Mega Man Anniversary Collection

[Dark Jaguar]

Here's another note ABF. You say that it's odd no one else brought this up, but here's the thing. Big news sites often neglect to metion a LOT of information people like us actually consider important. For instance, it wasn't until the review you linked to that I FINALLY found out for certain which version of MM8 was being included in the collection, which is something that people like us would CERTAINLY like to know.

As it turns out, by the way, it's the PS version... I had hoped it would have the extras from the Saturn version in there, but it seems that's not the case...

Oh yes, I want to bring up one other question I have. I wish to know exactly what the instruction manuel situation is. In Super Mario All-Stars, they basically compressed all the original booklets into one big one. They kept all the important info and the stories weren't compressed or anything (not that it matters in Mario :D). In Sonic Mega Collection, they went all out and actually had ALL the original booklets scanned at a decently high resolution and put right on the disk for zooming and panning to one's delight. They were the US manuels as opposed to translating the Japanese ones, but that would have been too much to ask of them (oh right, I'm paying them... :D). Anyway, I want to know what they plan on doing here. A short 3 sentence summery of each won't cut it. Throughout the Megaman series, the instruction booklets have contained a lot of info about the story and characters that just aren't in the games themselves. For example, playing Megaman 3, someone would have no idea that Dr. Wily was working with Dr. Light to gather crystals for the giant peace keeping weapon of mass destruction, Gamma. There are also the various character bios, like info on what on Earth Eddie the flip-top container robot is, or what's with all those letters.

So the question is this. Do each of the games have the original manuel scanned in that you can look at in detail like the Sonic Mega Collection? Did they keep all the important details and just make a somewhat large game booklet? Did they, heaven forfend, just give us a short sentence describing each game? Or... did they just imagine that we could figure it out on our own and do little more than give instructions on how to PLAY these games? I ask because even though I do own MM1,2, and 4 (and had 3 for a while before trading it as a kid), I don't have ANY of their instruction manuels. In fact, I barely managed to hang on to ANY of my original NES game booklets, being that I was a kid with many younger siblings and all. Also, the Zelda Collection just had a paragraph for each game and that paragraph lacked a lot, a LOT, of detailed info that the booklets had. For OOT and MM that didn't matter, but there are a lot of people who just don't have access to the juicy bits of info the Zelda 1 and 2 booklets offered.