Talk:Robot Master

Isn't Super Robot how Megaman is called? In Megaman & Bass database says he is a Super Robot, like Gutsman is a engineer robot.--201.15.115.101 20:58, 22 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, in the first couple of games, Mega Man is referred to as a "super robot"- in the story of Mega Man 2 it says "In the year 200X...the super robot Mega Man was born" (or something to that effect). Anyway, this was (retconned), or slightly altered later into the term "Robot Master," which simply means a more advanced robot (one with an advanced AI). --Brahman 02:18, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Canon
There is a lot of talk in different groups about whether certain games such as the Mega Man PC games, Rockman Gold Empire, Rockman & Forte: Challenger From the Future, and Rockman Strategy are canon or not. However, these games were given the Capcom license and do say Capcom USA (or Capcom of Japan, etc.) when you boot them up and play them. Whether or not they are the best games in the world or not (Rockman Strategy is pretty good and the PC games aren't horrible if you can get them to run at the proper speed), they should, in my opinion, be considered canon. I've done some work on the articles about the PC games to beef them up some, but of course their exact placement in the time line of events is a bit dubious at best. --Brahman 04:40, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Manga characters
Buildman and Judge-Man are from Rockman Megamix or Rockman Remix (or both, I don't know the difference between the two (if there is one) as they where drawn by same person). I heard in some places that the only difference between them is the language (Japanese/Chinese), and in others that the story is different, as having characters in one manga that don't appear in the other. Can someone help? --Quick 23:05, 10 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Haven't done much with the card series, but I think the main difference is in the names and text that appears on the cards. The best parallel that I can give you here is between Mega Man X5 and Rockman X5- the Mavericks in the games had completely different names, mainly for marketing reasons and because Capcom wanted to appeal to slightly different audiences (if you've played the games then you know what I'm talking about, and if not, then you can simply look them up).  Anyway, the Robot Masters or Mavericks referred to in these cases are "the same," but they have slightly different names (either because of marketing or translation errors or just a lack of an equivalent in English).  I hope that helps you! --Brahman 02:14, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

DRN vs. DLN
In Mega Man 9, the Robot Masters you fight all have Dr. L logos before their boss doors. Wouldn't this retcon the DRN used in Mega Man 1 to instead be the (more appropriate for English) DLN? Not sure how this would work, and I don't have the sprite for the DLN, so I won't edit it, but I wanted to bring this up anyway. - C.Olimar788 04:30, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps, but Capcom would have to give a clearer endorsement for the new abbreviation, I think. DRN doesn't have to stand for "Dr. Right Number" either; for example, it could stand for "Designation Robot Number", although in that case the abbreviation could apply to robots not made by Dr. Light. Perhaps Capcom will make the "DLN" the official designation for Dr. Light's Robot Masters in the future. -- Webspidrman 5 December 2009

RobotMasters.EXE
I think we should make a page about the Battle Network counterparts of the Robot Masters including Proto Man, Mega Man and Roll, or is there already a page on that? User:E-124 Poldege