Mega Man X5 for the Sony Playstation ------------------------------------ -Legal Things Creator/Developer: CAPCOM Current version: 1.0 Copyright 2006 Steve Sanchez. Faq writer: Steve Sanchez (iplaylikekg) E-mail: juarezshirley@hotmail.com This guide is for personal use only. ------------------------------------ Please do not take this or parts Table of contents of this guide without my permission. 1.) Introduction Thanks. 2.) How to play All trademarks and copyrights 3.) Items contained in this document are owned 4.) Armors by their respective trademark and 5.) Sigma virus copyright holders. 6.) Hunter rank 7.) Starting/Saving Version History 8.) Walkthrough July 28, 2006- Started 9.) Items and parts locations July 29, 2006- Added character, items, 10.)Secrets/codes Sigma virus, armors, hunter rank, Starting/saving sections and started Credits walkthrough sections Me, and you for clicking on this! July 30, 2006- Adding more things August 2, 2006-Complete! August 3, 2006-Fixed some errors ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.) Introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello and welcome to my very first faq for the Mega Man X5 game! This guide is to help you get through this game easier and I will also include other general information about this game. Anyways, lets forget my talking and move on to the guide! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.) How to play ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Both X and Zero: X=jump/confirm []=Attack with X buster/Z-saber O=dash/cancel Triangle=special weapon use/cancel Directional pad=move left, right, duck, climb ladders and cling on ropes R1=special weapon cycle move right L1=special weapon cycle move left R2=Giga attack Controls for X: -Press X twice to hover/fly -Hold [] to do a charged shot -Press X+O with certain armors and perform an air dash Controls for Zero: -Press []+[]+[] to do a triple slash combo -Press [] and quickly turn him and you will create a circular slash -Press X+X and you will double jump -Press X+[] to perform quake blazer -Press X+O to air dash -Later in the game press X+O to do an invincible air dash called F-splasher -Press up+[] to perform E-Blade -Press right or left twice to perform W-shredder The last 6 for Zeros Controls will need certain bosses defeated Advanced Tactics for X and Zero: -To wall climb jump to a wall and press X+right/left to wall jump a wall -Press O+X to do a long dash jump -Press right or left twice to dash. Same as pressing O -Press O on a rope to dash on it ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.) Items ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Health energy This restores our heroes' health and also fills the E-tanks. These look like capsules and can be found in small, medium or large amounts. Weapon energy This restores our heroes' weapon energy and also fills the W-tank. These look like blue spheres and can be found in small, medium and large amounts. 1-ups These give you an extra life and look like X helmets or Zero helmets, depending on the character you find these with. Injured reploids also usually give you an extra life. Injured reploids Just touch these yellow screaming reploids and they will give you health and an extra life. Heart tanks These give your life bar a little permanent increase, but only for the character you went in the level with. These look like pink hearts. Their are only 8 of them, one in each level. E-tanks There are two of these, and they store health energy. Once used it will empty but fortunately, you can use these as much as you want. These look like little tanks with the letter "E" on it. W-tank There is only one of these and they store weapon energy. Like the E-tanks, you can use these infinitely. This looks like a tank with a "W" on it. EX-tank There is one of these, and this lets you start a level with 5 lives instead of 3. This looks like a tank shaped like a heart with floating energy in it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.) Armor ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- X (just plain X) Air dash: No Hover: No Giga attack: No Part slots: 4 Special weapon charged: No Special abilities: None Recommended when: Not very useful. Use him to get the Ultimate armor. Force armor X Air dash: Yes Hover: Yes Giga attack: No Part slots: 2 Special weapon charged: Yes Special abilities: Takes 50% less damage than regular X. Plasma shot when charged. Recommended when: In the beginning of the game. This is a great all round armor. Very useful. Falcon armor X Air dash: No Hover: No. Flight instead. Giga attack: No Part slots: 2 Special weapon charged: No Special abilities: Takes 50% less damage, piercing shot when charged, can fly. Less weapon energy used. Recommended when: He is a must if you are trying to get the gaea armor. He also is good for finishing a stage quick. Gaea armor X Air dash: