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I just got an e-mail from Blogger and it seems that they're shutting down FTP support for their blogs on the 22nd. What does that mean for the Mechs? Well, no more Blogger, that's what it means! I'm pretty annoyed by it since I had to make a whole new layout that accounted for Blogger's backwards policy of uploading actual HTML files onto the site (rather than have database support or something). It was tricky and annoying, but it was done. And now it's over. Ah, well. Look forward to a new blog format in the near future.

In the meantime, this last post from Blogger will feature some more art from the archives of Gauntlet! It seems I missed a couple of gift art things as well (sorry, guys!). Well, here they are, alongside some more 'Maniacs art.

More MMPC3 Superadventure mugs by discoduderock.

Shadowman VS Shadowman by Glider.

A small sprite of the super computer Crorq featuring custom emoticons made for the MM3 forum. By Snakeman (Raijin).

MM Team girls by Cyros

A bigger version of "Who is holding my hand?" by Spark Chan (Classi).

A few of Topman's sketches.

The design choices for the shirts worn on the first 'Maniacs Meet (and every other one too, but mostly the first).

A sketch of the Mesmerman crew. It looks better in full size...

An unused idea for the 'Maniacs logo.

To view previous gift art submissions see the Miscellaneous Sprite Gallery and for more 'Maniacs art see the Team Galleries.

Labels: gallery, Maniacs Moments, sprite

Top feels bad that nobody notices he changedback to his TM armor. Y'know, since the 8-bit sprite looks almost exactly the same as his previous look. Once more, using some old gift art submissions to do the comic.

Speaking of which ...

I've actually been quite remiss in my guift art submissions. I have a couple that I could have posted over the .... well, years. Small stuff, but worth it. So, no more waiting, let's see them here!

Bizarro Shadowman threatening an injured Megaman, by Ace Spark.

Shadowman in his Transmetal 2 armor. By Cyros.

A Scissor Joe, from the Business of War. By Cyros.

The Mechanical Maniacs in their "Transmetal 8" armors, obviously inspired by the X series. By Yllisis Zanon.

Needlegal in her Transmetal 2 armor in 8-bits! By Megaman N.

NES-colored MM3 DOS mugshots by MM19872008.

A small 'Maniacs Moments inspired sprite comic by GaiaX6.

Mesmerman by Cyros.

"Fused Shadowman" by Chaos Wolf.

Thanks for all the submission, guys! Uh .... sorry it took so long to put them up. To view more fan submission see the Miscellaneous Sprite Gallery and the Gift Art Gallery.

Labels: gallery, Maniacs Moments, sprite

More sprites for the Megaman PC remake. Jesse wanted some fortress bosses ... at first I was against this, but then I remembered the Wily Rescue Force. For those who don't know, the Robot Masters from the Dreamwave comic, led by Cap N's Doc Robot, are a team of villains from the Epilogues. They rescue Wily any time he's in trouble (like when his bases blow up or when he's in prison). So if there's a need for fortress bosses ... why not the Wily Rescue Force? Lavaman was thrown in because there needed to be another boss.

If I had to add one more bot to that I'd pick Toothpasteman in a heartbeat.

Labels: gallery, sprite

You know those ugly Megaman PC sprites I have? Well, the PC3 sprites have been completely re-ripped. Frenkel, of S&F Productions, has made a sprite viewer in DOS and I used that to create extensive sprite sheets containing .... every single sprite in the game. Including many unused sprites.

Which brings me to Megaman Mysteries. Not only are notes on the PC games expanded, but also some tidbits on debug modes for MM5 and 6. GoldS has found some interesting things about the SNES games, especially X1. MM9 has some things that people already know about. And Star Force has more "lost" BN5 textures. Even MM1 has a new sprite discovered ... an unused door!?

Labels: gallery, mysteries, sprite

I've been doing some thinking and I've decided the image galleries really need accompanying articles to go with them. At least the official images do and most of the sprite galleries. To this end I have created an article on the Megaman PC Games. It details my experience with the PC games as well as some words on the robot masters.

Next up is a ... Gauntlet's Guides article? It's been a while since I did me one of those. This one is on Green Lantern: In Blackest Night. Basically it goes into all the "special" rings and is sort of meant as a look-back that contrasts what's being done today with what's been done in the past.

The PC sprites have been updated. I actually missed a few sprites of Wily. Apparently when you die at WIly himself sprites of him jumping and groveling appear on the computer screen. Since I always cheat at that game I have never seen these sprites until now.

Speaking of sprite galleries, the index page has been merged with the overall Image Gallery using the same hack that I developed for the Specialty Galleries. It's just pointless to leave them so separate. Speaking of which, I've never announced it, but the Megaman Team Christmas Cards are up. They're from a small project made by Snakeman and Spark Chan in December. Be sure to check it all out!

Oh, and the articles on Rockman Strategy and Rockman Gold Empire have received some small updates too. RM Strategy has it's intro video up ... doubtless you've seen it before since Rockman Perfect Memories posted it long before I have. I just felt it was time for me to post it as well. More exciting, however, is that I have posted the game's full script online! Unfortunately ... it's in Traditional Chinese. Yeah. I've also revised a few details in the introduction (the game's not quite so rare anymore) and added in some notes on the ending that I got from reading the script. Rockman Gold Empire's update is a never-before-seen intro video.

