Mega Man X Walkthrough Capcom Walkthrough by Catfish_82 Howdy all, welcome to the Mega Man X walkthrough. As with all my other walkthroughs, if you have questions, comments, suggestions or would just like to harass me, then feel free to email me at [email protected] and I’ll see what I can do. Well, broken record alert here, but I’ve written this walkthrough to be displayed solely on SNES Central, but I don’t mind if you borrow a bit or all of it so long as you credit me (Catfish_82) as the author and while you’re at it, why not link back to the site? ( www.snescentral.com ) Game Details: - Copyright Capcom, 1993. - Licensed to Nintendo, 1993. - Mega Man and all enemies, weapons, items etc are copyrighted and are the property of Capcom. - This walkthrough is the sole property of Catfish_82 (me) and is neither endorsed by nor affiliated with Capcom or Nintendo. Table of Contents: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Version History 2. The Basics a. D-Pad b. Variable buttons c. Items 3. The Eight Mavericks 4. Walkthrough a. Beginning Stage i. Boss: Vile b. Chill Penguin Stage i. Boss: Chill Penguin ii. Items and Upgrades 1. Leg Upgrade 2. Heart c. Storm Eagle Stage i. Boss: Storm Eagle ii. Items and Upgrades 1. Heart 2. E-Tank 3. Helmet Upgrade d. Flame Mammoth Stage i. Boss: Flame Mammoth ii. Items and Upgrades 1. X-Buster Upgrade 2. Heart 3. E-Tank e. Spark Mandrill Stage i. Boss: Spark Mandrill ii. Items and Upgrades 1. E-Tank 2. Heart f. Sting Chameleon Stage i. Boss: Sting Chameleon ii. Items and Upgrades 1. Armor Upgrade 2. Heart g. Armored Armadillo Stage i. Boss: Armored Armadillo ii. Items and Upgrades 1. E-Tank 2. Heart h. Launch Octopus Stage i. Boss: Launch Octopus ii. Items and Upgrades 1. Heart i. Boomer Kuwanger Stage i. Boss: Boomer Kuwanger ii. Items and Upgrades 1. Heart j. Sigma’s Fortress Level One i. Boss Vile ii. Items and Upgrades 1. X-Buster Upgrade iii. Boss: Boss Spider k. Sigma’s Fortress Level Two i. Boss: Giant Face l. Sigma’s Fortress Level Three i. Boss: Dinosaur Head m. Sigma’s Fortress Level Four i. Boss: Sigma’s Dog ii. Boss: Form One Sigma iii. Boss: Form Two Sigma 5. Q&A Section --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version History: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V1.0: The bare bones walkthrough, I’ve put the strategies for bosses, weapons received, and upgrades available. V1.5: I realized that it’d be a rather bad walkthrough if I didn’t at least go into some depth on the maverick’s stages. So I put the locations of a few power ups in the stages and I’ll at least warn you of different things. V2.0: The walkthrough is much more professional now, with a table of contents, a game details section, and a Q&A Section. V2.5: Added a credit from a reader who wrote in and suggested a tip, also made a few changes in the way it looks. That’s it however. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction, Items and Basic Controls D-pad: Surely you don’t need me to tell you what up down left and right are. Variable buttons: Y = Shoot B = Jump X/A = Dash L/R = Change weapons while playing Items: One up: A mega man head. Energy refill: - Large: A large yellow asterisk looking dot surrounded by white. -Medium: A smaller one, this looks more yellowish. -Small: A miniscule version of the large energy refill Weapon recharge: -Large: A large blue orb with a red line running horizontally through it. -Small: Miniature version of large one. Escape U. – Not really a weapon or an item, this useful little feature allows you to escape from levels you’ve already beaten, thus saving you from having to complete the stage over. The mega man series is what I like to call the working mans distraction. Sit down, play through, beat it in an hour or so and move on to the next one. If you’ve ever played a mega man game before in your life then you know the drill, our little blue hero must destroy the evil robots and their mad creator…blah, blah, blah. So without further ado, I introduce the eight ‘evil robots’ or mavericks as they’re called in this game. The 8 Mavericks I Recommend Battling Them in This Order Launch Octopus Chill Penguin Chill Penguin Storm Eagle Flame Mammoth Flame Mammoth Boomer Kuwanger Spark Mandrill Sting Chameleon Sting Chameleon Spark Mandrill Armored Armadillo Storm Eagle