Mega Man Anniversary Collection (GameCube)

Mega Man Anniversary Collection is a budget collection of Mega Man titles, comprising the six main NES titles plus 7, 8 (its debut on a Nintendo console), The Power Battle, and The Power Fighters.

A Game Boy Advance version, featuring colorized versions of the five main Game Boy titles (along with an unknown bonus game), was supposed to be released alongside the GameCube and PlayStation 2 versions. Unfortunately, it was delayed several times and ultimately canned.

Unused Graphics
The GameCube and PS2 versions were developed simultaneously, and thus several PS2 controller button graphics are present in the GameCube version.



Unused Navi, Developer, and Debug Text
Anniversary Collection is partially one large port of the Japan-only Rockman Complete Works, a PlayStation compilation of the six main NES games with slight enhancements. One such enhancement was the "Navi" mode, in which the player was given text hints throughout the game. This feature was ported over into Anniversary Collection, along with much of the original text. In addition, some debugging text is also present on the disc.

As the text dump is quite large, see the Notes page for further details.

Plans for International Release?
According to text.txt in /MM1/, there may have been plans for an international release. Under the "Text Styles" section is a portion of text discussing "Language Codes":

ENG = english FRN = french SPN = spanish GMN = german ITL = italian JPN = japanese * this is a special one...named text will be as two characters representing a particular piece of kanji (e.g. 00, 1A etc...) ALL = all languages (e.g names cutman, etc etc)

No version of the game was released outside America, but the mention of the French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Japanese languages could very well mean the game was intended to be released worldwide.