This is a practice rom hack for Rockman 6 (Mega Man 6) speedrun.
It has features such as display frame counter during screen transitions,
all stages accessible from stage select, cutscene skips, etc.
Patch "Rockman6_Practice_v1.4.ips" to a vanilla Rockman 6 (J) rom.
-
Select route (Wind/Flame/Knight first) on the stage select screen by pressing SELECT on Mega Man icon.
-
Select any stage on the stage select screen by pressing the following buttons.
A : going to the robot master stage normally
B : going to boss corridor of the robot master stage
START : going to the castle stage normally
SELECT : going to boss corridor of the castle stage
* castle stages are correspondingly numbered from left to right, top to bottom
* all stages are always available even after you beat any robot master or castle boss
* fun: load the "revisit" color palette by pressing A/B + D-pad for Tomahawk, Yamato, Knight and Centaur stage -
Loading a stage gives you the appropriate weapons with the "correct" amount of ammo (for speedrun purpose)
* select the category (Any% or 100%) on the title screen -
Show a timer in the top right corner of the screen when transitioning screens, after beat a boss, and using a teleporter (in the refights section).
* first number is seconds (0-99), second number is frames (0-59). functionally same as MM3-5 practice hacks' -
In the robot master/castle stage, pressing SELECT will send you to the password screen and can return to the stage select or restart from the check point in the current stage.
-
Skip the capcom logo, game intro, stage intro, weapon get and castle cutscenes.
-
Waiting time after Mega Man's death is much shorter for faster restart.
-
Infinite lives and E-tanks.
- Entering a teleporter (in the refights section), the game pauses for a bit for timer display.
I stole many asm techs from MM3-5 practice hacks to make this one.
Huge thanks to following people for sharing very helpful info!
- Pinkus for Mega Man 3 practice hack asm sources
- Myriachan for Mega Man 4 practice hack asm sources
- Feral for Mega Man 5 practice hack asm sources
- Raiden for Mega Man 6 disassembly
- Rock5easily for Rockman 6 analysis memo
- Puresabe for Rock6Optimization asm sources