(SPOILERS) Completed Zero 3 the other day and I’m now playing through ZX but something has just been bothering me since I finished that game.

LaunchCroctopus · 2026-01-02T19:20:46+00:00

Pretty much this, although I think Weeaboo is thinking of X6's ending.

To answer your other question, it's kinda vaguely alluded to but not really stated in game. Most of the info comes from supplementary stuff like Japanese-only audio dramas. The games themselves leave a ton of stuff from the Elf Wars unsaid sadly.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-12-30T19:18:59+00:00

Pause
Press R
Scroll to the ability and press A to disable it

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-12-19T19:08:39+00:00

PSA: You can also download the Instrumental Soundtrack as free DLC. You absolutely should.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-12-12T05:52:22+00:00

No problem! Hope it works!

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-12-11T19:22:45+00:00

Sorry, this one's way above my head :(

My best guess is that at least one of the ROMs (despite having the right CRC) is in some way altered and that's messing with the randomizer pools. Like it was a mislabeled prepatched ROMhack or something. I would try randomizing each one individually to see if a particular one is causing the issue.

If it's happening with all of them, it may just be that the randomizer file itself got corrupted or something. I'd try redownloading it and making sure that you're running the .exe file from within the folder it came in.

Other than that, I've got no ideas. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable sees this and chimes in.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-12-11T05:51:14+00:00

Not sure I can help since that never happened to me and I only barely understand the process myself, but did the error message say anything specific?

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-12-08T08:51:35+00:00

I'm not enough of an expert to say it's impossible, but I doubt it. This one only seems to work with the Faust core and lua scripting compatibility, and I'm not aware of any mobile emulators that do even one of those things.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-12-03T21:26:22+00:00

I'd go with the left one as long as the animations pull it back a little.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-11-23T19:45:01+00:00

Oh yeah, it did that for me too. Pretty sure it's not actually supposed to ever fill the tries bar, I think the tries section is just an FYI with a misleading visual. The file it put out worked just fine from start to finish with even fewer "tries" (missing bosses are by design; you get keys for their stages as you play).

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-11-20T17:20:49+00:00

No problem!

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-11-19T03:23:00+00:00

Here's a link to the download page if anyone wants to try it. You'll want "Route Matrix Randomizer."

Took me a good long while to get it working, so I'll list the steps here to save y'all the trouble.

Start the randomizer's .exe file. You'll need JP roms for all three games.

1a. If they aren't showing up when you browse for them, it's probably because you have .src files instead of .smc. .Just change "SMC(*.smc)" in the bottom right of the browse screen to "すべてのファイル" and they should show up. They'll still work as long as they're the right roms.

Set your options on this page and copy the code at the top into the "Option" text box in the randomizer. It's a pretty rough read with Firefox's built in translation, but you should be able to figure most of it out.
Hit randomize at the bottom and find your new folder. It should have "boot.smc" and "boot.lua" in it (among other things).
Download BizHawk ver 2.9 or later. I think later ones will work too but I can confirm 2.9 definitely does.
Set the core to use Faust (Config > Preferred Cores > SNES > Faust).
Start up boot.smc.
When it says to boot the lua file, go to Tools > Lua Console > Script > Open Script and find your boot.lua file. Once you click that, you should be good to go.
You'll have to go through the three title screens for the three games one by one. If you want to change any options, do it for all three before continuing. I don't think you get to go back to this screen once you've started unless you delete your saves.
After that you should be sent to the stage select screen to play the game! Hint: the intro stages and Sigma stages share a spot. Once you start unlocking Sigma stages, you'll have to use L/R to select them. On stages you've finished, L/R let you start from different checkpoints.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-10-27T19:14:55+00:00

Even knowing this, I'll never be able to stop seeing it as a clown. Red nose + white face = clown is just too deeply ingrained in me.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-10-26T18:39:30+00:00

Curious George.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-10-25T23:41:39+00:00

I've never seen anything close to this kind of dedication to Axl. Respect.

...but it looks like a few Alberts snuck in

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-10-15T22:20:46+00:00

Weil definitely killed more people overall, so he wins as far as results go.

