Disclaimer: this hack contains flashing lights in some stages, such as Heat Man’s and Metal Man’s.

Originally released in 2011, this was the second hack ever released by Anandastoon, who would go on to make Indonesian Artifact. From what I remember, Anandastoon requested for Romhacking.net to remove Java Island’s download link because he found it to be in poor quality compared to his later work. Eventually, the entire page was deleted too. If it weren’t for Fabian Summers’ archive, this would have been lost media. With that said, Java Island changes the graphics, levels, enemy ASM, boss ASM, weapons, weaknesses, sound effects and Mega Man’s expressions. In addition, the vanilla music is reshuffled and re-sequenced. In this reupload, I once again made 2 changes to freshen up the gameplay:

• A softlock in Quick Man’s stage was fixed; it appeared just before the underground area with Sniper Joes.
• A set of spikes in Bubble Man’s room was removed to prevent the player from dying if they chose to jump through the top of the boss door.

Weaknesses

• Air Man ~ Crash Bomb
• Metal Man ~ Air Shooter
• Wood Man ~ Metal Blade
• Crash Man ~ Leaf Shield
• Quick Man ~ Time Stopper, Air Shooter
• Bubble Man ~ Quick Boomerang
• Heat Man ~ Bubble Lead
• Flash Man ~ Atomic Fire
• Mecha Dragon ~ Leaf Shield
• Pico Pico-kun ~ Bubble Lead, Atomic Fire
• Guts Tank ~ Air Shooter
• Boobeam Trap ~ Crash Bomb
• Wily Machine 2 ~ Crash Bomb (both phases)
• Alien ~ Air Shooter