No Hover: No Giga attack: Yes Part slots: None at all. Special weapon charged: No. Can't even use weapons in this armor. Special abilities: Can cling on walls, walk on spikes take 75% less damage and can move "V" blocks with a dash and can destroy them with a charged shot. Also his regular shot is now shorter. Green blast when charged. Recommended when: He is needed to get all the heart tanks and if you have a more defensive style of game play you should use this armor. Ultimate armor X Air dash: Yes Hover: Yes Giga attack: Yes Part slots: 2 Special weapon charged: Yes Special abilities: Takes 50% less damage and can use the "Nova Strike" infinitely. Also has a charged plasma shot. Recommended when: Always. This is X's best armor and is the best boss killer in the game. He makes stages quick and easy destroying all enemies in his way. Zero (red armor) Air dash: Yes Hover: No Giga attack: Yes Part slots: 4 Special weapon charged: No. But most of his weapons require no energy at all. Special abilities: None much really but Zero appears to be a better boss killer than Force, Falcon and Gaea armor X. Recommended when: Most of the times. He destroys enemies more quicker and goes through stages faster. Dark armored Zero Air dash: Yes Hover: No Giga attack: Yes Part slots: 4 Special weapon charged: No. Most of his weapons require no energy at all. Special abilities: 50% less damage, Z-Saber plus, can destroy Sigma virus and can vanish some enemies projectiles. Recommend when: This is the second best boss killer in the game and if you want to get a stage done fast then use this armor and the stage will be a breeze. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.) Sigma virus ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once you have completed the first stage you will start seeing purple Sigma heads chase you. These "viruses" will appear in the stages to try and infect you. On the bottom left corner of your screen you will notice a status. This status changes when you touch a Sigma virus or later in the game, the Zero virus. I will now list how the Sigma and Zero viruses affect your status. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Number of viruses virus status Commentary 0 Sigma virus Normal Don't worry. 1 Sigma virus Normal Don't worry. 2 sigma virus Normal Don't worry. 3 Sigma virus Caution Be cautious. 4 Sigma virus Danger Stay alert! 5 Sigma virus Virus Too late. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Number of viruses virus status Commentary 0 Zero virus Normal Don't worry. 1 Zero virus Caution Be cautious. 2 Zero virus Danger Stay alert! 3 Zero virus Virus Too late. Note: Notice that the Zero virus infects you faster and goes straight to caution. Now once you've been infected to virus, you'll notice that X and Zero have different reactions. With X you will start to lose health and with Zero you will become invincible! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.) Hunter Rank ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once you've completed a level Alia will tell you your stats in that level. All these stats then sum up to make your hunter rank. This rank determines the level of your next boss. Good rank, the harder the boss. Bad rank, the easier the boss. Now why would you want a lower level boss that's easier? Well the higher the boss level, the better the things you get. Once you reach a boss that's level 4 you will have the option of choosing health energy or weapon energy. Once you reach a boss that is level 8, you will have the option of choosing life energy plus or weapon energy plus and you will receive a part depending on the one you choose. Here is a list of ranks I've gotten and ones I've seen. Worst-E, D, C, B, A, SA, GA, PA and I think their is a UH. UH=Best. Not sure. The stats that determine your rank is how fast you completed the stage and boss, the damage you took and the enemies defeated. So to get a good rank you need to be fast, avoid enemy's attacks and kill little to no enemies. Personally in my file X is ranked SA and Zero PA. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.) Starting/Saving ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once you turn on the game there will be a cool cut scene and then you will be brought to the main menu. It will say game start, continue, options and training. If you're new to the game you can check out the training course. But if you want to start the game select start game. You will have the choice of selecting X or Zero to start off with. But there is a catch. If you pick X you will get his Force armor but Zero won't get his Z-Buster. If you pick Zero you do get his Z-Buster but X won't receive his armor. To save this game you will need a Playstation one memory card. To save you'll need to either beat a stage or die in one. After you do one of these you will have the choice to save. You can have up to 8 files for only one block. Select a space and confirm. You will now have a save file for this game! