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In Mega Man 4, the boss fanfare and weapon get animation do not trigger until all bubbles leave the screen. This means the location of your kill can affect your stage time by up to 2 seconds. In the case of Dive Man, this includes Mega Man's periodic Air Bubb...

There are two main strategies to the first half of Dust Man's stage - Bright Man's Flash Stopper, and The Pharaoh Shot. The Pharaoh shot saves a little time if executed well, but the Flash Stopper strat is significantly easier. Both strategies dictate jumping...

The screen after Eddie and the Checkpoint is a crusher room. Strategies for this room tend to be cycle based. This room in particular is covered by Chelney's tutorial videos. Note you should switch to the desired weapon in the checkpoint room. Fastest Strat...

Damage Tables To Dust Buster 1:1:3 Ring 4 From Dust Contact Damage / Getting Bodied 8 Dust Crusher 4 Strat Dust Man always opens the fight with a Dust Crusher. The weapon "explodes" on the 4 diagonals when it reaches...

Most of the second half of the stage is handled by Bright Man's Flash Stopper. This mostly results in the route depending on your slide movement, to extend each Flash as much as possible. First Screen Notes With Flash active, the turret enemies that usuall...

Damage Tables To Skull Buster 1:1:3 Dust 4 Ring 1 From Skull Contact Damage 8 Shots 4 Skull Man's Attack Pattern Skull Man will only act if Mega Man acts. If you do nothing, Skull Man does nothing. Try it. Walk...

Damage Tables To Dive Buster 1:1:3 Skull Barrier 4 Dust Crusher 2 From Dive Contact Torpedo Spin Dive Missiles Dive Man's Attack Patterns Dive Man is Similar to Skull Man in that he can only do the...

The Strat Speedruns of Gemini Man's stage often jump through the Cutscene screen. By sliding onto the screen, the game doe snot remove control of Mega Man...until the slide ends. Use this slide distance to jump (before the slide ends) through the building an...

Why Cancel the Music? Mega Man 3's soundtrack, while amazing, generates lag. By removing the background music, the game simply runs faster. Technique By taking a spike death on the exact same frame as a screen transition, the "Mega Man dying" sound also cau...

Seriously. This weapon is much better than you think, it just has one major glitch that you can avoid once you know about it. It's actually quite powerful, just not as fast as other weapons in most situations for a speed run, mostly because at its core it's a ...

Weakness Order Mega Man 3 has 2 weakness loops Magnet > Hard > Top > Shadow > Spark > Magnet Snake > Gemini > Needle > Snake There are 2 soft weaknesses to "cross over" between the loops (at least 2 that are relevant to the speedrun routes), along with...

Mega Man 3 has 4 routes that have been used over the years. Each has its advantages and disadvantages as far as difficulties go, but most finish within a reasonable amount of time of each other. Top First The old (pre 2012?) and now current (2017?-present) W...

Technically not unique to Rush, this is most often experienced while riding Rush Jet or using Rush Coil. When Mega Man goes off the top of the screen, his Y-coordinate "wraps". This makes it possible to grab items low on the screen while jumping off the top o...

Flash Man's stage is at best minimally sped up by items and weapons, and Flash Man's Time Stop is a very useful utility. As such, Flash is done early if not first in most routes. A few notes on the stage: There are subtleties to the movement to avoid hits ...

Damage Table To Flash Weapon Normal Difficult Buster 4 2 Metal 8 4 Bubble 4 2 Quick 4 2 From Flash Contact Shots Flash's Pattern Flash Man walks around the room for a few seconds, then activa...

Zips or Zipless The major difference of the routes is zips. With zips, your route is focused on acquiring Item 1 as fast as possible. Without zips, item 1 is less important. Yes-Zips Flash Depends Fastest: Heat then Air More accessible: Air then Heat...

The North American release of the game introduced a difficulty select of Normal or Difficult. The Japanese release does not feature this option, but is equivalent to "Difficult" mode for gameplay. Damage done by the player to enemies is is doubled in normal m...

This page notes general truths about zipping. For specific zips (such as the Good Wood zip), check their stage pages and Duckfist's Tutorial. A-Trigger vs. B-Trigger Several zips will refer to an A-Trigger or a B-Trigger. A-Trigger zips require mega Man to ...

Mega Man 6 routes are mostly centered on acquiring Flame. It is a very powerful weapon and makes short work of normal enemies. Wind First (the current WR Route) Flame First Knight First All routes proceed to follow weakness order: Wind Flame Blizz...

Mega Man cannot jump out of a slide in Mega Man 6. Whether underwater or not. Pressing A again in a slide will make Mega Man stand up. This leads to two ways to cancel your slides. "Back cancel", by "pushing left" (assuming you are sliding right) "A-Cance...