Nadia & David’s Mega Man Mayhem: Mega Man IV for Game Boy

This past weekend, Nadia and I ventured forth to explore an old favorite of ours in Mega Man IV.

However, we did so in a whole new way: In color!

But, you may be asking yourself, “how did they get it in color?”

Well, that came to us courtesy of ps.Oslash on YouTube, who has an emulator custom-configured for it. You’ll have to provide your own copy of the game, however (which, fortunately for us, we have. This is what I got over Mega Man V back in the day, with plans to get the other one later that wound up taking a bit longer than I’d planned). It’s not quite flawless, as you’ll see in the above video, particularly during cutscenes, but gameplay is solid enough for the most part.

At the very least, it gives us a glimpse of what might have been with the cancelled Mega Man Mania, and what we can look forward to soon in marcmax’s version of the same. And hopefully, maybe Capcom isn’t just cutting everyone else off by putting the Game Boy games on Nintendo Switch Online, and are working on their own color collection? I know I’d buy it. I’ve bought them a few times already, and I’ll gladly make it one more if given the chance on modern hardware, especially if they’re in color!

Next time on “Nadia & David’s Mega Man Mayhem”, we’re going to (hopefully) finish Mega Man IV! But before that, we’re going to Otakon and then Long Island Retro Gaming Expo, and then “Nadia & David Ruin Video Games” will see us once more return to the remake of Super Mario RPG. So, we hope you’ll join us for that!

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“Nadia & David’s Mega Man Mayhem” is a 90-minute stream we’ll be doing about once a month, where the plan is to play through every Mega Man game we can in chronological order, according to the timeline. We started with the first Mega Man, and after we finished that, started Mega Man 2, and so on. Next time, we’ll pick up where we left off, and go on like so.

As for the Game Boy games? Well, as you can see above, we’ve got something sorta working. Hopefully it’ll get better by the end!

Once Classic is done, we’ll move on to Mega Man X, then Mega Man Zero, and so on. (And with any luck, there will be a “Mega Man Legends Legacy Collection” or something by the time we get to that, but if not, we have a contingency or two in mind.)

And of course, we love interacting with the chat during these streams, so if you’ve got questions about the Mega Man Field Guides from UDON, Legends of the Halcyon Era, poutine recipes, or just want to chat and share the love of Mega Man, drop on in! We’d love to have you!

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