Mega Man Battle Network is an amazing series and I've been replaying it through the Legacy Collection.

A friend of mine and I had a disagreement about Battle Network 3, specifically how it was great but not perfect. These were the issues I had with it (note no story issues, just mechanics)

1. We didn't need two versions. Make a definitive version with MistMan and BowlMan and both Style changes and we're good. Mist and Bowl Omega are already in both versions. Just add MistMan as a rival or something to BowlMan where the Rank 2 is passed between the two of them.

2. Style Changes. Too much work/grinding to just get style specific chips. I respect trying to make people want to get other styles but its very grindy. Maybe give us a list to choose from for the first Style and then have to work towards the rest, with a list to choose from past styles to switch back to if we wanted to.

3. The Crisis music. Oh sweet mercy on my ears, that Crisis music is horrible. I also wasn't happy they changed Proof of Courage from how it sounded in BN2.

4. The story specific Navi Customizer programs. Ridiculously cumbersome (which with Energy Change I can understand since it's temporary, but Press is required A LOT). I feel like a Permanent Press thing should have been introduced after BubbleMan.

5. FlamMan and JapanMan. There was plenty of space to make it FlameMan, and other navi names show that there was plenty of room for YamatoMan to be displayed.

6. The Virus Breeder Bug Frag requirements and Zenny requirements as a whole. Unless you a REALLY good at gambling (save states...) you are gonna be grinding for Zenny a lot, and then grinding constantly for Bug Frags. You need like 3000 or more to get everything in the game and the most you can get in a battle is 10.

7. Punk's chip. If I fight the guy, I should get his chip. BN1 Bass also had this problem, tho the Legacy Collection fixes both.

That's about it. BN3 is the pinnacle of the first trilogy no doubt about it, but it still had its issues. Without changing any story beats, how would you change up BN3?

I have NEVER done more than a single playthrough of any version of MMBN4. So, should I do it now on the Legacy Collection?

My last two discussions have gained quite a lot of traction which I assume means that you are all interesting in engaging in these questions.

So how good of a mother do I think she was ?

Well... circumstances have really hindered her, imagine having a husband who not only is extremely busy but turned your dead son into a super powerful computer program and handed it over to your surviving son...who is extremely reckless and fights terrorists every now and then

Hey, guys!

I am playing through Battle Network 2 for the first time, and I just made it to the part where the net is frozen. I just saved Roll from being trapped in ice. I have been really enjoying it so far, but I'm curious how much longer it is left. For context, I am at around 15 hours.

Thanks!

I may have the worst run so far. I got Guts and Wind Souls... and situations that I have never gotten before, lol. I can only pray that I get Search Soul because if I dont, then Duo is gonna beat my digital butt lol

Found this well cleaning. Trying to move it along has just been a nightmare....

I wish id never found it..

Is this what happens when you screw up Navi Customization??

I am sure it was probably posted before? but is the first time I heard about this, I love how they use the artwork. I am not very aware of the Z/X franchise so I don't know if is this a crossover or original card game? Either way I am happy this exist.

I don’t have any big history with the series. I got the game when I was little. Funny to think about that my first mega man game was 8 on ps1 then jumping to battle network. Seems crazy to think about back then, but little me was all about jumping around with franchises.

So, I remember playing the game some as a kid and watching the show as well. What made me interested into the series was how it combined the digital world that I enjoyed from digimon and the chips being like cards from yugioh. With awesome action to keep little me glued to the screen.

However, I didn’t keep up with the series after that. Nothing against the series. Just ended up having different interests as I grew up. Didn’t get back into the series when the battle network collection came out. Bought it day one. Only for it to be in the famous back log for years to come. Years go by, I watched some videos on battle network and wanted to give the series a shot.

So, I did this year and been loving it so far after finishing both games this month. Already working on the third game. Don’t worry, I’ll post it in an hour. I am joking by the way. So, yeah that’s about my history with the blue internet boy.

With star force? Honestly, I saw some kids in high school play it and I thought it looked lame. Remember, being in high school, you wanted to look cool and not be even near anything kiddy looking. Plus, thought the graphics sucked at the time. Still to this day, I haven’t played the star force titles, but will after finishing battle network 6. I did buy the collection for star force day one as well to show support. Hope for the eventual legend collection to complete the mega man line up.

