In X2, the 5th X-Hunter stage is Magna Centipede's stage, with a trap door to the final boss, Sigma.

This makes no sense until you know that the level ID of Volt Catfish is the same as Magna Centipede in Mega Man X2: there is leftover code in X3 that says 'if the X-Hunter icon is selected and 4 X-Hunter stages have been completed, load Magna Centipede's stage instead'. Select the Doppler icon, and you'll oddly end up at Volt Catfish's stage. Use a password with the Doppler stages unlocked, such as 1454 3535 6162 7162, and apply PAR cheat code 7E1FAF04 (this sets that you've completed 4 Doppler stages). It can be seen when playing as X with the PAR code 7E1EE214 by pausing, pressing Up or Down, then unpausing. For some reason, this also messes up the colors of other objects. Its intended palette is unknown (the colors change if, for example, the game switches control to Zero in the intro stage). Vertical boss doors were used in Mega Man X2.īy forcing the selected weapon into an invalid slot, a W icon is displayed. It doesn't seem like that was ever programmed, though, so the final version just erases the boss door and makes the ceiling horizontally symmetrical. There's a placeholder vertical door object above that door in all versions, but it doesn't seem like X would use it rather, the door would open automatically as part of Blast Hornet's boss intro - this is probably why he pauses a bit before he drops down in the August prototypes. There's a vertical boss shutter in the top-right of Blast Hornet's boss room in the August prototypes. However, the the August prototypes shed more light on the mystery of the vertical boss door: The back of the game's box seems to imply that it was possible, or at least planned, to drop in on Blast Hornet via the ceiling, which is rather strange because nowhere else in X3 does the game ever have you drop in from above on a boss. Video footage can be seen here from 0:37 to 0:57. They seem to work as intended, though the graphics either aren't loaded properly or no longer exist. How Blast Hornet's boss room appears in the August prototypes.Īn unused set of vertical boss doors can be found above Blast Hornet's boss room. Unlike Mega Man X Collection, Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 & 2 features the SNES version of X3 instead of the PS1 or Saturn versions like the former did. Disc-based ports with Redbook audio were later released on the aforementioned 32-bit platforms and PC. Although the game is still good in its own right, many fans say the results show. Come on, you should have seen this coming.)īecause Capcom was focusing their efforts on the PlayStation and Saturn at this point, development on X3 was outsourced to Minakuchi Engineering, who had previously worked on the Mega Man games for the Game Boy and The Wily Wars for the Genesis. Doppler, whoever he is, is suddenly bent on world domination! Could Sigma be behind this? (Spoiler: Yes.

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