Mega Man 2 - Bloopers, Glitches, and Other Cool Stuff 

When he said "Take the time-stopper, for example.", my video buffered.

10 years. A long long time since i last watched this. Ah, i still even remember your intro :D

The reason those "garbage layers" show up is because the game loads the levels tilesets before the robot master intro has stopped. So it tries to display the robot master intro using the graphics from the stage.

I'm going to try and explain what happened at 4:10 ~ So, on the NES, the system only had so much memory, so every stage was compiled onto one big map. Gates were only programmed to go right, so when using Item-1 to go back into the gate, the system moves you one screen to the right, which just so happens to have Wily Castle 2 next to it. The game has no idea that you're here, so it keeps Air Man's music, tile set, and you don't have his weapon. I have gotten to the boss, and because the game doesn't know what stage you are currently on, there is no boss.

I dunno if your control method allows for it, but have you ever thrown a Metal Blade while holding two opposite directions? The game doesn't know how to handle it since the weapon's trying to go in both directions, so it just sits there in the air. It's fun trying to trap enemies with it.

The reason the door glitch takes you to a messed-up Wily stage is simple; in order to save on memory, the Wily stages were tacked on to the existing stages instead of being given their own level slot (incidentally, MM1 did the exact same thing). When you enter a Wily stage, all it's really doing is loading up one of the regular Robot Master stages one screen past the boss room, using different art assets. So in the Air Man case, the reason you end up in a glitched Wily 2 is because you're not actually leaving the level. Rather, you're simply passing into the section reserved for Wily 2, and because the stage hasn't loaded the correct art assets, that's why it looks all glitched; it's basically cobbling it together with Air Man's graphics. As far as I'm aware, the pairings work like this: Heat Man/Wily 1 Air Man/Wily 2 Wood Man/Wily 3 Bubble Man/Wily 4 Quick Man/Wily 5 Flash Man/Wily 6 Incidentally, this corresponds not only with the weapon order on the pause screen, but also the order in which you fight the rematches if you work your way through the teleporters from left to right, top to bottom. This gives us an interesting insight into the internal level order. Interestingly enough, using this glitch to go past the end of Metal Man's or Crash Man's stage simply loads random garbage data because no Wily stage has been added to them. In those cases you're truly glitching past the end of the stage, and the resulting mess is simply the game reading non-level code as level data. You'd see something similar if you were somehow able to use the same glitch at the end of the Wily stages.

0:41 - That robot wolf you're talking about. His name is REALLY "Hot Dog". I have no idea, why...

I did some experimenting with the shutter glitch at [4:00], but I went through to the Block room without dying. Yes, that means I had to figure out how to reach the boss area *while the game spits out Airman's tornados.* I figured out how to unstick Megaman from the ground, and used the wind gusts to get to the ladder section. At that point, I realized that Airman still had a hurtbox in the glitched Wily2 area, but could only be hit once. Killing Airman in the Wily2 area doesn't appear to do anything other than boot you out of the castle and give you the weapons. In the case that you successfully reach the Block room with the tornados active, nothing really special happens.

Those Junk-Layers make really good Desktop Wallpapers

7:06 Eventually, Mega Man stopped thinking.

Still keep coming back to these videos after all these years :)

oh god this is my childhood

I can't believe it, the Mega man 2 Bonus video

robo wolf is called friender not kidding

That was awesome, getting through the glitched up Wily stage. Bummer that there was no boss at the end, otherwise it would've set a new parameter for speed runs hah. And your commentary is so awesome too!

You can also do that funky Airman and item 1 glitch in Woodman's stage, but it will take you to Wily stage 3

Cool video! Loved Mega Man! Never knew about the glitches!

Lol I love this games, and there gliches. Nice video!!

