Talk:Mega Man Powered Up

Roll Costumes

Do we have a 100% certainty that this release schedule will remain unchanged? This information is purely speculation that came from an unofficial hack of a game save which simply had them listed in that order. LanceHeart 01:08, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

There is confirmation that the release schedule will not remain the same as the order of the costume appearance in the game's listing. This confirmation is that Knight Roll, which was the first (or second) on the list, is being released in May, not January (or February...) The months of the release of each costume should remain "Unknown" until each costume is released.

Dude, Knight Roll's release date was never listed as January or February. It was listed as May, which is exactly when it's being released. -TPIRFanSteve 21:15, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and one last queston, how do you download Roll?

Proper Name

Why is this game called "Mega Man: Powered Up" on Wikipedia? It should be "Mega Man Powered Up", without the ":", according to the game itself and other sources, indicating it's the full title, not a subtitle or anything like that.

Edit by User:Zero

Removed this data:

Playable Characters

• Mega Man (Rockman)

The Blue Bomber is back in this powered up version as good as ever.
Attack: Mega Buster, a powerful solar powered weapon.
Abilities: He can gain a Robot Master's attacks, his Slide and Charge Shot can also be gained.
How to Unlock: Mega Man is available normally. Beating the game in Easy Mode unlocks the option to use the Slide by selecting "Mega Man S" after choosing him. Likewise, completion of Normal Mode gives you "Mega Man C", who can fire Charge Shots in addition to Sliding.

• Mega (Rock)

If Mega Man is not transformed in one scenario, he must fight as an ordinary lab assistant robot.
Attack: Mega Kick, a short ranged kick.
Abilities: Mega has no special abilities
How to Unlock: If you're playing as Mega Man, Mega is only playable in the first part of the opening stage (without the Mega Kick). But if the player beats Hard Mode as Mega Man, Mega can be unlocked to play as in any stage.

• Cut Man

A dangerous robot with dangerously sharp blades.
Attack: Rolling Cutter, he throws sharp scissor blades which return like a boomerang.
Abilities: He can jump up walls much like X, Zero, and Axl.
How to Unlock: Beat Cut Man in New Style mode with Mega Buster, and Dr. Light will undo his reprogramming.

• Guts Man

This powerful robot is a force to be reckoned with and will crush anything in his path.
Attack: Super Arm, with his powerful arm he can lift and throw Guts Blocks.
Abilities: Guts Man can break through certain weak blocks above or below him. He can also grab a Guts Block below his feet by holding Down on the Directional Pad and pressing the attack button. Guts Blocks can also be created out of thin air to walk on, crush enemies or to create a barrier.
How to Unlock: Beat Guts Man in New Style mode with Mega Buster, and Dr. Light will undo his reprogramming.

• Ice Man

Don't let his size fool you, this robot can turn you into a popsicle.
Attack: Ice Slasher, he fires a blast of ice which freezes any opponent.
Abilities: His frozen opponents can turn into cubes he can walk on, and he doesn't slide on icy surfaces.
How to Unlock: Beat Ice Man in New Style mode with Mega Buster, and Dr. Light will undo his reprogramming.

• Bomb Man

With a need a to blow up some bad guys, he has stepped up to the plate.
Attack: Hyper Bomb, bombs which he throws that explode after a certain amount of time.
Abilities: He can throw his bombs in any direction.
How to Unlock: Beat Bomb Man in New Style mode with Mega Buster, and Dr. Light will undo his reprogramming.

• Fire Man

A robot with a burning passion for battle, he won't lose.
Attack: Fire Storm, he fires off a powerful flame while fireballs circle him.
Abilities He can melt ice by touching it and if he touches water his flame goes out, leaving him with only the ability to create the fire barrier around him. His powers can only be regained by touching fire.
How to Unlock: Beat Fire Man in New Style mode with Mega Buster, and Dr. Light will undo his reprogramming.

• Elec Man

A robot with a shocking personality and a powerful attack.
Attack: Thunder Beam, he fires of 3 electrical blasts which go off in different directions.
Abilities: He can move Elec Blocks by zapping them.
How to Unlock: Beat Elec Man in New Style mode with Mega Buster, and Dr. Light will undo his reprogramming.

