Hey everyone! The Battle Network 2 video is up, with an improved mic and no battle chips used! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aNNlY5tlz9jZqKs.html

I was not expecting you to go as far as fighting Bass. Especially in the 1st game I didn't even attempt that WITH chips.

Seeing as you do still use heals and other none offensive chips, think this counts more as "No attack chips" than a "Buster only" run. Neat video nonetheless. Well presented, wellplayed.

I'd love to see a "Battle Network with only your starting folder" challenge.

Hehe i remember playing this particular title. I spent most of my battles using the buster alone just because in the first game it is so busted after a few upgrades. The trick i kept using was going back and forth while shooting between panels to increase the rapid manually without having to be up close to enemies.

This video was really well made and very nice job on the challenge!

My first thought when reading the title was “of course you can, the buster in BN1 is jacked!” And then I remembered color man exists

awesome video, glad a challenge run of one of my favorite games popped up hope to see more from you, your video was incredibly entertaining to watch!

The Megaman Battle Network series was one of my favorites growing up. I just finished watching your Battle Network 3 playthrough and it was great! Keep up the good work!

Literally your first video and you’re dropping a banger. Keep it up

You inspired me to try this challenge for myself, which was really fun, but the difficulty and tediousness of some portions also gives me a newfound appreciation for the effort you put into these videos lol

I'm very impressed with the quality of this video given the size of your channel. BN1 is definitely one of if not the only game you could pull this off in, as later games have elements where you need to do a specific amount of damage to bring their shields down (Megalian viruses) or destroy the enemies at once (The security monoliths in BN2 and 3 come to mind)

Battle Network is my favorite mega Man series and I've been screaming for years about there being a collection so I'm finally happy that it's on its way. And you're completely crazy for playing the game with only the buster LOL

This is some dark-souls-with-DK-bongos level stuff. Great video! Looking forward to the next one.

I am most thankful and impressed by such a video

Nice video, man! It's cool to see someone use the Buster all the way to the end!

Love this run, would like to see more like this.

Slight correction for the final battle that is not that significant, MegaMan gets Super Armor and max buster stats (+6 to Attack (making it 48 charge level 1 and 96 charge level 2))

Amazing challenge run

This was sick!!!! Voting for more!

I love this video, I’m looking forward to the next “Buster Only”/“No Damage Chip” challenges. Maybe adding some unique challenges like “No Soul Unison” or even “Only Null chip”. No pressure of course

I've always wanted to play this version of the game! Nice vid!

What a awesome video. 10/10

As someone who beat all the BN’s with only the mega buster,I can in fact confirm that it is possible to beat BN with only a mega buster.

That was super hype. I don't think anybody else is doing MMBN challenge runs so I respect you for going for it. Especially now that the internet is buzzing with the advent of MegaMan MMBN legacy collection. I enjoy how informative you were and explained your strategies and challenges of said run. I'd love to see more mmbn challenges. I'd like to see your ideas if discussing game design bear fruit too. You don't want to become "that guy." KZfaqrs who build an audience being the pokemon guy or challenge guy or anime guy will get tired of it. Monotony isn't fun. So I'd definitely recommend doing a few types of videos so you never grow tired of it. For a first video you put in some good work. Actual transitions that aren't crazy and no abrupt cuts. Sped up footage to respect the viewers time. Very good. Also jumping right into it is a great idea. People have the attention span of gophers. An intro longer than 3 seconds loses people. Insane ik. Thanks TikTok! Starting from round zero is a good decision. The thorough explanations are well done too. I had to say it a second time. Now, if I don't offer some criticisms you're not going to grow more powerful and reach your ultimate form. Tbh with only 1 video I can't really say much. I have to see more to see what your flow is. Only thing I can say is when you can afford it get a better mic. Your voice sounds muffled making it seem more monotone than it actually is. Are you doing any sound balancing or audio editing? Maybe that'll be enough? I'm no wiz and I'm one voice in 123. I see potential in you. It'll be a hard road. Understand that everyone who made it big got lucky. One video went viral or they came up with a unique and stand alone idea. They posted the right thing at the right time. Some never get a big boost and grow slowly. That's KZfaq. Asking advice from popular KZfaqrs is a good idea if you get the chance. Most importantly..... you only lose when you give up, fail to learn from mistakes, and don't continually work to improve. Rock on soldier. Rock on.

I literally just started playing this game again after 10+ years. I noticed how the game is pretty much about waiting till you can use your powerful chips and then I thought about there being at least one video on KZfaq about using only the Buster, and sure enough this video appeared in my feed.

I love challenge videos a ton and the Mega Man series is perfect for them. This video is very well written and edited and if you decide to make more of these I'd gladly watch them.

Loving these battle network challenge videos. I see you did two more, I hope you continue to do new other type of challenges. Very entertaining

Well THIS looks to be a promising channel. You, sir, have excellent taste.❤

After getting to the endgame, on the battle network collection, I've gained a new appreciation for your determination and an understanding of just how hard this game is.

