Mega Man 2: Mega Man Wily's Conquest 2 - Hyper Edition Turbo!

This is a complete hack to a previously unfinished version by DragonEye Studios. The abandoned version had some great ideas and lots of potential, so the purpose of this project was to refine the problematic areas and complete the hack so that the player can play all the way to the end and finish the game.

List of features, additions and changes:
-1) Increased the speed of Mega Man and the Mega Buster!
-2) Wily-4 and other previously unfinished stages are now 100% complete!
-3) Added new challenges to all of the stages!
-4) Changed the entire soundtrack with great music by Blast Hornet, WINED, Tsukikuro, Hydrawisk, DARS, and 8-bit fan.
-5) Changed various weapons mechanics and physics.
-6) Changed boss AIs, HP, and boss room layouts for new challenges.
-7) Changed damage amount from various weapons to different bosses.
-8) Updated various sound effects and graphics.
-9) Increased climbing speed.
-10) Fixed and refined stages from enemy spams and poor layouts from the original version.
-11) Lots of new additional changes to all of the stages.
-12) Updated title screen, menu screens, texts, and ending credits.
-13) Reduced amount of energy used for most weapons.
-14) Various bug fixes.
-15) And many more various additions and fixes.

Tools and resources used:

Rockman 2 editor, visine, Tile Layer Pro, Cygnus Hex Editor, Data Crystal, thealmightyguru.com, and RHDN.

Mega Man Wily's Conquest 2 - Hyper Edition Turbo!

* UPDATE 2022.1.2 *

Apply 'Mega Man WC2 - Hyper Edition Turbo v2.1.ips' directly to 'Mega Man 2 (USA).nes - NOINTRO'


-= Complete hack v2.1 =-

Reduced Alien Wily's HP.
Added E-Tank in the final stage.
Fixed an screen in Wily4 that can cause accidental death due to missing block.
Removed a Metool in Woodman's stage that can cause cheap death.
Minor stage adjustment in Airman's stage.


-= Complete hack v2.0 =-

HUGE THANKS to HYPER MEGAMAN-Z for reaching out to me(8.bit.fan) in a collaboration in completing the hack to 100% complete!! The previously unfinished stages(such as Wily 4) are now completely revamped and the game is now 100% complete and playable from start to finish!
Revamped music, bosses, Alien Wily, enemy and item placements, etc.
Fixed and polished many areas such as blocks, graphics, etc.


-= Complete hack v1.21 =-

Updated title screen to give it a more unique look and also de-cluttered some texts.


-= Complete hack v1.2 =-

Fixed and refined tiles and layouts in several areas in Wily stage 4.
Added new challenges utilizing Items and Mega Man's speed in Wily stage 2.
Added 2nd checkpoints to Wily 1/2/4 stages.
Updated Crash Bomb sound effects.
Updated several areas in Flashman's stage.
Updated and refined Flashman's AI and boss room.
Updated some areas in Bubbleman's stage.
Fixed and updated laser beam graphics in Quickman's stage.
Updated graphics in several Wily stages.
Other minor refinements in several Wily Stages areas.
Many other graphical updates.


-= Complete hack v1.15 =-

Minor bug fix in Metalman's stage.


-= Complete hack v1.14 =-

Reverted the HP meter back to it's original look per several user requests.


-= Complete hack v1.13 =-

Minor adjustments and cleanup in Bubbleman's and Metalman's stages.


-= Complete hack v1.12 =-

1) Minor bug fixes in Bubbleman's and Woodman's stages.
2) Listed resources and tools used for the hack and added more credits.


-= Complete hack v1.11 =-

Minor bug fixes in Bubbleman's stage.


-= Complete hack v1.1 =-

List of changes:

1) Revamped several areas in Bubbleman's stage to utilize Mega Man's speed for new challenges and other updates.
2) Updated few areas of Woodman's stage to fit the theme of the faster Mega Man speed.


* ORIGINAL README *

-= Complete hack v1.0 =-

Apply 'Mega Man WC2 - Hyper Edition Turbo v1.0.ips' directly to 'Mega Man 2 (USA).nes - NOINTRO'


What this hack does:

This is a complete hack to a previously unfinished version by DragonEye Studios. It was at v0.71b and has been abandoned since 2002. It had most of the Robot Masters and 3 Wily stages finished but was littered with enemy spams and unrefined layouts. The abandoned version had some great ideas and lots of potential, so the purpose of this project was to refine those problematic areas and complete the hack so that the player can play all the way to the end and finish the game.


List of features, additions and changes:

1) Increased the speed of Mega Man and the Mega Buster!

2) Wily-4 and other previously unfinished stages are now 100% completed by original hacker(HYPER MEGAMAN-Z)!!

3) Added new challenges to all of the stages!

4) Changed the entire soundtrack with great music by Blast Hornet, WINED, Tsukikuro, Hydrawisk, DARS, and 8-bit fan.

5) Changed various weapons mechanics and physics.

6) Changed boss AIs, HP, and boss room layouts for new challenges.

7) Changed damage amount from various weapons to different bosses.

8) Updated various sound effects and graphics.

9) Increased climbing speed.

10) Fixed and refined stages from enemy spams and poor layouts from the original version.

11) Lots of new additional changes to all of the stages.

12) Updated title screen, menu screens, texts, and ending credits.

13) Reduced amount of energy used for most weapons.

14) Various bug fixes.

15) And many more various additions and fixes.


Tools and resources used:

Rockman 2 editor, visine, Tile Layer Pro, Cygnus Hex Editor, Data Crystal, thealmightyguru.com, and shadow501 @ romhacking.net.


Acknowledgements and Credits:
DragonEye Studios/HYPER MEGAMAN-Z for the original unfinished base hack.
Tribute to Blast Hornet, WINED, Tsukikuro, Hydrawisk, and DARS for their awesome music.
Data Crystal, thealmightyguru.com, and special thanks to shadow501 for their invaluable ROM map and hex resources.
Rockman 2 editor by Rock5easily, visine by -=Fx3=-, Tile Layer Pro by SnowBro, and Cygnus Hex Editor by Soft Circuits for their amazing tools.
And finally, Capcom, Akira Kitamura, and Keiji Infune for Mega Man 2.

2017.5.20 v1.0 by 8-bit fan / 8.bit.fan / butz
2017.5.22 v1.1 by 8-bit fan / 8.bit.fan / butz
2017.5.22 v1.11 by 8-bit fan / 8.bit.fan / butz
2017.5.23 v1.12 by 8-bit fan / 8.bit.fan / butz
2017.5.24 v1.13 by 8-bit fan / 8.bit.fan / butz
2017.5.28 v1.14 by 8-bit fan / 8.bit.fan / butz
2017.5.30 v1.15 by 8-bit fan / 8.bit.fan / butz
2017.6.30 v1.2 by 8-bit fan / 8.bit.fan / butz
2017.6.30 v1.21 by 8-bit fan / 8.bit.fan / butz
2020.11.6 v2.0 by HYPER MEGAMAN-Z and 8.bit.fan
2022.1.2 v2.1 by HYPER MEGAMAN-Z and 8.bit.fan

Mega Man 2 (USA).nes - NOINTRO
CRC32: 5E268761
MD5: 8E4BC5B03FFBD4EF91400E92E50DD294
SHA-1: 2290D8D839A303219E9327EA1451C5EEA430F53D
SHA-256: 49136B412FF61BEAC6E40D0BBCD8691A39A50CD2744FDCDDE3401EED53D71EDF