Best VGM 268 - Mega Man 9 - We're the Robots (Wily Stage 2)

[citronvand]

I just noticed that Megaman has stockings...

WHY?

[Beremor]

@citronvand The artwork is supposed to be awful. It's a parody of the Mega Man 2-artwork for the american version, which ... Didn't quite meet the expectations.

[TrueGamerNET]

Has anybody noticed megaman is an old man in this picture? XXXXDDD

[spanio]

I love that terrible box art.

NOT PICTURED: ANYTHING FROM THE ACTUAL GAME.

[QuartrGuy]

This needs a TF2 Scout BONK! remix.

[Leviskardsen]

@QuartrGuy For a TF2 remix, search "We're the spies".

[MindOfCreativity]

Yay bad boxart Mega Man is back!

[panch0bill]

top 5 mm stage music of all time (in no particular order):

bubbleman

flashman

mm4 cossack stages 3-4

mm3 ending...

...and THIS

is it even POSSIBLE to hate on a top 5 like this?

[panch0bill]

@panch0bill throwing in mm2 wily stages 1-2 could be argued

[piontaton]

change it to 240p to more awesomeness

[LevantineR1]

@piontaton Someone knows what it's all about.

[Einhanderrr]

old retro covers are just fine

[aaronthegreat695]

@Einhanderrr wat

[mikeeli]

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[mikeeli]

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[LevantineR1]

I never thought I'd see the word "fidelity" on an electronics label again. Bravo, Capcom.

[MrAgnost]

@LevantineR1 good eyes! +1

[gunslingerfry]

Ugh... nightmares! MM9 is really quite difficult, and there's a place with spikes in Stage 2 that makes me want to throw my controller. I'm lazy and like easy games these days :D

[Y0mAMa5957]

Someone needs to make an extended version of this song, its one of the best songs in the entire game :), and tbh, I like this one a lot more than Wily's Stage 1's song from MM2

[Coronelfarofa]

I just wonder if the king can sing

[TheKenster64]

This soooo kicks the MM2 Wily stage theme away by a longshot....

[XxTSUNAMISNIPERxX]

cover still dosent beat the messed up face of mega man 1

[TheCastro82]

0:01- Look at where the "V" is.

[randomperson763]

@TheCastro82 Fits perfectly! xD

[CaptainBasilisx1]

@TheCastro82 Dude....yes XD

[Yazunmanto77]

@TheCastro82 LOL

[TrueGamerNET]

This song is awesome and I am writing these letters 2 the rythem.

[moccamonster]

That boxart would only be more badass is his armcannon would also shoot guns

[TuucciZ]

@moccamonster Guns... Or armcannons?

[moccamonster]

@TuucciZ Wooow

[TuucciZ]

@moccamonster Would an armcannon that shoots armcannons that shoot armcannons be a bit over-the-top?

Would make for a fun robot master, though. And by fun, I mean like Air Man. Can't defeat.

[moccamonster]

@TuucciZ Clusterfuck man? FUND IT! FOR SCIENCE!

[TuucciZ]

@moccamonster ARMCANNONARMCANNONARMCANNON MAN

[papalolita]

Back in the day, almost all American box art for Japanese games is fucked up. It's the norm to add 'American flavor' to the art to appeal to American gamers.

[GrounderTheRobot]

WE ARE FUCKING ROBOTS

[IamDevilBat]

@GrounderTheRobot

I don't know about others, but i know i ain't sticking my mega buster inside something mechanic.

[GrounderTheRobot]

@IamDevilBat

Lol

[IntervigiliumSleep]

This is the best Mega Man track besides Cossack Stage 2. The part at 1:12 is my fave.

[Sparx1]

"We're the ro-bots,

Doctor Wily's ro-bots,

And we all are so not,

fond of Megaman!

We're the ro-bots,

Doctor Wily's ro-bots,

And we do a WHOLE lot,

For his master plan!"

[ABBflstudiomaster]

This video is why youtube should have a repeat button. Like this if you agree.

[KnusperEnte]

I don´t think thats an inside joke with the box art.