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.) Walkthrough ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now once you have selected X or Zero a brief cuts cene will go and then you will start! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro stage Difficulty: 1/10 Items: None You will start off on a broken street. This level is very straight forward so I will provide little strategy. With X just shoot the floating enemies and either charge shot the cars or air dash over them. Keep doing this and you will end up in a falling boulder place. Simply dodge these falling rocks and get out of there as fast as you can. Jump on the platforms and use the rope. With Zero, just slash the enemies and air dash over the cars. Do the same stated above and then you will reach a ladder. Climb it and then the walls will start coming in. Wall climb fast and don't mess up! Go through the door to meet the boss. Sigma Head Difficulty 2/10 Gives: Nothing Weakness: X-buster, Z-saber Moves: -Green eye attack -Blue ball swarm -Charge forward -Purple beam attack If X, stay on the left side at all times. Duck to dodge blue ball swarm and charge a shot while ducking. He will pause so you can shoot his mouth (Mouth=weak spot). His green eye attack will follow you but you should wall climb then dash to dodge. Sometimes he will just charge forward so just stay as left as you can. To dodge his purple beam you should duck and charge. He will pause and you can shoot. Keep doing these and he should die quick. If Zero, stay on the left and duck to dodge his blue ball swarm and purple beam and then he will pause. Run up to him and triple slash combo his mouth. For his green eye attack, wall climb and dash. If he charges just stay left. Just keep slashing and he will fall. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- After this fight there will be a cut scene and you will go to the mission select screen. This screen will show the bosses. Press R1 and L1 to go to the parts and canon shuttle screen. I will do the walkthrough in the recommended order. I will not use normal armor X, Falcon or Gaea till further notice. Thank you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chase the Truck! Difficulty: 5/10 Items: Falcon piece, Heart tank and E-tank You will start off on a moving truck. Just keep jumping and dashing on to the next truck. You will notice that their are lots of enemies on these trucks so things can get hectic. With X, try to avoid these enemies and jump to the front of the truck. On all of the trucks except the exploding ones their will be a blue beam thing. Destroy it and proceed to the next truck and do the same. With Zero you can try to defeat these enemies but I would prefer not to. Do the same and slash the blue beam things. You will end up in a big truck now. Go down the ladder and watch out for the spinning red thing. Keep moving. You'll then see a blue truck and two enemies. Destroy them then the blue truck. Keep going on the trucks and there will be exploding trucks. You will get 9 seconds for these ones. Avoid the enemies and there will be a truck with drills. These kill instantly. So try to avoid them the best you can. One of these trucks has the E-tank. Be sure to grab it if you see it. Keep moving and you will eventually be in a rocky warehouse. Destroy the truck, head up and kill the enemies and proceed to the boss. Grizzly Slash (Crescent Grizzly) Difficulty: 3/10 Gives: crescent shot and C-sword Weakness: Spike rope, Twin dream Moves: -Triple crescent shot -Huge crescent shot -Dive drill -Pop out If X, charge up some shots while ducking to dodge his crescent shots. He'll jump and then you can shoot him. After a while he'll start diving and popping out to do a quick attack. To dodge you should run back and forth on the screen and when he pops out stay away and keep shooting. After you take away some more life he'll shoot out huge crescent shots. Wall climb to dodge then dash forward and shoot. He'll be dead in no time. If Zero dodge his three shots and run and slash. When he jumps, you should jump and slash. He'll start diving and popping out so run across back and forth and wait for him to pop out. Wait for the attack and then slash. He'll start shooting Huge shots now. Wall climb, then get close and triple slash. