It's very special getting to watch a brand new channel grow like this. You're improving leaps and bounds very quickly, and I look forward to what else you put out in the future. Keep up the good work! 👌

There is presumably an open chair in the final room with Alpha because Wily wasn't always planning on deleting Beastman's operator. It seems like a silly and lucky moment but its actually pretty justified compared to most of the things that happen in this series all things considered.

I don't know if you were aware, but the mod tools have an additional purpose: program compression. With the correct string of inputs (all of which can be found in the game in similar ways to getting the mod codes), you can remove one panel from any and all programs to a minimum of one panel, giving you much more flexibility and capability. Additionally, using certain lotto numbers you can get in the game (mostly by buying the snacks in the train station), you can get key items that allow you to rotate programs, giving you even more flexibility.

Early in the video: Adding streams is a great idea. You can add so much content, revenue, and boost the chances of people subscribing. I suggest making random shorts too. Many KZfaqrs I watch say that if you're not doing shorts you don't get promoted. KZfaq wants to compete with TikTok which is HORRIBLE!!!

I really love the new overlay, and the fact that it has a section dedicated to music is even better. I love these Gameplay vlogs a lot on KZfaq, but seeing one that actually tells me what the background music is makes me feel wonderful. 1:10:30 This is by no means a better method, but Bass has an attack that he will only use if you sucessfully dodge his attacks multiple times where he charges his hand (BTW this move is Bass using his "get" command in order to harness Energy around the net)and Bass throws a shockwave that acks like a Quake Hammer in Battle Network 1 (those viruses that have Stone/Iron bodies). The interesting part of this attack is that Bass loses his aura when he uses it, meaning the devs did think about the possibility of softlocking to it. This attack is not to be confused with Bass spamming his Projectiles, as that attack he only uses when his aura is down and will heal his aura back up. 1:27:30 Anti-DMG Navicust program can only be used with the Shadow style, which is blue exclusive. It's the reason it was not working.

The amount of progress of quality between this series is so cool to see

With your overlay... you've put so much more effort into this than most do and I love/appreciate it so much. You deserve way more subs

i love how these videos have gotten better and better with each release, from the audio to the overall presentation its just really hard not to notice the insane jump in quality! i adore your content very much

Great work as always, I'm so excited to see this series getting the love it deserves and love seeing the improvements you make with each video. Cant wait to see what comes next!

Aw ye, my favorite Battle Network game. As to the title, yes! Surprisingly enough it *IS* possible to beat the game with only the Mega Buster. I've managed it a few times myself, many moons and years ago. It ain't exactly easy though, and you certainly can't get through (most of) the SecretNet with Buster Only. You could say that "No, you can't beat MMBN3 with only the Mega Buster," because you DO have to: A) Get a plethora of Aqua and Fire-type chips later on for when Mr. Match makes a re-appearance, and during the PlantMan.EXE fiasco over in the hospital, as well as that infamous, stupid IceBall M chip for the sick kid. But you aren't really USING them, so you could argue against that as well. The Overlay is looking great! My only complaint (still) is that you're playing with a filter. It makes everything look like it's smudged around with some kind of eraser.

Similarly as MMBN reached its top performance in 3, this video is really well done! The remixes and layout were great additions, and as to the challenge, kudos for keeping up with it till the secret area✌🏼

The new overlay is pretty nice and the music choice is absolutely fantastic, my only issue is that the game filter makes the gameplay looks kinda weird though maybe it's just me. I had a really hard time the fist time fighting Alpha that I had to grind hard for it so I'm actually surprised that it's possible without any chips. One of my favorite thing about 3 is that it's definitely more challenging than the past entries and they step up the storytelling in this game. Great job on this video, can't wait for the upcoming White version run and MMBN4 run!!

I've been greatly enjoying the buster only challenges in these games. Keep up the good work

So excited to watch this video, I’ve been waiting for it! This is my favorite battle network game!

Amazing work dude! If it saves you from any tedious RNG or grind then by all means use any workarounds. The goal here is to show whether it's possible to complete the game without battle chips, and you displayed that it is!

You have no idea how hyped I was when I saw this in my feed!!! Keep up the amazing work I know it's not easy!!!

Love these videos, and can't wait for the next challenge! The stream sounds super fun too!

Battle Network is one of my favorites game series of all time, and I've beat them all, but somehow don't remember anything about the Serenade plot line.. These videos are quite entertaining, and getting better every time (just like the games did) I also appreciate that, unlike other creators, you do point out things like 'though I did use a chip here, it is possible to do with buster (in this case, in non wood style)' rather than skipping it completely. Keep it up

Really cool video, I've enjoyed watching your videos as I complete each MMBN game in the collection.

