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If you jump off the top of a screen at a location where a ladder is on the bottom of the screen, notably in Cut Man and Wily 1, you can press Up and grab the ladder at the bottom of the screen. This is considered a glitch and not allowed in Glitchless.

The select button is most famous for "mashing to keep hitting with Elec Beam" against Yellow Devil, but it does more than that. The intended function of the Select button is to pause the game without entering the menu. The specific trick against Yellow Devil...

Hold the jump button From the Compendium The primary movement tech in the run is Mega Ball jumping.  This is done by jumping in the air (making sure to continue holding the jump button down), and then dropping a Mega Ball at the peak of your jump.  The timin...

One of the bolts in Sword Man’s stage can be duplicated.  This is useful in 40 Bolts (which is essentially the 100% category for this game).  A video documenting this can be seen Here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCRThMDP79o

When you take damage while riding Rush Bike, there is a one frame window where you are grounded and can jump after regaining control.  This would save time in RTA (for example, riding the bike to the boss door in Grenade), but it is too precise to do and there...

Destroying a slime enemy with Flame Sword and getting grabbed on the same frame will spawn a permanent Flame Sword hitbox in front of Mega Man.  Taking any sort of damage or using Flame Sword again will cancel the effect.  This is currently not useful for RTA,...

The current Original Release any% world record is 50:27 by orsa, played on a Playstation 2 with Fast Disk Speed enabled. The current Legacy Collection any% world record is 49:43 by choc, playing on PC/Steam The most current TAS (read: not current at all)...

Any% The current any% route does Grenade Man first and Astro Man 5th.  This is the most consistent route due to getting Rush Bike in the former and Astro Man being more reliable than Sword Man in the latter. The current any% route shops once, and buys only H...

The quick weapon switch order is Mega Ball -> Flash Bomb -> Thunder Claw -> Tornado Hold -> Water Balloon -> Flame Sword -> Homing Sniper -> Astro Crush.   Remember you can always press L+R to return to Mega Buster. Mega Man 8 is unique in that quick weapon ...

You can see the damage tick intervals of the different weapons in the game here.  The main takeaway from this involves Flash Bomb - if you fire 2 Flash Bombs spaced apart at an interval of 3 frames, then since two weapons cannot both deal damage on the sam...

Trees have 6 HP. They take 6 lemons, or 2 lemons plus a Mega Ball. They cannot be easily hit at point blank range, as Mega Man's arm goes through the tree before firing a shot. Remember the Mega ball does the same damage whether kicked or fired directly into ...

Damage Chart: M. Buster M. Ball T. Hold F. Bomb I. Wave T. Claw 2:3:6 8 2:1 1 4 4 A. Crush W. Balloon F. Sword H. Sniper R. Bike R. Bomber ...

The Playstation 2 has an option for Fast Disk Speed (FDS) with Playstation 1 games. This is useful for Mega Man 8 speedrunning. Runs with this configuration have their console labeled as "FDS" on the Mega Man Leaderboards. NOTE - This is banned for Mega Man X...

There are two bolts in this half of the stage. Only 1 is collected in Any% Remember the Mega Ball can be carried in front of Mega Man, letting you charge the buster while killing "dribbling" the ball to defeat an enemy. The first section of this stage is one...

Mega Man moves ridiculously slow. Even small slides add up over the run. However, keep in mind the distance of a slide on a platform. If your slide ends near the end of a platform, jump before Mega Man's slow standing animation. About the Hyper Slider After...

HP: 32 Damage Chart: M. Buster M. Ball T. Hold F. Bomb I. Wave T. Claw 1:2:3 3 1:3 2 3 3 A. Crush W. Balloon F. Sword H. Sniper R. Bike R. Bo...

There are two bolts in this section. Neither are collected in any% and one requires a revisit after Sword Man.  Be careful to not drop a Mega Ball on top of the first ladder. Summon Rush Bike as soon as you are up top. Be careful not to drop into the pit nea...

You can jump off Rush Bike by holding up. This includes a "Yoshi Ditch" double jump. Rush Bike lasts for 40 seconds. This time drops by 5 seconds every time you get hit. Rush Bike is fast in the early game, but is largely outclassed by the Hyper Slider in th...

HP: 40 Damage Chart M. Buster M. Ball T. Hold F. Bomb I. Wave T. Claw 1:2:3 1 1:1 2 1 4* *Reflecting Grenade Man’s Flash Bombs with Thunder Claw will deal the same amount of da...

These bolts are in the passage that appears after pushing the Ammoner (the snail) onto the switch. They can be acquired on your first visit to the stage. These bolts are only required for the 40 Bolts category.