Labels: Art, article, gallery, Gauntlet's Guides, sprite

Considering the overall lack of activity, I've decided to push up this week's update by a few days. I've added some small things here and there.

Firstly, the Asian PC games has a could new images to go with it, namely in Rockman 123's entry.

I've added one entry to all of the sections in the .... pirate games article!? Yeah, I never planned on updating that again, but I found some things that just HAD to be added, even if it was just one per section.

The Cell phone games article features the latest games along with one older game I neglected to put on there. As always, a BUNCH of screens have been put on the screens section of that article (separated out due to sheer number of screens).

The miscellaneous sprites section has some guest entries along with a sheet of E-tank sprites that I compiled. Having all of them on one sheet occasionally comes in handy.

Miscellaneous pictures also features some fan art submitted over the last few months. Sorry it took me so long to get these up!

My Gallery features art of the Wily Rescue Force (meaning the Deamwave robot masters and Cap N Doc Wily).

And finally, Raijin's gallery features alot of nice art, including character designs for the 'Maniac's Transmetal 2 armor!

I don't know when new 'Maniacs Moments will be up. Hard's life must be getting in the way of those little comics. So, I've put up an appropriate message.

That's all for now. I gotta say .... it's nice to work on the site again.

Labels: article, gallery, pirate, sprite

Yes, NOT an epilogue update!

This time it's the galleries that get some lovin'. Galleries of all sort. My sprite gallery sees some fan-submitted stuff as well as a variety of customs made by me. My art gallery has also been updated.

Raijin's gallery, Nightmare's gallery, the Nintendo Power Scans, and the Miscellaneous art gallery have all been updated with new art. Gift Sprites have been updated with new submissions. Finally, last but not least, Quickman has donated some Battle and Chase manga scans which are now in the Manga Scans gallery (which, at some point, I may organise better).

Labels: Art, gallery, scans, sprite

I've been REALLY busy with my comic and REALLY got into watching an anime called Bleach. But I still got time to update a bit with some user submission stuff!

Okay, so .... first up: miscellaneous images have been uploaded. Woo hoo. I love getting images so keep sendin' 'em.

Real Life Wilys sees an update. Wow. That's a section I never - EVER expect an update from.

The Pirate Sprite Sheets sees a tiny update. Zan Sidera submitted some sprites of the tree guy and the red hero guy from Rockman DX3, so those sprites have been added in. Originally for Sprites INC too, but I whined about it a whole bunch (it's been a bad year or so) and Ace, being the gentleman that he is, let me have the game for my own coverage (since I have already covered it). So Zan let me put these up as they were originally for S. INC. So, thanks guys.

And this week's winner of the 'Maniacs Moments contest - Kayorei! Take a bow! Remember: Each week there'll be a new winner so keep on submitting! It could be YOU!

Labels: contest, gallery, Maniacs Moments, pirate, sprite

Wow, I haven't had an update like this in AGES!

First off the next winner of the 'Maniacs Moments contest is Kaos! Congrats. PR references for teh win.

Next up is an all new article.Rocman X VS Thunder Blast Man. Not only have I compared both games, but I actually *won* Rocman X and have gone into extreme detail on the ending.

The Gauntlet Sprites page has been updated with an all-new sprite picture featuring every single Megaman character (that has an official sprite) to date! It was *very* tough and annoying to make, but now I can update it easily should I choose to do so.

The Wallpapers section also has a big update. That's one section I don't update too often. This time from tiny project I recently finished up.

Labels: article, contest, downloads, gallery, Maniacs Moments, pirate, sprite

A sequel to Megaman's Zodiac has been made .... Megaman's Chinese Zodiac! Check it out in My Sprite Gallery!

Sadly, real life has caught up to me and updates may take a bit more time to make from now on. Also, Hard hasn't given me any new 'Maniacs Moments yet so .... get used to that one up there! It might be a while.

Labels: gallery, sprite

The Gauntlet Gallery sees an update with three new sketches added to the mix! Not Megaman stuff, but Cheetara of Thundercats fame!

The Gauntlet Sprite Gallery features some old sprites that are used ALOT .... but are nonetheless were not in the gallery until now.

Megaman Mysteries sees an organizational upgrade. Also, the Guestbook sees an upgrade using inline frames to make the book integrated with the rest of the site!

Labels: Art, gallery, mysteries, site, sprite

With the Manga profiles section completed there's just several small image updates this round.

The Sprite Gallery sees some Gift Sprites as well as some sprites that used to be in my sprite gallery, but were moved because they belong more in Gift Sprites.

The Gauntlet sprite section has several sprites made by me that were used in the Epilogues. Hey, they gotta be features, right? Also seen is a sprite picture featuring the robots of the zodiac and a sprite of me created by Egoraptor.

And, finally, one new image for the "gift art" part of the "Others Art Gallery" by Quickman featuring yours truly! And she actually got the hair right!

