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Thursday, April 16, 2009

FCEUX Gives Mega Man Laser Eyes

Like the Super Mario Bros. hack that was popular on gaming blogs a month ago (and similar to the Super Mario Bros. 3 video making the rounds now), this modification of Mega Man 2 was made possible with cross-platform NES emulator FCEUX and its support of LUA scripts.

Using your mouse, you can drag the Capcom mascot -- or any other game object for that matter -- around, making short work of Quick Man's pesky stage and grabbing difficult-to-reach 1UPs. The hack also gives Mega Man laser eyes, which will track and obliterate most enemies with a single shot. Presumably, the laser eyes also make him more curious.

And, as JC Fletcher notes, the mouse control script enables you to live out your lifelong dream of jumping through a boss gate backwards.

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Being able to turn those freakin flamethrowing dogs into lifeless husks is all I needed to know.

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