Mega Man II (Game Boy) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- A playthrough of Nintendo's 1992 platformer for the Nintendo Game Boy, Mega Man II.
This is the weak link in the Game Boy series in my opinion. It's not a bad game, but it's not on the same level as the other four games in the Rockman World series. It plays perfectly well with its tight controls and solid (albeit easy) level design. So what's wrong with it?
The real travesty is the soundtrack. It had some really great stuff going for it... until it was put into the game. You can hear a lot of potential here, but it's painfully off-key and high pitched. Apparently the composer hand-scored the music and sent the hand-written sheet music to developer Biox, whose sound programmer seemingly failed to either:
(A) attempt to learn how to read a key signature, or
(B) possess the ability and/or work ethic to bother transposing the original composition to a range better suited to the Game Boy's sound limitations.
If you imagine what Whitney Houston as performed by Rebecca Black would sound like, you have a good idea of how badly the music got butchered in this game. I highly recommend listening to RushJet1's re-imagining of the soundtrack, it's amazing. You can find it here: • Mega Man II GB Remade
Recorded with the DMG shader in Retroarch for that classic green look.
This is a brand new playthrough to replace my original recording. I played much better this time, and the video quality is much improved!
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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i'm surprised about all the negative comments on the soundtrack. i think it's absolutely fantastic
Its great when you lower the pitch by two octaves. Otherwise most of it isnt very good, tho i will say its not that bad, i played the game on VBA and i had a fun time!
The tracks great but they were implemented poorly to the game. It's awful. Luckily people have made patches to corrected the OST to sound as it should have.
It sounds terrible!
It’s not bad but the boss battle music is a joke
For the most part…..There are countless people made videos on CZcams to enhance and even improved the music.
I love how he straight up murders Wily in the ending
It is f Mega Man 7 had more evil
It's amazing that there was enough of his corpse intact to make that skull cloud when he hit the earth. I would've thought he'd have been a pile of ash from that reentry.
@@NintendoComplete Nevermind the fact that HE WAS STILL ALIVE after being blasted out from space and crashed back onto Earth.
i mean, what the heck is Dr Wily so SMALL??? 😂
10:14 I love clash man theme song!!! This brings back memories
Tbh I genuinely love this soundtrack, or at least its composition- it's unusually dark and morose for a Mega Man soundtrack, and really if it weren't for its butchering it could have been the highlight of this game.
Personally I listen to Tpcool's rendition of the songs, it's not quite as epic as Rushjet1's but sticks closer to the original intent. Either way give Mega Man II's soundtrack a chance- behind the crap instrumentation is a hidden gem.
Did you know this sound hack? They fix the pitch problem, sound more playable than ever!
czcams.com/video/M-722ZHbAbo/video.html
In and of itself, I liked the soundtrack of this game. For me, the issue wasn't its noise but its context. If it was attached to new content it wouldn't have clashed with the nostalgia of the NES versions of the eight masters. I'd have rather have remixed versions of the NES stage music. The new music felt out of place, not bad.
Metal Man's theme in this game is an odd guilty pleasure of mine.
@@Dorian_Scott The pitch is incorrect, but the melodies are very good.
I'm saying it, I prefer the GB Metal Man theme over the NES one.
@@solarbubble703 Exactly, would be great if not for pitching.
Another strange flaw with the music is that if a sound effect plays on one of the channels, the waveform doesn't go back to how it was for the song so for the next few seconds afterwards it has the sound effect's waveform
My brother and I used to play the hell out of this game back in the day
25:10 YOU GOT HARD
Completely forgot about the Metal Blade after the second level. That weapon breaks this game
It's the weakest of the five Mega Mans on the Game Boy, but it's still quite a good game. You might want to turn the sound down, though...
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In my opinion "no matter how unpopular it is" is that my favorite NES era Mega Man game is the 4th one. It had both the Mega Buster and the Pharaoh Shot which in my opinion kicks the metal blades ass as you can keep it above your head to damage foes and it still could be fired in 8 directions. In all seriousness 2 wasn't all that good, it was better than 1 but then most titles in the Mega Man series are better than that game plus I can't really like any of the games before 3 thanks to the fact you don't have the slide which was introduced in 3 and was a freaking godsend.