Labels: Art, gallery, scans, sprite

Rockman Strategy receives it's last sprite update featuring the second half of the Constellation Droids and the Classic Bad Guys. This will be the last RMS update for a few weeks. I'm sick of giving the one section all the updates.

On a side note - Happy Halloween! The banner at the top will be as festive as it gets.

Labels: article, gallery, sprite

Rockman Strategy coverage continues with the first half of the Constellation Droids up for viewing!

Labels: article, gallery, sprite

Welp, this ends week one of our time at a new domain and a new server. This happens every two or three years. I hope this time to keep the domain if we ever move again. It's pretty inconvenient to lose it every time we move. Still, it's nice to be on our own and all.

Continuing Rockman Strategy coverage this week. The second set of robot masters that make an appearance in the game are now online! And with them this conclusion: Rockman Strategy was sent out unfinished. The robot master sprites and the lack of encryption spell out an unfinished game no matter how you slice it. Nevertheless, it's a point in my favour! I've solved the mystery of why the in-game text is garbles ..... and along with it I have found the entire script for the game! I've sent it to Sparks to translate. It's in you're hands now Spark! Next week I'll start showing the sprites of the Constellation Droids.

The "article" on the Rockman 2 book has been deleted. I've collected all scanned pages into ONE PDF file and it's now available in the downloads section. Maybe sometimes I'll re-read the book and write a REAL article on it.

Labels: article, downloads, gallery, sprite

Alright. Well, Nyne (of Planet Megaman) has decided to buy his own server (at which PMM will be hosted soon enough) and so I'm jumping the PMM ship and climbing aboard Nyne's Megaman Community project (as is the Sinister Six, by the way). Although we'll be on the same physical server, the site will no longer be under Planet Megaman as a sub-hosted site. Nyne's deal is totally and completely separate from Planet Megaman, although he is a staff member there. Our destiny will be our own!

*huttah!*

To further this end I have done what I should have done a LONG time ago - purchased a .com redirect. You can now, and forever more, reach us at .....

www.TheMechanicalManiacs.com!

Please, update all bookmarks and links.

Right now the .com redirect doesn't function 100% properly (in that it acts like our free .cjb.net redirect, although it does still point to us). This is because we're still just a sub-hosted site. Once we're on our own it'll work great.

In regards to PMM, I have decided to leave as a staff member. I don't want to cause trouble for them or for myself so, to put it simply, it's due to artistic differences and I'll leave it at that. Good luck, Planet Megaman! Fight for everlasting peace!

Oh, and that Rockman Strategy game has more sprites. This time of half the classic robot masters featured in the game (I know some have been waiting for this)! I've also added some new fun facts pertaining to the game as well as large, high quality, scans of the front and back of the box. Also, the "Chinese Games" article is now, more accurately, called the "Asian games" article. The article itself has been reworked slightly, but there's really no new information.

Labels: article, gallery, site, sprite

The milking of one game for all it's worth continues! And by that I mean Rockman Strategy now has sprites for all the minor enemies found in the game!

Yeah, I've been dragging these updates out. I've been busy.

On a side note - PMM blew up again! Whose surprised? Raise your hands? *crickets chirp* That's what I thought. Well, keep looking to the CJB.NET redirect and you'll always find this site.

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The Gauntlet Sprite Section has been updated. As has the Sprite section itself. Some new stuff and one old thing by me. My Image Gallery has been updated and so has the Misc Image Gallery. Lots to look at!

As for Planet-Megaman ..... Heat's decided to play it safe and wait for the Server Admin to restore PMM. When will that happen? I dunno. Also, we DON'T have total control over the .com account. Lars still owns the domain. Why won't he transfer it over? Again, I dunno.

So, when will PMM return to it's former glory? Who can say ..... In the meantime though, the Mechanical Maniacs shall continue to be your #1 source of will-PMM-come-back news!

Labels: Art, gallery, sprite

Welp, the quizzes and 'Maniacs Moments sections still need some work, but I do have some new content in the way of more Pirate Sprite Sheets. These ones from Rockman DX3, one of the roms offered in the Gauntlet Art Contest.

As you may have noticed Planet-Megaman got it's .com address back! Unfortunately there's a slight case of schizophrenia involved ..... meaning our .com account has a space of it's own separate from the .org account! Weird. Well, I've set up a forwarding address to point anyone coming from the .com address here. Hopefully this problem can be resolved soon.

As for PMM, Heat is getting impatient with the situation. The backups should be arriving next week and if they don't Heat's thinking of just restoring everything from our backups.

Update to the update: I've taken the time to re-organise the Mechanical Maniacs Moments. They're organised a little differently now, but it's closer to a regular sprite comic, so it works out.

Labels: Maniacs Moments, pirate, sprite

Alright, back again. Yeah, I've been busy, tired, followed by more busy this week. But now I get to put up some really nice things .... FAN STUFF!

The Gauntlet sprites has two sprites at the VERY end submitted by a fan.

The Sprites Section has three new entries.

And, finally, fan art has SEVERAL new entries.

These have been piling up for quite some time so it's good to finally get them up.