Launch Octopus Armored Armadillo Boomer Kuwanger And now the technical mumbo jumbo; I’ll do it like this: # A brief stage description and location of energy refills, weapon recharges, extra lives etc. Boss Name: (Gives Full name/Abbreviated name) (Weak Against) Item to get: (Required to get this) How to get it. Boss Strategy: What to do. Also look for little reminders throughout the text; they’re preceded by two asterisks. a. Beginning Stage: The people are fleeing! That’s right, the city is in chaos as the mavericks attack. You’ll start off on a highway street. From there head right avoiding the flying enemies that drop their bottom parts off and crush through the road. Also hit the robots that shoot both ground traveling sparks and missiles. Avoid as well the spike wheel enemies. As you go along, you’ll notice the sky darkening. This means you’re about to come up against a giant mechanical hornet. Don’t worry they’re easy. But they shoot missiles and a machine gun if you get close. They also drop enemies that roll out and then get up and walk towards you. Hit the head with your X-Buster. Don’t miss the two energy pellets just after you face the first hornet. They’re down that little hole. Just slide on the wall. You’ll face two of these guys. When you get to the part where a huge ship is hovering over you, wait. It’ll drop two enemies driving cars and once you’ve destroyed them, Vile will emerge. i. Boss: Vile in Armored Carrier: (None) (None) Items to get: None Strategy: Do nothing. Just stand there and let him hit you. When you’re about down to zero, he’ll fire a shot that freezes you. Just as he’s about to kill you, your soon to be friend, Zero rushes to your aid. b. Chill Penguin Stage: Sorry man, nothing here in the way of set energy refills, lives, weapons recharges etc. If you’re desperate for energy, then try shooting the bats, moving back and forth across particular areas so that they regenerate. i. Boss: Chill Penguin: (Shotgun Ice/ S. Ice) (X-Buster, Fire W.) ii. Items to get: -Leg (Dash) Upgrade (None): It’s in a blatantly obvious place. -Heart (Fire W.): When you get to the part where you find an armored carrier (AC), just go through the cave until you come to the spot where you’ll have to abandon the AC. Climb up that wall and dash jump off to the left. You’ll land on the top area and there will be two little igloo like things that spawns the flying mosquitoes. Destroy the leftmost igloo with the Fire W. to get the heart. Strategy: At this point in the game all you’ve got is your trusty X-Buster, and that’s all you’ll need. C. Penguin has four attacks to watch for. 1. He’ll slide towards you. He leans back first so you can predict this. He’s immune to your shot while sliding, wait for him to right himself and blast him. 2. He’ll breathe frost breath, which forms two ice penguins and will freeze you if it touches you. You can shoot through his freeze breath all the way up until the ice penguins hit the ground. He’ll usually follow this up with 3. He’ll jump up and hang on a lever on the top of the screen. This causes a freezing rain to fall and blows you back and the ice penguins forwards. Luckily he can be shot off the lever before it starts raining. 4. He’ll spit chunks of ice that either fly through the air (straight line) or on the ground. These are easily avoidable. c. Storm Eagle Stage: When you start off, and go right, you’ll see a series of lifts that you have to climb to get to the next area. If you get on one of the lifts and let it take you to the right of the screen, you’ll see a ledge with a robot holding a shield and throwing a ball and chain. Behind him are tanks with a flame on them and DR written under it. Shoot these until they explode to get a large energy refill. Hop on the second lift and then to the right you’ll see another ledge with yet another robot, kill him and blow up the tanks to get another large energy refill. Continue up this second lift and you’ll see a third ledge, right under the giant red airport sign. Kill the robot and blow up the tanks for another energy refill. But if you go right you’ll go to a hidden area where you’ll receive an extra life. Continuing right you’ll come to a series of moving platforms. They have jets under them; move up and down and some of them have robots that shoot flame waves.