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Obliterate the Battleship! Difficulty: 7/10 Items: Falcon piece, Heart tank. You'll be in the ocean for this level so your jumps will be slower but higher. When you start the level off you will be constantly be chased by a huge battleship! So you'll have to be moving forward at all times. The battleship will be shooting yellow beams from its head. I recommend you destroy these as soon as possible. If you're X avoid the beam shots and the other enemies the best you can. If some enemies get in the way shoot them. If the enemies don't bother you then I suggest you don't attack. If you are Zero, use the C-sword a lot and you will be fine. The enemies shouldn't even get close. Keep moving and avoid the attacks and you will then engage in a fight with the ship. If you're X charge and shoot, but when you sense that the ship will attack, duck and shoot some more charge shots and he should die fast. If Zero use the C-sword and when he shoots the beam just slash while ducking. The enemies he shoots out shouldn't be a problem. After you will be heading down, but you will be facing the tail of the ship instead. If you're X shoot the missiles and break the holes they are coming from. Grab the health capsules too. If Zero, just C-sword the whole way down and you won't get touched. Again grab the life and you'll then go for round two. If X, use charged shots and move around to avoid the missiles. Soon two missile holes will destroy completely. Keep shooting but when you're Zero, use the C-sword like mad and you'll make this boss fall really fast. Keep using C-sword and he will die. Move forward and you'll be inside a sunken ship but their won't be water. Keep moving forward and kill the small enemies. You'll end up outside of the ship and you'll face the battleship once more. You're going up this time and their will be rocks and enemies in the way. Try to avoid them as good as you can and keep moving around to avoid the ships beams. You can destroy these but they will just regenerate. Survive and then you'll fight once more. The weak point is the light blue diamond on the side. Destroy that and the yellow shield will go down and you can attack the thing inside. If you're Zero, use the c-sword repeatedly and you won't get hurt! X will be a bit tougher. With X, use the c-shot to try and make the multiple shots hit the beams, the blue thing, enemies and the thing inside the shield. If their are life capsules grab them. You will most likely need them. Once the ships destroyed you must wall climb to the right and stay there. Go through the door. Duff McWhalen (Tidal Whale) Difficulty: 6/10 Gives: Gel shaver, F-splasher Weakness: C-shot, C-sword Moves: - Ice maze - Gel shaver - Ice spit If X, just use your c-shot and it will stun him. He will eventually die but if you don't have it Duff will make his maze. Move through it and avoid the gel shavers and then attack. Keep doing this and he will then move to the left. He'll spit ice blocks, which can push you to the spikes which will automatically kill you. Jump up and down to avoid, and shoot when you have the chance. If Zero, use the c-sword but if you didn't get it follow the maze, avoid the easy gel shavers and attack. He'll soon move left and spit ice blocks. Jump up and down and get close. Slash when you got the chance! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dynamo attack phase 1 You will then see a brief cut scene and then go into battle with the mercenary hired by Sigma. Dynamo Difficulty: 4/10 Weakness: X-buster, Z-saber and c-sword Moves: -Blocking blade -Boomerang blade -Sideway shot If you are X, shoot, shoot and shoot! If he starts to block move back and charge up, and when he stops shoot. He'll also use his pink blade as a boomerang. Jump over it and shoot. When it comes back jump and then shoot. He'll also jump and shoot two shots sideways. Just stand there and wait. If Zero triple slash him and if he blocks move back and wait. When he stops slash him. If he uses it as a boomerang just jump and get close and c-sword him. If he sideway shoots avoid it by standing or easily jump over it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Electric Trap! Difficulty: 7.5/10 Items: heart tank, Falcon piece. You'll start this level on the ride chaser! It might take you a few tries to get through this part. As you start, jump on the platforms and destroy the objects in your way. Jump on the platforms then air dash. Keep pressing [] to destroy the objects and get ready to dash. If you made it, go down and destroy more stuff and you're done! It's harder then it seems. Head down and save the guy while avoiding the purple ball attacks. Go down and destroy the enemy. Hit the long thing repeatedly and go through the door. Keep moving and try to avoid the electric thing and purple attacks. You'll see two long things now. Get the reploid and use the platform to hit the top long thing. Keep hitting the two and head down. Keep going and two more long things are there. Keep going up and down and shoot if X, and for Zero move forward, be quick, and slash. Try to avoid the electric thing. It gets pretty straight forward from here. Save the reploids, avoid the electric traps and when you get to more long things attack them, use your environment and soon you will be head to the boss. Squid Adler (Bolt Kraken) Difficulty: 