Reality Core

Wily Stage 6 : Reality Core Make a Good Mega Man Level 2

The Reality Core itself, as well as Dr. Wily.

Overview Creator(s): snoruntpyro (main level) The Stove Guy (main level) ACESpark (Tier 1+2 area) JupiHornet (Tier 3+4 area) Renhoek (Tier 5+6 area) Beed28 (Tier 7+8 area) Cruise Elroy (Tier 9+10 area) Composer(s): CosmicGem Junichi Masuda Naramura Takashi Tateishi/RushJet1 RushJet1 (small excerpt from Minae Fujii) Tee Lopes Jake Kaufman Hirokazu Ando Jun Ishikawa/PureSabe Statistics Rank: Wily Stage 6 Elements: 1 Enemies: Au-Au Apache Joe Bat Batton B Bitter Beak Ben K Big Eye Big Fish Bikky Blader Bolton and Nutton Bomb Thrown Bounder Camon Cannon Cannopeller Caricarry Chibee Colton Crabbot Crazy Cannon Crazy Razy Croaker Crystal Joe Curlinger Cutting Wheel Cyber Gabyoall Dachone Draygonian Archer Docron Fat Hammer Bro Fatool Fire Boy Fire Camon Fire Cannopeller Fire Ratton Fire Telly Flea Flip Bucket Flying Shell Foojeen Haehaey Hammer Joe Hammer Man Hardswerve Hari Harry Heli Buton Helipon Hologran (City War) Gachappon Garyoby Giree Glue Devil Glue Telly Gohma Graviton Imorm Jamacy Jet Bomb Jet Buton Jumbig Junk Golem Kemumakin Killer Bullet Kinojampu Komasaburo Koopa Hopper Koopa Joe Kouker Q Lakitu Lyric M-422A Mechakkero Metall Metall Cannon Metall Dance Metall DX (walk, fly) Metall Jump Winter Metall Mommy Metall Mommy Winter Metall Swim Metall Winter Metloon Molier Monopellan Mousubeil Mummira Neon Shield Attacker New Shield Attacker New Shotman Nitron Nobita Octopus Battery Okinoko Pakatto 24 Parazooka Troopa Pelicanu Peng Peterchy Petit Devil Petit Snakey Pickelman Bull Picket Man Pipi Piriparee Pooker Potton Prop-Top Propeller Eye Pukapelly Rabbiton Rackaser Ratton Rembakun Ring Ring Rifle Koopa Robo-Rabbit Rock Thrown Rong Rong Sea Mine Serpent Screw Bomber Scworm Shield Attacker Shield Attacker GTR Shield Attacker TRL Shigaraky Shooter Joe Skelefellow Skeleton Joe Skull Walker Sniper Joe Snow Hawk Space Metall Specimen Fly Spine SRU-21/P Subeil Sumatran Swallown Taban Tackle Fire Tadahou Telly Telly XL Toad Joe Togehero Tondeall Tsuranattori Twin Cannon Up'n'Down Vultive Wall Blaster II Wander Bell War Goomba Watcher Wild Gunner Yudon Gimmicks: Acid Drop Airslide Auto Scroller Barrel Boubou Bouncy Tile CD Launcher Chill Man Block Concrete Platform Conveyor (MM2, MM3) Cossack Snow Count Bomb Crash Lift (normal and Spiky Situation Moving Platform) Cursor Elec Block Elec Water Daidine Destroyable Block (Hornet Chaser, Wheel Cutter) Drill Boulder Drop Platform Falling Platform (MM2) Fire Pillar Fire Wave Flicker Enemy Galaxy Man Portal Ghosty Glue Drop Guts Lift Gravity Flip Hover Key Barrier Magnet Machine Moving Ladder Mush Platform Needle Press Nitrogen Steam Oil Plantman Platform Pole Egg Press (Normal, Sideways) Quicksand Quick Laser (instant-kill, Finite Beam Length) Reflect Block Ringman Platform Rock Platform Rotating Spike Platform Screen Wrap Shadow Gimmick Sheep Block Sandstorm Sparkman Platform Spring Super Cutter Toad Rain Tomahawk Platform Tornado Platform Transmogrifier Weapons System‏ Wafer Platform Wanaan Warp Block Yoku Block Sub-Bosses: Big Snakey Disco Ball Hot Dog Metall Potton Octoper OA Bosses: Holo Dragon Chimerabot 1 Chimerabot 2 Chimerabot 3 Chimerabot 4 Chimerabot 5 Wily Machine SWORD megaman sprite game Wily Core Other Information: Final, non post-game, stage