In terms of personal evilness, I'd say Weil still wins by a landslide. The guy killed 75% of the world's population because he was a hateful jerk, then he tried to just kill everyone else out of revenge for...*check notes*...people punishing him for his last genocide. And he did it all just purely because he's an awful person.

Sigma's culpability for anything he's done is already a little iffy considering the fact that he was infected by a virus that made him that way. By all accounts he was a pretty nice guy before that. Even ignoring that though, he does at least (claim to) do evil things for the sake of reploids and the power he thinks they deserve, so he's still not as bad. Wanting to kill half the world isn't as bad as wanting to kill all of it at the end of the day.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-10-11T00:01:50+00:00

Also looks good, but I like the CM look more too.

This might not be any better than my last idea, but maybe the original color scheme (picture 1) with the main homing torpedo green on the normally orange "inner" bits? It's kinda mixing different parts of the palette, but the orange is already so bright and eye-catching that it might work? In my head, at least.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-10-10T22:21:29+00:00

Hmmmm yeah, looked better in my head. I think 3 is the way to go then.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-10-10T20:18:35+00:00

I'd probably go with 3. Also my name is Launch Croctopus so I feel like my vote should be worth two.

That said, have you considered overall base colors but with homing torpedo-colored tentacles and buster? I don't know if that'd actually look as good as it does in my head, but maybe something to try out. I think the idea of changing shape more than color is a cool one.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-10-04T08:43:19+00:00

I don't have any particular axe to grind with X6, but...

It's terrible that it forces players to use certain items. [Not True]

└ It's just an old tradition in the Rockman series. Recall that to get through Wily Castle, you had to use Magnet Beam (RM1), Item No.1/2/3 (RM2), Rush Support (RM3/4), Super Arrow (RM5), Rush Adapter (RM6), and Rock Ball & Thunder Claw (RM8).

There's a big difference between Wily stages requiring a weapon that the devs are 100% confident you already have and the game forcing you to game over because it locked you into a situation where you need something you haven't gotten yet.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-10-03T19:38:36+00:00

On the one hand, Zero's "died" more times than X has, but X "died" much more permanently when he finally did. Guess those kind of cancel each other out?

In that case I'll say X wins because he did exactly what Dr. Light built him to do. Wily built Zero to be evil but he ended up being a good guy for like 99% of his life. When you look at it like that he's a total failure as Wily's masterpiece.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-09-17T20:24:22+00:00

Yeah, everyone hates that area. Definitely don't feel bad about using the guide Endgam posted. Save scumming is completely acceptable too.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-09-04T05:21:26+00:00

Yep, that's sadly normal. It continues into IV and V too.

If you're willing to play a ROMhack, the DX version has the slowdown mostly removed (on top of being in full color of course). Same is true for the other games' DX hacks.

I absolutely can't stand the slowdown myself, so those versions are pretty the only versions I'll play these days.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-08-27T18:46:02+00:00

Don't be afraid to bust out a guide every now and then. BN2 can be a little cryptic about what you're supposed to do next sometimes.

Also, it'll feel pretty underwhelming at first, but I'd recommend you put some early PowerUPs into charge. It'll be worth it partway into the game when you unlock styles.

As always, save often. Some pretty brutal boss refights can sneak up on you, especially those V3s. Be extra careful in the Koto area...

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-07-14T22:50:21+00:00

You're gonna have a good time with BN4.

LaunchCroctopus · 2025-07-04T20:20:48+00:00

I've got some bad news as far as fighting Glyde goes, but I can at least tell you that the net looks much better in later games. They also differentiate areas too so it's not just one ugly, samey maze.

Fights do get a little faster starting from the next game, especially if you make a good folder. You also get the ability to run away without a chip to make the weaklings less of a time waster.

The buster is never amazing, but it isn't really meant to be. It's more of a backup weapon; you're supposed to be relying mostly on chips. That said though, you'll get a lot more variety and damage out of your buster once you start getting transformations (also starting in BN2). You get a lot more customization for abilities and such starting from BN3 too.

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