posted by Gauntlet101010
October 9th, 2021
I’m finally done with Raijin’s impressive artwork for the maybe-never coming Decommissioned storyline and I’m following that up with art made by Ben back when he was more active years and years ago. These were pulled from his Deviantart page and his section over at Wily’s Warriors.
posted by Gauntlet101010
September 12th, 2021
Enough stalling. It’s time to meet the rest of the Ascendant Ascendant Androids! Gyroman, Napalmman, Star Woman. Stoneman, and Waveman. Raijin has said he’s become more interested in seeing this storyline through, so here’s hoping! Until then you can look at these paces of art and read their profiles and wonder what might have been.
posted by Gauntlet101010
August 8th, 2021
Finally back to familiar characters. Still part of the Decommissioned storyline, here’s art for Ascendant Chargeman, Crystalgirl, and Gravityman!
posted by Gauntlet101010
July 10th, 2021
The last two Descendants – Velocity Rabbit / Cheetah and Void Ouroboros.
posted by Gauntlet101010
June 12th, 2021
Thee (kind of four) of Raijin’s concepts – Pulse Anemone, Spectrum Owl, and Strife Scorpion … and his unnamed Bear version of the same scorpion concept. Of these three I think I like Anemone the best, although I do like me some scorpions.
posted by Gauntlet101010
May 17th, 2021
The Mavericks march on with Carnivorous Crane and Chrono Calic. Of this whole batch of art Crane was the one drawn last and about a year after the rest were already done.
posted by Gauntlet101010
April 3rd, 2021
More from Raijin’s Ascendant Android pitch. Decommissioned Chargeman is nigh-unrecognizable! And we’re meeting the first of the mysterious Descendants – Cable Nightshade!
And here’s an obsessively complete Team Shachi’s Rocket Queen sprite rip! Every sprite from the game – hero and enemy – alongside tilesets used in the game! But that’s not all! No, there’s cutscene images as well! Cutscenes in the game are actually videos with corrupted sprites. They look alright just to watch on Youtube or in the game, but zooming in reveals artifacting. These rips are as close to official as I could get, painstakingly recreating the corrupted sprites pixel-by-pixel. It took months to make, even without the months long break in between start and completion. Why? Just because I felt like it, that’s why.
This is what obsession looks like, folks!
This sheet can be found in the Miscellaneous Sprite Gallery section.
posted by Gauntlet101010
March 16th, 2021
More from Raijin’s unfinished idea. This time it’s Decommissioned Gyro and Napalm man! What have they done to you two!? Gyroman’s become nothing more than a fancy backpack and Napalm has been reduced to a mech.
posted by Gauntlet101010
March 5th, 2021
The Epilogues may be over, but the site goes on! I’ll be posting some art for a while. This is from a series based around an unrealized story by Snakeman featuring the Ascendant Androids. It’s Gravityman with the best of his days far behind him.
Next up is a missing sprite from the dog enemy in my Megaman PC rips. Uh … oops! Submitted by Rofang.
Finally we have some images from a different version of Rockman 1 – 6 submitted by Ninjaz_1. More can be found in the article on Asian PC games. Yeah, it’s for a compilation of the original series NES games featuring art of Megaman X. VERY skeevy.
posted by Gauntlet101010
January 30th, 2021
Holy crap you guys. This is it. It took me a year or two to plan. Two or more to write. And another couple to edit and sprite. And a couple years posting every single other epilogue written before, during, and since this monster of a story was finished. But this is it. The series finale.
And not just the Series 9 finale. The Mechanical Maniacs epilogue series finale.
The Mechanical Maniacs finally face off against Crorq and the Galactic Council. Mesmerman makes his big move with his wingman Rockman Shadow. And, oh yeah, Torchman and his coverable losers are there too. This is the most expansive adventure the Mechs have ever been on and I’m so happy to finally share it with you all.
I have to give a big thanks to Raijin, who drew the above picture. Without his tireless editing and amazing sprite work this adventure wouldn’t be nearly as comprehensible as it turned out to be.
Twenty years. That’s how long the Mechanical Maniacs’ adventures have gone on. Just about every other Megaman team has gone the way of the dodo since I started this and it’s gone on for far, FAR longer than I ever thought it would. Changing my life in ways I didn’t expect. I’m in a completely different place in my life now than when this site was started waaaaaaaay back in 2000. I have to thank each and every one of my friends, past and present, for being with me on this journey building a crazy, absolutely convoluted fanfic world around one game called Mega Man 3.
After this the site will go on. I hope to get more into art, which I used to be all about. And there’s just a few epilogues still in the works. Not by me, though. So check back for all of that. In the mean time enjoy the Mechanical Maniacs’ last stand against the forces of evil … or, at least, the forces that bother them as they just try to live their life.