Theme Music Opening: MaGMML2 - Wily Star II, Stage 6 (Opening) Post-Opening Cutscene: Pokemon Diamond and Pearl - Cataclysm!! Main Level: La Mulana - Giant's Cry Holo Dragon: Mega Man 2 Remade - Alien (Final Boss) Chimerabots: Mega Man 4 Remade - Wily Stage Boss Wily Machine SWORD: Sonic Mania - Ruby Illusions megaman sprite game: Shovel Knight: Spectre of Torment - Embraced by Darkness Wily Core: Kirby: Planet Robobot - Vs. Star Dream Escape Cutscene: Kirby Super Star - Escape the Halberd Stage Order Location: Wily Star II Previous: Unobtainium Mine

"With the power of your silly festival, I will SMASH YOU INTO A MILLION PIECES!"

―Dr. Wily, losing it completely.

The Reality Core is the sixth Wily stage in Make a Good Mega Man Level 2, and the final stage of the main story. Here, Mega Man confronts Dr. Wily, who uses the titular device to warp and distort reality, creating a giant maze for Mega Man to traverse akin to the Great Maze from Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Wily's Labyrinth from Rockman 4 Minus Infinity. This maze consists not just of short areas from Mega Man's previous adventures, but five larger sections that remix parts of several (though not all) contest submissions. To reach Wily, Mega Man must complete these areas and destroy their respective "energy hotspot", while fighting five "Chimerabots" that fuse two entry Robot Masters into one being.

The stage is also perhaps the single longest stage in the entire game, and it can take well over an hour for a reasonably skilled player to complete. Fortunately, the level saves all progress after each energy hotspot is destroyed, so it need not be completed entirely in one sitting. The level also contains a central "hub" with respawning Yashichis and a vague map; destroyed hotspots are marked on the map with an Energy Element, with each one surrounding the maze in a ring shape.

Strategy

• Path to the Reality Core: The stage begins with a short autoscrolling section containing only acid droplets and spikes, leading to the Reality Core and a brief cutscene in which Wily's plans actually work and he jumbles up reality!

• Warped Nostalgia: The entrance to the stage's massive maze, where Mega Man must traverse through several rooms based on stages from the first two Mega Man games (Cut Man, Wood Man, Heat Man, Ice Man, MM1 Wily Stage 1, Crash Man, MM1 Wily Stage 4, Fire Man and MM2 Wily Stage 1) ending in a fight against the Holo Dragon.

• The Maze: After falling several screens, Mega Man is thrown into the maze, based off of previous Mega Man levels. In the center lies a teleporter room with recovery items and a teleporter that will lead to the final boss only when activated. Stationed around the maze are five glitched rooms, which will take the player to the five sub-stages mandatory to progress, but as the sub-stages are beaten, glitched spikes will appear in some rooms, blocking the path and forcing the player to take a different route. The player's progress is saved after beating each sub-stage.

A: The appearance of the paths leading to the tier-based sections.

• ACESpark - Tiers 1 & 2: A gauntlet of remixed stages from tiers 1 and 2, but in surprisingly pleasant, non-infuriating ways! The stages used, in order, are Snow Man, Wily Tower, Colorful Hall, Gigavolt Man, Dragon Lab Lair, Cardinal Man, Quirky Unconsistent Incomprehensible Nonsensical Track, Ancient Tomb, Airflow Hubble, Yggdrasil, Rush City, Mix & Match and Something Original. The sub-boss of the area is Chimerabot 1.

