Mega Man 9 to flicker like it's 1987
We're beginning to suspect Capcom of tapping our phones, intercepting our emails, and reading our diaries. After learning that it would be possible to play Mega Man 9 using an NES controller (via an adaptor), we foolishly believed that the Blue Bomber's WiiWare comeback could not be any more faithful to Mega Man's 8-bit roots. We were wrong.
Capcom's Hironobu Takeshita has revealed that Mega Man 9 will even deliberately recreate bugs found in the first Mega Man titles during the late-1980s -- including the legendary flickering of sprites that plagued the games when the on-screen action became too much for the host platform to handle. You can see some of this flickering in the Mega Man 2 video above.
Though sprite flicker will be optional in Mega Man 9, it fascinates us that Capcom would go to the effort of imitating acknowledged flaws, purely for the sake of authenticity. It is madness, and we love it.
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