Mega Man: Mega Man Remastered MMC3 Fix

A fix to the Mega Man Remastered romhack by RetroRain to allow it to be playable on original hardware or accurate emulators, like Mesen and the NES MiSTer core.

Also included are tweaks by SpiderDave, mentioned here: https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=24236.0

Thanks to everyone in the Something Nerdy Studios and NESDev Discord servers (especially to SpiderDave and Scum) with the helping with this hack.

PLATFORM: Nintendo Entertainment System
ROM: Mega Man
HACK TITLE: Mega Man Remastered
AUTHOR: RetroRain
VERSION: 1.0
RELEASE DATE: 5/28/17

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Mega Man series with a remaster of the first game that started it all!

Mega Man Remastered (formerly known as the Upgrade Patch) is a patch for the first Mega Man game, which enhances it in so many ways, without modifying the levels or graphics (minor graphics and palette changes, which are listed below). To those that are familiar with the Upgrade Patch, you could consider this Version 1.7 of it.

Here is a list of all of the changes that Mega Man Remastered has made from the original game:

? Converted to Mapper 4: MMC3.
? Graphics format converted to CHR-ROM.
? PRG and CHR ROM expanded to the new mapper's maximum limit.
? The game now has the ability to save and load your progress.
? All-new titlescreen.
? Updated font for stage select and boss-preview screens.
? Updated cursors for titlescreen and gameover screen.
? Stage select screen has a new palette.
? Boss-preview screen is now like Mega Man 2's, with the preceding flash to it removed.
? Gameover screen has been updated to look more like Mega Man 2's.
? Updated palettes for Cut Man and Elec Man stages.
? Score and score balls have been removed from the game.
? Mega Man palette updates for three weapons: Ice Slasher, Elec Beam and Bombs.
? Boss energy bars moved over to the right side of the screen.
? Updated health and weapon capsule graphics to match those of the later Mega Man games.
? Ready text has been updated: It now flashes, has a new font, and the time it is displayed for has been cut in half.
? Up, down and select can move the cursor on the titlescreen and gameover screen up and down.
? Falling down a pit or on spikes will display your health meter empty.
? Select button toggles between obtained weapons (hence removing the pause feature).

This patch is to be applied to the English version, Mega Man, not the Japanese version, Rock Man. This ROM was tested to work on FCEUX 2.2.2. I have not tested it on other emulators. You may use this patch as a base for your Mega Man hacks, just please give credit if you do.

Enjoy! :)



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Database match: Mega Man (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210216-231042)
File SHA-1: 2F88381557339A14C20428455F6991C1EB902C99
File CRC32: 5DED683E
ROM SHA-1: 6047E52929DFE8ED4708D325766CCB8D3D583C7D
ROM CRC32: 6EE4BB0A