Labels: Art, gallery, sprite

There's lotsa images in this update.

My Sprite gallery has been updated with one new edit done by me and a couple gift sprites done by others. Thanks, guys.

The Sprite Gallery contains new gift sprites.

My image gallery contains a few new pictures done by (of course) myself. Well ....... the word "new" is relative here as some are relatively old ...... but most of you never saw 'em!

Finally, the Other image gallery contains more images ..... including images by Spark Chan and a gift from Quickman! Also some scans centred around MM3. Thanks to everyone who gave images.

Oh, and don't bother telling me the link to the Secret Page is down ..... I'm actually in the process of remodeling it ;)

Labels: Art, gallery, sprite

Megaman 3 Mysteries has had YET ANOTHER update. This one is yet another thing I sadly missed. More unused Protoman sprites uncover the answers to a deeper mystery that was bugging me for quite some time. Check it out.

The Sprites Section and "Other Art" Gallery has been updated again with more fan art and fan sprite comics. My sprite gallery is also updated with more fan submission that I ..... forgot to post for a while now. Sorry.

Also, The Unnamed has been updated with Chapter 8, thusly evening out the numbers.

Now, you might have noticed a bunch of flags replacing the broken link to "Best viewed with Emerald Eye". Yes, not people can use the power of Bablefish to view this page in any language they want! Did I do this so foreign visitors might enjoy the page? Nah (since when can Bablefish translate a page?), I did it for the sheer novelty of having such a feature. And if you have to ask why I have an english-to-english translation of the page ...... you simply haven't visited enough of the page yet.

Labels: Art, fiction, gallery, mysteries, site, sprite

Wow, a monster update this week!

Megaman 3 Mysteries has been a big success! So big in fact, that I might very well expand that sort of coverage to all the games. Featuring some info that you know .... and some you might not. But, thanks to Heat of Sprites INC I have found something I had previously overlooked! What appears to be an entire cityscape ... possible for an alternate ending! He's also identifies Unknown sound effect 3 as the sound when the nut and bolts come together (as seen in Top's level). Thanks, Heat!

The Sprites Section and "Other Art" Gallery has been updated with more fan-submitted sprites and pictures!

The bios also have new pictures drawn by yours truly depicting the current version of the Megaman 3 Team (including Needlegal and Spark Chan)! The full pictures can be seen in my art gallery.

And, finally, The Unnamed has been updated once more with two more chapters. I've been neglecting this project much too long and I want to get it out of the way! So, hopefully .... I can do that.

And that's the update for today, folks. Be sure to vote for me in the next Megaman Page Idol!

Labels: Art, fiction, gallery, mysteries, sprite, team

Mostly, I reorganized sprites behind-the-scenes. Shouldn't notice too big a difference. Although, many sprites in the sprite gallery that I made are now found in the Gauntlet Sprite Gallery. Also, a few gift sprites are now up in the Sprite Gallery. Most are single sprites, but that's ok by me. I like gift art, after all. Also, the animations section has a couple "new" animations made by me. New in that I haven't posted them until today.

Hardian's gallery has more pictures. Forum frequenters should recognize them pretty easily. They's pretty spiffy. My gallery also has one new image. Gift art for B. Hornet of the Megaman Community forums.

Hey, don't forget to send art for the Gauntlet's Art Contest. We need submissions from *points* YOU!

And to all the Canadian MM fans - Happy Thanksgiving!

Labels: Art, contest, gallery, sprite

"Same Shadow Time" ...... yeah, well it didn't turn out that way. Oh, well. I make up for it in UPDATES. And what big updates we have today.

First off, yet another (short) chapter of The Unnamed is up for reading.

Next, the Chinese Games article in the misc. section has screen shots for Rockman Gold Empire. It's one of the games Capcom licensed (not a pirate) .... doesn't make it good.

The Cell phone games have also been updated. I think I might actually have found one for you guys to download and play! Of course the page was in Japanese, so I dunno. Someone wanna try it out and let me know?

There's some new art in the misc. Image gallery by Kindlewoman and an official picture of Pinbot that I forgot to put up earlier.

Annnnnd there's been an update in the sprites section! We have some custom sprites of Hardman.EXE by our very own Hardman as well as sprites Auto ripped from one of the Chinese games! Rockman is super deformed and they actuallylook quite nice, so it's worth the two seconds it takes to look at them. Both have handy new tanks next to them for easy finding.

Finally, I've put up a new and, I'm sure, long awaited article: an article on Megaman 3 for Tiger Handheld Electronics! It was only a matter of time before the Megaman 3 team covered this aspect of Megaman 3 as well. And if you think it's a straight copy of Joey's article, you're mistaken. I now HAVE this game in my possession! Meaning I can write up something original!

Labels: Art, article, fiction, gallery, sprite

Yeah, I almost didn't update this week. But I figured ...... "hell, why not? I may as well post one of those epilogues that's been done for a few months".

And that's exactly what I did. Issue #9 - Snakeman is Framed! done by our very own Snakeman!

Also, Lennon made a pretty neat animation that's now in the Animation section. You know, if you like animated gifs.