You are really funny I'm glad I stumbled onto this, I'm gonna subscribe! haha

No problem! I always look forward to Mega Man videos from you. :)

I like this dude! The stars-turned-birds thing is easy but these glitches were fun to watch :)

2:26 did you know gaming: you dont actually have to jump at all to do this. you can actually just get really close to the wall and fire, and the item-2 will appear on the other side

I saw the 4:10 glitch in a speedrun to auto-kill Airman, and (It worked!). So ridiculous.

Item 3, the Chained Weights, and Drills probably show up because since they don't have a palette or data (or so much as a place) with the Airman stage template and sprites, it isn't replaced.

at 5.58 you wanna know the technical term. the game uses air mans tileset(graphics) and color table and tile assemblyment(the building of the graphics) but willy stage 2 structure table and scroll map(wich controlls how the screens should scroll).

If you play Mega Man 2 on an emulator, you can press down and up simultaneously. If you do this on a ladder he does a neat little dance.

Some things I discovered: 1. When entering Flash Man's room quip the Metal Blade, hold up and stand there until he hits you. During the invincibility frames, spam the Metal Blade upwards while Flash Man is in you. He gets juggled up into the upper-left corner and can do nothing until he dies. 2. When fighting Quick Man, do not use the Time Stopper until he's below half health and you are close to death. When you freeze him, just before he dies, jump into him. (cont.)

Fascinating how in all the garbage layers, Mega Man's exploded body is spread out in the same way every time.

Wow that was really interesting, those glitches were really weird too.

That air man glitch is so cool!!!

Note that the Airman glitch works for the US version and not the EU. (I tried)

Back to RM2: Exhaust; that one increased difficulty hack that I mentioned before. The Air Man Glitch Warp Thingus is present in Metal Man's stage. I don't know if it takes you to a Wily level or not, but Metal Man follows you throughout the whole glitch level. If you defeat Metal Man, it counts as a victory. I recommend checking the hack out, if you haven't. Wily Level 3 contains Moskau.

@GeminiLaser actually, the garbage layer is because the level and the boss screen go away and load at the same time

@ClassicGamesFTW It might change depending on what weapon you have equipped--bullets are blue bar, leaf shield changes it to green and maybe it affects the boss one too.

I think what was happening with the Air Man to Wily 2 glitch, was it was putting you into the Wily stage 2 level, but it's using a different tile set, not a different palette.

No one's talking about how the other robot masters eyes' are black and only MetalMan's eyes are red!XD

I once did the Air Man/Wily Castle 2 glitch with Item 3 while trying to figure out a way to avoid the tornadoes.

I managed to pause the video and see the screen of random stuff.

I'm going to hazard a guess at the reasonings (although you probably know the correct answer already). The entire game is programmed as a series of maps, all in the same area. These are loaded when you go into the rooms. The room to the right of the air man boss room is where the start of the wily 2 level is coded. You can see this glitch in Link's Awakening, Link to the Past, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, basically most 2D games with rooms where you can glitch through walls to other rooms.

On the Wily stage with the spikes and moving platforms, the first room doesn't have a ceiling, and you can 'fall up' and it'll go into a climbing animation and force you back up to the previous screen, unlike the first stage.

I discovered a CRAZY double-glitch with Wood Man! If you do the push-into-the-ceiling glitch in the corner of the "Dr. W" block at the end of his stage, you go flying around, fall, die, and respawn in the glitched-out Wily 3 stage!!! 2 glitches in 1!!

the reason the graphics overlap mega man is indeed because of the clouds. air man's stage is programmed to have the tileset on top of the objects instead of being in the background so the clouds could be rendered correctly.

In Flash Man's stage one time, I was falling down to the screen where that weird oval head guy thing shoots you. I got hit just as I appeared so it made me invisible for the rest of the stage. When O tried to switch weapons though the game crashed.

