this guy.
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Level 2: Wall Boss
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There's a large weapon energy refill behind you. Use it to fill up Item-1,
then proceed forward. You'll have to make your way through a persistent
blockade of those wind-up jumpers from Heat Man's stage, but once you're
through, equip Item-2 and hop onboard. Ride it until you get to the second
ladder along the way. If you deplane, so to speak, at the first ladder,
you'll have to use your Crash Bombs to get by, and there's a special purpose
for them a little later in Wily's Castle. Instead, hop off at the second
ladder to get an Energy Tank. Go down the ladder behind it and keep Item-2
equipped. Obtain the extra life and refill your Item-2 jet bit by bit with
the tiny weapon refills. Once you have all those, de-equip it and change back
to Mega Buster before continuing.
You don't need the extra man and the Energy Tank behind the Crash Bomb walls.
Keep falling (avoid the narrow spikes) and you'll eventually come to a narrow
corridor. Patiently shoot your way through the screws from Metal Man's stage
until you get to the end, where you should use Item-3 to get to the top. It
should have enough staying power for you to wait on the spike chain to go
back up. Move forward through them, but be careful at the more closely spaced
ones. They're harder to avoid. Once they are behind you, however, fall down
the pit and watch out as you take the plunge. Those spikes can really hurt.
After two screens you'll land in a room with purple walls. This room is the
boss. Sections of the wall will come out two at a time and pursue you. Stay
in the middle of the room and wait to see where you'll need to walk to shoot
them. They get progressively faster as you take them down (about three shots
per pair), but the process of deducing where they'll come from next becomes
much easier. Jump over them and try not to take too many hits. It would be
bad to have to waste an Energy Tank here. The room will flash and explode
when you've killed every pair of panels, and you'll move on to the next
level.
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Level 3: The Guts Tank
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Ignore all items on the way down to the brown muddy water. When you get
there, take as large a jump as you can to make it over each set of spikes
(remember that water increases your jumping power). At the pits, large
mechanical fish will jump to get you. If you're moving, you shouldn't have to
worry about them grabbing you. Make sure at the long pit that you adjust
where Mega Man falls ever so slightly so that you won't find yourself at the
mercy of a spike. It gets easier as you go down. Once out of the water,
you'll probably have to take one hit each from the three adjustable cannon
enemies, but that shouldn't affect you too much. Just get to the door and
fight the Guts Tank (which I call that boss because he bears an uncanny
resemblance to the Robot Master from MM1).
Quick-Boomerang gets the job done here, 'cause you see, he's all slow and
everything. A constant barrage of them aimed directly at his face will be
more than enough to do him in in a matter of seconds. Just avoid the fist and
the little micro-digger-bots and this one will be a piece of cake.
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Level 4: The Crash Bomb Scenario
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Use the two weapon energy refills here to give aid to the items that need it
most. I'd recommend choosing Item-3 and another one of your add-ons or Quick-
Boomerang, even though none of the latter items mentioned really need a
replenishing. Go up the ladders until you get to the one that appears to be
in plain sight. There are pieces of terrain here that look stable but that
Mega Man will drop through like there was nothing there. Jump over those and
go up the ladder again. There is a large pit of spikes below the thin ledge,
and you just KNOW there'll be something funny there. Fortunately, the faux
tile is right next to the ladder, so just jump over it and hang on to the
ladder. The Energy Tank at the next screen is not worth the time, so just
keep on going up and around.
Do not just let go of ladders at this part. You will need to hang onto them
and then drop onto the moving rails when the time is right. The third one,
involving having to jump over spikes and escaping those turning floaters from
Crash Man's stage at the same time, can be the most difficult if you are ill-
prepared. Just bust out a Leaf Shield and don't move, or it'll go away. Two
of these will get you through unscathed. At the final one, drop to the lone
block over the spikes, then jump left twice in succession as the rail comes
to you going right. Below are two hopping robots and two of those shield
gunmen by themselves. They're extremely hard to pass, and you may need to use
an Energy Tank to get past them. Just make it to the door and prepare to
fight the most puzzling boss yet.
