[TAS] PSX Mega Man X5 "X only" by Noxxa in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/...
TAS originally published on 2011-10-02
Sigma returns again and Earth is in great danger. Zero is off having a party all night, so Mega Man X steps in to do the job. Even if not as awesome as Zero, he still manages to do the job in less than 20 minutes while also getting the Ultimate Armor.

[@flipperjr.3822]

The fact that you can just... skip to the final level just through sheer RNG bullshit is just, wow.
10/10 game design.

[@morrowlterraslove]

Well it’s not even RNG it’s either you get the good or bad ending but you can just skip to the final stages at will

[@ryanmilway1644]

X:
SIGMA:
X:
SIGMA:
Thrilling dialouge

[@Anfidurl]

Love the speedrun, but man I forgot how annoying all the dialogue and the breaks in the action were on this game.

[@blackpants7385]

If you want to revisit the game, there's an improvement patch that lets you remove the dialogue mid-stage

[@dansmith1661]

@@blackpants7385 So much this.

[@dylanlarson4658]

Magnus Zero used the patch in his Megaman X5 Zero No Damage all stages run without SDC. Look him up.

[@j.braunstein4599]

Being an early bird to a new Megaman speedrun always feels good

[@LeislonJose]

This TAS was first released in 2011, but it does still feel good seeing a reupload as soon as it's out.

[@MegaNoXoN]

Sigma: "You came earlier than expected."
X: "Well, I kinda skipped the typical 8 minions, because having defeated 32 of those plus the other previous super bosses was lame enough. I don't need power ups. Prepare to die for the 5th time!!!!"

[@lamptrent]

obligatory joke:
Sigma: "You came earlier than expected."
X: "Zero told you?!"

[@Ephraim225]

Seventh time :3

[@MegaNoXoN]

@@Ephraim225 Oh, right, I forgot about the Xtreme games xDDD

[@hypemugen]

its been almost 20 years since the last megaman X game :(
really wish we saw capcom working on mmx9. Got all hyped up with the release of mm11 and mmxdive, however we got not much else.

[@TinyMeatGaang]

Would you count Megaman X DiVE a mmx game?

[@maxrichards5925]

@@TinyMeatGaangit’s a gacha game so no lol

[@barrickfischer]

11:24 What to do with Ultimate X? Simple. *SPAMMING GIGA ATTACK*

[@maxrichards5925]

It ain’t over till it nova

[@metaridley2911]

5:00 - Peak hitbox design right here.

[@BBHood217]

X5's presentation was rather lacking, especially when compared to X4 and its anime cutscenes and in-game voiced lines. Surely Zero's original last hurrah (before Capcom decided they wanted an X6 after all) deserved better.

[@lamiamekni2802]

I think after the poor reception of the infamous voice acting in X4, Capcom decided to not use any more anime cutscenes

[@theobserver4214]

@@lamiamekni2802It was because X5 was a low budget game made by a production studio normally involved in porting games. They simply couldn’t fund new anime cutscenes for X5 and X6, resulting in both games having those Visual Novel esque cutscenes. X6 at least brought back voice acting in cutscenes to the games.

[@lamiamekni2802]

@@theobserver4214 oh, sorry

[@morrowlterraslove]

@@theobserver4214well X6 also had better cutscene presentation than X5 looking better

[@SonJazrin]

Colonel: We're glad that you defeated Sigma, X. But don't we still have eight Mavericks running around wreaking havoc around the world?
X: Meh, I'm sure everything will be fine.

[@parkouremaster]

Signas*

[@JS-xh4yf]

@@parkouremaster Ligmas?

[@shujinkoMK]

@@JS-xh4yf Sugma

[@Knightphall]

Colonel is dead, you jerk!

[@CabeliotCometier]

Isn't most of the planet covered in the Maverick Virus? I think there's a few more than 8 Mavericks here, and the reploids the hunters were going after weren't specifically labeled Maverick yet but had parts for the Enigma and Shuttle.

[@Isolet_SSB]

My favorite Megaman X game!!

[@mapes2572]

i used to have your pfp bro xd

[@solarflare9078]

Same!

[@Asian_newbie]

The X games are some of my all time favs. Childhood games growing up. They are all similar in a way but all always challenging in some way!

[@cedricmaguire9329]

He sure did give it to em

[@kaienjin5468]

X only huh? That's basically what X5 wanted us to do anyway.

[@MaskedGuyCh]

This was recommended to me by youtube. I'm not subbed to this channel, but I appreciate the recommendation youtube. I love Mega Man X.

[@danamation6480]

X just dont care

[@petergriscom3431]

Good to know I can mash through the text almost as fast as the TAS does.

[@NightVisionPhantom]

I farted

[@petergriscom3431]

@@NightVisionPhantom "Crass" was the word I got.

[@Jokerbuzzed]

Sheest, how many times do you have to fight Zero in this series? Seems like every game he's got a beef with you and you gotta smack him around a bit.