First one of these vids where he never starts the intro with a password screen

I have Megaman II for gameboy, not this game but a different one with HP on the bottom of the screen and it's a gray game pak. I've discovered many AMAZING glitches on there, like slowing the game severely, climbing up walls, combining screens together to make a glitch world, stuff like that...i can tell how to do them and/or make video (bad quality though) showing them. They all come straight from good ol' Hard Knuckle. BTW one glitch I know of for the game happens automatically when the...

@GeminiLaser Dragon glitch: jumping too far away from the mech-dragon will cause you to miss the next block and fall to your death since the block has yet to be in range.

From what I know, the reason why some stages have garbled versions of the Wily stages is because both levels (one actual level and the glitched Wily level) are actually together as one long stage. This may be because the NES has its system limitations and is not programmed to make enough separate stages (at the time) or Nintendo did not know how. But here's the interesting part; while the two stages are one big level, the game was programmed to load one part of the level graphics at its will!

the item 1 is glitchy against the bosses. airman takes you to wily stage 2, woodman takes you to wily 3, bubble man takes you to wily 4 and crasman takes you to the title screen

There is a lot less sprite flicker on the NES-101 it is the redesigned version it is very nice

You forgot the Pierobot Gear Glitch! When you kill a Pierobot, as long as it hasn't forced the gear to fall, it will start moving slowly to one direction as if you killed it while the Pierobot while it was rolling on the gear, just watch out for the gear, as it can still hurt you, but it keeps rolling in midair as long as you keep it onscreen. The gear also bounces off walls.

Funny thing I found out about the first breakable walls in Wily Stage 2, you can just jump over them, without having to use Crash Bomber. Use Item-1 to get on top of them, then just hop over the others. I think it's because the tops of them are offscreen, and part of their code got cut off with the screen.

I got "okay he's president albert that's cool" Considering the context, it's even funnier.

@GeminiLaser Oh, hey!--If you want me to explain any of my glitches, I'd be happy to. Just warning you though, I get into pretty specific detail a LOT. If you don't think so, just look at my last two comments.

@PonyturdFly Those Pokemon cities are weird I remember if you do the walk thru walls glitch you can enter "copies" of a city over and over and they end at the wrong spots, the doors dont work and you cant read signs but you can battle Pokemon With the Dr. Wily thing, it seems you are stuck in the first part of the screen because the game thinks it loaded a boss fight, and in a boss fight you can't scroll left or right so you can't do that in the Dr. Wily place

@GeminiLaser should i make videos like bloopers and glitches thing like yours?

Your voice is great for these videos, haha.

Worth noting that if you use Time Stopper BEFORE you enter a room with a Hot Dog in it, it'll be intangible as it should be.

Another thing I noticed about this glitch when I preformed it on an emulator was that airman's health bar changed from blue to green. I can't imagine why, but it happened >.> I can't remember but does the boss of Wily Stage 2 have a green health bar?

1:54 sadly whenever i try that trick it shunts me out the left side. Was there anything else u did or just let it naturally go?

As for the glitched palette in the first few wily rooms, well I guess it's to do with the clouds that cover Air Man's level not understanding what they're supposed to do in rooms they're not made for.

Wall climb can be done in many ways. I'll list the first way I did it, in Magnetman level: Play through the game til you get to the long screen that begins with the appearing and disappearing platforms. Go to the end of the screen, climb the ladder and now DO NOT MOVE! Select Hard Knuckle, unpause, press A and B at the same time, you'll fall through a blank screen, then back to the beginning if the level. Go to the left, and fall through the white gap. You'll fall into the same beginning...

@GeminiLaser I'm sure that since this video, you collected dozens of different glitches that weren't mentioned.

Really cool video!!!!!!!!!!!!

ya how do you did the slide?

How do you do the glitch with item number 1?

I once killed Wood Man while he was summoning his shield, I found it hilarious how the leaf shield kept on spinning after he died

These videos have aged surprisingly well.

