Rockman & Crystal

Rockman & Crystal is basically what you'd expect in a Mega Man X game on Game Boy Advance.

The game feels a bit rushed, as unlike previous entries of the Zook series, a rather large number of stuff were directly ripped from the Mega Man games on SNES (namely, Mega Man X and Mega Man 7), armor upgrades are not required, and the game simply ends on a boss rush instead of having a real final boss and ending.

Copy Protection#

All of Vast Fame's video games on GBA have strong copy protection, which can be seen in the mGBA source code. Currently, only mGBA can emulate the copy protection routine.

Unused Vast Fame Copyright#

Present in the ROM is text reading "廣譽科技" (Vast Fame's Chinese name) and "2003", which are loaded into the VRAM on the title screen. One of the palettes matches it perfectly.

Interestingly, the English version also has these in Chinese.

Version Differences#

This page or section needs more audio. There's a whole lotta words here, but not enough audio. Please fix this. Specifically: Rip the music in both versions.

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Try to find and dump Kongfeng's Mainland China release of the game called "洛克人大戰 - 水晶版" and spot the differences. Any other changes?

Rockman & Crystal	Zook Man ZX4

Besides the (obvious) title screen changes, the sound font used in both versions is different, of which the Chinese versions have stronger beats on the noise channel.

SRAM Check?#

To do: This message seems related to checking the SRAM content.

There is a chance that the game will display a "BATTERY OK !!" message when you boot up the game in an emulator.

References#