Mega Man Battle Network 4 With Only The Mega Buster gonna be disaster especially the final boss

It's insane to think I even remember anything 20 years ago... Let alone the chances of me picking white and my friend picking blue by chance. We didn't even know we both liked MegaMan, but it was awesome to have someone to link battle with

The buster went from a pellet thing to a military-grade weapon that should be banned in society

love the video and the new look of the right interface! cant wait for the bugstyle run, it’s my favourite of all the style changes would also love to watch streams of the runs!

You just convinced me to get the collection. Watching this reminded me of all the fun I had finding secrets in this game and there's so many secrets.

Ok new comment after finishing the video. there is actually things that can be done to make this run less hard and also doable without chips regarding Bass. Firstly you need to have the navicust part Setgreen to make the battle start with grass. With 2 or 3 weapon lvl +1s you can remove bass's first aura. Second, Bass only does his bustergattling attack after 1 or 2 single shots attacks so if you just only hit him when he does it, you can delay the aura for longer or indefinetely. His earthbreak which he uses well to break panels, as well as his Gospel Fire and Gospel CANNON are all countered by being in the front column as for the earthbreak you can go back and then stagger him with your shots or charged shot, the fire you showed that you have enough time to get in there after the attack to flinch him and the 3rd you most likely will have to get hit by the handle of the cannon in order to flinch him, really a good trade off for not using chips. Fun fact, during his earthbreak attack, he actually removes his own aura during the attack leaving you with the opportunity to hit him while he is doing it so you can still damage him even if he has his aura up and he is very low on hp( hopefully) so a charged shot would be well placed here. Also for the Antidamage program as well as shield or reflect programs. Those work when you press the B button and left button in very quick succession with B first. the anti damage will trigger and for a brief moment, getting hit will trigger the shuriken. The shield can be spammed in bn3 making it possible to survive the buster gattling from bass and wait out for earthbreak if you somehow mess up and he regains his aura. But I would say keep some grass on his side so that you have more chances to remove his aura if you mess up. Also for serenade, in White version there is a style called Ground style and if you have that with Heat, your flamethrower can break panels. How does this help for serenade you ask? well if you break the middle row so that Serenade is stuck on the sides( or any way that prevents him from moving up or down, he will not be able to deflect your attacks and will get staggered. However this is only possible in white version. And lastly I am not sure whether you used them or not but here is a tip that will actually help for future battlenetwork games as well. You can compress programs and make them take less space for example you can make undershirt only 2 squares. Those compression codes can be found online or ingame on bbs and npcs but if you hold right and input a series of A B R L in a certain order it will compress the programs. I think you need modtools to be able to do it in BN3 though. Also using the number machine and quests you can have color spins for the navicust which also help a great deal.

pretty good video love how thorough you are and the stat screen is cute

Yo i just started the vid, but I want to say already, that I really enjoy this series! You put so much effort into it and that pays really off imo. Also enjoy your chill attitude, gonna check out your stream. Have a good one!

Just discovering this channel now. Love me some Battle Network. Also gamesharking to remove excessive tedium and grind is A-Ok in my book. Just wanted to say I really hope this channel blows up your production value is insane and you've got chapters/timestamps

Loved the video. A bit of advice in case you end up in a situation like the last Bass fight: you can select a chip in your folder to always show up in your opening hand by pressing the “select” button on that chip so long as you have enough Mb. Fun fact about Sandman, if you hit him with water he solidifies for a short time before reappearing. You should have tried out the other elements in the run too. I think the electric style shoots an electric ring like the rabbit viruses and doesn’t cause I-frames.

I’m honored to have been part of this amazing video. Thank you for using my track and shouting me out. Feel free to use any MMBN remixes on my channel. I’ll be making some more soon. ✌🏾

Great editing on this video, I really like the UI style you added on the video.

Nice. Awesome content as usual. Cant wait for the rest

Great job on that Bass at the end. Really complex puzzle that.

Love the overlay, can’t wait to see what your streams look like!

Your production just keeps growing, love it! Definitely earned the sub, keep doing good work friend!

Nice work man. I'm super glad I saw your first video.

First: fantastic improvements on the audio. The Rapid rate of improvement in video quality is really impressive. Your writing, editing, and gameplay were already great, and these videos just keep getting better. Second: I think using high power bugged navicust parts where you can ignore the debuff because of the rules of the challenge is perfectly reasonable, because it's entirely possible for someone to have done that with chip usage still.