5/10 Gives: Tri-thunder, E-blade Weakness: gel shaver, F-splasher His moves. -Tri-thunder -Electric ground -Lightning box -Electrical shots -Charge If you are X wall climb and try to get the gel shaver attack on him. If you are Force armor X you can charge it for a better attack. I also suggest doing charge shots. But if you wall climb avoid the electric box. If he puts the ground in electricity stay on the walls. If he moves toward you alternate walls and climb. He'll usually tri-thunder and make three electric balls move on the walls. Alternate walls and attack when you got the chance. If Zero, again, stay on the walls. Alternate and use the F-splasher to stun him and take good damage. You can also use the c-sword if you wish. It always takes moderate damage. Soon he should die. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fortress Lab Infiltration! Difficulty: 6/10 Items: Heart tank, Ex-item and Falcon piece Move forward and attack the door and move. Destroy the little enemies and avoid the falling spike platforms. Kill more enemies and go up the ladder. Avoid the enemy or kill it and avoid the spike platform. Go up and wait for the platform to go down. Move very carefully on the platforms and don't fall. You'll see a couple of Sigma viruses here so if you are X avoid them, if Zero touch them. Take the teleport and you'll be on the stairs. Keep moving and avoid the enemies. There might be a couple of Sigma viruses here and there so watch out. You'll soon encounter a mini-boss! As the blocks go down on the vines watch out and destroy the black one. The black block is the only one that can be destroyed. Just avoid the others and you will be fine. Head forward and take the teleport. You'll be in the third section now. Head forward and you will see a green generator thing. The only way to destroy those are to use the c-shot or the c-sword. Anyways head forward and avoid the generators if you like. If you are X avoid the Sigma viruses and for Zero touch them. Head up past all the generators next and keep moving to head to the boss. Izzy Glow (Shining Firefly) Difficulty: 2/10 Gives: F-laser, C-flasher. Weakness: tri-thunder, E-blade His moves. -Teleport -Flying -F-laser -Green beam This guy is easy. If X just avoid being near him and shoot the tri-thunder and he will be stunned and fall. When he flies around get away and shoot. When he uses f-laser, tri-thunder the fly and him. And when he uses green beam use tri-thunder to stun him and his attack will be cancelled. If you are Zero, just use your c-sword when he's in the air and when he uses the f-laser. When he goes for the beam, quickly use the E-blade and try not to get hurt and he will fall soon. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Escape the space trap! Difficulty: 5/10 Items: Gaea piece, Heart tank, E- tank In this stage you'll notice a sort of black hole thing, which will cause you and everything to slow down. But after a while there will be constellations which will then turn in to bats! Anyways jump over the purple enemies and keep moving. You'll end up on a moving platform. Jump over the purple guy to get on the platform. There will be many other platforms so go on them but avoid the bats or you can shoot them with X or try out Zero's giga attack. Keep moving through these obstacles and move as fast as you can. Soon you will see the E-tank so grab it. Move and you will teleport. In this section there will be up and down things. These will make the ceiling the floor or vice versa. Kill the enemies here and go through. Keep proceeding and keep going through the teleports. Avoid the viruses as X but for Zero again, just let them touch you. If you want to kill the enemies fast in the rooms as X use the tri-thunder (you'll know what I mean) and for Zero use the trusty c-sword. Keep moving and you'll reach the boss. Dark Dizzy (Dark Necrobat) Difficulty: 3/10 Gives: Dark hold Weakness: F-laser, C-flasher His moves. -Bat cover -Bat attack -Diving suck -Sonic scream -Dark hold This guy will usually be near the ceiling so as X don't use the f-laser but quickly wall climb and shoot. Sometimes he'll have bats around him so you'll have to keep shooting to hit him. Also he'll sometimes get the bats after you so use the tri-thunder to kill them. He'll also sometimes dive and suck you to get your health. Move-one way or the other to dodge. Rarely he'll scream three slow moving circles. Move around to avoid. If a sonic scream is near you he'll dark hold (stop time briefly) so you can get hit. Just wall climb and shoot him to eventually kill him. But if you're Zero use your giga attack to do really good damage and stun him. Keep repeating. If you run out double jump and use the c-sword. You don't even have to worry about his other attacks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Destroy the Time Bombs! Difficulty: 6/10 Items: Heart tank, W-tank, Gaea