Jimenez said they dealt with those issues on a case-by-case basis. If you’ve played the games before, you may remember seeing instances slowdown and flickering sprites when multiple enemies and projectiles are on the screen at once. Not that the NES Mega Man games are flawless pieces of software. Jimenez said, “The end result is a super accurate recreation of the original game. So accurate in fact, aside from some graphic priority issues in a small number of cases, there really wasn’t any issue with how the games imported. One of the guys on the QA team is actually a Mega Man speed runner and nothing really seemed to be missing from the get go.” It was a lot more work than a simple port or emulation, but the process seems to have worked exactly as planned. To create the most accurate versions of the games possible, the development team actually rebuilt the games from the ground up, using the original assets. Casual gamers might not notice the differences unless they’re deeply familiar with the original games or they’re playing them side-by-side, but from a preservation standpoint, something is lost. Standard ports and emulations of older games almost always result in bits and pieces that don’t act like the original games did (just read this article from Ars Technica on how complicated emulation is). Getting an accurate reproduction of the original games isn’t as simple as it might sound. “With that focus in mind, once that goal was achieved, we then created additional features (challenges, filters, etc.) that we could build from that, but that do not break the tenet of authentic play.” “Our technical goal first and foremost was accurate reproduction of the original 8-bit games,” Jimenez said.
To find out how this collection came together, I spoke with Capcom producer Rey Jimenez. The game offers complete, lovingly preserved versions of Mega Man through Mega Man 6, the games that appeared on the Nintendo Entertainment System between 19. From what I’ve played, Mega Man Legacy Collection does it the right way and then some. We’ve seen enough video game collections to know that there’s a right way and a wrong way to preserve classic games.
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