Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
You'd snap the level into billions of fragments, for starters.
Mega Man X is critically acclaimed for many things and pioneered what we love about the series today: the intro stage being one. I'm not going to gush over that because thousands have people have done that. Instead, how about we just throw all of that out of the window for a minute and explore WHY you don't need the dash this early? LOL
I mean, if you're good enough, you can skip almost everything here. Your access to the dash also means you've got dash lemons at your disposal, which deals extra damage compared to a standard lemon. The mini-bosses and such are demolished faster because of that.
The dash's availability from the get-go robs you of that classic feeling of acclimating the player to the game's simple mechanics. Of course, if you're a veteran of the game, you already know what the heck you're doing so having the dash would've at least been nice for a New Game+ mode or something for silly fun like this. Given that it didn't physically break the game means it could've been safely implemented that way.
I lack to hacking skills to do this, by the way. This minor ROM hack was gifted to me long ago from Xjustin3009X, the creator of the X3 Fully Playable Zero Project. As of now, I will not provide the link as this was, like I said, something gifted when I asked him for the muted BGM versions of the SNES trilogy. I'm unaware of any projects he has that are linked to this, so out of respect, I won't just flippantly pass it around unless he doesn't mind.
This is not an indication of a project of my own either. This was just a stupid idea for a one-off video I had when I realized this hack was still on my hard drive. Think nothing deep of it and enjoy, lol.
BGM is from mega sfc. Go support them, please. One of the best friggin' Mega mixers on this site and it's criminal how they only have 2k subs. Some of their music will definitely be in the upcoming X2 Weapon Master run.
Link to the music used in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=Fru-q91SrJ8
You'd snap the level into billions of fragments, for starters.
Mega Man X is critically acclaimed for many things and pioneered what we love about the series today: the intro stage being one. I'm not going to gush over that because thousands have people have done that. Instead, how about we just throw all of that out of the window for a minute and explore WHY you don't need the dash this early? LOL
I mean, if you're good enough, you can skip almost everything here. Your access to the dash also means you've got dash lemons at your disposal, which deals extra damage compared to a standard lemon. The mini-bosses and such are demolished faster because of that.
The dash's availability from the get-go robs you of that classic feeling of acclimating the player to the game's simple mechanics. Of course, if you're a veteran of the game, you already know what the heck you're doing so having the dash would've at least been nice for a New Game+ mode or something for silly fun like this. Given that it didn't physically break the game means it could've been safely implemented that way.
I lack to hacking skills to do this, by the way. This minor ROM hack was gifted to me long ago from Xjustin3009X, the creator of the X3 Fully Playable Zero Project. As of now, I will not provide the link as this was, like I said, something gifted when I asked him for the muted BGM versions of the SNES trilogy. I'm unaware of any projects he has that are linked to this, so out of respect, I won't just flippantly pass it around unless he doesn't mind.
This is not an indication of a project of my own either. This was just a stupid idea for a one-off video I had when I realized this hack was still on my hard drive. Think nothing deep of it and enjoy, lol.
BGM is from mega sfc. Go support them, please. One of the best friggin' Mega mixers on this site and it's criminal how they only have 2k subs. Some of their music will definitely be in the upcoming X2 Weapon Master run.
Link to the music used in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=Fru-q91SrJ8