This is something I've been thinking about myself for a long while now and look forward to more. Battle Network 5 is probably gonna be the biggest challenge in my opinion due to the mandatory Liberation Missions. Probably not impossible but certainly a time killer.

If you are closer to the enemy, you'll fire your buster faster than being in the far back, especially if they are in the squares closest to yours. It's a nice risk, reward mechanic.

Great video! I wasn't expecting you to get all the way to Bass, tbh. I've only played 5 and 6 through, so the Bass I know has a life aura that needs 200 damage to destroy and I was like "yeah, your buster is dead against that".

This was awesome

Hey kid I love what you do. Keep it up I'll be looking forward for your next vids

Just finished the video, I hope to see more of these for the rest of the games

dude let's go, look at my baby boy, I'm so proud

Very cool video! I actually thought the buff at the final area just increased your stats to the max. I actually thought this run was impossible because of the final boss' barrier, but I forgot it drops when it attacks! All in all a very informative and cool video, good job!

I love how there is only one other vid on KZfaq that does buster vs bosses only except for Bass. Proves how much of a true end games boss he is in the series.

Beat? Absolutely. Complete? Fuck no. Me? New sub. Hotel? Trivago.

This is real good stuff! Informative, clearly spoken, decently detailed. Great for an audience with only a passing knowledge of the game. I like seeing some of the less-utilized chips, since most people (Myself included) mostly seem to just focus on good attack chips and occasional combos. I dunno if it's just me, but the boss music gets a little loud sometimes. Not bad enough that I can't still fully understand you or anything, but it can be a touch jarring when the music spikes up. Hoping to see more videos like this in the future!

I enjoyed this video a lot

Always nice to see a fellow Commander Beef enjoyer. I always thought it was a bit odd and disappointing how the games did so little with him, Sal, Miyu, and also Yuri, when the anime made them major characters.

great job!! i have issues even with the chips, can't even imagine the difficulty here :)

Hey man, I haven't watched the video yet, but I saw you had 999 subs & wanted to be your 1000th. MMBN is one of my favorite series & I'm looking forward to this & the rest of the series, good luck in 3 hope you allow style changes cause I think Alpha would be impossible otherwise. Hope you continue to grow & prosper! Just finished, great video, it's cool to see how BN1's buster mechanics really carried you through this, hopefully you can do the others.

I'm confident the answer is yes because of how the combat it. But it'll also be the most painful and tedious buster-only challenge I can imagine

Good thing this showed up on my feed

I'm honestly a bit surprised that BN Megaman's damage output outweighed SF Megaman's on-demand shield

"This is probably not the MegaMan you played on the GameBoy Advance" Yeah, because I was born just two years before the GBAs were discontinued and I've only ever seen one in person twice in my entire life.

Cool to see you include optional fights. It's actually possible to beat at least up to the final boss of each game without ever using a chip, even support ones, with 6 being the only exception. BN6 has a door in the very first area that requires a Reflector 1 chip, which can't be obtained without using a chip because we can't get the required rank.

Actually, funny thing about Shark Man. There is an actual Shark Man robot master. He's in Mega Man 3 for the MS Dos. Though he wasn't designed by any of the classic Mega Man staff, so there is that.

Nice Video ^^

This is about to be crazy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 bro gl. I need this game 😮.

The end battle credit music is my ringtone!

A full challenge series would be very cool, but I'm afraid BN5 is simply not possible. Why? Liberation missions.

I was so extremely hyped when I heard the Battle Network collection was coming out. On top of that, it's the day before my birthday. So I was like "NO WAY! That's one hell of a birthday gift!"

Great video, i love the bn series and starforce so its nice to see new quality content for the series. I would suggest a slight tweak to the title to say no attacking chips though just to save yourself the headache of nitpicky commenters.

Huh. Yknow, it's surprisingly easy to forget how Higsby were introduced to the series after every game treated him like a close ally. You'd think that taking an entire school hostage would have some ramifications for his life. At least he assisted in saving the world several times over with his chip shop and trading machines, but still.

Im so happy they're releasing the legacy battlenetwork games in a couple months!!!

Buster only challenges on battle network eh? This'll be fun, I'm happy it's possible to attempt considering the genre change. Personally use buster a lot myself when playing these anyway lol

MMBN is one of the greatest game series to ever be released. I wish I could get excited as I used to when I heard a new MMBN was coming out. Games just aren't the same anymore. At least I will be able to re live all of the MMBN titles this year when they release the full series on the switch.

A: Operate Shooting Star is actually significantly different from BN1 in a whole number of ways, from damage to enemy difficulty to underlying mechanics of certain things like Level, to having a whole additional chapter B: BN1 is the easiest game in the series to do Buster Only, due to how absurdly deadly it gets

12 year old me: Wait you're not supposed to use only the Buster?

