I decided I was going to practice the Mega Man games on an emulator and give myself infinite lives and weapon energy (because they disappear from levels until you game over). I didn't give myself infinite health, however. I still needed the threat of dying to help me practice.

I started with the first game. I decided I was going to fight all the Robot Masters in their own levels with only the buster, but use their weaknesses during the fortress re-fight. I learned exploitable patterns from watching other people play. So even spastic bosses like Elec Man can be easy if you can get a simple rhythm down. Ice Man was the hardest, though. Dodging his ice spears are still difficult but can be fun.

Anyway, what I learned was that it didn't take me too long to figure out the levels. I played this game a little while ago on the PS2, and I had a hard time with it as I always do. Now, I soared through the levels like they were nothing. The only challenge was beating Elec Man and Ice Man buster only. And Wily Machine is joke. Before this game seemed ridiculously hard, but now it's easy crap! I can breeze through this game, and I love that.

Onward to Mega Man 2!... This is one I'm not looking forward to. Wood Man, Air Man, Quick Man (Oh God!), and Wily Level 4 (Dear God, no! Anything but that!).