I believe they made the same mistake AGAIN! XD

[mainland09]

why does mega-man look like a man on the cover, but looks and sounds like an 11 year old boy everywhere else. his name should be mega-boy..... just saying

*Kanye Shrug*

[GigaCaptainOlimar]

@mainland09 If you read the top rated comment or knew anything about the classic Mega Man games, you'd know that it's an inside joke, parodying the horrible box art of Mega Man 1 and 2.

[mainland09]

@GigaCaptainOlimar

if you read my comment you would know that im not referfing to the box-art. i know about mega man, ive been a fan for a longtime, but in the mega-man and marvel vs games he looks, sounds, and acts like a boy if it walks like duck, talks like a duck, its a duck.. his name should be mega-boy....just saying

[mainland09]

@mainland09

*Kanye Shrug*

[GigaCaptainOlimar]

@mainland09 The "Man" suffix included in nearly every Robot Master's name is just part of the long-running naming scheme. The name "Mega Boy" sounds fairly bad to begin with, so plastering it into the middle of every other "Man" character would make it seem out of place.

[Axapez]

@mainland09

"Why does mega-man look like a man on the cover...."

"If you read my comment you would know I'm not referring to the box-art."

Wait, what?

[shadowsdie]

the Fruit Fucker in the background has saws for hands. we're all screwed.

[DoomsdayOdd]

HOLY SHIT!!!!

seriously, you know that old 90s Megaman cartoon? watch the episode "mega X" and compare X to this cover. holy crap.

[sodalakevine]

This and the endless stage track are my favorite from MM9, both written by Yu Shimoda

[jwild611]

This level is fricken hard! Especially the water section. And this is music is perfect. About as good as music can get....and not just video game music

[masterplusmargarita]

To tell the truth, I started madly laughing when I first saw this boxart. I never got my hands on the first one's box, but I knew about it. And I say this is the boldest (And freaking FUNNIEST) way possible to have an inside joke: put it right on the box!

[kffeine]

@CodeLimit Um.... no. Actually, a bit is 1/8 of a byte.

[Duorsa]

@kffeine so nes games are a byte?

[kffeine]

@Duorsa The graphical engine is 8 bits, which means it's, yes, 1 byte. Now, the size of the game itself isn't only a byte of information. Pick the first Megaman game, for example, it said in the box that it had one Megabit of memory, which equals to 125 KB as aforementioned. But don't worry, that's a common mistake, even Stuttering Craig mistook both.

[NewFreeLobbies]

O_O

[sineporf]

Megaman 2's wily stage was classic, but I believe this hit number one best Megaman music for me. Incredible soundtrack.

Love the throwback art.

[faves3000]

@Akujitsu well id like it!capcom was wrong.

[DirtyColossus7]

EPIC WIN!

[indignation01]

while we're on the megaman 1 boxart..... it had one whole megabit of memory! yaay, 125 KB!

[MrAgnost]

@indignation01 wow that's almost as big as .... wait, 125 KB?

Someone feel free to nag if it's bit or byte now , because in amounts like that who cares XD

So much fun for just 125, and it's not dollars :P

[Sejr]

I think it's great how they even intentionally kept the box in the somewhat retarded MM 1 & 2 style. It's just awesome self-awareness.

[ScrapBrainZone]

This song is amazing, but this level is SO damn long.

I love it.

[zongorat]

MM10's wily music totally can't beat this ^_^

[Romuluzz]

That picture of Wiley (I guess it is him) looks like an combination of Heihachi and Strogg to me :D

[MrNintendofan1985]

this level was so hard but the song kicked ass you just have to play no matter how many deaths you get! it's just that fuckin awesome!

[GameMasterSoko]

The very beginning of this sounds like a speeded up version of Smoke on the water with a different last note so it's not totally the same.

[GreggMays64]

I love how both MM8 and MM9 Dr Wily Stage 2 themes are all nice and smooth.

[MariotheBRAWLPRO]

the cover is sooo gay :D

[stickguy703]

I always wonder why they draw Megaman with a Hand Gun when his hand is a gun in the games. (altough this picture has both the arm cannon and a hand gun.)

[GigaCaptainOlimar]

@stickguy703 Well, the first two NES box arts were drawn by an idiot, and the ones for 9 and 10 just spoof them.

