Hack Name:  Megaman 1 - The New Lands Remastered
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Status:  Complete
Patch Version:  1.3
Last updated:  July 5, 2024
Downloads:  91

This is a remake of Megaman 1 – The New Lands, with the purpose to overhaul the original hack and to make it new, better, fun and challenging.

It features:

  • New stages
  • New level design
  • New gimmicks
  • New weapons
  • New boss fights
  • New enemy behaviors
  • New music and sound changes

and much more.

Information about the weapons and their behaviors can be found in the text file.

V1.1

  • Fixed the softlock in wily 2.
  • Small changes in the Spawning platform sections to be more fair.
  • Fixed a glitch where one enemy would zap around the screen.
  • other minor fixes.

V1.2

  • Level design has been tweaked so the player will not hit their heads on low ceilings like before.
  • Some sections have been nerfed slightly or abit more (including wily 3 in general).
  • Vertical platforms that comes from spawners move abit slower.
  • Zap Man’s I-Frames on hit have been reduced very slightly.
  • The stomping enemy that shakes the ground now waits twice the time before jumping again.
  • Wild Dynamite weapon explosion now travels faster, making it stronger and with less re-fire time.
  • Wild Dynamite weapon now uses 3 bars per shot instead of 2 (to balance the change above).
  • The earthquake effect have been improved visually.
  • Heat Hover weapon now have a very slightly bigger height boost when used.
  • Pyro Man’s fire barrier attack have been tweaked to be more reasonable to dodge.
  • Cave Man’s big jump have been slightly tweaked so he does not corner the player as much as before.
  • The damage of the cannon enemies and shooting tellies have been reduced from 4 to 3.
  • Heart Container sprite is now flipped to look better (special thanks to Zynk and Deejaynerate).
  • Added a missing solid wall on the left side of the screen after Wily stage 3’s first checkpoint.

1.3 General changes:

  • The number of enemies have been decreased very slightly.
  • Bosses have been changed to be simpler to deal with.
  • Huntman’s AI have been changed to avoid corner cheap damage.
  • Wily Machine’s AI have been edited to avoid cheap corner damage and one new attack behavior.
  • Some levels have been slightly changed.
  • Spread Boulder now fires 3 rocks instead of 4.
  • Boulder Bot take more damage from it’s weakness.

Enjoy!

Hashes: 
Filename: Mega Man (USA).nes
CRC-32: 5ded683e
SHA-1: 2f88381557339a14c20428455f6991c1eb902c99
Staff/Credits: 
Timaeus: Romhacking
Red Bun: Additional Sprites from the original The New Lands
File download: 
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