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Sep 4• 2011 Mega Man
Rockman 4 Coming to North American PlayStation Store This Week
The latest in SCEA's "PSone Japan Imports" series is Rockman 4, the Complete Works version of the NES classic. According to Sony's PlayStation Blog, the game is dropping this week as part of their weekly Tuesday update. Here's their writeup on the game: Megaman 4 —...

Sep 4• 2011 Mega Man
Mega Merch Moves En Masse
We hope everyone out there is enjoying their long Labor Day weekend (in the U.S. and Canada, anyway-- is anyone else celebrating?). And if you're bothering to check in on this long, lazy string of days marking the end of Summer, then we have a nifty little bit of news...

Sep 3• 2011 Community Developments
Dorkly Bits: Chill Penguin is Chill
When the original Mega Man X game came out, it featured a slightly odd progression for the series' title character: it starts you off with X beaming down into the city, blasting anything in his way to smithereens. And then later, we learn he's a pacifist who hates...

Sep 2• 2011 Mega Man
Merti Garage Kit Seemingly in the Works
Here's a real interesting one for you figure and model fans. Perhaps you're familiar with Merti, an original character in Yoshihiro Iwamoto's Rockman X manga series. I never really thought she looked like much of a Rockman-esque character, but then I don't see a lot...

Sep 1• 2011 Mega Man
Rockman Sprite Logic Hits Japanese Phones… Except Mine
A new Rockman game is available on SoftBank, Docomo and au branded mobile phones in Japan. As briefly mentioned a while back, this one is Rockman Sprite Logic. If you've ever played Mario's Picross, you know exactly what the deal is. However, with the increased 20 x...

Sep 1• 2011 Community Developments
GameSpite’s Rockman Super Adventure
A new article featuring Mega Man has been posted over at GameSpite, and it's about a game which many of you may know, but few of you likely know well. This would be for Super Adventure Rockman, a Japan-only release for the SEGA Saturn and Sony PlayStation. Its chief...

Aug 31• 2011 Mega Man
Hoffman Legends 3: The Hoff Answers Your Questions About the Prototype Version
So close, and yet so far. If only we had the chance to get in on this ourselves, but sometimes things don't always work out. But it's all good, because the result is the same in the end. Chris Hoffman, who wrote the preview of Mega Man Legends 3 for Nintendo Power...

Aug 30• 2011 Mega Man
Interview with TOM-PON Translation Started
Capcom's TOM-PON, aka Naoya Tomita, is a "living legend" of the company, having started work at the companies in the late 80s. He's been involved with a number of classic Capcom titles, including Mega Man from the start. He was even involved with Legends 3. Needless...

Aug 29• 2011 Community Developments
The Mega Man 9 Remix Album Gets a Trailer
I bet you thought after two years of waiting, hard drive crashes, and missed deadlines that Back in Blue, a remix album of Mega Man 9, would never come out. Well think again, you pessimist! Not only is the album's release imminent, but we have a trailer to prove it....

Aug 28• 2011 Community Developments
A Look at Dimension Diver’s New Rockman Kit Completed
Some time ago we clued you in on a new Rockman garage kit by makers Dimension Diver. It was set to go on sale in August, and that it did this past weekend at the CharaHobby 2011 event. Although Dimension Diver did do a Rockman kit before, this one features improved...

Aug 26• 2011 Mega Man
Capcom Offers a Limited Edition Mega Man 3DS Case
If you're like me, you carry around your Nintendo 3DS everywhere you go, probably with the tiny glimmer of hope that you'll somehow get more street passes. Inevitably, your nice and shiny system is going to get banged up a bit. So, who better to protect your system...

Aug 25• 2011 Reviews
A Review of GigaMix Volume 2
I am a huge Hitoshi Ariga fan, and on top of that, Mega Man V was one of my favorite Classic games, hands down. So when GigaMix 1 was released in Japan, and it hinted that the next story involved the Stardroids, I about lost it. This story arc builds up on the events...

Aug 24• 2011 Site Developments
The TMMN Megacast #12 – Protodude’s Self Looply Corner
Heat Man may have temporarily left us to go adventuring in Japan, but that won't stop the MegaCast! We still have what's left of our rag tag crew including myself (Jesse "Main Finger" Gregory), resident conspiracy theorist Andrew "AWD !" Dickman, and Tabby "I don't...

Aug 24• 2011 Community Developments
Go Nuts with Custom Volnutts
While it may be a while before Capcom fulfills the needs and desires of Mega Man Legends fans again, at least some of those same fans are taking it upon themselves to do something with the series and characters they know and love so well. In this case, one Ryan...

Aug 23• 2011 Site Developments
Sayonara, Suckers
Folks, I must say it's been a great pleasure working on The Mega Man Network for approaching four years now. It may possibly be the longest tenure I've had with a Mega Man website in my 14 years of activity in the Mega Man community. That's half the time I've been...

Aug 23• 2011 Community Developments
Inafune and Mega Man’s Cancellations: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Some of you may remember that about a month ago, a well-spoken gentleman by the name of Andrew Eisen addressed Nintendo of America and their seeming decision not to release any of the "Operation: Rainfall" games (Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story, and Pandora's...

Aug 22• 2011 Community Developments
Let Legends “Shimeji” Invade Your Desktop
Here's an adorable way to customize your Windows PC, and show some Legends support. "Shimeji" is a freeware program that makes little characters run around your desktop. Furthermore, you can make your own image sets for new Shimeji characters. The characters will just...

Aug 21• 2011 Mega Man
New Adventures of Mega Man Now Available in English
You may know of The New Adventures of Mega Man, or more colloquially called That Portuguese Mega Man Comic Where Roll's Naked A Lot. This peculiar comic was published in Brazil by Estúdio PPA in the 90s. Personally speaking, I don't even know much about it myself. But...

Aug 21• 2011 Community Developments• Mega Man
Devroom Contents Saved for Your Consideration
The Japanese branch of the Mega Man Legends 3 Devroom is now closed for good, which is why I'm not bothering to even link to it now. If you didn't go through and save anything, you pretty much lost your chance. Or so it would have seemed! However, a plucky Legends fan...

Aug 20• 2011 Community Developments
GamePro Examines Colonel Capcom’s Secret Recipe for Mega Man
Ever wonder what secret ingredients Capcom used to come up with all the different types of Mega Man game we've seen over the years? GamePro has, and to that end, they have assembled the following flowchart which shows how things come together to form a heaping helping...
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