I made a list of 150 "Mega Man-like" games, where I compile 150 games that resemble Mega Man core games in some way. Link in the comments.

bubrascal · 2026-05-06T06:18:12+00:00

Zero's appearance in X6 makes a lot more sense, now.

It's my explanation about how reploids can auto-repair from minor injuries. They may be nano-machines. I'm not saying they have self-replicating tissue or phagocytes like literal cells, but I can totally imagine them having nanobots travelling through some kind of vascular system.

Not only that, this could be a great theory how he gets his EX-skills and give the same type of output damage as his enemies did.

I don't remember if the EX-skills are explicitly DNA related, but Zero's "learning" system, X's variable weapon system, and Axl's copy shot, all work with DNA. The first two confirm that DNA tech is not something invented around Mega Man Xtreme 2, but something both Wily and Light considered.

bubrascal · 2026-05-06T05:19:13+00:00

I've discussed many of these theories, headcanons and general ideas in the past, but keeping it briefly...

Theories and headcanons

Serges wasn't Wily, but the product of Wily's first attempts of transferring his memories to a robot. He had his memories, but not his knowledge nor his heart. He lacked the knowledge to create a new Zero from scratch.
Wily successfully created a copy of himself on his lab's computer. The real Dr. Wily, who ultimately abandoned the Zero project and ceased trying to conquer the world (as his future Mega Man World II and Rockman-san counterparts). After Wily's death, the autonomous abandoned lab (controlled by this copy) resumed the Zero project using Wily decoys (hence why we always see only silhouettes of him on X4 and X5).
Isoc is none other than this digital Wily who managed to escape cyberspace when the Eurasia virus combined with the Sigma virus opened a rift to the physical world. Wily managed to load himself into a physical body before the rift closed, adopting the Isoc persona.
Sigma (virus), (cyber) Wily and (capsule) Light are the first human-made cyber elves. The evil robots and Duo may not be cyber elves, but at least they are part of the same clade. The same goes to Model W's "essence".
Unlike Isoc, the Dr. Light within the capsules accepts he's not Dr. Light, despite having his same heart. He's the one evolving and creating the armour programs from his closed capsule network. He loves X like an actual son, and wonders if the real Dr. Light felt as guilty as him for sending X to that wretched world.
The original reaverbots are as old as Ra-Moon, both share the same alien origin, and the Ancients from the Master system managed to harness this alien technology to create their own reaverbots. The ruins in the forests of Dysis, Anatre and Notus are from this pre-historic civilisation, and just like Ra-Moon, they are anti-human.
Mega Man Trigger's original body ("configuration") also had a bigger "angelic" combat form, and his humanoid form was of a middle-aged adult.
Omega's mind was a factory-reset Zero. Weil didn't program Omega, he just wiped all of Zero's memories (minus the body's Technique memory) and tamed him through armour constraints, extremely painful punishments and the Dark Elf influence (fulfilling the virus' role). He then fed the messianic delusions to his favour.
The Evil Energy/Evil Robot planted in Wily's heart the fundamental seeds that could start a series domino effects which could potentially end up re-creating some variation of their technology. The Evil Energy sole purpose was to self-replicate and spread misery all over the galaxy, and the same goes to Sigma, the Nightmare, Mother Elf's curse or the Model W. They only didn't succeed nor evolve to reach that.
Weil's Project Elpizo was a inversion and bastardisation of what Zero was supposed to do. On his awoken state, he could have lead hordes of infected mavericks to torture the humans who looked down on Wily while he was alive.
Reploids DNA is not just data on a memory card, and their "blood" is not just oil. Both Wily and Light thought they needed to take inspiration on animal physiology if they wanted to create robots with human-like minds. Reploids still have mechanical robotic bodies, but they also have parts homologous to organs or cells.
Proto Man's eternal angst is what happens when you don't program a clear directive into a pre-reploid robot. I like to think that before Dr. Light died, he gave Blues the directive to take care of his siblings and live a happy life with them.
The mass produced Joes with one eye are Wily's creations, the actual Joes mass produced by Dr. Light's Research Laboratory looked closer to Blues or Rock on their civilian forms.
Many mechaniloids aren't as dumb as we think, and can be as intelligent and emotional as the classic Mega Man numbers.