Anyways, keep yer eyes peeled for even more updating goodness! Apparently people like those epilogues. I was actually beginning to wonder.

Labels: fiction, gallery, sprite

Well, well, well, a GOOD update this week. Who knew?

Well, I've finally updated that pirate section with a pretty substantial update. Not only are there new pirate games up, but I also reorganized it a bit. Not GB multicarts are in the GB section. I never figured there'd be so many ....... but what do I know? I ALSO made neat thumbnails, so now the page will not take forever to load. I've been meaning to do that for a long while now, but only now have I gotten around to it.

And now: sprites update! I added neat MM3 costumed sprites and those are in the Sprite Gallery under: customs. They have a "new tank" nest to them. I also added old sprite sheets Pixelboy ripped for MM4 GB. Pixelboy has been gone since 1998 and I figure, since I can't contact him or nuthin', that he'd be glad his work's used. So, what are MM4 sprites doing on the MM3 team? Who knows!

As weeks go this one hasn't been so bad. I saw Lord of the Rings, which was spectacular. All in all pretty nice. Oh, yeah, I had a pretty good debate in the Dreamwave forums about the 'ol "MM is X" issue. Alot of good points were brought up, but I think the only ones I haven't heard before was: A) Dr. Light would actually NOT want MM to trade his memories for sentience and B) Wily would create the Zero Virus, aid Sigma, and crash a colony into the planet thereby ruining it to SPITE his rival Doctor Light who (as far as he knows) died 100 years ago. Haven't heard anyone HONESTLY defend these points, so I guess I'm a little surprised people can believe that over the answer being "MM actually IS X". Well, I can't say I won the debate, but I don't think I lost either. With the complete lack of proof either way, people tend to stick to what their first impression than be persuaded otherwise. But you can read it all here. It was all pretty interesting and I think I'm done arguing over it for another 6 months or so.

Labels: gallery, pirate, sprite

Series 5 chugs along with another new epilogue! This one actually taking place IN Series 5! No flashbacks or anything. Behold as the 'Maniacs move into their new base in the newest ep made by yours truly.

The sprites gallery is also seeing an update. I've updated the "Gauntlet sprites" gallery with a new recolor of my Doc Robot sprite (in official colors now) and a new custom - Needleman EXE! It's my first EXE style sprite so I think I did a good job of it. But, the main sprite gallery is also updated. Under "Custom Sprite Creations" I've put my second Captain N Sprite Sheet! The first one was surprisingly successful (and got me connected to CaptainN.net to boot) so I've made a second. This one features MUCH better sprites than the first with customs and scratch sprites. It has a nice "New tank" right next to it, so it's impossible to miss.

So, how about that Halloween banner? Pretty freaky, eh? I bet it gave some of you guys chills. Since it was up for only a week, I'll leave it up for another week.

Also, I noticed the quizzes were somewhat ...... totally screwed up. Yeah. Well, those have been fixed too.

For this last segment, I'd like to showcase other "Mechanical Maniacs" across the web. See, even though we have the very unlikely team name of "Mechanical Maniacs", there are two other pages on the net featuring the SAME name! Mechanical Maniacs - A Japanese (maybe) site featuring mecha! Mechanical Maniacs - A team of mechanics making ..... stuff! Other Mechanical Maniacs ..... unless you become Megaman Teams ..... we salute you!

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Sorry for the lack of updates last week, but considering I'm doing this for free I don't think I need to apologize. So, I take back my sorry!

First off the Epilogues have once again been updated! A story by me entitled "You are the Admiral Now!" I am feeling particularly good about this once so I feel the need to pat myself on the back.

Next up is more images in the gallery. Images of Topman and Gemini Red by Nightmare! Go see!

The BIOS now have images of the MM3 TV show guys! Ripped straight from the DVD! That's right folks, Gauntlet has actual DVD rips of the rare MM3 robot masters and that's absolutely NOTHING compared to the update I have planned for Planet Megaman.

The Spriting Page has been updated in the custom sprite creations. Auto gave me Rockman 3 styled Neo Geo Pocket sprites to celebrate my third year annaversary! They're really neat and worth a look-see.

I attended Anime North once more this year, and I must say it was a successful trip. Not only did I get the aforementioned Megaman DVDs, but I also got once signed by Scott Mc Neal voice of Protoman (and Wily)! Perhaps one day I shall get the first DVD set signed by Ian Corlett voice of Megaman. On a side note, I discovered that there's a bit of a voice acting train here. Ian Corlett voiced Wily on Captain N and then went onto do Megaman on the TV show. Scott Mc Neal did Wily there and is now doing Guts on the EXE anime. Kinda funny in a way. Scott McNeal seemed like a nice guy and a good sport with all the fan-attention, however he did seem a little tired (it WAS 11 PM when he made his arrival). Anyway, fun was had by all.

Also, not only did we top 90, 000 hits, but we had an all time high of 900 hits in one day while I was at the con! I'm not sure why traffic jumped like that, but keep it up!

Labels: Art, fiction, gallery, sprite, team

Another week, another update.