Great video! I'm excited to see more. Especially the team colonel/protoman games as those are my personal favorites. As for "cheesing" the games, I'm still on board with using non damaging chips just to see the other styles lol.

I appreciate the fact that you bother to put a real time overlay. Great videos dude

Im so mad youtube didnt show this to me your videos are such a delight : D

Another amazing buster only run! Honestly, I think its fine that you use whatever the game provides to make the runs just that little bit easier. Its not your fault that the penalties for some of these programs or codes dont affect you as a buster only player hahaha EDIT: No damage runs when? That sounds hype! You could even include some of the more funny fails~

I love the new layout and information on the side, their was a minor piece of information i had a thought that you could add halfway though the video, but i waited until the end to comment and forgot what it was 🤣. As for the NaviCust code and customization, I 100% agree with what you said on it. It's in the game and the game even gives you the codes for it so you should 100% use it to your advantage. I'm also so glad that you didn't subject yourself to grinding the bug frags as that isn't the point of the run so I also agree with skipping the grinding, same goes for the library. Overall I really enjoyed everything about the video and am excited to see more 😃😃😃

Ok since you asked for feedback, to start off the overlay is amazing and the dedicated space for the music and the speedup of the footage is a great ideia, honestly I think it's perfect. I'll just say that I heavilly dislikes the filter you use on the game, actually I dislike all filters in sprite based games, but I don't know how most ppl feel about it, it may be just a me problem. For how you played using cheats to bypass grind is A-OK in my books, the nature of the challenge itself makes these games extremelly hard and time consuming already, I don't think you need to suffer even more with tedious grind, plus the fun part to me is seeing the strategies coming to life on difficult parts of the game, mostly because ur playing in a way unintended by the devs and thus some very unfair scenarios happens (like the desertman boss fight). Finally the navicust codes are fine in my opinion because it is an intended mechanic of the game. Anyway I love your videos keep it up, can't wait for the BN4 playthru (I suggest playing Red Sun if you're only going to play 1 version since it's transformations are much more useful buster only, specially the first one you get which is very similar to guts style from BN2 and 3). Edit: Just realised that on BN4 sacrificing chips for the transformations might very well be considered "using" them.

If we wanna get technical, you could've saved some uses of batltechips during Bass GS. I noticed at one point you managed to interrupt his Slam attack at 800HP., and he didn't get his aura. So if you wanted to min-max Battlechip uses, maybe even track the minimum number of battlechips required TO complete the game, you could interrupt every electric rush, the slam, and the Gospel Laser. This is just nitpicking though. This was really good! I can't wait for more!

This is ann AMAZING video. Thank you for this

Great video enjoyed every moment!

Finally got finished watching this and it’s perfect. The improvements r improving!! Can’t wait for bn4. Also i hav no issue with using navicust, that’s wat it’s for. No chips is already hard/impossible enough, the navicust makes the run not borderline impossible. Plus there’s so much cool things you can do with it in the coming games

BN3 was my introduction to megaman, so many great memories. I’m hype for the switch release 🥳

Yeah, super predatory the guys asking the kids about being students! Blue 3 was my favorite of the series for how well it did the world, the internet, and combat. The new over lay is fantastic, btw! Love the changes!

Looking today at these great videos of your „Buster Only” challenge gives me a good amount of laugh. The reason is announced yesterday „Buster MAX mode” for the legacy collection. I'm still having a great time with your work, and I wish you good luck with the continuation of the challenge.

I hope more of this comes In the future it’s really fun seeing this

Yo good on you getting this far with your first video being the first game of this!

It's really great that you're taking feedback, and... what a really crazy journey it has been through this game alone. If you do a perfect run after all, I'd definitely love to watch it! Will you do chips in the perfect run? I'd be curious to see what kind of chips you prefer using...

As a huge MMBN3 fan, this was such a fun video. Can't wait for Legacy Collection!

Pretty interesting video definetly watching it later!

wow you're insane for doing all of that with just buster- gg!

I cannot wait for the battle network community to take hold. Hands down mmbn was my favorite gba series besides super star saga. Pumped we get to enjoy it together online now.

I've been a huge fan of this series you're doing. Number 3 Buster Only is not truly possible without the support of non-damaging chips. You said earlier if this "ruins the spirit of the run" to which I feel it doesn't. Even with the Twins oopsie, you still kept from using an attack chip like Cannon. All in all I'd say this was an EXCELLENT JOB! However...you owe it to yourself to explore the Virus Breeder. :) It's kinda fun summoning viruses to battle for you!

love these videos!!!

Good content like always 👍

New overlay looks dope!

