I have completed my testing for the SA1 patch. I have played Megaman x over 100 times without a doubt because I know I have played it at least 4-5 times a year since I was 5 years old. It is my favorite game of all time. I also think it makes me a really good candidate to give my review on the rom hack.

I originally said I would not recommend this patch but I have changed my review to a solid “YES!” I would highly recommend it! The rom hacker that worked on this actually looked into the bugs and glitches I found and fixed them, he is extremely awesome!

Things That Improve the Game:

1) Gameplay slow down is eliminated. It really showed when fighting the chainsaw machines and riding minecarts in the mine cart stage. It showed no slow down when fighting the mid boss in spark mandrill stage and launch octopus stage or the serpents in launch octopus stage. It showed improvements with the fire pillars in flame mammoth stage if you don’t fight penguin first and make the stage ice. It is really cool stuff I must admit. 2) SRAM saves. It will remember your last password and next time you boot up the game it will automatically have that password ready and you just press start. It is like having a single save file like in a Pokemon game and that is pretty cool.

There is some minor issues with specific emulators:

snes9X 1.60: Save States do not work, but they do work on the 1.55 version I have, weird. Funny enough I even tried a version of snes9x that was made in 2010 and the save state worked there. The SRAM fix though does help make up for this and it is only this specific emulator. I still play on snes9x as it is my emulator of choice and I am not using save states for this game.

Soft-mod Wii and Wii U using the most recent SNES9xGx emulator: Frame rate drop on Launch Octopus stage, but it does not slow down gameplay. This just makes things look a little sloppy on this stage only. Most people will not be using a soft-mod wii though so this is not much of an issue.

My Verdict: I absolutely suggest playing with this patch. It is incredibly fun and the only reason you would not want to play with this patch is if you exclusively play on a snes9x emulator on the newest version and want save states. However, even then, just download an older version of snes9x and play on that one instead for this game and you will be glad you did.

Thank you Bson for your hard work on this rom hack of my favorite game. Greatly appreciated.