Well I am pleased to announce our counter has reached 100,000 hits today! Breaking 6 digits feels really good to me and I thank all my loyal viewers for support.

Series 4 of the epilogues continues with War Between Wilys. The Mechanical Maniacs finally face off with the powerful True Chimeraman!

The Image Gallery receives an update in the "Others" section. A picture of Megaman cosplay I took when I was at Anime North a few weeks ago. A kid dressed as the original Megaman. While the helmet isn't quite right, it's still .... adorable really.

The Sprite Gallery has seen another update. Specifically the sprite group shot. It now goes up to Megaman Zero 2 including even those stupid resistance guys.

A new Gauntlet's Guide has been posted. My guide to why I consider games like Megaman PC in continuity. See, the vast majority of people I talked to seem to regard those types of games with disdain and not even Capcom products, really ...... so I decided to write my opinion. Kind of the minority report of the MMC.

Finally, I have added a new section in the rightframe. The Downloads section. It WAS in the miscellaneous section once, but no one really figured to look there.

Finally, I would like to announce a victory in the team-scene. I have managed to un-hack Ice's Eye-Lephant account. So Ice now has access to it and the last of the whole "hacking" thing has been wiped clean. Huzzah!

Labels: Art, downloads, fiction, gallery, Gauntlet's Guides, Sinister Six, sprite

It's been three entire years of mechanical mayhem! Hard to believe ain't it? Seems like only yesterday that I joined this place with our old Senac forum and trying to be as good as the S6 (which was a seemingly impossible task since, initially, our team had a long bout of laziness!). But here we are with content to spare!

To be honest I jumped the gun on some of the anniversary content. Stuff like the layout change and the 404 page SHOULD have been anniversary stuff, but whatcha gonna do?

First up is an all-new epilogue by Topman! Tops hasn't written much this series, but this one is worth the wait so go on and read it!

The Spriting section has alot of updates. Not only did I update the various mugshot sheets in game rips but I added Megaman fonts to the bit containing many useful fonts. Also spriting-related is more sprites in the Gauntlet sprite section! The rest of the custom MM3 soccer sprites have been added along with an animated Gauntlet Dixie.

The Image Gallery has been trimmed a bit. I took down images now featured at Auto's page and put up a Shadowman mug by Quickman in the "Others" image gallery.

Sadly, I have to take down some affiliates. Jetsu and Megaman Universe seem to be down and have been for a while now. Pharaoh Man's Temple has also been taken down due to lack of activity.

The Guestbook has gotten a final face-lift. It now matches the page even more! Gauntlet's Guides has been a long-ignored section. Not that I haven't written anything, I just didn't think it was good enough to post. But - NO LONGER! Seven new guides have been posted in that section. Will there be more to come? Unlikely. But anything is possible!

The Secret Page's link has also been moved to a place that is easier to find. Good luck to you all.

Lastly, and most importantly, is the opening of the Mechanical Maniacs' Store! There I am selling t-shirts, mugs, and more shirts at Cafe Press. The link SHOULD be easy to spot. I am very excited about this and hope everyone will open their hearts - and their wallets - to my humble store. Images and merchandise will change occasionally, so check back and see if something catches your eye.

This has been quite a year. Breaking 80,000 hits makes me feel good and I am sure that the next year will be even more prosperous than the current one.

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The epilogues have once more been updated with another one by me! "Team Badass."

On another note, I've been doing various cleanups. I discovered the other day that, for the past few months, my monitor was on the darkest view setting it could manage. So, upon brightening it, I discover that the mugshots I was using for the past few years are horribly colored! Although they looked fine on my crappy old monitor and a darker setting of my current monitor, viewed normally they didn't look good. So I recolored them.

I ALSO discovered that the huge black background in the image galleries is MUCH more noticeable than I originally thought on my crappy old monitor. So I finally took it off.

AND, if all THAT wasn't enough I decided that I am getting a little sick of the layout on my current bright color setting. So I may go in and darken everything so it looked like it did when my screen was much darker.

All that got me in a cleaning sort of mood, so I did what I've been meaning to do for the last little while: clean up the cluttered images in the bios. Now they all have spiffy thumbnails. I also went over some things in the Mice. section and reorganized one part a little. So all that amounts to no real content.

Although I updated the image gallery and the Gauntlet sprite gallery with images you've seen if you frequent my forum. I've also decided that the sprite gallery featuring sprites from epilogues is a waste of space and I deleted it.

That's about it for this week.

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Another monster update this week. The Image Gallery has been updated with the EXE cards created by members of Viral Infection. View that in the sprite section of the individual galleries right at the top of the page. Side note: I MUST reorganize that dang image gallery!

More Viral Infection content has been salvaged this week. The rest of the manga scans have been uploaded into the manga gallery, including ones I PLANNED to post at VI, but never had a chance to.

The epilogues section has been updated this week (of course). This time with one done by me ... again!

The pirates page has also been updated with a couple new carts. A new Thunder Blast Man and Rockman 1 find. Worth a look.

Some news for you Sinister Six fans out there: It's not dead. Ice and I have just about finished all the IMPORTANT files and it's all set once Zero X Phoenix is ready to give Ice his hosting (and if there was any doubt of that happening before, with the closing of Megaman Masters and Zero Forever, that doubt has surely been erased.) So, stay tuned.