piece. In this level their will be multiple 5 second time bombs so you must get to them first! Anyways proceed and destroy the bomb. Keep heading in to the next rooms and get the reploids and destroy the bombs. One of the next rooms will be a bit trickier. You'll have to be fast. Quickly head to the top platform and destroy the bomb. Keep heading on the platforms and use the tri-thunder move with X to destroy the big trucks. If Zero use the E- blade. Then destroy the last bomb in the air. Head up now and move forward. You'll end up on an elevator. Ignore the enemies and make sure to get the W-tank. Soon you will be on another elevator. Be careful for the virus and duck for the spikes.Now their will be an elevator that moves up. It will stop several times. So go in the spaces, destroy the missile trucks and the time bombs. There will be sigma viruses her so watch out. Get the heart tank and keep going on these elevators and avoid the spikes. You'll be at the boss now. The Skiver (Spiral Pegasus) Difficulty: 8/10 Gives: wind spiral, w-shredder Weakness: Dark hold His moves. -Charge -Blue charge -Flying barrage -Wind spiral Alright this guy likes to charge at you so just jump over him and attack him. He'll also send a blue skiver at you then attack himself. Try to jump and do it again to avoid and again simply attack. In the beginning though you shouldn't suffer on these attacks though. Use dark hold and then attack, attack, attack! You should be able to take a chunk out of his life. He'll then start to use his good attacks. He'll fly off the screen and then come back from random directions to hit you. All I can say is move across the plane and don't fall off! Then he will float and use the wind spiral. Stay below him and use tri-thunder and the c-flasher and c-sword. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dynamo attack phase 2 Yes Dynamo's back and with a few new tricks up his sleeve. Dynamo Diffuiculty: 7.5/10 Weakness: X-buster, Z-saber, c-flasher His moves. -Blocking blade -Boomerang blade -4 shot -Rising beams Alright. Use the see the strategy above first. Once you've done that now I'll tell you how this guy fights. Sometimes Dynamo will use the sideway shot but now he will do it twice. Either wall climb or jump to avoid these. He'll also start punching the ground to make beams appear on his side, opposite side and the whole screen! When he does this either quickly attack him to cancel this or go on the other side where the beam isn't. When he does the final punch to make beam columns on the whole screen use the c-flasher and with X tri-thunder. If this does hit you, you shouldn't worry. He only does rising beam rarely. His other moves are easier to dodge. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hot World! Difficulty: 7/10 Items: Heart tank, Gaea piece. Alright start by heading down quickly before the metal dragon heads spit fire and move forward once horizontal. Wait for the head to stop and the other one too. Keep moving and destroy the flies. Now head down. Here if the left side starts to erupt you must find cover behind something. So be careful. You'll soon find melted walls so wall climb on the high cover area and wait for the lava. It will break. Keep going through these obstacles and then break the door. Now there is two ways to this. Go under the lava with the ride armor or go through the obstacles with the mini-boss dragon chasing you. I'll only do this for the mini-boss chase. Just jump on the rocks, attack the bats that come near and attack the fire balls of the dragon. When you come across a close destroy the wall and keep doing the same. You'll then fight the dragon. Just use c-flasher and c-sword for Zero to kill him fast and for X use the tri-thunder but when this guy charges at you make sure to alternate platforms and keep attacking. After that climb the ropes and head to the boss. Mattrex Difficulty: 7/10 Gives: ground fire, quake blazer Weakness: wind spiral, w-shredder. His moves: -Ground fire -Jump stomp -Infernal dino -Fire spring -Flame thrower Alright this guy usually jumps a couple of times then stops at a side and shoots fire. When he jumps shoot him with X or use the spiral to stun him and take more damage. When he stops wall climb and charge. He'll also sometimes go on walls and dash at you. Wall climb and dash to avoid. He can also get the ground to spring up fire and dash at you. Again wall climb and dash whil avoiding this spring. When he shoots flame, wall climb and avoid his dash too. With Zero when he jumps use w-shredder. When he shoots fire, springs fire, spits flame and dashes at you wall climb. Then swoop down to repeat the process of using w-shredder when he jumps. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Into the Jungle! Difficulty: 4/10 Items: Heart tank, Gaea piece. Just air dash and avoid the easy enemies. Soon you'll see ropes leading up. So grab on the vines and jump to the next ones. Avoid the shooting enemies by moving back and forth. They shouldn't really give you trouble though. Keep moving and you'll see pink big roses that will shoot baby mechanical spiders at you. Just jump over it and keep going though. Now walk and wait for the falling, spiky vines to fall. Destroy it and keep moving. Now head down and avoid the roses and make sure you go to the left to land on ground. If you go straight you'll most likely fall unless you get on the rope. Anyways go on the ropes and avoid the enemies on them. Air dash to the next rope and be careful of the vine. If this place gets hectic use the dark hold. Get on the next vines and then you'll encounter more of the roses. Dash jump over these and avoid touching these things. You'll now be at the boss. Axle the Red Difficulty: 6/10 Gives: Spike rope, Twin dream (YES!) Weakness: Ground fire, quake blazer. His moves. -Spike rope -Spike ball -Vine grab -Petal shower -Twin dream This guy will usually get a fake version of him out and jump around. This "Twin" can't get hurt. If you're close he'll get out his spike rope (ball) and the spiky bouncy ball. Stay away but if you're close attack this ball to destroy it. He'll also jump to one end and shoot out a long vine. Stay away. He can also do this with his twin so wall climb. He'll occasionally send exploding petals from the ceiling so move around and attack these. With X use ground fire and shoot from far. Make sure to remember his real self. If Zero get close and c-sword him and his spike balls and petals. When he uses his vine use c-flasher be cause it hurts him a lot. Don't use quake blazer, you might touch him and get hurt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- After a cut scene will show the shuttle mission. Zero has the possibility of turning maverick. I will continue assuming he didn't though. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unknown stage 1 Difficulty: 9.5/10 Items: N/A Start off by going up to the left to get a 1up. Head down and pass the enemies. Now you'll encounter beams that will automatically kill! So go down quick and keep going down and use the walls to. Grab the weapon energy and air dash over the enemy and avoid the Zero virus. The Zero viruses will usually dash at you twice so approach with caution. Head through and go down. Do your best and pass the beams. After you'll be safe for a while. Use the dark hold and go down the as fast as you can, grab the weapon energy and head down the many platforms. Now quickly dash for the next beams and head to the boss. Shadow Devil Difficulty: 10/10 Weakness: Tri-thunder, E-blade His moves. -16 blobs -Fireball x2 -Spike stomp -Green reflection This guy starts off by sending 16 blobs at you. This is pretty hard to dodge but you must jump over the blobs. The blobs will the form to make the shadow devil! He'll then have his red-eye pop out. This is his weak spot. He'll shoot out two fireballs. With X easily dodge these and shoot him or use the tri-thunder. With Zero you can use the E-blade but you will get hurt. You will also notice he leaves a green reflection, touch this you get hurt. After this he'll start to go from both sides. All I can say is good luck and dodge here. He'll also turn into a spiky thing. Here is when it gets simpler. Just wall climb, dash and then attack him right away with the buster or thunder. Zero use c-flasher and c-sword. You should probably enter this fight with two full E-tanks. And W-tank. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unknown stage 2 Difficulty: 9/10 Items: N/A Start this by destroying the big guys and then go on the platforms. Keep going up and avoid the Zero viruses. Keep going and try to avoid the enemies here or use c-flasher and tri-thunder here. Wait for the enemy to drop and pick up its stomp thing and move on. You'll soon see spikes, the Zero virus and a couple of enemies. Jump over the spikes but destroy the big first. Jump the virus and dash jump to the next platform. Keep moving and you'll see a ladder. Take it and destroy the big guy. Wall climb and avoid the enemies and dash. Keep heading through these obstacles and use your weapon. You'll see the boss door but go on the empty platform and go through the "fake" wall. You'll see a full life capsule. Now go to the boss. Rangda Bangda Difficulty: 9/10 Weakness: green eye, c-sword and c-shot. Blue eye ground fire, quake blazer. Red eye, tri-thunder and E-blade. His moves. -Green eye circle shots -Blue eye charge -Red eye fire -Wall spikes -Sun move This guy has his eyes come out color-coded. Use the correct weapons for each listed above. Just use the weapons on these easy eyes and they'll die. After a while the walls will come in with spikes at the bottom, you must wall climb and do your best to avoid the sun. After you've gotten his life low the walls will have spikes come out on the sides. This is completely random so do your best. If you have to hit the sun and go on the spikes while your invincible. If you defeat all the eyes the walls will stay there so use the gel shaver and f-splasher on the sun and he should die. