The Zenny displayed in the menu from The Misadventures of Tron Bonne is the amount obtained in the current mission, while the total is shown in the Gesellschaft. The Misadventures of Tron Bonne contains details of the current mission, machine ( Gustaff, Gustaff Tank or Finkel), and Servbots. In the two Mega Man Legends games the player can change MegaMan Volnutt's equipments and equip/unequip the current Special Weapon.
In all games from the series this menu displays the life gauge, Zenny, play time, items, and options. In Mega Man Legends 2 it was renamed as Status Screen, although it is called Menu Screen in the controller button explanation from Japanese manuals. Mega Man Legends and The Misadventures of Tron Bonne contain a Menu Screen ( メニュー画面, Menu Screen ). In the Mega Man Zero and Mega Man ZX series, the Sub Screen is divided into different screens depending of the game: the Status and Options screens in all games Elf List, Form, EX Skills, and Chips in the Mega Man Zero series and Item and Mission screens in the Mega Man ZX series.
The English Mega Man Xtreme 2 manual switched the Sub Screen and Weapon Select names. In Mega Man X the menu was named System Status Screen, being changed the Weapon Select Screen in Mega Man X2 onward, except for Mega Man X7 where it is named Status Screen. The menu was named Mega Power Screen in Mega Man 8, possibly due to the screens being detailed in a section named "Mega Power!" in the NES, SNES, Game Boy, and Mega Man 8 manuals. It was changed to Status Screen in Mega Man 5 and Mega Man III, and Weapon Screen in Mega Man 6- 7 and Mega Man IV- V, but it was still called a "weapon box" in the menu's description in the NES and Game Boy games. In early North American manuals, the menu was named Weapon Box in Mega Man 3 and Mega Man: Dr. It becomes the X Communication Monitor when playing as Zero. In Mega Man 11 it is named Sub Menu and is divided into four tabs: Weapons, Items, Support and Parts.īesides the recurring functions, in Mega Man X3 the screen can be used to change from X to Zero with the Zero Communication Monitor ( ゼロ通信モニター, Zero Communication Monitor ). In Mega Man X8 it is divided into the Weapons Screen, Item Screen, and Options Screen. The collective name was changed to Sub Screen in Mega Man Xtreme, becoming the standard name in later releases. The two screens are collectively known as the Equipment Select Screen ( 装備選択画面, Soubi Sentaku Gamen ) in Mega Man & Bass. With the inclusion of more items in games like Mega Man 7 and Mega Man IV, the screen was divided into the Weapon Select Screen and the Item Select Screen ( アイテム選択画面, Item Select Screen shortened as Item Screen in some games). In Mega Man: The Wily Wars it was named the Weapon Select Window ( 武器選択ウインドー, Weapon Select Window ).įrom Mega Man 4 onward the menu occupied the whole screen and was named the Weapon Select Screen ( 武器選択画面, Buki Sentaku Gamen, shortened as Weapon Screen in some sources). It was originally named Weapon Select Display ( 武器セレクト表示, Weapon Select Display ), also being called Cockpit ( コックピット, Cockpit ) in Mega Man 3. In the first three games the menu only occupied part of the screen and used a pallette from the current stage. In later games it also included items and options such as Tanks, Sub Tanks, Escape, and Parts.
In most games the Sub Screen primarily displays the player's Life Energy, Extra Lives, and allows to change Special Weapons, showing how much Weapon Energy each weapon has. 5.3 Mega Man Zero and Mega Man ZX series.4 Mega Man Battle Network and Mega Man Star Force series.