Maybe I'm beating a dead horse but I was looking around google to see if anyone has been working on a Megaman 9 and 10 NES rom hack and I found a small YouTube video showing a MM9 rom hack demo. After that I could find no links or info about those games being made for the NES format again. Does anyone have any recent information on a possible Megaman 9 and 10 project for NES? I'm sure a lot of people would like to have it on a cartridge. 

MM4 hack, right? I think I have that same hack. Trouble is, I don't think it was made past that 1 level. Might be the limitations (as we all know), but it also could be just the hacker might have gotten bored with the project (?)

No one wants to do it.

Yeah, the MM4 hack. Only one level was done? I'm assuming it's the MM9 rom demo I saw on YouTube. If it was a few levels, I would have considered putting it on a cart and labeling it as a Megaman 9 demo. No point in doing that with just one level. Eh, that's a shame. I figured no one wanted to do it since it was  abandoned a few years ago, if I'm not mistaken.

The only way to put Mega Man 9 and Mega Man 10 on NES is to reprogram them from scratch.

I have been curious to see if anyone would do a "dumbed down" version of the two games. Sort of like how games were ported to different systems but were very different from each other due to the limitations of each system. It would be cool to see MM9 be made with the level layouts (as well reconstructed as possible) and just different enemies / bosses.

Huge undertaking, no monetary pay-off. They're not unobtainable either (jail break a Wii very simple).

Already officially own both on Wii and X360, but was just stating I would enjoy it. I know it is an incredible feat to accomplish, but there are many talented people on this forum (I am not one of them).

Yeah,completely not worth it.....especially since games are all headed down the path of download only. Bye bye boxes/cases and manuals.

The vast majority of people with the time and talent to do this would rather create their own IP that they own and can legally profit from.


For instance, would you rather have a down-converted game you can already play on a home console?  Or would you rather have something fresh and new and awesome like KHan's new game Study Hall?

Both I suppose? It would be dependent on the game. I love new IP, but a port of Oregon Trail is something I'd love more than any other game. A hack that works to be a (downgraded) port of MM9 or 10 would be cool - and likely high up on a list of carts I'd like to own (likely over many releasing homebrew titles).

That said, I am not trying to say anything about homebrew... other than it rocks.

So since people want this for NES, I should stop my Genesis port?

of course not!! (btw keep me in the loop... i want a numbered LE whatever copy if you make one)

It would be a herculean amount of work and would require a dedicated team, without any crazy backstabbing and capcom lawsuits.

Not only that, but even though the games look like NES games, they do stuff that the NES isn't capable of...maybe someone could make PCE or Genesis versions. More likely the best we can hope for is some kind of cracked PC version.

I'm actually kinda worried, I mean, how do you preserve digital downloads? What if I get bored one day 10 years from now and decide to play MM9 again?

You don't get to have both... with a finite amount of time, talent, and resources you get one, or the other.


Personally, I'd prefer the new and original content that can be legally distributed and sold for a profit, thus encouraging the cycle of making new and interesting content...

haha I was just joking... I think

Well.. you could have both, really. I understand how a choose this or that question works, but just because new games are being developed by people doesn't mean that old games can't be hacked by others... who maybe do such things but don't develop their own games.

Again, there are plenty of homebrew I can't wait for, but MM9 or 10 as hacks on an actually NES cart (downgraded of course) would just be freakin' cool.

If I was going to actually do it, it'd be for Genesis, and it'd be built from the ground up. Hacking code can take several times longer than starting new.

It would suck to put in that kind of time to create something and then not be able to make any money off of it. But then again I'm probably just a greedy bastard.

Yeah, but with repros and repros of hacks being sold, who cares at this point?

I'd say the difference is the ceiling on what you can make before you run into problems.

If KHan's NES games are well received, he has the option to port them to other (modern) platforms and make real money.  If a hack is well received, well, tough shit.

Very true, though I was talking about it being built from the ground up, so it'd be a port or a pirate

At least in the case of an unlicensed port you could reskin the game and convert it to your own legal IP.

Exactly