[InvaderZim897]

@GigaCaptainOlimar

Mega Man 2's boxart is not THAT bad. And I actually like the cartridge art.

[GigaCaptainOlimar]

@InvaderZim897 Well, fair point. It was somewhat closer to actually resembling Mega Man in any way.

[InvaderZim897]

@GigaCaptainOlimar

Yeah, and then by 3 they pretty much had it. But 6's is my favorite.

[1337d0od]

@stickguy703

I think it started when Capcom gave an artist like 12 hours to come up with boxart for Megaman 2. I don't really remember the story but I think that's why the boxart is like that.

[paperluigi232]

absolutely HATED the level but this music is BAD ASS

[OmegaWeaponX25]

Wonder why it is that this game pretty much have better music than any game released for Xbox 360, Wii or PS3?

[nastyguard007]

cause musicians for every game have lost their imaginations, while Mega Man keeps it fresh. =)

The 8-Bit vibe helps out too.

[OmegaWeaponX25]

Yeah, i guess. There's always exceptions of course...

[Deboogs]

Personally I think the music for Mario Galaxy is spectacular. However, I'm not denying that Megaman 9 has better music than most games for the 7th gen systems.

[OmegaWeaponX25]

I never played to far into SMG. It was too easy for me but yeah, the music was pretty nice. Its not like all next-gen games have bad music. :)

[TheRandomDragon01]

@OmegaWeaponX25 Then just wait 'til you do the Daredevil Comet of Bouldergeist. That's actually pretty tough.

[NeoSaturos123]

Better? I would rather say that the Mega Man 9 soundtrack is on par with the ones for Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360.

[BonePizza]

Aweosme music, lame title.

[RodrigoMera]

@BonePizza

We're The Robots? it's a decent name.

[TarnDarkBlade72]

Its an awesome name!! =O

[Einhanderrr]

there is almost very fucking high resolution games crysis, god of war, halo, tekken etc.

but im sure that megaman claims his own place next to those =)

Long live megaman

[psychee1]

Heh, have you seen the two different Megaman 2 boxarts? In one Megaman looks more like a night in shining armor and in the other he's a swat trooped with a handgun and a blue pyjamas and Dr Light commands the robots to attack him. Either that or Wily had a massive beard and glasses.

[ShadowKid121]

So what ur sayin is that the boxart got crappier?

[fvgbe342]

That picture reminds me of the bad old days in video gaming when the graphics were so hard to see that the artist couldn't figure out exactly what they look like. Good times.

[SmashBro415]

In the words of Stuttering Craig (or some obscure other person) , "It's so bad it's good."

[Extroble]

I hate 3:00 and up. It sucks.

Yay lame jokes!

[DeltaCvC77]

What? you're kidding..

I played ALL orginal Megaman games and THIS soundtrack is one of the best DEFINETLY! I think Capcom did a great job on this one!

Capcom is still focused one the gamers and what they want! the opposite of this all is EA..

They were flushing out games allmost every month.

EA was sooo interrested in the opinion of the gamers now they just produce them like on a conveyorbelt...

so CAPCOM great job on this one epic game epic soundtrack! 5*

[ultimateLinkpower656]

strange that megaman has a buster and a handgun

[Thassarian09]

i have reason to believe that Dr.Wily has been turned into a Borg O_o

[theqontwo]

dr wily is almost like sigma in the picture

[EinherjarLeo]

Mega Man holding a gun, charging a green plasma beam fighting against a ninja-acyborg Wily... So... So freaking... "Epic".

[Kageryushi]

He looks more like X than Mega Man, in my opinion.

[dx619hey]

@EinherjarLeo Yeah, but have you seen the cover art for the Disc release of Super Meat Boy? I'd definitely argue that that one's more epic.