• Time Man

A time manipulating robot that can turn the clock how he wishes.
Attack: Time Slow, fires clock hands and when charged it unlocks its full potential to slow down time.
Abilities: He can shoot clock hands in two diagonal directions at once.
How to Unlock: Beat Time Man in New Style mode with Mega Buster, and Dr. Light will undo his reprogramming.

• Oil Man

A slippery robot with a knack for speed and surfing, he will run you down.
Attack: Oil Slider, he fire off a blast of oil which floats in water and which he can jump on and transform into a board for him to surf on.
Abilities He can use his board to surf on land or water, and he doesn't slip on oil.
How to Unlock: Beat Oil Man in New Style mode with Mega Buster, and Dr. Light will undo his reprogramming.
Note: Pictured here is the original Oil Man design, which resembled blackface, an old racial stereotype from early American cartoons (he has overly large lips and black skin akin to racist propaganda of black people), and was given the nickname "Nigger Man" on various Internet discussion groups. As such, he was recolored for the international market; however, Japan retains the original design.

• Roll

Mega Man's sister, she may be a girl but she can clean house.
Attack: Roll Swing, where she gives the enemy a good whack with whatever weapon she is using. Her weapon changes with her costume (see the costume list in "How to Unlock").
Abilities: She has no special abilities, but gets a special downloadable costume every month.
How to Unlock: The player needs to download her into the game. Her monthly costumes are:

• March: Mega Man 8 Roll (Costume: Outfit from Mega Man 8) (Weapon: Broom; same as normal Roll)
• April: Sports Roll (Costume: Athlete) (Weapon: Flag)
• May: Knight Roll (Costume: Knight; based on Ghouls 'n Ghosts) (Weapon: Lance)
• June: Rainy Day Roll (Costume: Raincoat with a Toad Man modif) (Weapon: Umbrella)
• July: Straw Roll (Costume: Straw Hat) (Weapon: Butterfly Net)
• August: Vacation Roll (Costume: Swim Suit) (Weapon: Beach Umbrella)
• September: Summer Roll (Costume: Bunny) (Weapon: Hammer)
• October: Halloween Roll (Costume: Witch) (Weapon: Witch's broom)
• November: Alley Cat Roll (Costume: Cat) (Weapon: Fish)
• December: Roll Clause (Costume: Mrs. Claus) (Weapon: Candy Cane)
• January: Ninja Roll (Costume: Ninja) (Weapon: Katana)
• February: Valentine Roll (Costume: Winter Clothing) (Weapon: Chocolate Heart)

• Proto Man (Blues)

The mysterious brother of Mega Man comes in to show his stuff.
Attack: Proto Strike, an attack as big and powerful as the Charged Buster, but that doesn't need to be charged.
Abilities: He can jump higher than any other character. By standing in one place he can also be protected by his shield, but the shield will get knocked off and must be retrieved. He also takes twice as much damage compared to any other character.
How to Unlock: Proto Man can be acquired by defeating all 100 challenges in Challenge Mode.

• Non-Playable Characters

• Dr. Light (Dr. Right)

A brilliant scientist who created all of robots described above. He is also responsible for turning Mega into Mega Man.

• Dr. Wily

An evil genius who plans to conquer the world. He has kidnapped and reprogrammed many of Dr. Light's robots to make his goals a reality.

• Mega Man

A Mega Man lookalike who only appears when playing as one of the eight boss robots. You fight him in the boss's original place, but only Cut Man's dialogue with him reveals that he is fake.

This seems somewhat "crufty" and exceptionally inappropriate for an encyclopedia. Perhaps a viable insertion in wikibooks might be warranted, but certainly cannot be allowed in the course of explaining the knowledgeable qualities of a remade video game. I've also taken the initiative to clean-up and elaborate on the gameplay section. As for the images, take a trip over to Robot Master, oh in say, an hour or two to see what I'm doing with them. -Zero^Talk 14:46, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Creating a new article for the download dates?

Since the release dates are starting to take up an insane amount of space, and considering that the schedule will extend for a projected year, should the download dates be put into a separate article altogether in order to remove the unnecessary length to the article?