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unknown stage 3 Difficulty: 7.5/10 Items: Ultimate armor X and Dark Zero Move along and kill the little mettaurs. Go on the rope. There are a lot of enemies so use the dark hold because you might get hit and fall. Go on the land and go on the platforms to avoid the spikes. Air dash for the one with spikes on the top and bottom. Go on all the platforms and avoid the spikes by waiting on the falling platforms then dash. Continue and you'll reach the boss. Ultimate armor X Diffuculty: 7/10 Weakness: Z-saber His moves. -Icicle drop -Twin shoot -Buster shot When you come with Zero you fight X. When he shoots jump and then get close and attack. He'll sometimes make icicles on the ceiling drop so move. He'll also get twin souls of himself to go out and dash. Jump and double jump to avoid these. Use c-flasher and the c-sword. If you don't want to get close use twin dream. Zero/maverick Zero Difficulty: 8/10 Weakness: X-buster His moves. -Saber slash -Saber shot -C-flasher -Saber blades Use your buster and shoot charge shots. He'll shoot lots of saber things so air dash and wall climb. If you get close he'll slash so stay away and shoot. He'll use c-flasher so jump in between the blasts. If Zero went maverick he can do this continuously. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sigma stage Difficulty: 6/10 Items: N/A Head down and move forward and avoid the spikes and enemies. Just keep moving and go on the platforms when you see the spikes. Head down and you will fight the eight bosses again. Same strategy's as above. Head in the gold portal and move ahead. Jump the purple balls and avoid the triangles. Keep moving and go up. Go on the black disappearing things and then head to the final boss! Sigma Difficulty: 8/10 Weakness: E-blade, tri-thunder. His moves. -sigma guard -dash -electric balls -wave of destruction When he stands there and shoots electric balls, wall climb and then get down and attack! When he dashes, jump over him and attack! He'll also occasionally put destroyable sigma heads to protect him. He'll also send huge waves that take 3/4 of your life so duck, wall climb and air dash between the waves when he sends two. Keep doing this and make him dash at you so you can attack him. Try your best to save your E-tanks. Gamma Sigma Diffuculty: 10/10 Weakness: spike rope, twin dream. His moves. -Elec claw -Gamma fists -Gamma blocks -Gamma balls -Fist shot He'll start off by sending his hands out. Go on the fists and avoid the pink blasts. Jump to his head (weak point) and attack. He'll also send out homing balls. Wall climb, then dash to the head and attack! He'll also get his hand out and shoot electricity. Take the hit but if Zero, use the f-splasher. Use the twin dream and spike rope when you have the chance. He'll occasionally send a huge pink block so wall climb, then dash and do anything you can to avoid this. Use your E-tanks here. You'll need them. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.) Item/part locations ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grizzly stage-Use gaea X and wall climb up the 2 big trucks for the heart. After 1 of the exploding trucks. In the rock area head up with Zeros double jump. Duff stage-Use gaea or falcon X and go up the spiky area and keep going for the heart. Use the gel shaver to get through the crack for the armor. Squid stage-Use gaea X and go to the left when there is 2 paths for the heart. Get 8 energy balls on the ride chaser for armor. Izzy stage-Use gaea or falcon X and jump off the black bridge and head down for the heart. Use the ground fire on the wood for the Ex-item. In the 3rd section go up the space and use the c-shot or c-sword for armor. Dizzy stage-Self explanatory for the heart. Use X's f-laser in the maze before the boss for armor. Jump on the platform before the 2nd section for the E-tank. skiver stage- Self explanatory for the heart. Use falcon X and fly up before the 2nd elevator for armor. Self explanatory for the w-tank. Mattrex stage- Go left in the lava place for the heart. Use the ride armor or Falcon to go across the gap in the boss area for armor. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.) Secrets/codes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- When you start a game highlight X and press: up x2, down x9 and confirm. You will start with Ultimate X! Or in the 3rd unknown stage go down one of the gaps to find an Ultimate armor capsule. For Dark Zero press: down x2, up x9 and confirm. Now you'll start with him! You can go to the same gap and get him too! Well that's it hope you enjoyed the guide!