Booster Forest

"Find out what the Mavericks want with the rocket center."

- Stage description

Booster Forest (ブースターズ・フォレスト) is Bamboo Pandamonium's stage in Mega Man X8. It is an old rocket science research facility located in mainland China.

Description
The stage makes use of Ride Armor, which can be found at several points. With careful timing, the Ride Armor can be brought into the mid-boss room, where either Vile or several waves of Golem Ride Armors appear for a fight. After this, there is an upward segment using elevators - if the player can get their Ride Armor through, they can take an upper route into the next area. Further in is a sequence where the Ride Armor can be placed on an elevator in the background, and if the player can keep up with it, they get to reclaim it later. If done successfully, they can take the Ride Armor into battle against Bamboo Pandamonium - if not, they fight the boss regardless.

Enemies

 * Army Metall
 * Bindholder
 * Float Gunner
 * Golem
 * Guardroid (HIG)
 * Spheroid
 * Megabyoall
 * Mine-Q
 * Turn Cannon

Items

 * Foot Parts I: After the first sub-boss room, there is a platform in the top left corner with a capsule and spikes on its side. It can be reached a variety of ways, such as Zero's Raikousen, damage boosting, a Prickle Barrier, or the flying Rasetsusen glitch.
 * Rare Metal - Weapon Converter (X): Further in the same room, a small gap in the wall can be found that requires Axl to copy a Spheroid to enter.
 * Rare Metal - Shield Armor (Zero): After dropping the Ride Armor onto the spiked conveyor belt to the elevator, follow it and get inside. Because of the conveyor's spikes, this requires damage boosting, a Prickle Barrier, or a glitch. The Rare Metal will be found along the elevator's path.
 * Rare Metal - Double Barrier (Axl): The player must bring the Ride Armor in the upper path by destroying blocks. The Ride Armor can then be used to destroy some blocks to the left of an elevator, which seem to lead to a dead-end. Use a charged Crystal Wall with X to unearth the Rare Metal.