If you are having trouble with some of the optional bosses, here's some golden advice. Always eat your calcium.😉

And I here I am. Because of my solo run pokemon interests. You're the first one to do battle network and that was my shit

Although the title is a little bit misleading as it's a "no battle chips" run, it was interesting that you took the idea up to Bass battle. I'm down for a full series if you would ✌🏼

Great Video and I find it kinda interesting. I guess I'll try it myself with the upcomming legacy collection with the exception of Battle Network 1. As you mentioned in your video right because of the fleeing mechanic. I will definetly follow this series and take a look in your other videos, but before that I think you earned a subscribe absolutely. Which makes me kinda curious how you will take on Battle Network 4 if you go there for all secret bosses in their hardest form which have some requirements, but I don't know if you have played the games before so I don't write them to not spoiler you if you haven't until now. And which is even more curious is Battle Network 5 where I really don't now if buster only is possible in that games because of a mechanic. But I will wait and see the answers in your videos. Until then I start myself. I wish you much fun with the other battle network games. And if you someday go into Megaman Star Force I would recommend you for the first game to play the dx patch. It's an overall better game experience then on the the three versions of that game

Few points of note since you were playing Operation Shooting Star: Star Force Mega Man actually has a shield to block attacks built in. There are several points where that could've been used and be useful for this run (unless it was stated that the built in shield is banned) Star Force's Buster may not have the Power behind it like the BN Buster, but it trades that for Auto Charge, and insane Radip Fire. At 5 Power, 5 Rapid, Star Force's Buster just erases most HP Bars. His low power doesn't help with Life Virus or Bass, but he is a large asset if used with his stats in mind.

The Gameboy game was actually my first MegaMan game ever, I kinda remember also playing a Zero game which was also fun but I mostly remember this and the cool animation of entering the virtual world.

MMBN3 Kingman is gonna be very fun buster only.

you madman. the first few bosses probably took forever before you could buy the power ups

Cool video, the only suggestion i can make for future videos is to maybe work on the voiceover audio a bit because i swear it's louder on one side than the other

I love using the buster. Sucks the first few games didn't have the buster up chip

A war god.

I was planning to do something like this but I didn't have a pc to get a clean recording of it with but anyway mmbn3 is possible but bass.exe and drillman.exe is a real problem so equip a breaker block or shot and practice split second dodges . But that was my experience can't wait to see more

"Sharkman isn't from the classic series" *Laughs in Megaman DOS*

God your gonna have a field day in BN games going forward where the charge shot multiplier is only ×10 and the max power is 5. Even worse for BN 3 and beyond when you can't buy Power-ups and have to use the Navi Cust. Until then heres a like

I mean you can if you hate yourself, it’s really tedious with that much HP, and you won’t get upgrades quite as fast and you’ll still need to dish out enough damage to get behind auras and such

I'm going completely off memory from way back when battle network first released here. But I wouldn't be surprised if and think the answer is yes you could beat it with just the buster. From what I recall maxed out buster does like 80 on charge, the buster has never done so much damage since. The only thing that should cause problems is the 100 hp auras shields like what bass has.

I actually had to do this challenge. My Triggers were broken on my Nintendo so I could only choose chips at my first time and had to beat the enemy with my buster It was not really a fun experience but after 2-4 times I figured enough out to beat every enemy with just a buster

It's Technically possible to get all the chips with just the buster IF you use the chip trader, so yeah, Reaching Bass is not a bad stretch

I might check out the first bn game after watching this.

I think using cheats to improve life quality (aka avoid painfull grinding) is perfectly fine, specially for videos and stuff, because if you think about it, sooner or later you are bound to get everything you have to, so you might as well use them and keep the schedule (and your sanity).

If capcom put this as a trophy in the collection I'm gonna hate you

this was a realy nice video : D so youre getting a subscriber tho i cant imagine you beating 5 due to the liberation missions 3 turn limit pretty sure you cant hit the enemy enough times in such a short time

i always thought speed was pretty useless, so when i played i would usually get power and charge. i always felt like faster charge will out dps faster speed. specially with a maxed attack, it also allow for a more hit and run. which i feel is more important in these games.

What kind of other videos do you have planned for the future of this channel?

"long time rival", megaman fights bass in 2 games

Random aside: Personally I would have waited longer to upgrade Speed the first time. While slightly awkward there are ways to slightly mitigate buster speed in certain situations. I'm the type that always get X-Guts in BN2 and 3 as my first style.

36:00 Its funny of you to ask if you are cheesing by spamming defensive chips against bass. You forgot to use the biggest anti-bass cheese available in the game: The pause button. You can, with certain reliance, dodge all of Bass attacks by spamming pause button, checking where to move megaman, unpause, and keep repeating ad infinitun.

Wow some good on KZfaq for ones

Expecting failure at Life Virus can't remember if he removes his shield

Please do the rest of the games!

I love the DS remake. I made sure to 100% this game.

Can't wait for 5 The double soul system would add alot more charge attacks

You could save before you open the blue and green things and reload until it gives you money to were you won't have to grind monsters so much

Bro this is great. When's number 3 haha.

I'm getting the remake when it comes out on switch

I hope mega man battle network gets more popular now that the switch port is coming out

Heya! If you're planning on doing more Battle Network content in the future, I just have to let you know that "WWW" is pronounced as "World Three" as per the original intention. It's in the anime too btw hehe