Mega Man 5 hacks aren’t that common, and this one stands strongly among them. The visuals were fantastic, sticking mostly to dark, mysterious atmospheres. As for the music, you know you have a great soundtrack when the Doom Castle music from Final Fantasy Mystic Quest starts playing on the title screen, and it only gets better from there. You’ll hear music from Live-A-Live, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Harmony of Dissonance, Little Nemo, Mega Man X, Battletoads, Blaster Master, and many more that sounded familiar, but I couldn’t quite place. Little Nemo in particular sounds marvelous; it’s mostly intact, because it’s a Capcom tune, but with Mega Man 5’s sound mapper, it sounds even better! The hacker even did something really clever and subtle with the Proto Man whistle. The weapons were tweaked, and many of them are much better, though Power Stone somehow manages to be even worse than before. The level design is pretty solid, too; it’s challenging, but rarely frustrating. Definitely check this one out!