[bushwhacker2k]

Christ, that megaman image is awesome :D

[memoriesofrem]

Love the box art, lets you know that Capcom has a sense of humor about their old, horrible mega man arts. I was actually a bit disappointed in the music for MM9, but this and galaxy man's music were alright

[randomfan1]

The guys at Capcom must have some serious ADD or something. Yeah, that box art is just... woooooooow. Yeah, Wiley is a zombie and mega man isnt a boy and he uses an actual fucking gun. HA HA HAAAAAAAAA

[GaussRifleGrunt]

Have you ever seen the old MM box art? Yeah, go check that shit. It's a reference to how USA artists would fuck the game's shit up on the box art.

[NessAndLucied]

They intentionally made it bad as a reference to the old games. Get a clue!

[Akujitsu]

That art is an inside joke dude. You are obviously too young, or never saw the Mega Man 1 original box art for the NES. Look it up, then come back and look at the 9 art, you'll see why it looks that way. Its a joke from Capcom because the original art was a rushed project and slapped on at the last minute because the American producers didn't feel that Americans would like the anime style art for the Japanese version of MM1.

[tsunami2011]

man i looked bad, i was born too young to understand much, but when i looked in my closet to plug in an old console and get some nostalgic feelins, saw that box... YEESH!

[ElectricHawk]

That's the POINT. Holy shit you're dumb.

[bushwhacker2k]

Chill, insulting people isn't the way to get a point across.

[ElectricHawk]

I disagree completely.

[Rodlikespants]

haha that's not the only one, I remember I was very confused by the box art of Strider for sega genesis

[HakoneDrift]

@Akujitsu aww i could remember a wimpy future cop holding a pistol! good times, good times, though the boxart was really cliche even at that time...

[Akujitsu]

@HakoneDrift That's game art at its best!!

[Joeytehgeetarist]

@Akujitsu I love the box art for this. It's sooooooo bad. Nothing beats the terrible hilarity of the 1st MM box art, but man, this is an epicly close 2nd. xD

[mopbrothers]

@Akujitsu And a very good joke it is too! Megaman's all raw and dirty looking just the way we like him :)

[mopbrothers]

@Akujitsu The more dirty and raw megaman looks the better. a nostaglia trip to the extreme is very pleasing to the eye.

[origialtych]

@Akujitsu as i recall didn't megaman only have a gun on the original american

box art and they had him a desert or something dressed in some rediculace dress looking

thing?

[fintogive]

@Akujitsu i have the original mega man box art so i knew what capcom did lol

[angelopanzer]

God damn! I loved all original sound tracks of the mega man 9! totally awesome!

[terorfang]

thats a freaky pic of megaman :o

[TurquoiseStar17]

It kind of looks like a mix of the artwork from the covers of Megaman 1 and 2.

The differences being that Megaman didn't have an arm cannon, only a gun, he was partially yellow on MM1 and had a visor on MM2.

Maybe they drew him like that just for the retroness of the game.

[MexicanJuice7]

One of my favorite things about this game is that there are NO bad songs in it! MM9's entire soundtrack kicks ass!

[midnafan132]

well there is the ending song with the credits... BECAUSE THAT MEANS THE EOICNESS IS OVER!!!! =( untill you play it again that is lol

[BoreanWolf]

Is this related to the Kraftwerk song? Lulz.

[wha2309]

i hated the old classic megaman games they where hard.the new ones are better

[mytmike96]

just because something is hard doesnt mean its bad

[wowinim]

Are you kidding? The retro ones were the best! And so what if they were hard, they were made challenging for a reason.

[wha2309]

i don't prefer the old megaman games does that sounds better

[Koushoun]

you got so many thumbs down...

But what you said was so true!

MEGAMAN IS NOT HARD IF YOU ARE A GAMER!

ITS ALL PATTERNS!!

TO OWN AT MEGAMAN YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND MEGAMAN!

[gregarreaper]

that touched me i gotta get my ass up and beat megaman 9 i've been on stage 3 final willy for 1 week lol

[phantazmo]

the new ones are hard too

[mavrickindigo]

you are not a mega man fan

real fans love both

[axlbrujo]

The High Schools aren't fans then... c'mon, 8-Bit Mega Man did always kick ass

[TheOnlyGBeast]

somehow... this reminds me of Splash Woman's stage..

[RenaudMax16]

mmm, is it me... or this music is like We Didn't start the fire by Billy joel :P

[nanotecnico]

tu eres tonto.

