A little-known Mega Man Star Force plug-and-play TV game, Ryūsei no Rockman: Denpa Henkan! On Air! has just been preserved! The news comes from David ‘mamehaze’ Haywood, an active MAME contributor who has managed to dump the data from his copy of the game and begun initial work for implementing the game in MAME.
While the game is not too hard to find and has been in the hands of reverse engineers for a while now, preserving it had proved difficult due to various reasons, such as the presence of epoxy blobs on the circuit board. Now that the game’s data has been dumped, it opens the door for potential emulation in the future. It may not be soon, but it’s something to look forward to.
Ryūsei no Rockman: Denpa Henkan! On Air! (translates to Mega Man Star Force: Wave Change! On The Air!) was a 2007 plug-and-play TV game developed by SSD Company Limited and published by Takara Tomy in collaboration with Capcom. It features a number of minigames based on the first MMSF game, which are controlled via a combination of motion controls and button presses using the included Mega Buster-shaped controller.
For a TV game, there is a decent amount of content on offer here. Each minigame has several variations and difficulties that award Battle Chips on completion, which boost Mega Man’s stats. The game is also full of all-original sprite work, and has a surprisingly good soundtrack. Check out some gameplay footage below from akiTONE.
Thanks to GoodTofuFriday for contributing to this article!
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? really
I’m gonna need someone to rip the music in this game.