• JupiHornet - Tiers 3 & 4: A gauntlet of remixed stages from tiers 3 and 4, made up of SMB3, Neon Man, Combust Man, Enhanced Mobility, Taco Man, The Dampening, Candy Panic, Poorly Named Level, Jungle Base, MegaLondo and Forgotten Fortress. The sub-boss of the area is Chimerabot 2.

• Renhoek - Tiers 5 & 6: Instead of splicing together every level of tiers 5 and 6, this stage mashes up Joe Man, Holy Crap, Mega Man Can Airslide?, Elec Dam, Maze of Significantly Less Death, Volcanic Furnace, Nitrogen Man and Just an Ice Level into one stage. The sub-boss of the area is Chimerabot 3.

• Beed28 - Tiers 7 & 8: A gauntlet of remixed stages from tiers 7 and 8, made up of City Under Siege, But It Lacked the Depth to Convince Me That This is Really Hell, Spiky Situation, Bouncy Castle, Cursor Curse, Force Man, Smed's Big Annoying Mess of a Level, Gunpowder Cellar, Conveyor Mayhem, Bond Man and Ruined Lab. The sub-boss of the area is Chimerabot 4.

• Cruise Elroy - Tiers 9 & 10: A gauntlet of remixed stage from every stage from tiers 9 and 10, with a twist; the majority of this area is spent as one of the four Robot Masters from Identity Crisis. The stages used are Guts Man's Asteroid, Mount Sabre, Neapolitan Man, Cyber Man, Identity Crisis, Sheriff Man and Misty Lake, Sector Upsilon 6, Komuso Temple, Rad Gravity, Donut Observation Center, Quarantine Woman, Haunt Man, The Stage Nobody Asked For, Launch Man & Shuttle Man, Truffle Man, Beneath Sand and Rock and Boil Man. At the end, the player reverts to Mega Man to fight the sub-boss of the area, Chimerabot 5.

• Back to Reality: After defeating the final Chimerabot and destroying the last energy hotspot, the teleporter at the center of the maze becomes active. Using it transports the player back to the Reality Core, but with no sign of Wily. Head to the left, back the way you originally came, to reach a gate that was previously blocked off. Grab the E-Tank and Yashichi then jump down, and after another brief cutscene Dr. Wily will attack in Wily Machine SWORD.

• An Evil Mega Man?: You may have beaten Wily's latest Machine, but the Doctor still has some tricks up his sleeve. He activates the Reality Core one last time, transporting himself and Mega Man to a pocket dimension resembling deep space. You'll have a brief moment to recover and restock before confronting Wily, who claims that where they now are is a dimensional nexus where he plans to summon "an evil version of Mega Man" from an alternate dimension. What he calls forth, however, is megaman sprite game, who immediately attacks Dr. Wily (for being "an asshole") and then attacks Mega Man anyway.

Trivia

• The following stages weren't used as parts of the Reality Core: The Fall, Chomp Man, Alien Temple, Joe Destruction Co., Orbital Station, Shovel Knight, Quint Stage, A Mega Man for All Seasons, AD 2101, Starman Recreation, Wily Coaster, Changeable Caverns, Crystal Lab, Duwang, Lava Factory, Biplane Bay, Blaze Man, Cossack's Other Citadel, Fortified Lab, Aurora Man and Escape Sequence.
• Cruise Elroy's segment (Tiers 9 and 10) is the only segment of the Reality Core that includes every stage that was a part of those tiers.
• If the player repeatedly switches Special Weapons during the conversation with Wily after Mega Man's attempt to shoot the Reality Core, Wily will have special dialogue where he gets angry at them.
• Neither the Bright Man nor Hornet Man costumes can be used in Reality Core; entering the stage with either one equipped will revert Mega Man back to his default appearance.