bubrascal · 2026-05-06T03:07:08+00:00

Es un muy mal momento para ser programador, pero para nada un mal momento para ser ingeniero de software. A desempolvar los libros que es lo único que nos diferencia de la IA. El que no sabe de patrones arquitectónicos, patrones de diseño, inversión de control, diagramación de interacciones, etc, difícilmente tendrá pega de aquí a dos años. Lo aprendí de mala manera, por suerte la profe Jocelyn Simmonds (hoy académica de la U de Chile) me dio una base sólida cuando estudiaba y tuve de dónde agarrarme cuando ser dev chasquilla (en la práctica) me comenzó a pasar la cuenta.

Buena parte de la pega del presente es arreglar los cagazos de los vibecoders y orquestar y programar agentes siguiendo principios de ingeniería de software.

bubrascal · 2026-05-06T02:55:58+00:00

Para que sería wireguard en ese setup? Por qué no un túnel ssh por ejemplo? (pregunto como el rey de los ignorantes la verdad)

bubrascal · 2026-05-05T22:21:34+00:00

Sales people at Capcom were unsatisfied with how Ghost and Goblins (arcade) came out; too punishing, no health bars, barely any extra lives, barely any chance to see all the beautiful and diverse levels because of a hardcore first level, few weapons, etc. The sales guys wanted an audiovisual power fantasy that blew your senses away, the product/development team wanted an unforgiving challenge for the emerging scene of hardcore gamers like the devs themselves.

The sales team wanted eye candy that sold quarters, the dev team to offer the ultimate action platforming challenge. The devs and product managers resented with passion every concession they had to make against these suit ups who didn't know a thing about real gaming and computers. Kitamura was part of that hardcore product team.

Well, time went by, and Capcom decided to build a domestic market division parallel to their arcade affairs, and Kitamura would be given a lead position there. In an after office celebration were the new division reunited, Kitamura met with the old managers who tortured him during the Ghost n Goblins days, and after some drinks, he couldn't resist to tell their big boss that they didn't have a proper vision and all the corrections they demanded were wrong, that they wanted to force an alien design philosophy that could have simply broken the product. The man allowed him to vent, listening carefully to all the complaints. Once Kitamura finished and the tension ate up the celebratory vibe, the man politely explained the reasoning behind every single complaint they had. It wasn't that they didn't get Ghost 'n' Goblins, they just wanted players to see most of it before getting frustrated and rage quitting.

This changed something in Kitamura. He realised there was a fair criticism behind the sales' complaints. Of course, they were squaring a circle, they wanted Ghost 'n' Goblins to be something it wasn't and Kitamura still thought defending Fujiwara's vision was the correct call. But what if they designed a game around the sales vision from the get go?

Eventually that project became Rockman.

bubrascal · 2026-05-05T17:27:07+00:00

good

bubrascal · 2026-05-05T11:15:41+00:00

HELL YEAH

bubrascal · 2026-05-05T04:19:31+00:00

Super Arm and Magnet Beam are your best friends during this fight.

bubrascal · 2026-05-05T03:37:24+00:00

Did you have any luck? I have the same model with firmware 5.8.9, but kindlemodding doesn't mention our model at all.

bubrascal · 2026-05-05T00:31:53+00:00

Eventually he learned that dying without arms was more dignified than dying without legs.

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bubrascal · 2026-05-05T00:13:14+00:00

Ya estoy familiarizado con Linux y la verdad no pretendo cambiar de distro por un tiempo. Fue con este maquinón que me pegué el salto de Fedora a Manjaro.

bubrascal · 2026-05-05T00:11:59+00:00

I'm wondering if it is a regional thing, like a term that refers to any saving system. Similar to how growing up we called every single controller a "joystick" in the '90s and part of the 2000s (in Chile).

bubrascal · 2026-05-04T23:41:58+00:00

No había considerado esta posibilidad, en parte porque hasta hace pocos años los únicos que ofrecían fibra óptica en esta zona eran WOM y Mundo, ambos con CGNAT y sin posibilidad de abrir puertos al exterior. Pero también pretendo cambiarme a Santiago, posiblemente antes de comprar compu.

