This is a hotfix patch for preview 4 that fixes a few game-breaking bugs.

If you are new to BBN3, read the changelog for preview 3 as well.

preview 4.1

• Opposite-version gigas in the pve version will now have the correct chip art. They've also all been made available via certain shops throughout the net. You'll have to find them.

(Note that if a save file from previous versions is used, it may not receive access to these new chips. This is because shop data is loaded from your save file.)

• Damage is now applied to barriers and auras even if Megaman is intangible when hit.

• Fixed crashes during certain points in the singleplayer version.

• Fixed bug where certain wind hitboxes could deal damage on every frame if timefreeze was activated on the frame that they hit something.

• Due to changes in the way opposite-version gigas are implemented, any folder from previous versions containing one of them will now have a dud v5 navi chip that does nothing when used. To prevent issues like this during battle, the game will generate a fresh save instead of loading saves from previous versions.

preview 4.2

• Disabled debugging code that was accidentally left on (MetalMan is no longer replaced with a dummy fight.)

• Made GroundStyle possible to be acquired through normal gameplay.

This is a minor update that fixes some bugs and introduces a few extra features.

If you're new to BBN3, read the changelog for Prevew 3 as well. That log will go over the vast majority of changes to date.

Roadmap:

• Wave 1 - basic changes to battle chip properties, such as class, damage, and element.

• Wave 2 - modifications to the battle engine and complex changes to battle chips

• Wave 3 - new abilities, battle chips, and mechanics

The next major update will feature the 3rd wave of changes. Expect it to be in development for a long time.

---- The following bugs have been fixed:

• One of DarkLicense's error codes was impossible to fix.

• There was still a way to activate the 11th chip glitch via HubBatch.

• The Guard chip still had extended endlag even if it blocked a hit.

• Running BBN3 on certain flashcarts and a few older emulators would result in the game's anticheat system triggering and deleting all your chips.

• Error codes did not work at all in the PVE version.

---- Gameplay changes

• AirSword can now push cubes just like AirShot.

• You can now mash the A button to use DeltaRay's command code.

• AntiRecov now reduces HP by 1x the recovery amount just like later games.

• When the FastGauge and SlowGauge NCPs go up against each other in pvp, they will now cancel each other out and the battle will begin with normal gauge speed.

• Rush will no longer trigger AntiSword.

• While in the Custom Screen, pressing Select will allow you to see any traps that you or your opponent have equipped.

---- Other changes

• You can jack out of Secret Area by pressing R. The panel that used to jack you out will now teleport you to Secret Area 3.

• Lan's dog house will now take you directly to Secret Area.

• Both the SetLava and SetHoly NCPs have been shrunk by 2 blocks each.

• There's a known issue where certain flashcarts will run BN3 at a reduced speed during pvp battles. This isn't easily fixed, but there is currently a measure in place that should significantly mitigate the performance issues for those carts in most situations.

• Some Navi chip icons have had their color palettes slightly adjusted. BowlMan and GutsMan received new icons.

---- Exclusive differences in the PVE version

• Your Regular Memory is calculated differently. It begins at 2MB and caps at 5MB. Each RegUp you collect brings you closer to your next RegMem increase, but each increase requires multiple RegUp pieces before you see any effect.

• All standard chips are limited to 4 per folder.

• None of the chips or PAs are disabled.

• Chips have vanilla damage values, except for Muramasa and Poltergeist.

• The ModTools Error/EX Codes have vanilla behavior.

• Friendly viruses have vanilla behavior.

• After receiving the Press NCP from Cossak, Press will become permanently applied the next time you run the customizer.

• The Energychange NCP is always applied automatically.

• BlackMind and Alpha are not applied automatically.

• Custom and Team Style do not have buffed stats.

• When starting a new save, the Mistman chips will be added to your library.

• The tutorial is skipped at game start. You're welcome.

• The ElemBody NCPs work normally, but they also set your next style's element to their respective element.

• If the navicust is ran without an ElemBody NCP, your next style's element will be rerolled.