[Idolores]

How's this for an idea? Who don't Capcom do a Megaman X9 in the style of Megaman 9? You know, like going back to 16-bit like MM9 did with 8-bit.

[lolmaster4]

Good idea, I loved Megman X :D

[Aaronthereal1]

The whole point of making Megaman 9 was to return megaman to his roots

[Idolores]

Don't mean it's a bad idea, does it? You wouldn't like to see another 16-bit Megaman X title with all the precepts in place that defined X or even X2?

[Shaiberu]

No, the whole point really was to appeal to the retro fans with a new classic Mega Man game in the style of the originals.

Not that I mind at all, I love MM9.

[Warrior536]

that would be awesome. Megaman X1 and X2 were awesome. I didnt liked any of the others though =(

[YourAverageJoey]

BLASPHEMY, X4 was the best of its series. :(

[B3LiiZ32]

x4-x6 even tho x6 had a crappy story

[YourAverageJoey]

X6 was crap. The reploid powerups were crap, the soul collecting mechanic was crap, the minibosses were crap the overall stage design was crap.

It was like X7's slightly less retarded older brother.

[IntuitionJo]

You are all silly. X is a great series, but X1 will ALWAYS be king.

[axlbrujo]

Saddly for you, X it's the worst thing that it ever happened to Mega Man, The original NES series owns any Mega Man X.

[Wulf543]

You seem to be forgetting about Starforce, bro.

[younglink3108]

the worst things to happened to megaman was the battle network & star force series cause they sucked really

[Erghest]

It actually had a relatively interesting story, which was unfortunately ruined by its awful translation.

[RRWcomicsboy]

Is it safe to say I actually own and enjoy X6 and X7? And I didn't hear mention of Command Mission, that's like the black sheep of X games.

[UncleJemimahs]

Well I don't know if I can agree with 7 (didn't really play it tbh), 6 was definitely awesome and is hugely underrated...

[chosuke93]

２のワイリーステージよりも神かもしれん

いや、ゲーム界Ｎｏ１の神曲だ

[TaylorMk2002]

Fuck yeah! I have this as my ring tone!

[dutchminator]

You gotta tell me where you got it \o/

[CodyRockLee13]

Capcom stayed true to it's roots. T___T *cries tears of absolute joy*

...

Good job, Capcom. ;-; Good job.

I'm too shocked at the amount of awesome Capcom contains to say much more... *sniffle hick*

[WiiNutt]

If they had only great music in street fighter.

[eviltwin99N]

They used to.

Look at SF2 turbo.

some of my fave vgm of all time.

[Greenboom98]

This game has a really good soundtrack. Great song! Still haven't beat this game yet... :-( Need to make time and finish it.

[ZeZwede]

I hope they dig up and make some more "new" old games. ;)

[WiiNutt]

Chrono trigger for example.

On the DS isnt enough ,it should come on VC

[mmb101]

playing ds on the wii would be difficult

[WiiNutt]

it was a snes game wich got on the ds 10 years later

[eishikibahamut]

lol megaman has a gun in his right hand it's so pointless yet I love it.

[DAJ01]

All right, thats it. I can't take it. The old school graphics, those chiptunes, THAT CHEESY AWESOME BOXART.

...I have to make sweet love to you now, Capcom.

[alexthepure]

Indeed. I did find it pretty clever of Capcom to use the art style they used about 20 years ago on the other Megaman games

Like the previous boxes, they made some things look a tad inaccurate, but cooler, like Galaxyman and Wily in the background...

it would have been cool if they pixelated that version of Wily there ^ ^

8-BIT WILL NEVER DIE! :D

[coaster6]

your right, 8 bit will never die

[GarlyleWilds]

The whole cover art is a reference to the horrendously terrible original Mega Man's boxart (Seriously, have you looked it up? There are very, very few box arts that have come close to being as absolutely irrelevant - only "Mobile Light Force 2" beats it out, I think)

[Valientlink]

I also think someone should convert this into an NES rom file.

[Valientlink]

I love how they kept the traditional horrible box art. That's just too awesome.

[Jegudiel21ZX]

Starting at 1:12 is my favorite