Me thinks you graduated from the CinemaSins school of "not understanding what a Deus Ex Machna" is

awesome stuff bro!

wow, quite the glow up in presentation and overall voice delivery, kudos! Some KZfaq 1000 times your size could take some notes, especially with the nice little slot crediting every track you used. For the program mods, I don't mind them being used. They are mentioned in-game and you can find ways to use them (technically. I never knew what that gibberish was as a kid lol) so I imagine they are dev intended. But if you wanted a limitation, you can treat them like Higsby chips: you can't use them until you have access to the NPC that gives you the code. You only used them in post game, so that requirement would be fulfilled. Great run overall, and thanks for taking so much time to go into detail on how you approached everything. Musta been a ton of work. My only question is why you didn't experiment a bit more with style changes. I know you're stuck with Guts style on a buster only run (unless you used bug style, which I guess you subtly teased at so you didn't want to use here) but there definitely seemed to be times where Water or Elec style would have made life much easier. Since the style changes are grindable I wouldn't mind being able to swap styles on demand to fit the situations.

OH YEAH, I was so waiting for this one. Time to bust the popcorn for this one, I got my midday movie fix. Will be interesting to see how it plays out!

Keep it up man. Love me some battlenetwork content.

I can’t believe you have so few subscribers, these are FABULOUS!

I really enjoyed the video! Props to you, this game is challenging normally, let alone buster only I'm sure! You make a few comments about the story I'd like to respond to. Someone has already mentioned Beastman's operator not being present on Wily's base is why Lan has that spare seat to confront Wily and Bass in the finale. You mention being disappointed by the Deus ex machina of the giga freeze, which made me excited to see you complete the bit so to speak when Bass just shrugs it off, but that didn't really happen, I mean I could have missed something but beyond mentioning you were surprised when it didn't work, we just move on in the plot. This is-to be clear-a very small moment in your video, which is really impressive and very good! I just think it's worth pointing out the giga freeze isn't a Deus ex machina, which is what you opened by criticizing it as. Oh, but the you're right to criticize Mayl and Yai getting left on Beach Street, that is a pretty dated moment for sure. I will say, after replaying the game as an adult, the one character who did absolutely nothing for me as a kid but now really impresses me is Dex. This game does really interesting stuff with him, I think. As an adult, I start wondering "Why would Dex's dad and brother live in another town? What's his home life like?" And.. I don't know, it's not huge but I do like that he contributes something at Wily's base, he's just a lot more realized as a character here than Lan's friends usually get the opportunity to be in these games, so I wanted to praise that a bit at least :)

This was a great video! I loved the narration and the overlay! Despite not knowing much about the game it was interesting to hear the story while you were going through this challenge. I was a bit confused on what the different styles and elements were. How to get them/ benefits and drawbacks? I probably missed this in the main video somewhere though. Great work and I'd love to see the next video you're gonna put out!

The mad lad made it through the majority of the game with wood guts. Your kingdom for a ranged charge shot. Kudos to you.

So it clicked that i was never subscribed but having watched the first two of these, and finding this in the R/BattleNetwork subreddit, you can bet your [redacted] that I made the immediate effort to come and watch this.

Fantastic video! MMBN is my childhood and it was great to relive one of my favorite installments through your challenge run! This was the first video of yours that I've seen, but the overlay is great! I appreciate the music section in the top right and the current navi cust programs. I imagine it's a lot of extra work so I understand if it's not feasible, but I would love seeing a little graphic of the current organization of programs within the navi cust. I also think it's totally fair game to use mod tools for +700hp, since it's available within the game and not a cheat code. I also think it's fair that you changed your style with GameShark, since you could feasibly grind it out but mental health is important. On that note, I think a no-hit run would be INSANE. By all means attempt it, but don't sacrifice your health grinding for it! Last comment, I think it would have been nice to have an overview of all the different styles when you first obtain one. The styles tie in very closely with the busters so I think it'd be very relevant information for the challenge. Well done, you've got me hyped for the Legacy collection and I'm looking forward to more of your videos!

Great video!

Great vid man, loving all the improvements. Just want to echo that in the future I think it’d look nicer with no filter on.

Enemy change during the presence of Navi Ghosts? That’s bad ass I love it!! I never noticed that !

Great vid, keep it up please!

Woo yet another challenge!

Can't wait for the bug style streams!