Only Crash Bombs can hurt the devices on the walls, and you have just enough
weapon energy with full Crash Bombs to destroy them all. However, you can't
bust through all of the green walls or you'll run out too soon. Bearing that
in mind, you'll have to work around them creatively to get the most out of
your Crash Bombs.
Use Item-1 and get to the floor above. Shoot the wall to the left and then
the gun behind it. Go down to the gun in the lower right corner and eradicate
that wall and the one behind it. Then, of the three left, use Item-1 again to
get back up to where you were and kill the middle one. Head left and use
Item-1 to get to the one secured in the upper left corner. (NOTE: This one
can be extremely difficult to get to.) Barring that reassuring parenthetical
note, kill the last one without bombing any green walls when you've gotten
the hard-to-reach one. You should be out of Crash Bombs, but then again,
you'll have beaten the level.
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Level 5: Robot Master Reunion
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Use the same strategies against the Robot Masters this time as you did the
first time. Some of them should be easier to fight now that you have plain
square rooms to battle in with no special quirks. Here's a basic diagram
showing which teleporter leads to which boss.
Heat Man Flash Man
Air Man START Metal Man
Wood Man Bubble Man Quick Man Crash Man
If you need a major pick-me-up in a hurry, fight Metal Man. Metal Blade kills
him in one hit on Normal, two hits on Difficult (what a maroon!), and every
Robot Master gives you a large energy refill upon their defeat. When you have
defeated all eight for the second time, a teleporter pops up in the top
center portion of the room. Go in to face Dr. Wily in one of his super-
destructo-vehicles.
Start off by equipping your Metal Blade and shooting the transparent center.
Energy spheres emanate from the bottom of the ship and go upward in an arc.
Don't let too many of these hit you. Just jump over them while firing Metal
Blades at the ship as fast as you can pump them out. Under no circumstances
should you touch the ship. That takes away a whole lot of life, and you don't
want to have to use an Energy Tank this early on. Make sure you have at least
three of them for this battle, by the way.
The second part of this battle involves Dr. Wily himself. The energy spheres
will now bounce, and you need to get out the Quick-Boomerang. There is a
pretty good chance that this where your Energy Tanks are going to get used in
a hurry, but that's all right, because the last boss is VERY easy. When you
defeat Dr. Wily after throwing your endless Quick-Boomerangs at him, he will
make a getaway while the floor beneath you collapses, causing you to get
trapped underground.
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Level 6: The Final Battle
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Hang right as you fall through the enormous pit (reminds me of the Wookie
Hole from Battletoads, except you don't have a bungee cord to hold you up).
When you get to the bottom, walk without stopping and you should pass every
one of the droplet things without ever taking a hit. That's good, because
full energy is a must-have for this final boss, even though he is easy.
Go through the door. It looks as though Wily is prepared to take you down
mano-a-mano, kung fu style ... but no! He morphs into an alien! Is this
really the Dr. Wily we love to hate??? An alien, is he?!? NO!!! It sounds too
much like something out of Men In Black! Anyway, equip Bubble Lead and get
ready to rock.
Although Bubble Lead is a very weighty weapon, it is what is required to take
down this final boss. It's the only weapon that will hit him. He floats
around the area in a predictable sideways figure eight path (the infinity
sign - I guess Wily assumes he'll last forever), all the while shooting at
you occasionally. This shooting makes the Bubble Lead risky to use, because
it requires close-range combat against a guy with some deadly bullets. Only
jump when the bullets come to you. Likewise, only shoot bubbles when the
alien Wily is at the bottom of his figure eight path. Repeat the process
until the easiest boss in the game (am I right, folks?) is ... OUT OF
ORDER?!??
Yes, folks, the final boss in the game was a hologram! Oh my God! You mean
Wily's not man enough to take on Mega Man himself in the last epic battle of
the game? What a loser! Fortunately, Mega Man knows that Wily is a loser, and
banishes him to the land of Video Game Villains who just don't learn, and
Wily has to share a cell with Bowser. Now THAT'S a funny ending. Sit back and
watch Capcom's version of the conclusion, now that you've beaten a horde of
evil robots on your own.
Congratulations on beating Mega Man II! I strongly recommend that you play
the others in the series as well.
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