This is a complete hack to a previously unfinished version by DragonEye Studios. The abandoned version had some great ideas and lots of potential, so the purpose of this project was to refine the problematic areas and complete the hack so that the player can play all the way to the end and finish the game.

List of features, additions and changes:

1) Increased the speed of Mega Man and the Mega Buster!

2) Opened up Wily stage 4 and on so that the player can finish the game.

3) Added new challenges to all of the stages!

4) Changed the entire soundtrack with great music by Blast Hornet, WINED, Tsukikuro, Hydrawisk, DARS, and 8-bit fan.

5) Changed various weapons mechanics and physics.

6) Changed boss AIs, HP, and boss room layouts for new challenges.

7) Changed damage amount from various weapons to different bosses.

8) Updated various sound effects and graphics.

9) Increased climbing speed.

10) Fixed and refined stages from enemy spams and poor layouts from the original version.

11) Lots of new additional changes to all of the stages.

12) Updated title screen, menu screens, texts, and ending credits.

13) Reduced amount of energy used for most weapons.

14) Various bug fixes.

15) And many more various additions and fixes.

Tools and resources used:

Rockman 2 editor, visine, Tile Layer Pro, Cygnus Hex Editor, Data Crystal, thealmightyguru.com, and RHDN.

• Mega Man 2 (USA).nes - NOINTRO
• CRC32: 5E268761
• MD5: 8E4BC5B03FFBD4EF91400E92E50DD294
• SHA-1: 2290D8D839A303219E9327EA1451C5EEA430F53D
• SHA-256: 49136B412FF61BEAC6E40D0BBCD8691A39A50CD2744FDCDDE3401EED53D71EDF