Somehow, there js a little bit soundtrack that's very similar to Megaman 3 on NES, especially the "get weapon" soundtrack.
In fact, this is the only Megaman game I played on Gameboy, and it's also one of the easiest Megaman games to beat.
Oh, and not to mention, CapCom, once again, usually makes a lot of games on GB that has loud sound like this one for example.
Back in the day I also mentioned how bad the 2nd stage soundtrack of The Little Mermaid also on Gameboy was (it was removed because I moved this account into a brand account) and also the prologue soundtrack was pretty annoying too.
Is it like everytime I play CapCom games on GBx (excluding GBA), I have to turn it down?
30:16 help me understand. You've been collecting all E-Tanks so far, which is way more than the limit (4), which means you were collecting them for completion purposes. Then, here you simply jump down, screwing up a 100% E-Tanks run. It's hard to find any logic when it comes to people collecting E-Tanks in the MM classic series. Either get them all or don't even bother.
Most people only grew up with Mega Man 1 and 2 for the Game Boy. Maybe some even had the chance to try 3 but man.... if you grew up and own MMIV OR MMV, I envy you as those came so late in the GBs life span.
30 years and it's all still familiar to me
I remember playing this all the time on the 3ds virtual console
I agree...something's wrong with this game. It's almost like Capcom didn't put it out... However, I have to credit it. Although by Mega Man game standards it was easy, it was the first Mega Man game I ever beat. And that was important. You see, back in the day I had adjusted to the thought that I was simply a bad gamer and would never be as good as other players, so I often simply quit after the first Continue screen. However, I was stuck in a road trip with this one for a couple weeks and I beat it just as I got home. From then on, I plugged in Mega Man, Mega Man 2, Mega Man 3, and the rest, and every time I died I told myself: "Hey, I can beat this. I already beat ONE Mega Man, didn't I?" And eventually I did.
So...if it wasn't for this one, I might never have become a gamer.
@Dale Gribble
X2, Zero 2, and ZX Advent are harder than the originals
@Dale Gribble
You were talking about 2’s in the mega man games so i figured i would put these here too
@Dale Gribble
oh, i see
The worst one !? Dammit this was the only I ever had as a kid, played it for years ! LOVE Air Man's music...
The worst soundtrack, that's for sure.
Bro i don’t understand the hate sure the boss theme kinda sucks but everything else…..perfect
Looking at the Japanese names for these GB games, I now noticed why *Mega Man: The Wily Wars* in Japan is called *Rock Man Megaworld*
The "mega" is the *Sega Mega Drive*
Another here who always liked the soundtrack
especially clash man
I like the soundtrack, too. My favorites are Metal Man, Magnet Man, and Hard Man (Hard Man especially).
The Sound is still amazing, i don't care if it's too high pitched 😅
Soundtrack is dope! Ex. 32:25. Not sure what people are complaining about;)
Some people find the pitch too high. But yeah, the melodies are very good.
My favorite, and the transition goes so hard
40:08 the end
Dear god, I feel bad for the composer. All of that potential gone to waste. Instead of it sounding like a beautiful soundtrack, it almost sounds like something you’d hear from a yong yong game (the people responsible for sonic 3D blast 5 and others)
Interesting. Most people think this is one of the greatest Mega Man soundtracks of all time.
and i thought Dr Wily's Revenge's soundtrack wasn't great...
The soundtrack being high pitched never bothered me. The songs themselves were quite amazing to me!
It was something better than the first one but not better than the 3 later ones
I can say I enjoyed it kinda
I'm gonna have It!
34:30 Damn, Mega Man straight up killed that guy.
How underwhelming this soundtrack is...
Crashman's been romanized properly?! Hell's frozen over!
And that ending... That's breaking the first rule of Robotics, Mega Man!
Smart developing from Capcom. They knew they couldn’t fit the full original game so they added the ground slide. Rush. Plus exclusive music and level designs. To make the game unique. Instead of just scaling it down.
@Casey Bunner This drastically different. Almost as different as Megaman X is to the original Megaman.
This series is definitely worth a play through. It’s something I just would have bypassed because it has the same title name. My first thought would be. “I Already played Megaman 2”.
