ACDC Town

ACDC Town, known as Akihara Town (秋原町) in Japan, is a location from the MegaMan Battle Network series.

Real World
ACDC Town is the home town of Lan, Yai, Dex, and Mayl. Lan lives there during MegaMan Battle Network 1-5. It's also home to Higsby's Battle Chip shop and the DenTown academy school. Its park has a squirrel statue which is a popular gathering spot and the town has many residential areas.

The town acts as a central hub for Battle Network 1-5, and is visited in Battle Network 6. The town is also used as a map in MegaMan Network Transmission. The design of the town stayed the same for 1-3, Network Transmission and MegaMan Battle Chip Challenge, and changed for MMBN 4-6.

In MegaMan Battle Network it is discovered that a secret Metroline travelled from the school grounds to the base of the WWW. During the influence of SoulNet NumberMan / SearchMan (depending of the game version) guards the server.

Appearance
In the former version, Lan's house was located nearly the center of the town, with Mayl's house to it's left, and the front door facing towards the subway and Dex's house. Towards the top right would be the school and Higsby's shop, and closer to Lan's house was Yai's house. The was also a small park playground.

In the latter appearance, Dex's house moved to behind Lan's house. The school was removed entirely and the main gate was replaced with Yai's home. The subway was moved to behind Mayl's house instead of a distance in front of it, and Higsby's shop would be moved over to a small golden squirrel. The park was shrunken into what resembled a garden, and the squirrel statue became a jack-in point. Visual difference aside, the same basic melody for ACDC Town's music is retained with varying remixes applied throughout the series.

ACDC Area
ACDC's main cyberworld area is usually the first location for the story lines in the series. Along with the ever-changing internet, ACDC area has always been different between each game. In each game (except MegaMan Battle Network 6) ACDC area contains the weakest viruses in the game; mainly Mettaurs and Canodumbs. The addition of cyber squares in MegaMan Battle Network 2 and 3 created a large hotspot for Navis and merchants alike.

MegaMan also can jack-in to other electrical objects to enter their Cyberworld, many of which do not directly link to ACDC Area.

Visionburst ACDC Town
In MegaMan Battle Network 5 a digital version of ACDC Town in stasis from 10 years ago exists in ACDC Area 3 that shows ACDC Town when the main cast are infants. Yai is yet to be born and Lan's grandfather's dog Gow is present in the town. Three statues similar to the Guardian Battle Chip appear in the Metroline's location.

Lan's house is similar to the blue modern version but Mayl's house is not pink, Yai's house is under construction and the Metroline does not exist. (As per the continuity with its opening in MegaMan Battle Network)

MegaMan Battle Network 3

 * Sub Chip Dealer: Mini Energy for 100z, Sneakrun for 200z and Loc Enemy for 10,000z

ACDC:
 * Viruses:
 * Navi Ghosts: FlashManα and FlashManβ

Doghouse Comp:
 * BMD: Barrier L
 * Viruses: Mettaur, Canodumb
 * Navi Ghost: BeastManβ

Yai HP:
 * BMD: RegUP2 and SideGun S
 * Viruses: Bunny, Canodumb

Trivia

 * ACDC town is likely named after the two kinds of electrical current, Alternating Current and Direct Current. Its name might be a reference to the band ACDC.