Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Vol. 1 (NSP, XCI) ROM + v1.0.2 Update + DLC

Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Vol. 1 The Battle Network has returned! Prepare to connect to the net and engage in electrifying grid-based battles against formidable enemy programs, while scouring the net for rare and potent BattleChips to assemble the ultimate arsenal of special moves. s a series of video game compilations based on Capcom’s Mega Man franchise. Each compilation features several playable video games from one of the Mega Man sub-series and adds new gameplay features and bonus content such as concept artwork. These compilations were developed internally at Capcom and were released between 2015–2023 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One, except for the original Legacy Collection which was developed by Digital Eclipse and also released on Nintendo 3DS.

GAMEPLAY I

Mega Man Battle Network is a real-time tactical RPG series. To progress through the games, the player must alternately navigate the outside world as Lan Hikari and the Net as MegaMan.EXE, each containing certain tasks that must be completed to allow advancement in the other. Controlling Lan, the player may travel around the world map, interact with non-player characters, check email, purchase items, initiate Net missions, or speak with MegaMan.EXE through his PET.

In contrast with traditional Mega Man entries in which battle and movement through the levels happen in the same setting, Battle Network’s combat occurs only through battling computer viruses within the Net. This cyber world is represented by a series of branching pathways and nodes, where MegaMan.EXE can travel to both new and previously visited locations, find and purchase items, and fight viruses. Battles do not generally appear on the field screen of the Net but are usually set as random encounters.

The battlefield itself is made up of 18 tiles divided into two groups of nine, one group being space in which MegaMan.EXE may freely move and the other group being space inhabited by enemies. Akin to other Mega Man games, MegaMan.EXE possesses an arm cannon called the “Mega Buster”. The player can transition among the nine provided tiles and fire the Mega Buster at enemies from across the screen. The objective of each battle is to delete all the viruses by reducing their hit points (HP) to zero. If MegaMan.EXE’s health depletes, a game-over occurs. To attack without the Mega Buster, the player must utilize Battle Chips, which are placed into a “folder” before the battle starts, and are drawn at random.

Starting with the third game, Battle Chips are organized into three primary categories which limit how many of the same chip can be used in the same folder: Standard (4 of the same, 30 in the folder), Mega (1 of the same, 5 in the folder), and Giga (only 1 per folder). Excluding the asterisk code, which was introduced in 2, the player can only use Battle Chips that have either the same or share the letter.

Selecting a specific combination of Battle Chips results in Program Advances, which give the player either a strong attack or continual use of the Battle Chip for several seconds. Each Battle Chip also has an element assigned to it, and hitting an enemy with its weakness will result in them taking double damage. The series also has multiplayer functionality where two players can either fight or trade chips with each other using the Game Link Cable;[8][9][13] trading the opposite version’s Mega Chips in 4–6 will result in them appearing as “Secret Chips” in the Chip Library, however, Giga Chips cannot be traded.

GAMEPLAY II

The Gameplay is a single-player and multiplayer isometric side view Tactical RPG game developed by NeoBards and published by Capcom. It is part of the Mega Man series and is followed by Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Vol. 2. The game is an enhanced compilation of several Mega Man Battle Network games that were released on Game Boy Advance, and consists of Mega Man Battle Network.

Mega Man Battle Network 2 and Mega Man Battle Network 3: White and Blue. Unlike past Mega Man Legacy Collection game compilations, the games included in Battle Network Legacy Collection are based on the Japanese versions and include features that were omitted in the western release of the original games, as well as bug fixes that were originally included in later updated re-releases.

Being an enhanced compilation, several additional features were added, including multiple screen filter options, screen size options, and the beginner-friendly Buster MAX Mode. New to this collection is an online battle mode, the ability to download formerly-Japan-exclusive Battle Chips, as well as an art gallery and a music player. The game was released on April 14, 2023. A patch was released on July 3, 2023, that fixed numerous bugs and glitches across all games, as well as added a black border, and the option to change 3D MegaMan.EXE’s voice language separate from the text language.

PLOT

Mega Man Battle Network is set in an ambiguous year in the 21st century (“20XX AD”) in an alternate reality to the original Mega Man series. Within the world of Battle Network, the Net has become humanity’s primary means of communication, commerce, and even crime. Users can “jack in” to the Net and other computerized devices, and explore their various aspects using Digital people called “NetNavis (Network Navigators)” as if they were physical locations.

The Net and the inner workings of computers are displayed as a virtual world with which computer programs of all varieties, as personified in a humanoid form, can interact. Users often do so by accessing their NetNavis via a “PET (PErsonal information Terminal)” device. The plot of Mega Man Battle Network follows one such pair, Lan Hikari and his NetNavi MegaMan.EXE. Lan is a fifth grader in the town of ACDC.

His father, Dr. Yuichiro Hikari, is one of the world’s top scientists and NetNavi researchers. Most of the series (barring spin-offs) involve Lan Hikari and MegaMan.EXE stopping an evil crime syndicate from taking over the world; “WWW” (said out loud as “World Three”) in the first, third, and sixth games, Gospel in the second game, and Nebula in the fourth and fifth games.