Rockman 3: The Early Years

We’ve heard Mega Man creator discuss how Mega Man 3 is one of his least-favorite games in the series, due mainly to the team’s inability to do everything with it that they had hoped before the product had to ship. Nonetheless, development of the title still saw some interesting changes from its early stages to the final product.

Your Weekly Famicom has images and information from the early goings of Rockman 3, including some interesting rarely-seen screenshots and information about the title. Big Snakeys with a more metallic body, ringed planets decorating the background of Gemini Man’s stage, a different background for Top Man’s stage, and the Rush Drill are some of what the article reveals as the clock is turned back and we see what might have been before what came to be. And fortunately, site owner Chris Covell has taken the liberty of providing a mostly-translated .pdf version to make the experience more enjoyable.

Oh, and there’s one other image of note, in case anyone was wondering what 50,000 Robot Master contest entries look like.

There are also other such features, looking at early shots of Ninja Gaiden and Top Secret, the game which would go on to gain greater fame in the West as Bionic Commando. Check them all out here.

CoroCoro Update – little else, really

A few days ago we broke the story of Clock Genius announced as the winner of the Rockman boss character contest held in CoroCoro. However, the image that accompanied the news was small and a little hard to make out. However, we’ve now gotten word from MMN viewer Fireman, who picked up the issue himself! And… there really isn’t too much to add. Only the Clock Genius entry was shown, not the completed official artwork by Capcom. Furthermore, Clock was merely relegated to a small part of the page, the rest of the page covered Ryuusei no Rockman 3 news (which may answer the wonderment some had with what looked like Rockman appearing in the BG). According to Fireman, in fact, there’s nothing in this issue that would even indicate next month’s issue will have any information on a new Rockman game, but of course that doesn’t mean it won’t.

Incidentally, if you were someone who applied to the contest, I may have some bad news for you (unless you’re Japanese). Only one USA entrant made it as a runner up, and may be the only foreign entrant to place. The lucky guy is one Lou Smith. Unfortunately they didn’t show pictures of any of the runner ups, so I don’t know what the entry was. But if you’re reading this, Lou, major congrats to you. You may win a minor prize.

CoroCoro Boss Contest Winner: Clock Genius

It appears the winner of CoroCoro boss character contest held earlier thisyear has been revealed on 2ch, a character known as Clock Genius, created by one Gotou-san. Details are of course scarce, since our only lead is the included image. However, from the sounds of things, the new Rockman game this Clock Genius will appear in is still undecided, or at least unannounced. Nevertheless it does seem to be fairly Star Force styled, especially when you consider there is a clock constellation: Horologium.

We will updated you with details as we receive them.

Call for Coro Coro Entries and a Fan Art Reminder

Just a reminder, because I keep getting emails about it. You get a fanart gallery throught the FORUM. Thus, I want people to PM me on the forums when they have a user name, so it is easier on me, and doesn’t clog my inbox. So stop emailing me. Email is for WGA only now.

I’ve opened up a contest section on the TMMN galleries now. The first section? Coro Coro Boss Contest 2009. So I’m asking for entries that you’ve done. Even if you didn’t have the money, and didn’t ship them off to Tokyo, I’d still like to post them.

Please include your name, your character’s name, and which Rockman series your boss belongs to, and then fling the whole thing my way either by PMing me on the forums, or by tossing me an email at thetabbers at gmail.com.

We’d love to see your entries! Mine looks too lonely in the section all by itself.

Boss contest reminder

The CoroCoro Rockman boss character contest will be coming to a close on February 13th, the Friday after next. If you’ve still been meaning to enter, it’s crunch time now. You’ll definitely want at least a week to for it to send, but you should consult your local post office foremost. Remember though, your odds of winning are very slim unless you happen to live in Japan, so there’s not much point in spending a ton of money on top-class expedited postage.

If you’re still interested in entering, you can check out our original post for the details on entering. And hey, if you want to share, we’d love to see your entries. We may even display them in our gallery if that suits you. For an example, here’s our own Tabby’s entry of an X series Maverick: Serpentine Nagabra.