@GeminiLaser there's a glitch when you defeat air man at the same time you get hit at low health air man will explode, but your explosion will be at the center of megaman and when you telaport the explosion will still be there. :)

There's also one in HeatMan State- Wily Stage 1. Not sure aobut Wood's and Bubble

Gawd i`m terrible at that glitch! i always make the wierd air things stop but i never make the other shutter open! what way do face to fall backwards and go to the other shutter?

I tried what you did at 3:41 and nailed it by the 3rd try! :D

@ThePcTrickster what is the program called and where can i get it?

That red pause sign in the lower right corner of The junk screen looks familiar. What emulator do you use?

Man, if there was a boss at the end of that glitchy wily stage, only 7 (maybe 8) stages would be necessary in a MM2 speedrun.

I noticed the garbage layer makes 1 of the enemies that are in the stage look like there doing the boss's pose

that dragon glitch when you go to fast happen to me i felt like a noob

That ending tho XD

Have you ever done the glitch in the Heatman fight? You can get to Wily 1 with Heatman's level palette if you do something right...I haven't gotten it to work, but my friend has. Look it up or make a vid please.

I got the one at 4:00, but on bubble man's stage. That one took me to Wily stage 4.

I don't think I know any other person than me who uses the velocity glitch to get that energy tank in Metal Man's stage.

lol have you tried to get game over when you are on the airman's castle level 2?

2 (cont). Depending on when you die, you can either end up dying along with him, causing the game to stay in the boss room forever, OR you can die, yet survive. The death explosion effect will freeze around you and Mega Man will still be standing there. The latter will also count as a victory!

I did a great job at getting to Dr. Wily Stage4 via Bubble Man! ;D

@gamevingw I have that game and have discovered lots of glitches in it; I can tell you if you want. One of them does things like what this here game's Dr. Wily-Air Man level glitch does, taking you to rooms that shouldn't exist.

i think the glitch meaning for the junk thing when you start a level is that the game is loading all the textures into this map

Unless it just gives you the normal weapons that Air Man gives. That happens if you manage to fight and defeat the weird dragon(who, BTW, dies in one hit).

in heat man's stage I did the item 2 trick (the dance on the end there) and I laughed so hard. and then I killed heat man.

closed captions, transcribe audio on 1:10 "okay he's president alter that's cool"

The technical explanation isn't that complicated really. All the stages are contained in one linear piece of memory in the game so if you manage to somehow go past the end of a stage the game just keeps loading the next section of memory which could be anything. Each tile is represented by a number so when the game skips to the new piece of memory the wrong tiles are loaded, Leading to the wrong tile/number combinations. I Hope you enjoyed the needlessly techy explanation ;)

can you play with cheats for kirby or mario?

@GeminiLaser: 1:54: I loved the way you said "Yay!" It's so funny. Actually, come to think of it, it's just as funny as your "Sliiiiiiiide....UP!" from your MM4 glitch video. I hope you say it that way in your MM5 runthrough/glitch videos.

@GeminiLaser HA! Just played it again tonight, the pak was corrupted! So much glitching; I went to the beginning screen with the four levels that you select from, hit Wood MAn, and he started to jump up but messy echoing sprites jumped and there was the loud continuous beeping sound of health being refilled, and it froze. Another time, he did a glitch but looked normal as if he was supposed to do it: He jumped into the rectangle, flexed his muscles like normal, then he turned and...

Airman ported you to video game hell.

Gemini, did you know you can access other glitched wily stages? Apparently, the Wily stages are programmed in the same map as the other stages. So are...intro stages, passwords, endings...lol

Lol geminilaser is super funny to watch XD

i found a simple but amusing glitch in wily stage 4 in the second moving platform section let it move you to the ceiling and it will shunt you out

how do you get item 2 to do the glitch in air man stage?

@Hiryu7777 To me, it seems the lag is what makes the glitch happen. I've done it, but it's so hard for me!

Bloopers? Squid Mario Shenanigans.

Where did you get that "Try Again" voice from, GeminiLaser?