One word:
Quint
You had tod grow up in this era to really appreciate the futruistic tone of Megaman 2. It was so wierd it was cool
What's the correct color scheme of this? Some videos/emulators have it black & white, I only remember the green/yellowish colors like the above.
Soundtrack sounds like it was composed by Maiden or some power metal band. Definitely love the Woodman and Airman level songs...
the good old days..😭😭😭😭😭
Oh boy, I remember this one. Best played with the sound muted.
rcblazer And with RushJet1's remake of the soundtrack on in the background
Dorian Scott It's so bad that it was probably made by the same composer who made this.
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XD Link doesn't work. Here's the new one. czcams.com/video/39lESocuHSA/video.html
Water in Top Man's stage. Weird game.
The soundtrack in the game is absolutely ear piercing!
Edit: Hearing it again, the music is beautiful and original compared to the others, to bad the pitch is too high, it kinda ruins the soundtrack.
U could bee right
Please which emulator is using?
the soundtrack sounds like I stuck my head into a box full of crashing instruments made of beeps and boops.
Pfff, I was not able to play the other games, but I just know I like all about this game. It was hard to me when I was young, it is really easy now... but still I saved it from selling and it works on my gameboy green ^^
One of the best.
It is one of the craziest games ever.
Unpopular opinion
I actually like quint
i know those old soundtrack sucks but remake soundtrack such as rock/metal/mix was so dang cool, u know. 😊
Great! 💛🙌💥
I just picked up the first mega man game for gameboy.
man i wish they still made 8bit games...
I really wish they made more 2d games.
Capcom had pretty high quality standards in those days, and were particularly known for their in game music. Gotta wonder how this slipped past. Compare this to, say, Gargoyle's Quest or DuckTales. Mmm hmm.
Some of Capcom's earliest GB sounded really rough. DuckTales is a perfect example - the GB version has the same songs as the NES one did, but they're totally butchered by the constant drop outs for sound effects. Even when the sfx aren't cancelling out the music the songs still sound pretty weak in comparison.
That is true. My guess is that they hadn't fully mastered the system's sound capabilities yet. Still, they do sound better than THIS.
Dorelaxen Yeah, can't argue there.
Early GB games are basically inferior to the NES when it comes to sound.
I've noticed that the NES has the upper hand in sound when compared to GB games
(Hint Hint!).
In some case like *DuckTales* the sound is not as clear as the NES, but comes close.
The GameBoy had a sweet sound chip, though. It's often the go to chip for chiptune artists. I love the deep bass it was capable of producing. With some headphones on, it was pure bliss. Batman, Contra, Castlevania. All awesome soundtracks.
Are you playing on emulator, or original Game Boy ?
I played in Retroarch using the DMG shader for the graphics
Таёжный Gamer, just check the description, and you'll get your answer.
For an instance I fell in the 90's. 😥
What emulator is this?
3 is the magic number.
This game uses alot of stuff from mega man 3
First game boy mega game I got and beat. Don’t understand why people to go metal man first, I went to clash/crash man to beat him for rush coil that is useful. Has Mario sound effects when collecting extra lives.
classic
While the game itself is alright, but the easiest game in the Game Boy series, the music ultimately lets it down. Capcom outsourced this one, not to Minekuchi Engineering, but to someone else whom I forget. This is where this game went wrong, Minekuchi tended to do right by Mega Man games.
Rebecca Black has pipes now, check out “The Great Divide”. She ain’t no Whitney Houston but she’s gotten a lot better.
I think William Hung would be a more apt comparison ;)
Oh wow, really? Is she actually better, or did she just get someone who was good with autotune? But
oh god yeah, William Hung. I haven't thought of him in so long... how did that even happen? Lmao, f***ing American Idol.
NintendoComplete haha check it out yourself czcams.com/video/sg4mUAQb17Q/video.html
Also, the original soundtrack on this game is absolutely horrid lol
Best game ever I love this game it’s masterpiece underrated this game is underrated
Yea but the gameboy megamans were all pretty much ports well except for 5.
That was to hard I've never done this game.
