Mega Man 9 in Japan this September

by JC Fletcher { Jul 2nd 2008 at 11:00AM }

Famitsu's article about Mega Man 9 features the same beautiful screenshots we got in Nintendo Power last week, with one exception: the small image seen here, featuring a greyscale Mega Man next to the real one. The article wonders if this could be a playable character, although in the infobox at the top of the article, Famitsu identifies Mega Man 9 as a single-player game. It could be an alternate character, or just a costume choice, or a new weapon-based color scheme, or even an enemy!

The infobox also says that Mega Man 9 is scheduled for September. If this really does follow the NES games, then minimal translation will be necessary (and hastily done), so we can look forward to jumping through boss doors soon!

We here at Wii Fanboy are absolutely pumped for Mega Man 9! Be sure to keep up to date with Capcom's resident robot child by keeping up to date Wii Fanboy.

Tags: capcom, mega-man, mega-man-9, nes, retro

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Haohmaru @ Jul 2nd 2008 11:08AM

It could be Bass/Forte..

Jhongerkong @ Jul 2nd 2008 8:16PM

What?

Haohmaru @ Jul 2nd 2008 9:49PM

That was in response to "It could be an alternate character, or just a costume choice, or a new weapon-based color scheme, or even an enemy!"

Did you read that portion of the article or did you just feel like giving my comment some random monosyllabic reply?

Jhongerkong @ Jul 3rd 2008 11:41PM

It looks nothing like Bass. It looks like a palette swap of Megaman.

Haohmaru @ Jul 11th 2008 8:45AM

Considering there has never been an 8-bit Bass, I don't think my comment was so abyssmally stupid as to warrant nothing more than a smartass "What?"

Lijik @ Jul 2nd 2008 12:35PM

Wasn't there a weapon in Megaman and Bass that would let you make a greyscale copy of Megaman or Bass would shoot weak projectiles at enemies while you carried on with your business?
This is probably a slightly more advanced version of that. At least I hope so, that'd be pretty cool.

AmitZ @ Jul 2nd 2008 12:54PM

It was already said that in Galaxy Man stage, (I think it was Galaxy Man) dark copies of Mega Man will pop out as enemies or something.

AmitZ @ Jul 2nd 2008 12:59PM

Apparently it's in Plug Mans stage, not Galaxy Man.

Patius @ Jul 2nd 2008 1:53PM

Who knows?

Dark Mega Man enemies sound cool, but It's been done before.

In Megaman 1, and in Megaman 3. He copies megaman and you have to fight the copy.

I think in three he actually makes more than 1 to fight all at once.

mechevar21 @ Jul 2nd 2008 2:50PM

If this is true my money is locked in. True I would prefer Mega Man 7 style graphics, but I am sucker for anything retro so I am in.

Author X @ Jul 2nd 2008 2:55PM

An evil clone/version of Megaman?
Unthinkable!

xDreamer @ Jul 3rd 2008 8:09AM

A little off subject... but after getting ahold of some of these images I made a nice little wallpaper in honor of the coming of the new game. It's located http://www.xdreamer.org/megaman09.jpg - I only did a res to fit my monitor, but if it interests folks I'll resize it for various monitor sizes. I've been waiting years for this game.