Mega Man Legends Videos! (Beta, Unused Content & More)

[RyanLEO]

Hi Everyone,

A while ago I started making some MML videos on my YouTube and instead of making individual posts for them, I'm posting the compendium here.  I haven't made a new one for a while now, but still have plans for more in the future.  I hope you like them, feel free to post any suggestions.

Mega Man Legend HD Playthrough Episode 1

This is my play-through using Beetle PSX HW.  I used many up-scaling hacks, and the game looks terrific.  It brings out the colors and creativity of the game very well.  There are 8 episodes total.  (Episode List)

All Side Quests
Just a compilation of the Side-Quests in the game.  A fun and creative addition to MML.

Rockman Dash Beta Playthough (Capcom Friendly Club Version)
This is the same version as found on the Biohazard 2 trial disc instead titled as "Rockman NEO" trial.  Though the Capcom Friendly Club disc is a rarity that was thought to be given out to only 10-15 people who were lucky enough to be in the "Capcom Friendly Club" at the time.  More in the videos description!

Mega Man Legends Unused Beta Content
Showing off a bunch of beta content found through hacking on the Capcom Friendly Club version.  Including the beta unfinished City Hall battle.

MML 1 Regional Differences
Changes from the JP to the US version.  A few interesting things were censored and changed for the US release.


MML 1 Unreachable Areas
Getting behind the bank to access otherwise unavailable dialogue, glitching into the Yasmar Woods, and jumping up to the normally unreachable Clozer Woods sub-gate.

Mega Man Legends 2 Debug Room
You've probably seen this before, but I wanted to make a cleaner version.  This is the debug room accessed through Gameshark codes.

MML 2 Beta Areas
A compliation of beta rooms found through the MML 2 Japanese demo, including an giant and unused Zakoban Reaverbot boss.


MML 2 Unused Junk Shop
This was hard to find on the original US version.  This is the alternate and unused Sulphur Bottom Junk Shop with moving parts and more that were later removed.


MML 2 Beta Ruminoa City
This city is accessible in the MML2 Japanese Demo through Gameshark codes.  It has a lot of charm and creativity to it, unfortunately it seems like it wouldn't have worked well for what they wanted to do with it in the released version.  The NPCs all have dialogue (Translation link in vid description) and some of the buildings can be entered and have completed rooms.

[betasword]

Would you mind sharing the Gameshark codes that let you access all the unused stuff in the CFC Prototype? For... Science? Or some such?

Edit: I'm a dumb, and just found a thread on these very forums with said codes. Guess that means it's time to continue science!

Fun fact: Outside of the already known unused stuff in the prototype, there's a couple other things I've found so far, poking through the files with Kion's tools. Like this house. There's a few other house variations as well, and they're all in the Apple Market data, for some reason. I'm gonna venture a guess there's some other interesting stuff to find in there, too, like the slightly different versions of some of the wall textures in the Cardon sub-ruins.

[RyanLEO]

xDaniel's thread has most of them :] mmls.proboards.com/thread/5232/rockman-dash-capcom-friendly-codes
I had a few more and am trying to find them such as the HUD codes, but can't atm. Will post once I have them.

Also, nice finds! I would like to do a follow up with some of those. Some of the ruins codes are all black, but there are solid surfaces in the map. The wip PGXP version of PCSXR broke the save states so I couldn't get it working in the viewer and I couldn't figure out how to get the OG PCSXR again. Gonna see if retroarch's version of Save States works in it. Might be able to dig up some ruins stuff.

[betasword]

Further research into the prototype files using Kion's tools has proven quite fruitful.

ST31 brings us some more sub-ruin stuff. Lots of seemingly work in progress tiles, but also some cut stuff, such as some variations of the smaller passages that add in various pipes and stuff, and a different pillar.

ST51 has the night time versions of the downtown textures, including a really nice starry sky, and the cool detail that all the road markings would've lit up as though they were painted with glow in the dark paint.

ST11 has a bunch of alternate Downtown things in it, such as different versions of the houses (including multiple variants of each that differing amounts of windows and doors), and some houses with very different posters on them. We also get a downtown color-themed version of the large shutter doors seen in the City Hall area, and some interesting Apple Market related textures, including a very very small map that would suggest that Apple Market may have been planned, at one point, to be much bigger.

Speaking of Apple Market, ST71 seems to have a lot of the Apple Market assets (and some of the downtown stuff, too!), but something that sticks out here, as opposed to the regular ST04 version is the addition of an extra store:

Looks like they were suppose to have an actual grocery store at one point. The textures also exist in the same spot, and use the same sort of format, as the Junk Shop. Who knows if there was a time, once, when there was a grocery store instead of the junk shop. This seems to be the only vestige of that, though.

That's all for now. I don't know if there's anything else hidden away in that prototype, or if the gameshark room codes could be used to access any of this in the actual game itself. That'll require a lot more time and effort than I'm willing to give it at the moment.