Mega Man X FAQ by Maverick Hunter Version 0.1 Created on 1/30/99 Copyright Notice: This FAQ was created and maintained by Maverick Hunter a.k.a. Jin Shi. This FAQ may not be taken and put on anywhere unless you have the consent of the author, Jin Shi. If I happen to find out that my FAQ has been copied without my consent, I will start the hunt. Table of Contents: I. The Version History II. The Introduction III. The Bosses IV. The Controls V. The Power Ups VI. The Walk Through VII. Codes VIII. Credits I. The Version History 1/30/99 - Created Started working on it Got to The Walk Through II. The Introduction Well, he is the Blue Bomber. He is the one and only Mega Man! In this new adventure, that is in the future, Wily is no more. We can now live in peace. NOT! A new threat has arrived and his name is Sigma. He has a loyal and dangerous servant, Vile and 8 Maverick Hunters. Their objectives are the same as Wily's: to take over the world. However there is one hope, Mega Man and his band of heroes. Mega Man has risen to the challenge and he will destroy the evil forces that have plagues our world. I sound really corny, don't I? III. The Bosses Like most of the previous Mega Man games, there are 8 sub bosses and then you fight multiple levels to get to the very main boss, Sigma. The sub bosses or Maverick Hunters, have significant power that Mega Man can take and defeat other Maverick Hunters with them. The bosses, in no particular order are Launch Octopus, Chill Penguin, Spark Mandrill, Sting Chameleon, Armored Armadillo, Storm Eagle, Flame Mammoth and the Boomer Kuwanger. Please note that in the walk through that I do, I will have the bosses in the exact order that you should defeat them in. IV. The Controls They aren't really that different from any other Mega Man game. There is a fire and a jump button. You can still charge up the X-Buster for a even more powerful shot. However, there is no slide. In the old Mega Man games, if you pressed down and jump together, you would slide. However, there is one power up that does give a slide like ability: the Dash. That will be in the next section. There is also a new aspect to this game. Mega Man has the power to climb walls. Just jump toward a wall, hold the direction that you were going and keep hitting jump. Mega Man will start scaling the walls. This will become a valuable skill to master. It will help you dodge a lot of attacks when you are fighting. Also if you fall into a hole, if you are quick enough and get toward the side of a hole, you can jump back up to safety. V. The Power Ups There are numerous special power ups in this game. I am not talking about the little capsules that refill your life up or anything. There are 4 Dr. Light capsules hidden in the game that give you special powers. They are the Dash, Helmet, Armor and X-Buster upgrades. They will all contribute to beating this game. If you also noticed this before, Mega Man's life bar is really small compared to the Mavericks. There is a remedy. They are called Heart Tanks. There are 8 of them, each one in a Maverick's level. As in the walk through, I will point each and every one of them to you. Each heart tank will increase Mega Man's life bar by three pixels. There are one more special power up: the Sub Tank. There are 4 of these, hidden among the 8 levels. They have the power to store up energy capsules that you get in the game and when you select them and use them, they will refill Mega Man's life bar to some extent. This is really useful in the game. VI. The Walk Through The first level isn't really a big level. I should say it is a pre-level and a warm up level. That is exactly what this level is: a warm up level. Test your controls out and see if they work or not. Make sure everything is okay. Now the first robot you encounter will be this little spiked thing. It is easily destroyed. As you go up, there will be a blue robot who will either shot two missiles at you both at different heights or he could send two ball of electricity racing toward you on the ground. Just jump over everything and continue to pound him with your X-Buster. Keep on heading straight. You will keep on facing the Spike Bots. Just destroy the spike part and the robot will die. Keep on heading forward and blasting everything. You will come to a point where you will face a giant robot hornet. Blast him a few times while dodging his bullets and missiles. As soon as you destroy him, he will fall, causing the floor to break away. As you fall, don't move under him or else you will be squished dead. Now as soon as you land, head toward the wall in the right and keep jumping up. You will be back on track and keep going forward. That is all for now, Mega Man X fans. I will update this soon! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com