Mega Man Legacy Collection 2

Mega Man Legacy Collection 2

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Mega Man 8 Undub, 'Brand New Way' in credits and more!
By Kaed✩Wolf
With this mod you can play Mega Man 8 with japanese voices (in game), have "Brand New Way" as credits music (and Music Player) and make the game continue to using English text for the interface when changing the language of the Collection to Japanese (for playing the Rockman versions). :D
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What this mod will change?
  • Mega Man 8 will have japanese voices in game
    (for the opening and anime videos see the Guide below)
  • Mega Man 8 and Rockman 8 will play Brand New Way as credits music followed by the instrumental theme
  • Credits music from Mega Man 8 in Music Player will play the full version of Brand New Way
  • Selecting Japanese language in the collection Options (for playing Rockman versions of the games) will still keep the HUD in English
  • The disc file are now password free! You can freely extract and mod its contents!
Installing the mod
First, go to the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\MegaMan2 (or whatever directory your installation folder is), and rename your original disc file into something else, just for backup purposes. You can rename it to disc_original. Then, download the mod disc file https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pfdETlIyc1_w4fyMWBqmAyF8SF186SSt/view?usp=sharing and place the file in the same folder. And you are ready to go. :D
Opening the "disc" file
Thanks to the discovery of the encrypted password from the disc file, now it's possible to access the game files! With this you can easily extract and mod the game. New possibilities have been opened. If you want to access the game files, first download a program that can open compressed files, like WinRAR (for free) for example. After that, go to the game instalation folder and rename the disc file to disc.zip, and extract it with WinRAR. Now you will have access to all of the game folders and files. Just remember that the files must be compressed again with the ZIP extension, in order for the game to read the file. And also change back the file name to disc.

Special thanks ~
A special thanks to Nico, for kindly sharing the link to the forum (now closed) where the tool to remove the password from the disc file have been released. So I could finally be able to create the mod the way I intended years ago.
Wanna play Mega Man 8 with japanese opening and cutscenes? Check this guide out!
43 Comments
asisin2 15 Jun @ 8:22am 
perfect, thanks for the mod! :HappyOtus:
Kaed✩Wolf  [author] 15 Jun @ 8:19am 
@asisin2
Nope, achievement works just fine.
asisin2 15 Jun @ 8:18am 
Would this mod affect achievements in any way? :CapSta2_EI04:
Red the Rad 14 Jan @ 12:53pm 
i did make a mod similar to this with the subbed cutscenes and jp music:

https://gamebanana.com/mods/467319

although i had to upscale the videos cause they're WAY too blurry. i might revisit the mod and put the normal cutscenes as alternatives.
SuperG2042 25 Sep, 2024 @ 8:00pm 
I found a way to play Electrical Communication without modifying the game files: Re-install your Windows but in Japanese, connect to a Japan VPN, install Steam in Japanese, and install the Rockman Classics Collection 2
SuperG2042 25 Sep, 2024 @ 7:59pm 
What if i only want to put Brand New Way in the Japanese Credits and nothing more? (Apart from changing Tengu Man's Stage Track to the Sega Saturn Version)
HighHaddock 2 Sep, 2024 @ 1:23pm 
@Kaed✩Wolf
Yep, so now I can play both 8 and X4 on steam undubbed.
Kaed✩Wolf  [author] 2 Sep, 2024 @ 1:18pm 
@HighH
So someone finally was able to do it? Thanks for searching. I downloaded and while it's nice that the japanese video have english subtitles, they used IA to upscale the videos, giving a "vaseline" aspect to the image that I'm not a fan. So I do not pretend to update my Guide with those videos. But if anyone is interested in videos like that, they could download the mod from GameBanana and just copy the resource folder to the game folder. :crashthumbsup:
HighHaddock 2 Sep, 2024 @ 12:05pm 
@Kaed✩Wolf
I found a mod on gamebanana that has subtitles.
Here's a link: https://gamebanana.com/mods/467319
Kaed✩Wolf  [author] 2 Sep, 2024 @ 10:17am 
@HighH
To do that someone need to discover how to decrypt the video files from Mega Man 8.