Mega Man: The Wily Wars Mega Hack

What's changed

The Wily Wars is often criticised for feeling sluggish next to the NES games it remakes. Mega Hack bundles a long list of fixes made over the years by different hackers and makes them work together:

• enemies lose most of their invulnerability time after a hit;
• the Buster and several boss weapons fire faster, and up to five shots can be on screen;
• the slide is added to Mega Man 1 and 2;
• weapon energy refills after losing a life;
• Proto Man's sprites are redrawn.

Optional extras include the MD+ patches, a fixed Weapon Master patch and a retranslated Wily Tower script. The separate patches are included too, for anyone who prefers their own combination.

Credits

Put together by TheBamboozler, with work by Ar8temis008, BillyTime! Games, CoolCatBomberMan, darthvaderx, ElwinBran, Gruesome_Garie, JackelZXA, Josephine Lithius, MottZilla, Plombo, Relikk, Stifu and Woodfrog.

Playing it

Version 3.0 is dated February 2026 and comes in builds for the Genesis Mini and Retro-Bit releases of the game. The patch is applied to your own copy of the game, following the instructions on the hack's page.