LanceHeart 23:42, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Blues download

Capcom are putting up an activator for Blues, and planning to release it February 23rd. --Reploidof20xx ^(TALK) 01:06, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Article needs to be moved

The correct name of the game is Mega Man Powered Up. It doesn't have a colon as it's named on this Wikipedia article (See here: [1]). I'm going to move it maybe tomorrow. There's at least 30 articles that link to this article so it'll be a hefty job correcting every one. Just a heads up. - Throw 11:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Moved and corrected! - Throw 01:27, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Goof section added

I have added to goofs to the game, these can prove vital to the gameplay and aid people with the information available, thank you. Dark Halen 2 (talk) 19:01, 25 November 2007 (UTC)25th November 2007Dark Halen 2 (talk) 19:01, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but the "goofs" section is a trivia section and they are already discouraged in the first place (see template in the Trivia section). Not only that, but the entire section pertains to in-game tricks, which is not something Wikipedia should normally cover. LanceHeart 05:26, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

I think it should since it is done in other game areas, therefore it is acceptible Dark Halen 2 23:00, 2 December 2007 (UTC)2nd DecemberDark Halen 2 23:00, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

This article begs to differ. Let me quote a passage for you. As the article says, "Lists of cheats or codes. Some codes may be notable and suitable for articles, such as the famed Konami Code, but the method of performing a code that's confined to only a few games and has no special claim to fame is unsuitable for Wikipedia."

As such, your in-game trivia is not admissible for Wikipedia, but could be for its corresponding Wikia. LanceHeart 02:08, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. Dark Halen 2 (talk) 16:08, 8 December 2007 (UTC) 8th Dec Dark Halen 2 (talk) 16:08, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

"468 New Style stages?"

A quote from the current version's lead:

There are actually 468 New Style stages in this mode, 13 for each difficulty (Easy, Normal, and Hard), and 39 for each character (see list of playable characters below).

I think it's a bit much to count each stage's difficulty level as a whole new stage considering the only thing that changes is the way some enemies act or react. Same goes for saying each playable character's game should be considered a totally separate set of thirteen levels—that's like saying Super Mario Bros. 2 contains eighty levels because its twenty can be played with four characters. Jeff Silvers (talk) 15:42, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Possible Re-targeting?

Does anyone else think that this should redirect to the specific section on Mega Man Powered Up, rather than the main article on Mega Man 1?--Unscented (talk) 21:15, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, since no one seems to object, I guess I'll re-target it, then.--99.251.239.89 (talk) 22:25, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Mega Man Powered Up/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: AdrianGamer (talk · contribs) 16:05, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

• a side-scrolling platform video game developed and published by Capcom in 2006 for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld game console. - This sentence is too long. Break it down into: "a side-scrolling platform video game developed and published by Capcom", and "It was released for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld game console in March 2006".

• Done. GamerPro64 19:43, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

• Powered Up was designed by series mainstay Keiji Inafune - He is listed under the producer field instead of the designer field in the info box

• Fixed. GamerPro64 19:43, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

• and announced for a US release later in the year - not really needed.

• Removed. GamerPro64 19:43, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

• but a US release did not occur due to technical difficulties - not only US, but also other western regions like Europe etc.

  Can't find anything about European release. It's possible one wasn't planned from the get-go. GamerPro64 04:09, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• You need to mention the game's critical reception in the lead.

• Done GamerPro64 19:43, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

• the latter two which were added for the remake). - "which" is not needed. I don't think a plot section needs this actually. It can be put in the development section or the gameplay section instead.

• I removed it. Not fully sure it should be in the article. GamerPro64 03:24, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

• Plot section doesn't seem to be completed. I was expecting more details, or at least a proper ending. It is a "setting" section instead of a "plot" section as it stands now.

