Mega Man: Powered Up

Mega Man: Powered Up
Also known as: Rockman Rockman (JP) Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Platform: PlayStation Portable Released in JP: March 2, 2006 Released in US: March 14, 2006 Released in EU: March 24, 2006 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has regional differences. This game has a prototype article

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 sold rather poorly, leading other planned remakes for later entries to be scrapped.

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Prototype Info

Unused/Unseen Graphics

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 hover 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.

Online Mode

An unused loading text for the online mode.

Unused Sound Files

To do: Translate the Japanese voices

Dr. Wily

English	Transcript
	I told you to WAIT!
	STOP IT! Come on, you...Ya stupid--!

Japanese	Transcript
	待ってとよに
	やめんかこらこの

If you fight the Wily Machine on hard or normal difficulty settings, Dr. Wily 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.

English	Japanese

Judging by the audio file's order, this was intended to play before he repairs his machine.

Roll

English	Transcript
	Welcome to Construction Mode. Make as many stages as you would like and share them with your friends!

Japanese	Transcript
	コンストラクションへようこそ素敵なステージをたくさん作ってお友達と楽しいんじゃ

Originally, Roll would greet the player when going to construction mode. In the final game, she immediately starts the tutorial so this goes scrapped.

Online Mode

Unused Browser

Beneath this mode, is a browser with more controls! In the final game, the browser is stripped-down. Although, websites looks broken. To access it, change the URL in PSP_GAME\SYSDIR\EBOOT.BIN

Pressing Start shows this menu. In the final game, it is only used to exit online mode.

The cursor color turns to orange when hovering on a hyperlink.

Pressing Square refreshes the page, and pressing L or R will scroll the page up and down respectively.

Debug Page

An unused page exists in the server with the url: http://phantom.capcom.co.jp/psp/ROCKPSP/ROCKMAN-TOP2.php

The first two row of buttons leads to an inaccessible page, the third row leads to the main page, the fourth row leads to the first-time agreement page. Each button corresponds to a specific region.

Regional Differences

Oil Man

Japan	International

Oil Man's palette was altered completely for the international 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 Dragon Ball series). This change fooled nobody of course, and even the short-lived Archie Comics representation of the character used his scarf to cover those massive lips.

Light Labs

Japan	International

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

Title Screen

Japan	International

In the Japanese version, there's a gimmick at the title screen where the second "Rockman" in "Rockman Rockman" logo in the title screen would change to the name of the Robot Master you played last. For example, if you picked Blues (Proto Man) in the latest playthrough before quitting the game, the title screen will display "Rockman Blues" instead, in addition to his voice clip and changing the picture of Mega Man to him. In the international versions, it was hard to emulate this change with the localized title Mega Man Powered Up, so this logo gimmick was cut and only the picture changes. The Japanese voices are not present in the international versions and vice versa.

Asia Version

Japanese	Asia

While the Asia version uses Chinese language for UI, it retains the logo and characters voices and dialogues from the Japanese version.