Technically last year was Mega Man’s 25th anniversary, but Capcom said the celebration would begin in December 2012 with the release of Street Fighter X Mega Man and continue throughout all of 2013. Capcom made a cool statue, worked with Udon to translate art books, and re-released some games on the eShop.
If you’re nostalgic for a Mega Man game check out Roll Chan Evolution. A romhacker edited the original Mega Man and made Mega Man’s sister Roll a playable character. Roll has an arm cannon that shoots hearts instead of spherical pellets. Unfortunately she doesn’t have her Marvel vs. Capcom 2 secret power – crouching.
source: Siliconera
Mega Man 4, or Rockman 4 in Japan, has been out for almost 13 years now, but not many people know about the existence of its super-rare golden cartridge that was given away in very limited quantities. Inside Games shared its story, which was recently featured on a Japanese TV show.
The game was featured on the TV show, Kaiun! Nandemo Kanteidan (which more or less translates to “Good Luck! The All-Appraisal Group”, which has been airing for about 20 years now.
The premise of the show is about a group of professionals who appraise all kinds of different objects presented by various people, from celebrities to local farmers.
In the latest episode of the show that aired on August 12th, a famous illustrator by the name Yo****aka Enomoto was featured as a guest. While he is known as an illustrator, manga artist, and painter, his most prized possession is the golden Mega Man 4 cartridge, which is something he’s had since he was a young boy.
Back in 1991 when Enomoto was still in middle school, he entered a contest held by Capcom to design a boss character. Out of about 70,000 entries, his design for “Pearlman” was chosen for the eight bosses to be featured in the game, which ended up being the “Brightman” Mega Man fans all know today.
After winning the contest, he and the seven other artists were awarded special golden cartridges for Mega Man 4. These copies were never reproduced, and were considered quite the collector’s item at the time.
20 years later, Enomoto decided to find out how much the cartridge would be worth today through the TV Tokyo program. Contestants in the show start out with their own figures before the appraisal, which Enomoto went with a humble 78,000 yen ($761).
As it turns out, the team of appraisers started out by saying that the regular copy of Mega Man 4 would have the value of 700 yen ($6.85) but since Enomoto’s was such a rare copy, they decided to give it a whopping 400,000 yen’s value (about $3,900).
The report doesn’t mention whether Enomoto decided he’d like to sell the cartridge or not, but given its sentimental value from his earlier days as an artist, it’s safe to assume that it’s being kept nice and cozy by the original Brightman designer.
Read more stories about Capcom & Mega Man 4 on Siliconera.
Can't blame them. Until capcom actually makes a new game it'll be this way but other places they put this up in other forums and are watching this in case they drop some weird surprise . which why those other forums put it up.Heh, you guys get uppity about this thread getting updated.
Kay, well since any Mega Man news warrants a post, Nintendo has released a new Streetpass/Spotpass Mega Man panel for The 3DS's Mii Plaza Puzzle game. It's the first (not exclusive to Japan) non-Nintendo panel made available.
That's awesome do you have a link to that ?
understood but seeing it was cartridge based in what's likely to be a Nintendo one of all the cartridges that are only ever still talked about by any press when comes to that, it would have been more appreciated here.You can call it being uppity if you want, but I honestly just don't like random bumps to months old threads about nothing of any warrant. If a thread is so old, and it gets bumped, I do expect it to be news of some substance. Not a puff piece about some golden cart or a twitch about people playing older games that just so happen to be playing Mega Man.
Not singling out zenith or anything. I see it happens in other boards (especially in the movie boards with ****ing Lord). I'm not mad or anything, it's not like I see it as some huge insult or anything, but I generally don't understand what the point of doing it is. We have a Lounge in the misc game section exactly for stuff like this.
You can call it being uppity if you want, but I honestly just don't like random bumps to months old threads about nothing of any warrant. If a thread is so old, and it gets bumped, I do expect it to be news of some substance. Not a puff piece about some golden cart or a twitch about people playing older games that just so happen to be playing Mega Man.
Not singling out zenith or anything. I see it happens in other boards (especially in the movie boards with ****ing Lord). I'm not mad or anything, it's not like I see it as some huge insult or anything, but I generally don't understand what the point of doing it is. We have a Lounge in the misc game section exactly for stuff like this.