Things really aren't going well. With the limited resources I have(
SuGAR,
DGen, and
GENS), I don't think I'm going to be able to find the proper line(s) of code to enable me to make an Action Replay code(and in turn, a ROM hack). If I had
something to go on. . . Any small trace. . . A value of some sort to go by. The initial value of the Game Select counter. It doesn't seem to be 0 like you'd figure. . .(IE like Capcom does in their fighting games and whatnot. Which is how I found the hex code to play as Shin Gouki in the Super Famicom version of
Street Fighter Zero 2, actually. . .) I dunno. . .
In the meantime, however! Nightmare Zero has indirectly provided me with the path to
Wily Tower in both
Rockman MegaWorld and
Mega Man: The Wily Wars. Through his program,
Save State Master v9.0, I made
this bugger. This will plop you right on the Stage Select screen of
Wily Tower after a brief black screen intro(caused by a game over, which was a necessary thing to do to get this). As stated,
this save state is for Rockman Megaworld only. Make a new one for
The Wily Wars with the aforementioned program, if you want a
Wily Wars one. =P
Edit: And please.
Seriously. Don't credit me or Auto. As it turns out, Auto handed the file to me a long time ago, but there's a good chance that Nightmare Zero handed it to
him in the first place. If anyone deserves credit around here, it's him. Had I known that at the time, I wouldn't've sent the file off to
Zophar's Domain.
Edit 2: No wonder no one's said anything since I posted that. . . The URL was busted. Well, it's been changed to a correct URL, now. Specifically:
http://ironfeline.org/btime/NSStuff/RMWTower.zip
Pause just before the room shifts over to black. If you do, the boss graphics will be really screwed-up, but. . .you actually can wander around in the level. The boss has a "clipping radius," however. If it gets too far off-screen, it'll warp on over to the other side of the screen, thus making it very very deadly.
Uses for This Trick: To lock the boss in place, block some of the boss' shots, and things like that. If, for some reason, you feel compelled to work your way back outside, however, you can also run around the levels with the boss theme blaring.
Side-Effects: You can't see where you're going outside of the boss room due to the fact that, apparently, bosses use the room's palette as well as its tiles(in-memory). However, if you pause and unpause, for a couple frames, you can see the path. Also note, you still have to walk back to the boss room to collect your part.
Works in MetaFight?: Yes.
Works in Blaster Master?: I would think so.
Step 1: Go to the World of Ruin Colloseum
Step 2: Use Tina(Terra) and bet a dummied item by the name of "daakumataa"(Dark Matter) which is only accessable via hex editing and/or cheat codes. I forget the specific hex code.
Step 3: "Kurisutaraa"("Crystal Tara"/"Crystal Monster"/"Culex") will step up to the challenge, as you can see. He's a tough bugger. About as tough as he is in his Super Mario RPG, if not more. If you win, however, you get the Kurisutaraa Phantom Beast(Esper). Its signature move is "Shining Darkness" which does Holy and Dark damage to all enemies in the battle.(Supposedly. It seems to do normal damage, to me.)
Note: Does not work in the US release. Only in the Japanese v1.0 release.