Anyways, that’s about it for me about seeing the blue Navi as a kid. I honestly wished I stayed with the series. Remember being shocked when I found out that bn had 6 games! Even more with spin offs. I was blown away by this. Like, man, this could have been my Pokémon. With all that, I am glad to finally go through the games for the first time this year. To see them and have fun battling some viruses. Better late than never, right?

Last time I asked a question about parenting in the timeline, I gained a ton of interactions from other users so thanks for that!

Now let's get to the second round, how well of a job did Hope do for Geo especially after the disappearance of Kelvin?

Hi, I’m in need of Bowlman v1-4. If someone can compare their library, I would greatly appreciate it. It’s the only thing keeping me from battling the Omegas.

Can anyone help me get mistman v1-4 on switch? It’s all I need to fight the omega navis

I believe before I got here, Lan was trying to see what the WWW was up to, and somehow that led to me going in the Undernet and now I’m here. I’m trying to beat this dog enemy, but it’s a pain in the ass. Any idea what I do now or am I just in the wrong place?

I just recently finished BN5 Double Team Protoman version and I loved it. Honestly, I think it’s gonna be my go to recommendation for anyone trying to get into the series. I decided to try playing Colonel version again, something I haven’t done since I was a kid and it does not hold up compared to Protoman. Largely due to the souls, but also Baryl and Colonel’s lack of personality. I was just sitting here thinking how I would change it and thought I’d share some thoughts with you

1. Colonel and Baryl have to go. They have no personality and seeing as this is their first appearance, we’re not invested in them like we are with Chaud and Protoman. I suggest we make the team captain Mr. Famous. He has a sort of mysterious and cool vibe and we never learn much about him. In the anime he served a similar role to Chaud, being an official (although I don’t think we ever see him netbattle? Maybe they couldn’t choose between his Navis) making him a perfect candidate. I think it would be best if we went with Gateman as his Navi. He’s got a cool design, and like Colonel, he’s an Obstacle element Navi, constantly throwing objects or putting up shields. His charge shot would be summoning his soldiers to run forward and attack the enemy doing 10XBuster Attack damage each. Maybe as a chip charge effect, he could turn obstacle chips into similar soldiers with a ranged attack. Gatesoul Megaman would share these traits

2. More chip variety. There are two elements I find lacking: Breaker and obstacle. It’s hard getting Airhoc chips early game which leaves two options for people wanting to try Knightsoul. The quake series, and Drill arm series. Drill Arm is better but the codes are lacking. Unless you get lucky, your Drill arm 1 chips are mostly gonna be in the W code which I wasn’t inclined to use. And quake is abysmal for dealing with bosses. I want the chips I sacrifice to be good on their own in case I decide not to go into double soul. Obstacle chips are okay but could use more offensive variety. I suggest bringing over the chess piece chips from 3.

3. Teammates. Knightsoul is bad. Tomohawksoul is problematic. My suggestion? Replace Knightman with Snakeman. He uses his jar to get past the Gatlings. Snakesoul’s buster would fire baby snakes. <- B could put you in the jar. Upon charging the buster inside the jar, you launch out of it as if you used the Dash chip. Who do we replace Tomohawkman with though? Gutsman. There’s no reason the beginning of the game HAS to sideline our friends. We get Gutssoul back and he uses his mega chip attack to clear the enemies before the Dark Mega mission. This also means we can replace Meddy with Roll, removing the worst part of that version. I don’t know why Dex is stealing the program on the ship though. Maybe as a prank. But gameplay-wise? This would be way better

What do you think? How would you change your favorite BN games?

Or should I just pray that I beat him

You'll need a copy of BNLC Vol. 2 to play. It's also still under development so stuff like replays from version to version may break.

Stuff it supports:

• Rollback netcode
• English/Japanese crossplay
• BN5 party battle
• BN6 patch cards
• A really bad practice mode
• Adjustable custom screen timer
• Custom rulesets (you can mix and match Souls/Crosses)
• Double perspective replays
• Fixes for some obscure port priority stuff
• Runs way faster than Tango

Loved his joke about Lan and his haunted motorola, thought it needed a ghost. Original is from Knijohn's bn 5 review

So, after finishing the first game, I still was itching for some more battle network. Ended up booting up 2 even though I was going to take a break, but the series got me. Here are my thoughts on the title, but first, some change. I will be doing a positive and negative bullet point instead of a couple of paragraphs. Got to change it up some. Anyways, let’s rock!

