Mega Man Maps

[JonLeung]

My real job includes truckers' payroll.  I'm well aware of the difference between being paid by tonnes and being paid by loads.  

[Will]

I've finally finished Megaman Battle Network, once and for all! 118 maps overall coming this week. I've changed my mind about turning the labels into icons because it occurs to me that not everyone will be able interpret the symbols, anyway I like them as they are. I believe I am ready to get started on the second battle network game.

[marioman]

Congratulations Will!  I will update the BN count on the list as soon as the maps are uploaded to the site.  I posted the wtw code for BN2 a page to two back.  I would move all of the wtw codes that I found to the first post if there were a tag that would hide/collapse them.  That post is long enough as is.



Anyway, here's the code: 82009684 0001



Good luck.

[JonLeung]

I thought Mega Man was supposed to come out on the Virtual Console this week in North America.  Capcom said so.  Yet...I don't see it.  >_<

[marioman]

Yeah, I am not sure what is going on with that.  Capcom even took down the notice on their blog that said that it would be released today.  Weird...

[Rew]

Nintendo's word trumps that of third-party developers.



At least that's more or less what Nintendo said after this past Monday after several third-party companies had announced titles for that day--even though only Sega's went on.



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"So this is what it's like..."

- Spark Mandrill

[Will]

The maps of Megaman Battle Network 2 are outstanding from the prequel. Already I have done 32 maps in total. Regarding Battle Network 1, what sort of thumbnail do you suppose should randomly show on the home page. My suggestions are:



1. The Rocket in the map "WWW Secret Hideout, Rocket Base"

2. The Lifevirus in the map "WWW Hacking Rocket System"

3. The monitor in the map "Science Lab, Dr. Hikari's Office"



Which of those is likely to overall represent the game? The Rocket Base is a symbol of ultimate disaster, the Lifevirus is the key to this disaster and the monitor is what created Megaman or known to Dr. Hikari as Hub.

[marioman]

I see that Will has gotten a jump on BN2.  Wonder how many maps it has...

[Frenkel]

Is there anyone here who recognizes from which game this map is?



http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/306/cityup5.png

[marioman]

Oh man!  It's Torch Man from Mega Man III PC!  Congratulations Frenkel - you did it.  How are the maps encrypted?  Can't wait to see more.

[JonLeung]

If I may make a request, I think it would be neat if the PC Mega Man games had the Robot Masters in them...



And as Revned and TerraEsperZ mentioned in another topic, I would certainly consider putting up their redone NES Mega Man game maps, knowing their perfectionism.

[marioman]

Yeah, that would be nice.  I posted a link to sprites for both MMPC games a few pages back.

[Frenkel]

marioman Said:

Oh man!  It's Torch Man from Mega Man III PC!  Congratulations Frenkel - you did it.  Just out of curiosity, how are the maps encrypted?  Can't wait to see more.

To make a long story short, I don't know how the files are compressed. I just run the game in DOSBox with the debugger enabled and let the game decompress the files and then I dump the memory to get the decompressed files.

[marioman]

Ah, so it is possible to do something like that with DOSBox.  I was looking for such a feature a couple weeks ago, but came up empty.  Good job.

[Frenkel]

I turns out the files are compressed using the LZW data compression algorithm. Here's a description of the algorithm and some code that works on the Mega Man III PC files: http://marknelson.us/1989/10/01/lzw-data-compression/