**Update a few hours later**

Took a few hours and really went through the galleries. Now their MUCH more organized!

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A new epilogue has been posted. "Mystery of the Cossack bots" by Geminiman.

I've added one new file to the music section, but it's a doozy! The Megaman 3 NSF file. You'll need Winamp and a plugin to play it. It has the complete Megaman 3 soundtrack including sound effects.

Speaking of the Music section, it has been moved tot he Misc. section under downloads. Game Graphics and Mangas have been moved to the image gallery. And the Gallery itself has been organized further, separating ripped sprites from custom works.

The affiliates have been moved tothe right frame using some fancy HTML script. So now they appear on just about every single part of this site.

*Update a few hours later* Was board and decided to take out background MIDIs in the bios (finally) and replaced them with Play/Stop MIDI controls. Killed a few minutes....

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Yet another update. This one has a nice bit o content.

First up is new unused sprites. From Megaman 4. Ever wonder why they never made more sprites for the Wily talking bit? Wonder no more.

Also, there is more added to the Rocman X sheet in the pirate sprites section (in the image gallery). Remember how, in the pirate games section, I said it was based off a gameboy game called "ThunderClashman"? Well, I ripped those sprites too. And they're even more like Rockman than in the "Rocman X" game! Go look.

New Quiz made by me. "Which Megaman are you??" Are you Megaman X, Megaman EXE, or possibly ..... the MM1 box art Megaman!? You know the drill, go to the quiz and fill it out!

Also, I'd like to announce that the forums are NOT DEAD! Sigmah moved them to the bluebomber server to avoid the glitches that were plaguing his server. The move is "temporary". In fact it moved a month ago, but people for some reason didn't bother checking the announcement that the forum moved. Must be blind. At any rate, there's no need to re-regester, all your accounts and posts have been preserved. The link to the forums on this page is correct.

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Images by myself, Snakeman, and Sparkman today. One is an especially weird one. You'll have to go there to see.

Also added to the gallery is a sprite animations page. Like all sprite animation sections, it's a bit of organized chaos. Still, it has sprites by Sparkman, Topman, and myself to see.

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We're back ladies and gentlemen! On a bad-ass server with more room, more bandwidth and more technical support! This move couldn't have happened at a better time either for it is (as I have mentioned before) our second year anniversary. Outlasting the vast, vast majority of Megaman Teams, the Mechanical Maniacs have survived and prospered.

The first update you should notice is that I added new custom mugshots to replace the old mugs from multiple games. This is to reflect the image I want to maintain for the team. Another cosmetic update is that I have removed the comet cursor from the page. Apparently many people didn't like it, but were "too nice to tell me"!!! OY! Perhaps next time I ask for feedback, more people will say something.

I have removed the A-holes speak section. Classic Gaming prohibits the massive swearing and racially offensive remarks usually thrown at us by people in the section. I was given the option of merely censoring it, however, it serves little purpose anymore so I removed it. I don't update the section anymore anyway so I was toying with the idea of removing it before the big move. However, the "Book of Larceny" can still be accessed in the miscellaneous section for it's the very best out of that entire section. Also added to the miscellaneous section is the polls once found in the left frame.

Another new epilogue has been posted continuing the adventures of the Megaman 3 Team. Who can stop them from littering our planet with their garbage?? Read "Littering is Bad For Our Planet!" by me - Gauntlet!

The Guestbook has returned. I think the insanity has died down by now. At any rate, it's now being maintained by Geminiman, not I.

Also returned is the roms section featuring pirate and freeware roms. If you don't get my meaning it has LEGAL NONCOMMERCIAL roms. No licensed Megaman games. Find your illegal stuff elsewhere, you hooligans! The Mechanical Maniacs respects and maintains the integrity of the video game industry and will never aid you all in your evil quest to rip them off! *laughs* You can find pirate games in there though. Kick ass rare pirate games which is what I love about the emulation scene.

The image gallery now includes the Super Transforming Metool animation I made of the 8-bit metool. A 328 frame animation. It's probably the LAST animation I'm gonna do for a very long time. Also new in the gallery is Neo Geo Pocket single sprites. Rare as can be these sprites can be found no where else! Well, that is until Sprites Inc. finally gets around to fully ripping them.

And now the Game Graphics section has been fully completed. I had originally planned on stretching out the releases for the level maps over a long course of time, however, I decided to stop playing these games and so the section now has the last of the MM3 robot master level maps available for you to download!

I also found a new team to the links section. However, it had already disbanded when I found it. Cossack's Soldiers. If you know of any Megaman team NOT on my list, whether it be active or disbanded tell me. Updating that list is a fun hobby! I also added the Ultimate Megaman X and Zero Webpage to the links section. They were kind enough to host us, and their site beats all anyway!

Lastly, and most importantly, I have added a new, long-awaited section. The manga scans featuring selected art from the Rockman Megamix mangas! The selection is pretty decent and is sure to grow with time! No, these are not the same images you've seen in a dozen other Megaman sites, these images have been scanned by me, Gauntlet, from my own collection. Satisfaction guaranteed!!