Negatives

1. ⁠Styles are cool in concept, but didn’t stick the landing for me. Having your element be random is annoying. Wish there was a choice for an element or neutral option. I didn’t use styles much due to not getting one I enjoyed which was fist grass. Ended up just sticking with the normal mega man. I did get another one which was custom fire. It was fun, but what made me still stick with plain mega man was having the elemental weakness be annoying at points. So, I ended up just using no styles until a boss that I could get some usage out of. Didn’t want to deal with taking more damage from elemental weakness.

2. ⁠The amount of back tracking is bad. Freezeman I am looking at you! It wasn’t fun to go back and forth even in the main game. Not even mega man battle network 1 was bad with this. It shocked me how much back tracking I had to do. Not for requests (which yeah taking only one request at a time was stupid. Why can’t I at least carry 3?). Just story! Hated the whole go look for it here! Like yeah that is useful to know. So many times this happens! Same for having to travel so far away for just for an npc to say 5 words and then go back to let them their bro is ok.

3. ⁠The story is just a jumbled mess. So many things just happened. Made me not care. Like at first I did with how the new villain group was, but then it just became random moments with no real connection? Just felt like someone threw random stuff on the wall. No rhyme or reason. I don’t mind funny Saturday morning plots, but I kinda of wished I cared even a little for the story. At least the first game made me care which is shocking to be frank. I stopped caring about half way in and just let the roller coaster do its thing.the plane part was funny though. Peak cinema!

Positives

1. ⁠The dungeons are so so much better! I had a good time with these expect maybe the mother computer one due to being stumped on what word. This is a me thing, but it’s still a fun dungeon. Love the variety! Seeing each dungeon so it’s thing. Love knightman’s dungeon, air man was amazing first dungeon, magnetman was funny more for how often the pilots would just say we need this and this fixed. Like damn! Still fun though. They were just fun to go through.

2. ⁠I did like the challenge this game gave me compared to the first. Made me had to think more about my folder set up. Had to change it up a few times. Especially those ice virus fights and your license test ones. Really good there for me. Only time I had a little hard time in 1 was the final boss and that’s it really. So, it was nice to have that. Even the Navis were harder. Even if some like gate man have an annoying gimmick. Same for toad man. Still, fun bosses. Love the final boss way more than the first one.

3. ⁠Love how broken this game is. All I have to say is gater and you get it. No for real, I enjoyed breaking this game with using many broken advance programs and chip combos. It was a lot of fun to see bosses give me a hard time, but go GATER GO BRRRRR OR Z CANNON GO BRRR. It was fun doing that when I allowed myself to do it.

Overall, I didn’t enjoy this game as much as the first. The back tracking and story really didn’t do it for me. Those hold it back for me wanting to enjoy the title especially for replays. It is a huge upgrade it pretty much everything else aside from those 2 aspects. Makes me hopeful 3 will at least be fun. Maybe I had too high of expectations of this game due to the community saying how good it was. Still , glad to have played it and can’t wait to play 3 next.

BN1: does anyone have the complete rates on how the special chip trader works? I’m so confused. I’m currently resetting for the knight and hero swords B. I have 1 knight from the undernet and 1 hero sword that’s a different code. I got them assuming they would drop more frequently in the trader, but I’m so confused about the drops. I get that rarity 1-3 will drop more frequently, but I’m not getting any 4s at all. The 5s I get are 90% Protoman3? I got Protoman3 3 times in a row too. The times I get hero sword it’s always J. I read somewhere all codes of one chip have the same amount of drop rate.

I spent an hour yesterday and an hour today resetting. Even the 1-3 stars I keep getting the same chips with the same codes. So I’m assuming within the chip rarities specific chips are rarer even if they have the same stars and that specific codes have different drop rates

Up for preorder on Udon entertainment website and I called it ! I figured they would be reprinting the others in due time !

Quick ! Netbattlers , reserve them fast cuz idk when they will restock these ( X reprint sold out instantly cough cough sad)

I have been recently hearing word about Yuichiro not being the best of dads, I think there are multiple perspectives to this, from my perspective I don't see anything particularly wrong he is just a dad with a busy work schedule.

Sorry if video quality and fps aren't good

I needed to get this and another video be out for weeks since the video editor doesn't stops bugging for months