Category: General

It’s almost that time again for a new speedrun and community marathon! Resident speedrunners TeamBN have just announced their new Summer Showcase 2018, taking place later this month. Tune in to see every single Battle Network and Star Force game be destroyed in record time! And you won’t have to wait long, as the marathon is set to begin on Saturday, July 21st, 2018.

As usual, there will also be some updates and showcases from fan-games, MMBN-inspired indie games and other community projects, including: the N1 Grand Prix NetBattling community, Mega Man Battle Network Chrono X, Shanghai EXE: Genso Network, Tri Wing and One Step From Eden. In addition, you can watch the ClockMan scenario unfold from the recently released Rockman EXE: Operate Shooting Star translation patch.

You’ll be able to catch the marathon live on TeamBN’s Twitch channel starting July 21st. Check the full schedule right here!

The wait is over! 8+ years after its original release, Japanese-only Nintendo DS title Rockman EXE: Operate Shooting Star has been fully translated into English and is now available for anyone to play. This translation was produced by various The Rockman EXE Zone members, with TREZ administrator Greiga Master heading the project.

The translation patch fully translates the game into English, including newly added text and the Mega Man Star Colosseum side game. Moreover, the original Mega Man Battle Network script has received another editing pass to fix errors and inconsistencies with later games. Some field graphics that were left in Japanese in the original game have also been localized this time around.

Head on over to the project’s topic on The Rockman EXE Zone Forums to download the patch for yourself! You’ll be able to apply this patch to a ROM that you can dump from your own Rockman EXE: Operate Shooting Star game cartridge using various tools.

Screenshots below the jump:

Read More

UPDATE: Yup, this was an April Fools joke… we’re not actually adding any new Navis to the Rockman EXE 4.5 translation. But if you still want to see WaveMan in action, you can watch his antics in the classic The Rockman EXE Zone mini-series MMBN6: The New Crisis on YouTube!

It’s time to unveil the winners of the MMBN 4.5 Original Navi Contest! As was announced a few months ago, we’ll be putting one original Navi in our English fan-translation of Mega Man Battle Network 4.5: Real Operation. Following what Capcom has done in the past, we asked fans to submit their best and most original Navi designs. Each of our three finalists will get a professional Navi design sketch done by our artist. Of course, the big prize here is that the winning Navi will be drawn, written, and programmed into the game and completely playable for everyone when the patch is fully complete!

You can find the final results after the jump.

Read More

TeamBN’s Winter Festival 2017 took place last week, and featured a host of new demos, showcases and presentations from the Mega Man Battle Network community. A number of MMBN fan games and MMBN-inspired indie games were on display, as well as some other projects including translations and abridged series. If you missed any of the presentations, here’s a recap of all the stuff that was shown and announced!

Read More

An English version of MMBN fangame Shanghai EXE: Genso Network has been released! The game, which is currently in development by Koki and several contributors, has been translated from Japanese to English by several members and regulars of TeamBN.

For those not in the know, Shanghai EXE: Genso Network is an MMBN fangame set in the Touhou Project universe. You play as Alice, a regular middle schooler who finds herself and her Navi Shanghai.EXE caught up in several incidents, caused by the nefarious organization ROM. Many Touhou characters make an appearance as human characters and NetNavis, but you don’t need to be familiar with the series in order to understand the story; it plays just like Mega Man Battle Network.

The game also bring some new elements to the table: two new elements, Poison and Earth, are added to the elemental cycle. The Style system in Shanghai EXE combines the Styles from Battle Network 2/3 with the Crosses from Battle Network 6, and the AddOn Manager, which replaces the Navi Customizer, lets you customize Shanghai with various programs.

The current version of the game (v0.40) runs up to Chapter 4 — roughly half of the story. You can download the game for Windows PC on the Shanghai EXE website. The game will also be shown at the TeamBN Winter Festival this weekend, with a showcase of the English translation.

Thanks to Kerreb17 for contributing to this post!

This December, celebrate the Blue Bomber’s 30th anniversary in style by tuning in to a new marathon, hosted by local speedrunning group TeamBN. During the TeamBN Winter Festival 2017, once again a fair number of Battle Network games will be cleared as quickly as humanly possible, and some even as quickly as inhumanly possible.

Several MMBN fan games and MMBN-inspired indie games will also be shown off, including newcomers Card Witch, One Step From Eden and Project PET, with several developer Q&As. Additionally, TeamEXE from the ol’ MegaMan Abridged Warrior series will be making a guest appearance.

As usual, the whole thing will be live streamed right into your computer screen from TeamBN’s Twitch channel. The TeamBN Winter Festival 2017 will commence December 16th, 2017 and will run throughout the weekend.

The exact schedule is yet to be finalized, but check out all the deets in Tterraj42’s post on TREZ Forums. You can stay up-to-date by following TeamBN on Twitter.

Here’s the full list of games being played:

• Rockman EXE Operate Shooting Star
• Mega Man Battle Network 2
• Mega Man Battle Network 3
• Mega Man Battle Network 4
• Mega Man Battle Network 4.5: Real Operation
• Mega Man Battle Network 5: Double Team DS
• Mega Man Battle Network 6
• Mega Man Network Transmission
• Mega Man NT Warrior TCG
• Rockman EXE WS
• Mega Man Battle Network Chrono X
• Mega Man Battle Network 3D
• Project PET
• Shanghai EXE: Genso Network
• Tri Wing
• EndCycle
• Card Witch
• One Step From Eden

Marathon announcement
TeamBN Twitch channel
TeamBN Twitter feed

Remember EndCycle, the MMBN-inspired indie game by 12B3 Games? Though the Kickstarter for the project failed to meet its goal, the team has nonetheless been toiling away on the game. Today the team published a trailer featuring a brand new feature: online multiplayer!

Fortunately, we won’t have to wait long to try it, as 12B3 noted that the online multiplayer will be available to everyone on 1 July 2017. In addition, they will be launching a Patreon to support the game’s development.