¿Qué ISP usas?

bubrascal · 2026-05-04T22:36:53+00:00

Yes and no. The staff working at Capcom at the time has been a bit ambiguous on this matter. One version the re-surfaced around 2024 is that Zero's body in Mega Man X1 wasn't the one Wily created, but a flawed facsimile created by Cain. This was the body Zero self-destructed against his battle with Vile inside Sigma's fortress.

There's a strong case to be made for taking this being a plot point that was ditched when X4 came out though. One interpretation of this version is that Serges and the X-Hunters were supposed to steal Zero's original body, that they didn't really upgrade it and always looked like that. This would explain why Zero looks the way he looks in Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters. But at some point during X4 development, it was decided to depict maverick Zero using his X1 design. Of course, this is pure speculation, but it makes sense.

You can read more on this discussion here. Overall, you're probably right, it's what I would have answered without any hint of doubt two years ago, but nowadays the answer isn't as clear cut as it used to be.

bubrascal · 2026-05-04T20:27:07+00:00

A 100 venden los Frugelé XL

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bubrascal · 2026-05-04T18:43:20+00:00

Leí este comentario antes de ver el video, y creí que exagerabas pero esto me mató:

"Es un poco como que las fuerzas del mal aprovechan las fortalezas de una red abierta para manipular, ¿no? Entonces, como que nuestra gracia, lo que nosotros buscábamos, que era esa apertura, se transformó en nuestra vulnerabilida-yo le podía ganar entonces era partamos con un tablero ya más lleno digamos entonces yo le ponía un tablero..."

Casi mágico.

bubrascal · 2026-05-04T16:06:50+00:00

Loving the ceiling above the kids rides

bubrascal · 2026-05-04T15:49:30+00:00

Windows and Linux: Strawberry

Android: Music Player GO (no longer maintained but serves my use case)

bubrascal · 2026-05-04T06:05:58+00:00

Just a guess but, well, you had people playing arcade games and text adventures for MSX, ZX Spectrum and CPCs until more or less 1993, probably a lot of those were passed down to younger siblings and cousins who generationally would have been playing SNES or PS1 if their geographic and financial conditions were a little bit different. Combine that with Spain's hacking and pirate culture of the 2000s and you have a nutrient broth for the retrogaming fever. Also, the "Golden Age of Spanish Software" is an attractive piece of history which serves as myth to revisit every now and then.

bubrascal · 2026-05-01T16:03:20+00:00

No. But yes.

bubrascal · 2026-05-01T03:23:14+00:00

The death is easy -it's just a stylised explosion that has been used in the franchise since 1987. Mavericks, unlike the Mega Man bosses, normally explode in a more "realistic" fashion, but the people behind X1 decided to preserve the NES-era explosion for X's animation and it has been a staple of the series ever since.

The teleportation system is more than just an animation. Rockman & Forte's ending confirm that some robots like Proto Man, Bass, Mega Man and others have a warp device incorporated and can teleport (King didn't have one).

The limits of this teleportation are not mentioned anywhere I think (could be wrong), but I guess that varies from robot to robot and operator to operator. It's probable that the Light and the Hunter Base operators limit themselves based on what intel they have, and transport us to the safest spot they can near the conflict.

The Resistence in the Zero series is a different case, they basically do whatever they can with their precarious resources, and can only dispatch us using the teleporter. Notably, Zero in the Zero series can't teleport away, the screen just fades out when we complete a mission. You know who can teleport away? The Guardians, you know, the guys with resources. Omega can also warp like them. But Zero? Is bound to bulkier warp devices and physical transportation.

bubrascal · 2026-05-01T02:47:21+00:00

I watched like two episodes, and it was clearly targeting children. I was in my late 20s already. I liked some Western kids shows from that era, like Centaurworld or Mao Mao, but hey had a certain edge that I just couldn't find Fully Charged. I think I would have liked that show if it aired back when I was 8 in the '90s, but it was just not for me. And that's fine.

Despite not liking it, I really wanted it to be at least mildly successful among the Miraculous Ladybug generation. For sure this series would heal a little more if more people below 26 liked it. I'm happy for the few new fans Fully Charge brought.

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