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What two weeks! Jesus mercy, it's like all the little stresses that could happen DID happen!

Well, Iceman both left and then triumphantly returned after getting an e-mail virus. Forte Chan (with no small amount of help from me *I brag*) managed to cheer him up.

Also up is a shiney new epilogue by myself! Rita Repulsa Strikes Back! A surefire classic!

Also, be sure to check out my section over at Lysekoid's Mega Land (link in links section). I posted some really rare sprites that I've been boasting of for a few weeks. Unused srpites! Quint and MM3 guys from MM2 GB! Unused Protoman from MM3! A hidden weapon energy bar in all SNES MMX games! And talking sprites of Doctor Light from MM1! Nice for looking at.

Various link updates. Added one to "pages I like, but by people I dunno" about Thundercats.

Needlegal drew a picture of herself as a little kid. You can see that in the image gallery.

(slight X6 spoiler)

I also updated the huge MM sprite image in the image galleryonce again. It now includes all the PET owners and The Black Devil, some EXE 2 guys ("borrowed" from Heatman) and X6 people "borrowed" from Sivak. SO, sprites needed for a more updated picture: More RF Wonderswan guys The other EXE2 guys The damn X virus! The hurt Reploids in X6 I may have missed a few more ....... I dunno.

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Not a big update today. Sue me, they can't all be big.

First off, I uploaded my PC customs (anyone who frequents the Sinister Six's MM Database shoud be familiar with these). Now that I have real sprites I found ..... innacuracies in my origional designs. Not that they were totally off, but they were wrong enough to warrent some change. Updated sprites can be found in the image gallery. One day I'll re-do Sharkman's Cd .... the current one sucks.

Also, I did some inner workings stuff. Nothing really changed per say. I've decided to keep the roms section up until it gets deleted. You see, the roms and several of the bigger images are kept on a Homestead server. And that's all I use that crappy server for. Once I was trying to help out a buddy on a collaberative thing - and the project sorta died. But I still used the space to store stuff that I didn't want eating at my Geocities account. Well, thanks to a stupid change in policy, and my pal's neglect to tranfer full control over to moi, I have 0 access to any files over there. And - guess what? - that inclued roms. SO, what'll probably happen is that one day Homestad will discover an ungodly amount of space on that server and shut it down. Until then - you got roms.

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A pretty big update this time around.

First off, we have a new epilogue! "Ain't Never Had A Friend Like Me!" It was written by yours truly and can be found in the epilogues section.

Next, I have updated the Gauntlet sprite sheet -again. This time with custom life bars from several MM games. Inspired by the UMMF. Also, be sure to check out the S6's page. Because of my Gauntlet MM Soccer style sprite, he reopened his own MM Soccer Conversions section.

And now, for your viewing pleasure: THE MEGAMAN PC SPRITES! Real ones! From the game! Yes, they were a pain in the ass to make, but their there. Along with an unedited PC Skull Castle to show you what I had to work with!

I also uploaded the MM3 PAL box. Y'see, the PAL system was for Europe and Australia. Since Nintendo didn't want international game pirating, they made them country-specific so they won't work on a system outside the country. They still do that too, and it's quite irritating. But, anyways, this is the box, manual, and cartridge for MM3 - the PAL version.

Some bad news though. Due to circumstances beyone my control, the roms page must be taken down. If I can find another free server to host the roms, It'll be back, but for now, It's goin' down. Sometime this week.

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Well, Canada day has come and gone. I had a blast and I hope all other Canadian viewers did too. My trip to China Town was a complete and total success! I found a subbed Slayers movie, A manga to draw from, pirate Rockman toys, a gift for my Dad, and a Chinese Kung-fu sword. Awesome day!

As for updates, I added more to the Gauntlet sprite sheet, found in the Image Gallery. I added a 8-bit sprite sheet created by Stoneman of me for a game he's making. He added a few of the people from the forum I hang out at without even telling us! I though being secretive was my shtick. I also added a MM Soccer style Gauntlet. You see, a while ago, Iceman (from the S6) made the MM Soccer conversions of his buddies. This was before we really knew each other. Well, I was thinking about that and made one of my own. For myself since he stopped his MM soccer conversion project a loooong time ago.

I also updated the Team links. I decided to label some teams as "dead" even though they posted no good-bye message. They never updated anyways, so the ones which seemed dead were put in the former teams links. On a similar note, Cossacks Creations is being revamped by one of their members according to Just Kim (Drill Ma'am), so their link is still up, even though they haven't updated.

Magnetman would also like to announce his new project, the Noid Homepage. The Noid was a mascot for Dominoes Pizza way back in the day. I remember him, actually. A bit. Well, a links been added in the links section as well.

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Posted in 2 forums I frequent, this'll surely be a site favorite. An image including nearly every single sprite for every single master boss in the MM series! Enjoy, because updates WILL be slow. I'm conserving content.

In other news, there seems to be a Shadowman EXE. He actually looks pretty badass, unlike Woodman EXE. Who knew!?

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