At long last, the mobile Rockman EXE games have been freed from their mobile prisons! As of today, Rockman EXE: Phantom of Network and Rockman EXE: Legend of Network are now playable for the first time on PC via emulator.
Announced via Rockman Corner, Mega Man preservation group SciLab Secrets has managed to dump a whole batch of long-lost mobile Mega Man games from a Japanese phone and put together an emulator package to allow international fans to play the games for the first time. This includes the first three chapters of Phantom of Network, and the first chapter of Legend of Network. The group does possess a phone containing the full versions of the games, so we may see an update in the future. However, the phone in question has not yet been cracked.
Update: As several community members have found, the Phantom of Network & Legend of Network “demos” simply… don’t end at chapter 3! The dumped games are, in fact, the complete versions of the game, and they are playable from start to finish.
Rockman EXE: Phantom of Network was first released in 2004 for Japanese i-mode phones in an episodic format. This was later followed by Rockman EXE: Legend of Network in 2006. Legend of Network is especially notable for having been released after Mega Man Battle Network 6, making it the last new Mega Man Battle Network game! The games follow the same format as the GBA games, albeit simplified for the phone’s button layout, with the same real-time battle system.
To read the full story as well as download the emulator and games, head on over to Rockman Corner!