Mega Man 8 Complete
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A builder that brings the Sega Saturn exclusives of Mega Man 8, including the Cut Man and Wood Man fights and the Bonus Mode, into the American PlayStation version.
What it adds
The Saturn release of Mega Man 8 had a handful of things the PlayStation one lacked. This project by K-Wizzlejizzum carries them over to the US PlayStation disc:
- the optional Cut Man battle hidden in Duo's mini-stage and the Wood Man mid-boss in Search Man's stage, each with its room, music and voice lines
- the Bonus Mode on the title menu, with its postcards, artwork, sound and voice tests and the hidden animation viewer
- the Saturn's enemy and item placements, life bar layout and orange-gold boss name lettering
- Tengu Man's Saturn stage theme, switchable with the PlayStation one from the stage select (SELECT on his portrait)
- the Saturn attract-mode demos
Still to come
Version 0.5.0 finishes the first part of the roadmap. Porting the Saturn water effects, sound effects and music is still being looked at, and later plans include the Japanese-only adverts, an optional undub and some quality of life changes.
Playing it
This is not a classic patch: it is a Windows builder that reads your own US PlayStation and US Saturn discs (both are needed, as BIN/CUE dumps) and builds the new PlayStation image on your machine. It contains no game data. Follow the instructions on the project's GitHub page; DuckStation is the recommended emulator.