There's a little bit of nuance to the KingMan fight, namely his "Plan B" technique. It has different effects based on how you've been acting in the fight. Using Wind attacks to push his Pawns away or making holes to drop his Knight off the field will result in him swapping a Pawn for another Knight, and he'll continuously respawn Knights that you drop into holes. Hugging the back column will trigger his Area Grab and moving the Pawns forward. If you keep breaking his pieces (either with Break chips or with the BreakCharge NaviCust program that a guy in the lobby gives you), he'll spawn a Rook with a ton of HP to continuously guard him. If you're lucky and get an Aqua or Fire style, you can take advantage of their piercing charge shot against his Rook Plan B, but other elements don't have that advantage.

I LOVE bug style, I always take it when I play 3. Hope that video goes well!

finaly the chosen one has comeback with a banger !!!!

Bass wasn't even really deemed "too dangerous" cause of his behavior or anything. When Alpha nearly destroyed the internet way back when, they chose to shift the blame straight onto Bass, rather than admit their own faults. Bass, an autonomous net navi created BY HUMANS, was now just a scapegoat for them to avoid admitting that their "internet" was initially flawed and nearly destroyed the world. While I fully admit we don't know Dr. Hikari's side of the story, and its entirely possible he didn't really want to just shift the blame like that, that's what everyone else did. No wonder he hates humans so much: In his eyes, they created him solely to have a scapegoat if things went south. It didn't help that he was created around the same time as Alpha either. Heck, in the NT Warrior manga (which is a bit dubious in canon but worth mentioning) Bass was initially a troubleshooter for SciLab, who had good intentions with an unfortunate lack of restraint, until the events with Alpha happened where they just blamed him when he had absolutely NOTHING to do with it.

I am almost scared to watch any more of these because I don't want to ruin my experience replaying them in the collection. But these videos are really neat

I love finding good quality channels when they are starting off. Definitely getting a sub from me.

The art on this thumbnail is INCREDIBLE

If I'm not mistaken, there's a StyleChange exclusive to each version... White has Ground Style and Blue has Bug Style. Also, Wood style change was how I cheesed Alpha.. Undershirt + Grass Stage means Alpha can literally never kill you. Also, amazing job on the video and the overlay looks pretty dope!

Lemme just say, this is a challenge I actually did for myself, albeit in White. I definitely did NOT do the Secret Area enemies this way, though, so kudos to you. I didn't know it was even possible to do enough damage in a single hit with the buster to clear the Auras used in Secret Area.

Never liked doing buster only in any megaman game, won't start doing it now in particular in an JRPG, Kudos to you madman.

You can get the Break Charge Navi Customizer Program (the one you mentioned around 34:40) before the first King Man fight if you talk with one of the NPCs in the town. This allows your charge shot to break obstacles upon a charge shot. The Guts Style gives you Break Buster later down the road, which makes each individual shot break obstacles. This also teaches you how to use Error Codes.

Can't wait for the algorithm to pick you up :)

Late to the party but its fun watching all this BN content after revisiting the Legacy Collection myself. In case you were curious, im in the camp of any Mod Tools are on the table. Its not your fault the devs handicapped HP+700 with an irrelevant downside, challenge runs should always look to exploit what they can.

I think woodguts is almost certainly the worst form for this challenge. Kudos for trying it with the clunkiest form possible. I'm pretty sure it goes Elec > Fire = Aqua > Wood For charge shots in buster only. You really need chips to lock up as close in on your opponent if you want to hit with the twister

Mystery Diamonds lol. That took me back. I’m glad I’m not the only one that strayed away from the true name. I used to say Data Diamonds lol.

Funny thing about serenade. WHITE version actually has an easier time with that fight since heat ground style BREAKS PANELS which shuts down serenade.serenades protection does fail if the rows above and below him are holes or just not part of his area anymore. Bass also has at least more options in white, since ground style gives a navicust program called setgree, which makes grass panels when the fight starts.

good stuff bro

Lan: Battle Routine, Set! Execute! Megaman: So anyway, I started blasting. Pew! Pew!

The first Megaman game I bought was Megaman Battle Network 3 Blue version, and before playing this game, I thought it would be an action platformer game like Mega Man, and Mega Man X. I enjoyed playing this game.

We came in expecting something to put on in the background and just a rather generic challenge run, but the UI and your commentary actually is really good! We haven't seen a proper UI for this stuff in ages. Going to check out your other stuff as well.

if the game gives you something, for me the answer is obvious, it's legal, if it's a cheese, it's up to the player. But the game gives you mod tools, and the game allows you to use then with then having drawbacks, that the drawback don't affect you on this playthrough doesn't mean that it isn't balance, it's that what you are doing has other drawbacks, and as such, it balance out. Also can't wait for the Bug style run, i love the randomness of Bug Style.

Very cool video.