Glitches in Mega Man Battle Network 1

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This page is a list of glitches that appear in Mega Man Battle Network. The DS port, Rockman EXE Operate Shooting Star, did not touch most of the original base code, so the game retains most of the glitches from the GBA games.

Major glitches

Cutscene Saving

The menu can be called just as MegaMan steps on a cutscene trigger tile. If the game is saved at this point, when the game is boot up, it will start at the cutscene. This is a problem in the game's final cutscene right before MagicMan, as it will hard lock the game to eternally play the game's finale without any chance of escape.

In OSS, the MagicMan cutscene was remedied with a forced save point before entering.

Applies to:
Japanese	Yes
North American	Yes
European	?
Operate Shooting Star	No

Cutscene Enemy Skip

Applies to:
Japanese	Yes
North American	Yes
European	?
Operate Shooting Star	Yes

Minor Glitches

Waterworks Crisis Music

During the final scenario, before the game is beat, the crisis music plays in all overworld areas. This includes the pump room and water purification room at Waterworks, which normally have a loud noise as background music to simulate the machinery working. The programmers added checks to exclude these two areas from the crisis music during the final scenario, but due to a glitch, it still plays. The glitch occurs due to the game checking the area and subarea values in the wrong order.

Applies to:
Japanese	?
North American	Yes
European	?
Operate Shooting Star	Yes

Missing Hurt Voice Clips

Whenever MegaMan gets hit in battle, there is a 50% chance that the game plays a voice clip of him getting hurt. In normal gameplay, the clip that it plays is always the same. However, the game's files actually contain 3 different clips (for both MegaMan): one for 1-69 damage, one for 70-139 damage and one for 140+ damage. Due to a programming error (a variable should be loaded but is stored instead), the game will always play the clip for 1-69 damage.

The correct behavior can be restored with the following Action Replay DS code:

5204E0A0 1C05B570
1206E568 00008E38
D2000000 00000000

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Applies to:
Japanese	---
North American	---
European	---
Operate Shooting Star	Yes

Missing Field Shadow

After rescuing MegaMan.EXE from ClokMan and gaining control, MegaMan's shadow will be missing. It reappears once you enter a menu, go into a battle, or to another scene.

Applies to:
Japanese	---
North American	---
European	---
Operate Shooting Star	Yes

ClockMan Collision Programming

In Battle Network 1, boss and player collisions still treat the player being a physical object on the field instead of transparent invisible. For some reason, ClockMan's collision is programmed as if he would be in Battle Network 2 and beyond. As such, attacks like Ratton go right through him after damaging him and IceCube would take longer to explode after damaging him.

Applies to:
Japanese	---
North American	---
European	---
Operate Shooting Star	Yes

WoodMan Sprite Error

WoodMan's sprite for when he's about to land for Death Forest is tiled incorrectly. Resulting in an incorrect sprite for WoodMan.

Applies to:
Japanese	No
North American	No
European	No
Operate Shooting Star	Yes

Life Virus Sprite Error

One of Life Virus's sprite for his Life Sword swing effect is missing a tile. Resulting in an incorrect sprite for effect.

Applies to:
Japanese	No
North American	No
European	No
Operate Shooting Star	Yes