[@Archer690Channel]

to be fair zero was created to fight x

[@dansmith1661]

@@Archer690Channel He was created to fight Mega Man. X came after.

[@kaienjin5468]

2

[@OniLinkBrazil1993]

We only fight Zero in X2 and X5...

[@TheEmpiresStrongest]

@@dansmith1661 Thank you for the clarification. Wily specifically made him to fight classic Megaman. Not X.

[@brianchoke3083]

So you didn’t have to go through that scary planetarium? Whew!

[@guggenheim914]

forgive my lack of X5 knowledge, but doesn't that outline laser kill you? 5:00

[@kaienjin5468]

No, it just hurts you.

[@Shinmarce]

@@kaienjin5468 can hurt you IFFFFF you're so close to that laser

[@SonofTiamat]

Wait, how did that beam cannon destroy that space station without any upgrades?

[@Marionette_Doll]

RNG manipulation.

[@NeilAerknard]

when you start the game the rng seed for the enigma change during gameplay so the chance not be always 100% but if you reset the game and see the intro demo doing some trick you can always get 100% chance to destroy the colony i guess in this tas he manipulate that seed in some form

[@SonofTiamat]

@@NeilAerknard Weird, I never knew that

[@NeilAerknard]

@@SonofTiamat you can see that trick in a normal speedrun ^_^

[@augustoortiz1254]

Is a hard trick Anyways (the rng must be on your side), is a lot of trials to get that (or rng manipulation)

[@GyprockGypsy]

After X4 I never touched the series again. Glad to see I didnt miss anything except the same neon purple background over and over again.

[@blackpants7385]

Consider that you've only really seen the first and final levels

[@MTown587]

Yeah the first 4 X games are great, but then the quality starts to dip around X5. X5 is at least decent and X8 is good, but X6 was bad and X7 was just awful.

[@blackpants7385]

@@MTown587 Nah, X3 doesn't deserve to be lumped together with X1, X2, and X4

[@marcusmayo]

@@MTown587 I wouldn't say X6 was bad on a outright, just had some really bad levels. But yeah X7 was awful.

[@MTown587]

@@marcusmayo I’ll admit it’s not all bad, I feel like if X6 wasn’t rushed out and they took their time with it, it would’ve probably been a decent game. There are some things I genuinely like about X6 and the music is some of the best in the series, but the bad level design and the nightmare effects really sour my opinion of it.

[@evanmagolor1812]

Just 360 noscope Eurasia

[@reesecates8620]

Can you do G-Force on PSP or PS2/Wii next?

[@ikewagner]

If you just took out all the dialog this would be a 9 minute run

[@Machiate]

10:46 Reisen's theme hits on

[@xu765432ggfk]

Nah, Megaman X5 published earlier than TH08 Imperishable Night, so there's no reason for you to write something ignorant like this.

[@somefries3101]

@@xu765432ggfk maybe drinking some copium will help.
Nobody said that Zero stage 2 was based off Lunatic eyes.

[@xu765432ggfk]

@@somefries3101 I do not feel any upset of this, but I know some people don't like others put irrelevant comments.
At nico(Japanese) video website, same part of this game, someone did similar thing like him, then he got warned by others(they think he should refrain from this).

[@somefries3101]

@@xu765432ggfk who really cares if it's irrelevant? in most of TAS videos you can see people talking about how these game were their childhood or how good it was, not really talking about the run itself, but why does it really matter, besides these people will most likely complain over the most stupid shit to fill their empty lives.

[@xu765432ggfk]

@@somefries3101 Well, I think it's about different culture or something, in nico website at that timing, they think you should discuss the things which is relevant to the video, from their point of view, at a megaman video, you should post a comment which is relevant to megaman. This seems to be worked on different kinds of videos, too.

[@GameXenoZero64]

By the one second, the RNG timing was perfect

[@_elezin_zx3652]

lmao this game still sucks

[@mikuhatsune8121]

Shut up

[@mikuhatsune8121]

9 year old boy

[@dangerousgrace7478]

The ps 10?

[@danitouchdofus0895]

This channel is not so good anymore, it is re-updowning old videos only, I want to watch those elder runners do this speedruns interesting like old times, Thanks

[@Spikechive]

If this is how you say "re-updowning" then why is the encoder "EZGames69" and not "OmnipotentEntity"?
If this really was a download and reupload, the quality should also be at 240p.
Unfortunately, your claim falls flat when you also consider that this is also a PCSX-RR TAS meaning that these specific TASes are being redone to get proper audio in place rather than the broken samples that the TASspu plugin provides.
You can't claim "well the 240p feed is just upscaled" either, cause where would the obvious artifacts be?
We're sorry that you don't care about the preservation of older TASes to be modernized to a newer audience, actually no we don't, we've been reencoding older TASes for almost 6 years now, drip feeding it. So your complaint can go out the door.
Edit: Also I actually forgot the more important thing. Noxxa used to not go by Noxxa back in 2011. They had a completely different alias.