Is there anything anyone can tell me about Megaman battle network 4?

Answer 1

Where to start! Well, let's see, the plot of the game is that one day, the scientists at the space center discover that a giant asteroid is heading straight for the earth. They have calculated that the asteroid has enough mass and velocity to destroy the entire planet. All of the world's leading scientists are called to a council to decide how to counteract this new threat. Meanwhile, a young boy named Lan goes to the electronics store with his Dad. While there, he learns of a Netbattle tournament to be held in the city soon. On his way back home, his friends Mayl and Yai invite him to hang out on the net later. (note: each person has a device called a PET that has inside of it a human-like program called a NetNavi. These Navis can explore the internet by walking along roads within computers. When two people agree to "meet" on the net, their Navis go to the same spot along the roads and talk with each other. Tis is kind of like chat rooms on the real internet. Another thing Navis do is fight viruses and other Navis. When two Navis fight, it is called a Netbattle. To fight, Navis use arm-mounted weapons and 'BattleChips," which are basically attacks stored as data that can be unleashed in a Netbattle or virus battle. But more on that later.) As Lan is passing a store, some people are panicking, so Lan goes to help. He finds out that an evil Navi called Shademan has deleted a bunch of other Navis to steal their energy. Shademan ends up kidnapping Mayl's NetNavi, Roll. So Lan sends Megaman, his NetNavi, onto the net and ends up rescuing Roll. In the process, he aquires some strange data that Shademan dropped. It appears to be a BattleChip, so Lan takes it to the BattleChip expert, Higsby, to identify it. But Lan gets a huge shock when Higsby tells him that the data he found was a DarkChip; an illegal BattleChip that corrupts the mind of any Navi that uses one. Lan decides to hold onto the DarkChip until his friend Chaud, who is with the Navi Police, can get it. What Lan doesn't realize is that the DarkChip is already beginning to affect Megaman. Back to the space center, the scientist's council is well on the way, and Dr. Hikari, Lan's Dad, has devised a plan to shoot the asteroid with a giant laser to shift it's course. While the scientists prepare the giant laser, Lan wins the Battle City Tournament, and gets qualified to participate in the Hawk tournament. (Note: The plot that I am typing about is from the Blue Moon version of the game. The Red Sun version will have different BattleChips, tournament names, and special abilities) But upon returning home victorious, Lan finds that his house is broken into, and a threatening note is left on his computer's monitor telling him to meet a Navi in a certain area of the Internet to hand over the DarkChip. Megaman finds the Navi who's operator left the note, and is attacked by him. Megaman overcomes the Navi, but knows that it would not be the last battle. Of course, he is right. When Lan and Mayl go to the park together, evil Navis hack into the park's computer and stop all of the rides. Once Lan fixes that, all of the robots go bezerk and start attacking people. Lan fixes three of them, but the last gets away, and Lan has to chase it into a dark maze. Lan fids the robot, Jacks into it, (Note: Jacking in is logging your Navi into a computer or other electronic device) and finds that Shademan is waiting for him. In the battle that comes, Megaman accidentally uses the evil power of the DarkChip to delete Shademan. After things settle down at the park, Lan passes the preliminary round of the Hawk tournament, and goes on to win the whole thing. At the awards ceremony, the evil Navi ruler of the DarkChip Syndicate Nebula, Laserman, hacks into the network and threatens to blow up the facility unless Megaman jacks into a certain console. Once inside, Laserman awakens Megaman's DarkSoul, which is the evil part of a Navi who has ever used a DarkChip. Megaman overcomes his Darksoul, but Laserman escapes. The next day, the scientists power up the giant laser, which can only be used once due to the tremendous shock the device will go through. The laser is powered up, but just as it is about to be fired, an evil Navi who knows how to work lasers (Gee, I wonder who it could be?) cuts the power down until the laser is too weak to have any effect on the asteroid. The laser has failed, but the renowned scientist, Dr. Regal, has a plan. He has discovered that the asteroid is actually a missile that has gathered space dust onto itself. Regal proposes that a Navi should be sent up to steer the missile away from the Earth. So a tournament is set up to get the Navi they need. Meanwhile, Lan receives an invitation to a tournament. (What a surprise!) The Blue Moon tournament is to be held in Netopia and people from everywhere around the world will be invited. Of course, Lan wins the tournament and learns the secret about the asteroid. But just as he is about to go onto the asteroid's cyberworld, data from all around the world is clogged up by some strange devices implanted on the internet. So it's up to Megaman to fix the problem. After he gets rid of all the devices, he goes to find the Navi who did it. In the process, he is thought to have been deleted, so Dr. Regal sends up his Navi to the asteroid instead. But Megaman survived, and Lan rushes back to the Space Center. He gets there just in time to see the unveiling of a shocking truth. Dr. Regal is Laserman's operator and the leader of the DarkChip Syndicate Nebula. So Megaman ends up deleting Laserman, defeating his own DarkSoul, and facing the guardian of the asteroid; the SuperNavi Duo! (Note: Duo is basically a giant head when he's calm, and a huge Navi 30 times the size of Megaman when he's ticked.) Megaman emerges victorious and saves the planet, but Regal manages to get away from the authorities. But that's why there's a sequel.

Next, I should probably talk about how NetBattles work. During any battle, the arena looks like a grid of 3 by six squares. The nine squares on the left are red, and the nine on the right are blue. You move around in the red area, while your enemies are located in the blue. You move by pushing the arrows of the gameboy, and attack with the A and B buttons. The B button controls your main weapon, the MegaBuster. Tab B to shoot a regular bullet, but push and hold B until the energy ball in Megaman is purple, and you can unleash an attack that does 10 times as much damage as your regular shots by letting go of B. The A button controls the usage of BattleChips. Once you select a BattleChip in the Custom Screen, push A to use it. (Note: All battles start out on the custom screen. You can select up to five chips at a time if all of the chips you select have the same name or the same letter code. BattleChips with a letter code of * are like wild cards, you can use them with any letter. Some chips have multiple versions of the same attack. There will be a number in the name of the chip [1, 2, or 3] that will tell you which version of the chip you are using. The higher the number, the better the chip. Also, some chips [like Gunsol1, 2, 3, and EX] only work if you press and hold down the A button.) There is a bar at the top of the battle screen that will be constantly filling. Once it is full, push L or R to select more chips. Also, battlechips can cause a special effect known as a "counter hit." If you hit an enemy with a battlechip that does not freeze time just as they are about to attack, they will become temporarily paralyzed and you will get double attack power for your next battlechip. Another good thing to use is the "P.A. combos." These combos occur when you line up certain chips in a certain order. For example: Cannon A, Cannon B, then Cannon C creates Gigacannon 1. Spreader L, Spreader M, then Spreader N creates a Super Spreader. Basically you just go in order of the alphabet. However, some chips don't cause P.A. combos, and one combo doesn't use the regular sequence. This combo is Sword S, Widesword S, then Longsword S. It creates LifeSword. There are other abilities that you can use throughout the game, but they all have mini-tutorials, so I won't explain them here.

I think that's pretty much all of the basics. If there's any other questions that you have about MMBN4, just post them.