Holy cow that music is terrible. And that's a shame because I always thought the GB made some great sound and music effects, especially with that sweet, sweet stereo sound in your ears. And I recently revived my original GameBoy by buying the guts of an old beat up one and stuffing them into my nearly pristine case (mine died a tragic death of pixel loss within a couple years, and I kept it in a box all that time). Listening to the music in Super Mario Land and Nemesis brought back so many old memories, and the music was just as good as I thought.
One of the best Mega Man games for Gameboy.
i had to buy this one because megaman 1 was 750 bucks! i hate amazon's price gouging
4:45 Mario is that you???
Megaman lll (nostalgia) gameboy.
So there's nothing actually in the game about Quint being Mega Man from the future? And he just teleports away at the end with no explaination?
Known as Rockman World 2.
What's so bad about this game besides the sound? The stages are really close in resemblance to the original megaman 2
I think that’s the only bad part about the game
wow a game with wood man and hard man
I’ve been saying this for months. I’ve always wanted to see a full gameplay of Wild Woody for the Sega CD without commentary on CZcams. Alex, you play a lot of licensed games. Maybe you should play Wild Woody later this June.
As a game it's fine, but the music is really weird. Considering they rewrote music from Mega Man 2, that's blasphemy.
That said, Top Man's song in this is absolutely incredible, and smokes the MM3 original
It's a game between mega man 2 and 3
Huhuhu Hardman huhuhu.
HOT TAKE: The soundtrack would be Hard Knuckle if it was pitched lower and avoided microtones.
Yeah, that's the sad part! This soundtrack actually has great compositions, but they're ruined by horrendous instrumentation! Well, at least there are fan videos that correct this so we can actually enjoy the music for what it was supposed to be!
-_-
What are you talking about? The soundtrack is great!
Im going to Remake this as a original nes game, but instead of reusing the rms from megaman 2 & 3, everything's getting a MASSIVE overhaul, why? The soundtrack is original.
So different to the NES version
28:38 Honestly one of the worst robot masters overall (If you could call him that)
Nico Nexus Lmao ikr. Go go gadget pogo stick
Fang The Sniper's Robotic Ancestor!😱
Nico Nexus: It's-a PogoMan!
@@NintendoComplete His name is Quint
Mega Man III Gameboy Plz
I'm getting to it, don't worry
THIS GAME SUCK AND I LOVE IT BACK THEN!!!
OH GOD, THE SOUNDTRACK IS TERRIBLE!!!😣
Dorian Scott It's so bad that it sounds like it was composed by someone who lives in Venezuela.
Extremewrecker2000 The willer. Lmfao what? Is Venezuela known for terrible music? I'd assume there'd be talented people there like everywhere else.
Dorian Scott No, it sounds Crazybus bad to me. I respect you, but I think it sounds like something made by someone who lives in Venezuela.
Dorian Scott Not sure if Venezuela has any good "music" as the only music I've heard from Venezuela is the music that plays on the title screen for Crazybus on the Sega Genesis, & it's GOD AWFUL BEYOND BELIEF!!!!
Dorian Scott Yeah, after I heard that I thought that Venezuela makes the worst music(OK Crazybus is still better than any songs by Justin Beiber.)
Pinche música fea :c
Music not so good...
Worst. Mega. Man. Game. Ever.
Poison NES version is great, but THIS VERSION IS A HORRIBLE PILE OF CRAP THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!
Poison This was a mix of MM 2 and 3 on the NES. And balance issues aside, you're seriously saying this is equal to MM2 on the NES?
I am quite literally aghast atm. Omg.
You are literally the first and likely only person in gaming history not to like Mega Man 2 on the NES, a game that has made almost every top 10 list ever made.
Check out the Mega Man games for DOS sometime. Those absolutely take the crap cake when it comes to bad MM games.
Poison I wasn't being critical. Just expressing shock and disagreement is all :) You're free to like whatever, I don't care.
簡単すぎのゴミクソゲー。ファミリーで遠くへ旅行した時のワゴン車の中で、兄と全クリア又はゲームオーバーで1回交代というルールにしたら、これを兄に先に取られて余裕で全クリア、俺は別ゲーで即ゲームオーバーになったからほとんどプレーできなかった、という思い出があるな。
Good god this game sucks!
God, the musics awful.
What emulator is that?