The main weapon icon is not present, nor is the difficulty text at the bottom-center. Health & Energy tanks are centered, rather than in the top-right. The portrait image is a re-drawn version of the art from the player select screen, rather than the matching artwork X and Zero have in the final. A chime can only be heard when Ultimate Armor is activated - no sound plays to indicate Black Zero's activation.īoth weapon menus are slightly different from their final incarnation.
Unlike the May build, the codes for unlocking Ultimate Armor/Black Zero work as in the final, mostly.On the player select screen, the X-Buster is misspelled as "X-Bastar", and the Z-Sabre is spelled Z-Saber, like the international version.The player select screen from the May 1st, 2000 prototype has been updated to the final design, though the retail game's comments on X and Zero's characteristics are not yet present. The "SAMPLE" button allows access to the Training stage - which was inaccessible in the May 1st prototype. You can now continue from a previous save file and access controller configuration from the title screen, newly implemented since the May build. Title Screen and Player Select May Prototype The July prototype has a close-up of the explosion, while the final version has it as large as in the rest of the cutscene. The Enigma cannon is rendered at a different angle, does not yet have the blue filter, and is firing a beam which is not present in the final. The shot of the Eurasia colony prior to the shuttle was redrawn and animated for the final version In addition, they're ordered differently than in the release version - Alia, then Signas, then Douglas, then Lifesaver. This sketch is noticeable as it went unused and couldn't match any finalized variant in final cutscene.Īll four mugshots are posed differently in this prototype.
The text shows 2XXX instead of 21XX which was used in final.īoth July prototype and final displayed a scenario which Zero is fighting Sigma the July prototype used barebone sketches of one flashback scene in Zero's ending (Maverick Zero fighting Commander Sigma, prior to the first Mega Man X), while the final version was given a new flashback scene (Zero fighting fake Zero and Neo Sigma in Mega Man X2).ĭifferent barebone sketch #4. Dynamo does not appear alongside the 8 Maverick bosses, and certain animation effects and transitions are missing. No music is present at this point, and various illustrations use provisional sketches as placeholders. Noticeably incomplete compared to the final build. If the timer ends, and the player soft resets after loading the incomplete "Zero Virus Discovered" scene, that cutscene will loop infinitely. The "Load from Previous Data" mechanic has a glitch in this build related to this.Unlike the retail builds of X4 and X5 and the May prototype, however, this functionality also works in cutscenes. You can hold Start and Select to force the game to soft reset just like in X4, the May 1st, 2000 prototype and the final version of X5.Unlike the May 1st, 2000 prototype, Zero's ground slash combos can be cancelled via crouching.The credits instead play the Shadow Devil theme. The credits are re-used from X4's, though the music is not present.Boss Level mechanic is bugged It seems the non- Lv.96 bosses will always use the level increasing rate under MEH/MMH rank regardless of X/Zero's current rank.Unlike the May 1st, 2000 prototype, Eurasia's timer mechanic and the events that occur when the timer expires function in this build as in the final.
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