Rockman No Constancy

Rockman No Constancy is a ROM hack of Rockman 2 by Japanese ROM hacker IKA. It features are awesome graphics, great music, and insane difficulty, making it one of the most well-known ROM hacks out there.

Comes in Normal (normal difficulty for Mega Man) and Hard (no Mercy Invincibility; have fun) versions.

Tropes used in Rockman No Constancy include:

• Advancing Boss of Doom: The Mecha Dragon chase becomes an insanely fast version of this.
• An Ice Person: Wood Man.
• Blackout Basement: One section of Flash Man's stage. Particularly infuriating in that it ends up hiding several blocks.
• Blow You Away: Air Man.
• Boss Rush: As per series tradition, though with slippery floor.
• Bullfight Boss: Heat Man.
• Chekhov's Gun: Early on in Flash Man's stage, you come across a boss gate that's blocked off. That same gate leads to the final boss much later on.
• Color Coded for Your Convenience: Mega Man's default color in the Hard version is green (compared to his normal blue).
• Dummied Out: This song was used in the first build of the game for Wily Stages 3 & 4, and subsequently cut.
• Eternal Engine: Metal Man's stage and most Wily stages.
• Floating Continent: Air Man's stage seems to be this.
• Gusty Glade: Air Man's stage.
• Harpoon Arm Cannon: Bubble Man.
• Kill It with Fire: Delay Flame (Quick Man's weapon) and Proto Charge (Heat Man's).
• Kill It with Ice: Ice Circle (Wood Man's weapon).
• Lethal Lava Land: Downplayed with Metal Man's stage, which has molten metal that one-hit kills you.
• Mercy Invincibility: Averted in the Hard version. This tends to turn Nintendo Hard sections into pure Platform Hell.
• Mirror World: Wily 6 is this to Flash Man's stage.
• Nintendo Hard: Oh yes.
• One-Hit Kill: Za Warudo towards Clash Man.
• Playing with Fire: Heat Man and Quick Man.
• Power Fist: Again, Heat Man seems to have one. It glows as well.
• Remixed Level: Again, Wily 6 is this to Flash Man's stage.
• Shifting Sand Land: Heat Man's stage.
• Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Wood Man's stage.
• Shout-Out:
  • Flash Man's weapon is named Za Warudo.
  • Air Man's portrait on the stage select screen is taken from I Can't Defeat Air Man.
  • Several stage graphics are ripped from other games:
    • Flash Man's is from Yoshi's Island.
    • Quick Man's is from Mega Man X 2.
    • Air Man's is from Kirby's Adventure.
• Super Mode: Wily, of all people, becomes this in the final boss battle. Or at least his hologram does.
• Tank Goodness: The Guts-Dozer, as in the original.
• The Lost Woods: Flash Man's stage, as well as Wily 6 (a Palette Swap of the former).
• Time Stands Still: Flash Man, like the original.
  • And of course Za Warudo/The World, his weapon.
• Title Theme Drop: Done in Wily Stage 6. And it is awesome.
• Under the Sea: Wily stages 1 (at least the first part) and 4.
• Underwater Boss Battle: Bubble Man. Also, the Buebeam Room.
• Underwater Ruins: Bubble Man's stage.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Crash/Clash Man is killed in one hit by Za Warudo (a weapon that isn't even offensive).
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