Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch V5B - 22/05/17!

[MusashiAA]

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v5 has two final confrontations depending if you use software or OpenGL rendering. Mega Mech Shark is the OpenGL final boss, since software can't properly render the 3D model: for software users this meant a different boss has to be there for them, which is what the Fakemen chase and Fakeman fight are; for OpenGL users this meant they were missing on a big chunk of the campaign too, so the blue door trigger is there for them to also fight the software bosses after they beat the campaign. Regardless of your rendering settings, you always fight Protoman before either of these two bosses in the campaign.

Bass effectively replaced Wily Capsule 7 as the final boss of the MM7 campaign. If you already beat the campaigns after MM7's, Bass will show up at Light Labs to challenge you and the campaign select machine will unlock the fight for you.

Quint is an entirely optional and intentionally unfair superboss with no impact on the story arc whatsoever, I assume.

[Messatsu]

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Actually, there's a common misconception about the shark.  It's not a model, it's an extremely clever use of slopes and 3d floors.  Mike is pretty friggin good like that.

[DarkClawXD]

Uh oh, running into some problems...
When I try loading up v5 (and this happened also when I initially downloaded it back Friday), my antivirus mistakes the game for being a virus when it clearly isn't, and it deletes it out of the unzipped folder. (I do have a backup copy of the unzipped v5 folder on a junk drive), though I fear it may conflict with saved data. I have v4 and v5 (v4 specifically to copy the Zandronium.xx file over to v5 to carry over saved progress, and I also have v4 just to use stuff like Chaos Generator--whenever stuff like that is updated to be compatible with v5).

Does anyone know how to remedy this issue of it being mistaken for a virus?

[Ceridran]

You could make an exception in your antivirus settings.

[tsukiyomaru0]

Some antiviruses likes to run a scan for what they believe is a Potentially Unwanted Program, or they have some sort of hardened mode that has a huge chance of mistaking some applications for viruses due to the kind of access they require.

[Geno]

While the launcher was updated to remove the banner that antiviruses were thinking was a virus, it could be falsely triggering it either because it was released less than a week ago, or because the antivirus is assuming that this new MM8BDM.exe is the same as the old one that had the banner, so it's treating it the same as well

In any case, yeah, try to set up some sort of an exception for it

[PressStart]

So, I'm a little fuzzy on who all was responsible for what boss fights/graphics, but... to everyone who worked on this, awesome job!

I am terrible, awful at this game, so for literally every fight I cheated to heck and back, but I never would've seen all the cool stuff/funny setups you put in without em.

I hope someone makes a good video showcase of all this stuff, because I know a lot of fans would love to see all these great scenarios you made.

[CutmanMike]

This guy has all the bosses up, except for the super secret one.

[Zero1000]

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I did like the new bosses. Mega Mech Shark and Fakeman Police Chase are worth mentioning too. I do wish the latter was on the memory machine, though Protoman is also quite fun to fight.

[Megaman94]

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I got to admit, choosing what boss you fight depending if you are using software or Open GL is pretty cool. I wonder how CutmanMike got that to work.

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Sooo... Who's found all the yashichis yet?

[Dittoman]

I looked through all of the MM9 stages and I only found 7. I'll admit it, I was a scrub and used a combo of fly and noclip, but for some of them it's a requirement.

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Concrete Man
Concrete Man's yashichi can't be found without using noclip.

I couldn't find Tornado Man's. I did find a jumbled mass of broken tiles out of bounds, so... ok?

Splash Woman
Fairly simple. Can be found without cheats.

Couldn't find Plug Man's either. Again, there's a bunch of random boxes out of bounds.

Jewel Man
Fairly tricky, but doable without cheats. Can only be seen with good timing and use of Item 1. It took me several tries to get a good pic.

Hornet Man
Again, I couldn't find a Yashichi anywhere, but I did find these OoB boxes. I'm noticing a pattern here.

Magma Man
Humorously enough, this was the first MM9 Yashichi I found. I first found it while spectating a match; it can't be found without fly.

Galaxy Man
That's no moon! An easy one; just needs a bit of timing - it rises and sets periodically.

Wily Castle 1 - More random OoB boxes.

Wily Castle 2
Another noclip one.

Wily Castle 3 - Yet more random OoB boxes. It's absurd.

Fake Man
...Yeah there's no way you're going to see this without cheats.

Seriously though, what's with the out-of-bounds boxes?

[CutmanMike]

They are sectors that control any 3d floors (floor over floor sectors) in the maps. Also all these should be able to be spotted without any cheats at all. Be sure to check the map for movement utilities and weapons!

[Myroc]

This expansion has some of the most evil yaschishis this game has ever seen. Several of them require you to think outside of the box. I know the one in Plug Man nearly drove me insane, even after I was explicitly told by Lego how to find it.

[Yoshiatom]

The "random" out of bounds boxes are dummy sectors, which are used to define the hight and textures of 3d floors. (For example, there's a lot of them in MM7DW4, since the map mostly is 3d floors)

Also, MM9CON and MM9DW2's yashichis are possible to see without noclip:

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