Mega Man: Powered Up

A PSP-only title, Mega Man: Powered Up is a re-imagining of the original Mega Man game for the NES, using 3D graphics but retaining its 2D side-scrolling gameplay. While the game had a ton of features, it apparently sold rather poorly.

Toad Man


Toad Man actually makes a very small appearance in this title, though surprisingly enough he's impossible to see without hacking the game and getting the downloadable content. A sprite of the character can be seen embedded in the textures for Roll's Rainy Day outfit, which is itself modeled after a frog. However, due to the size of the image on the screen and the fact that it's obscured by the rest of the character model, the sprite is impossible to see in normal gameplay.

Level Editor Icons


These sprites are amongst the menu graphics for item placement, suggesting you were originally able to have a bit more leeway with where you put the player and boss enemies before the current system was put in place. The "R" stands for "Dr. Right", Dr. Light's Japanese name, and no "L" equivalent exists.



In addition there are two sets of animated sprites for when you hovered the cursor over the player and boss starting positions in construction mode. This is impossible to do in the final game, and as a result no "L" version of the player icon was made when the game was localized.

Unused Sound Files


If you fight Wily's tank on harder difficulty settings, he quickly repairs it into its second form after you destroy it. During this time, he tells the player to wait while he does the repairs, and apparently you were originally able to still shoot him instead of being unable to move.

Regional Differences
Oil Man's palette was altered completely for the North American and European releases of the game, changing his skin to blue and lips to yellow. This was due to the character's original appearance fitting the stereotypical representation of black people in Japanese media (i.e., Mr. Popo in the Dragonball series). This change fooled nobody of course, and even comic representations of the character used his scarf to cover those massive lips.

The "Light Labs" symbol also originally stood for "Right's Laboratory".