Mega Man 7
General Info
Route Differences - 100%
Form PJ on why Shade 5th
Shade Man revisit (to the respawn point and exiting, since that is all the additional content):
2684 frames (44 seconds)
Minus the cost of death abuse and respawn:
91411 - 90650 = 761 (11 seconds)
Total cost of revisit: +33Shade Man fight (first pixel to teleport frame):
Hyper fist: 93758 - 92147 = 1611 (26.8 seconds)
Regular S.Adapter: 71314 - 69692 = 1622 (27.0 seconds)
Turbo Man:
Good truck with T.Bolt: 9.8 (from slide-shot to movement after truck death)
Other trucks with T.Bolt: 11.5, 10.5, 14.5
Good truck with Noise Crush: 6.8
Difference: -3-8 seconds, based on patternTurbo Man fights (from first pixel of health to end teleport):
Buster (good): 74931 - 71773 = 3158 (52.6 seconds)
S.Adapter (good): 74725 - 71773 = 2952 (49.2 seconds)
Noise crush QK: 106034 - 104966 = 1068 (17.8 seconds)
Difference: 32-35 seconds (probably 33 best case, since health refill is needed)Total Turbo Man difference: 36-41 seconds with good luck on boss. Probably -48 vs really bad luck.
OVERALL route difference: 33 seconds lost during revisit and Shade Man fight without Hyper Fist, 36-48 seconds saved with Turbo Man QK and truck fight. In all, 3-15 seconds faster.
Route Info
The two main categories being Any% and 100%.
100% collects all permanent upgrades, such as Protoman's Shield, the Energy Balancer, and the Exit Module.
Any%
- Cloud
- Junk
- Freeze
- Burst
- Slash (use Ice)
- Spring
- Shade
- Turbo
An alternate route would be to visit Shade early to get a second Quick Kill on Spring Man
100%
- Freeze (so avoid a Junk revisit)
Noise Crush Quick Kills
Shade Man's weapon bounces off walls, creating a unique opportunity to have a shot bounce around a robot master's room.
In theory, this can be used to strike a boss the moment its life meter appears, reducing it from the first HP it gained to 0, killing it.
In practice, even with the use of options to get Noise Crush early, there are only 2 viable places to use this trick - Spring Man and Turbo Man.
Execution
Mega Man must fire the noise crush as he moves into the gate, making the noise crush spawn on the other side of the gate and bounce around the room.
As a slow method, you can tap right and Y at the same time to have Mega Man inch forwards. This is slow, but faster than the boss fight. Faster methods certainly exist.
Phantomire's MM7 Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu9v9BR8l89jfhqU6G9YllrApwy_sv2zs
Weapon Notes
The Mega Buster
The charge speed is kinda awful. Lemons out DPS it against bosses (though if you do have free time to charge, do it).
Wild Coil (Spring)
This weapon can be charged. Charged springs do more damage (perhaps obviously), but can also bounce higher. Hold up when releasing Y to get a high bounce. This is extremely useful when fighting Shade Man and the Wily Capsule.
Freeze Cracker
Has 6 directional fire, hold up or down to fire diagonally.
If you use it against Freeze Man, it will heal him to full HP.
Rush Jet and Coil
Rush can get hit in this game. If Rush takes damage, he will cease being a platform for Rush Jet, so be careful
Danger Wrap (Burst)
If you hold down when firing, the bubble will not spawn, and Mega Man will simply put a bomb on the floor. This is extremely useful to make the Cloud fight faster.
The bubble also flies up at a steeper angle if you hold up.
Noise Crush (Shade)
This weapon can be charged by firing a shot off a wall to bounce back into Mega Man.
It really only needs Mega Man inside the weapons' hit box to make Mega Man absorb the shot and charge the weapon. This can be done with a quick "shot slide". This technique is used often, especially when a wall is not available such as the boss of Wily 3.
Junk Shield
It's really strong, but super laggy
Slash Man
Slash Man Fight
Slash Man has an annoying habit of jumping above the screen to "drop ketchup" after 2 hits. As such, a goal of the fight is to minimize the number of times he goes off screen.
This can be done by delaying the shots of Freeze Cracker until after some charged Buster Shots have been delivered.
- a Four cycle fight is relatively simple - one charged buster shot and one freeze cracker per cycle. You must connect with both shots all 4 cycles.
- a Three cycle fight can be achieved by timing the second buster shot. You need Slash Man to commit to his slash attack when you hit with the second buster shot, so there is time to hit with the freeze cracker. You only need 2 cycles of 2 buster shots, but you do need all 3 freeze crackers.
Alternate Weaknesses
Slash is weak to both Ice and Fire. Fire is clumsy and not conducive to the above strategies, so we recommend avoiding it.
Wily 4
The Worst Capsule in the series
Good Boy Skip
It is possible to skip the first phase of the Wily fight through Rush Search breaking you out of the cutscene.
To break out the cutscene you need to get a drop that fills one of Mega Man's energy meters. Rush Search itself will get you missing weapon energy, but your odds of breaking out go up if you do not have full HP. Even 1 missing HP is enough.
According to PJ, there are three columns of "dark purple" like the one above Mega Man in the image above. The third one is when you want to summon Rush Search to make Rush actually spawn.
If you get a life or ammo drop, You will regain control of Mega Man. Much like the Turbo Man quick kill, you can damage the boss the moment it has 1 HP. This can be any weapon that does enough damage to reduce the machine to 0 HP, though timing can be tight.
Wily 2
Boss - Gamorizer
General Info
Gamoizer is weak to springs. Use charged springs as you can, but spam normal springs over charging.
The turtle is also extremely weak to bubbled tiny turtles (Danger Wrap). Timing and execution for this is tight.
General Notes from Discord
To begin with, hold right is important when entering the boss. You advance an extra pixel which can make it easier to hit the turtle 4 times. (You can hit the turtle 4 times with good rng). - Ch0c
Demo Video
https://youtu.be/3vC9rtJ__X4?si=LoP4OBjmvHkCNq5y
Stupid Facts
Gamorizer is similar to the Fire Boa-Boa Island boss from Super Adventure Island 2.