  I added an ending to the Plot section and a citation. GamerPro64 02:20, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

• has similar gameplay and level designs to it. - "to it" is not needed

  Removed. GamerPro64 04:09, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• Wikilink 2D, 8-bit

  Done. GamerPro64 04:09, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• Mega Man empties his life meter - I don't think this is an active action. Rephrased it to "Lives will be consumed if Mega Man touches certain spikes, or falls into a pit." or something similar

  Changed it to the suggestion you provided. GamerPro64 19:15, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• The first paragraph is unsourced

  For the "Gameplay" section? There's a source in there. GamerPro64 04:09, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

  The paragraph should at least end with a citation though. AdrianGamer (talk) 12:40, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

  Added another citation to it. Kinda hard to kind stuff on those details. Not positive if the instruction booklet would help. GamerPro64 01:46, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

• eight different stages, each represented by - should be "each representing"

  Done. GamerPro64 04:09, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• (in contrast with six in the original) - not needed

  Removed. GamerPro64 04:09, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• Their respective "powers" has limited ammunition?

  Changed from "powers" to "weapon". GamerPro64 04:09, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• The IGN source only supports If Mega Man defeats the Robot Master using his primary weapon, the Robot Master will be captured and reprogrammed. This allows players to play through stages as one of the Robot Master but not other information presented in the second paragraph

  Added another source in the paragraph. GamerPro64 03:24, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

• It was designed by Keiji Inafune. - Producer or designer?

  Producer. GamerPro64 04:09, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• It was announced for a US release on November 8, 2005 under the title Mega Man Powered Up. - What about Europe and other places?

  Found a Eurogamer source that had its release date in it. GamerPro64 19:33, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• It was featured at Capcom's annual Gamer's Day convention in Las Vegas in 2006 - Games tend to be shown off in most gaming convention. It should not be a special case unless something major happened there.

  Removed it and its source. GamerPro64 19:33, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• What is UMD?

  Universal Media Disc. GamerPro64 19:33, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• It was slated to be re-released on the PSP's PlayStation Network service along with other Capcom PSP titles including Maverick Hunter X - "released".

  Done. Though looking at the comment below this it might be made moot. GamerPro64 19:33, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• It was bundled with Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X on UMD.[13] It was slated to be re-released on the PSP's PlayStation Network service along with other Capcom PSP titles including Maverick Hunter X - It was bundled with and released along Maverick Hunter X. Two sentences are talking about the same thing.

  I removed "including Maverick Hunter X" from the second sentence. GamerPro64 03:24, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

• Quotes should be paraphrased

  Any particular examples? GamerPro64 03:24, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

• "The concept for these designs was 'toys'. We wanted cute designs geared towards little kids ... the kinds of characters that you'd see hanging off of keychains and such," and "Not only that, I made sure to tell the designers not to skimp on any of the original Mega Man details. We wanted their proportions and movements to be accurately reflected in these designs as well."

• Paraphrased the first one and removed the second. GamerPro64 01:46, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

• I am not sure why we need that much information on the game's pre-release reception.

• Trimmed down the section. GamerPro64 01:46, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

• though it sold better in the US. - Do we have any sales information for Europe?

• I can't see to find anything about sales in Europe. More than likely sales were bad there as well. GamerPro64 22:56, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

• noted that those who don't like the art style would be able to get over it after playing - Did he mention why? Also, use "do not" per WP:CONTRACTION

  No he didn't mention why. And also changed "don't" to "do not". GamerPro64 01:46, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

• Detroit Free Press called it "a must-buy for fans of the long-running series, despite its super cute-ified new look." - Detroit Free Press should be in italic

• Done. GamerPro64 22:56, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

• placed "Powered Up" as the seventh best handheld game of 2006 - Should not use quotation marks. It should be in italic.

• Done. GamerPro64 22:56, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

1. Is it reasonably well written?

   A. Prose is "clear and concise", without copyvios, or spelling and grammar errors:

   B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list corporation:

2. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?

   A. Has an appropriate reference section:

   B. Citation to reliable sources where necessary:

   C. No original research:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. Major aspects:

   B. Focused:

4. Is it neutral?

   Fair representation without bias:

5. Is it stable?

   No edit wars, etc:

6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?

   A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content:

   B. Images are provided if possible and are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail:

The article is pretty neat, even though some problems are holding it back (problems with the lead, WP:WORLDVIEW, potential WP:OR) If you have addressed all the issues, it should be good to go! AdrianGamer (talk) 04:41, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

The article looks great. Mega Man Powered Up is now a . Congratulations! AdrianGamer (talk) 09:23, 1 December 2015 (UTC)