• For anything else not mentioned here: if a change sounds like it would make no sense for the PVE version, then chances are it hasn't been included in the PVE version.

This update focuses on improvements to the battle engine. Many interactions should feel more intuitive and align with the expected behavior from the battle engine in BN6. The new balance changes also make use of both the new modifications to the engine and the improved documention of vanilla mechanics.

There is also a considerable focus on Quality of Life improvements to help with preparing and testing pvp builds. Most notably, a completed save file is no longer required.

Roadmap:

• Wave 1 - basic changes to battle chip properties, such as class, damage, and element.

• Wave 2 - modifications to the battle engine and complex changes to battle chips

• Wave 3 - new abilities, battle chips, and mechanics

This update concludes the bulk of the 2nd wave. The next major update will feature the 3rd wave of changes. Expect it to be in development for a long time.

---- Chip Code, Element, and Damage values

Per usual, chips will display their element and damage value when being viewed. Attack chips that do not show a damage value will announce it in their description.

Close to 100 chips have had their damage modified, so these changes won't be listed individually here. Look at the in-game chip library to see what's new.

Similarly, look in the backpack to see which codes are available for each chip.

---- Refresher: features from previous versions of BBN3

•Guard skills are bound to Select (Block/Shield/Reflect/AntiDmg)

•The majority of real-time chips have had their frame data significantly buffed

•Version-exclusive chips and styles are freely available to use.

•Friendly Viruses have their damage values locked. They cannot be fed.

•Muramasa's damage caps at 500.

•Rook's HP was nerfed to 300. Meteor series is buffed to 210HP. Needler series and Team1 is buffed to 150HP.

•ElecSword stuns. Meteor, Needler, Team1, and Shake no longer cause flashing.

•All except the V1 and V2 versions of navi chips have been removed, except for PlantMan and FlashMan, who only exist as V5 chips. Additionally, Mole and MetaGel only have one version. These changes make it impossible to activate certain Program Advances. Any chip or PA that is not available will not appear in the library.

---- Quality of Life changes

•When selecting New Game on the title screen, you will load into a 100% pvp-ready game state. This feature is based heavily off of the work done by X Kirby and NMarkro for the Open Mode BN3 patch.

•When you have a trap equipped, you can view which one it is on your side. To your opponent it still shows up as "????".

•Fixed a bug in vanilla that caused the text for your chip to disappear when your opponent entered an attack animation.

•You can now cycle quickly through every style. The Navi Customizer Programs OilBody/Fish/Battery/Jungle will set your style to their respective element when ran on the command line. You can then remove them and their effect will persist until you change your style again.

•Some NCPs have received alternative shapes, which can be toggled by hovering over them and pressing Select before they are placed on the Navi Cust. An in-game email lists all of the NCPs that have alternate shapes.

•Error codes can be fixed by entering a completely blank code.

•EX Codes are highly abbreviated, ranging from 1-3 characters long. An in-game email explains all of the available EX Codes.

•Each Navi chip has a custom icon now :^)

•Story NCPs (Press, EnergyChange, Alpha, BlackMind) are always active by default.

•Random virus encounters are disabled.

•There are new emails in Lan's inbox that explain some things about the game:

-Explanation of how to use the modified ModTools

-List of all available Ex Codes

-Explanation of how priority works when numerous NCPs try to apply abilities that can't be combined

-List of NCPs that have toggleable alternate shapes

-Explanation of the TimeFreeze Parry System

---- Changes to folder building

•MegaByte values are much smaller and only indicate useful info. Values range from 2-9. Regular chip capacity is 5, but can be increased up to 8 with the MB+ Navi Customizer Programs.

•The chips in your backpack are infinite. The chip quantity indicator has been repurposed.

•Chips have individual limits for how many copies can be added to the folder. Both the MegaByte and quantity value indicates a chip's limit. The quantity directly shows the max limit for a chip. Using the MegaByte value, calculate the limit this way: Limit = 6 - <MB val>. Chips with MB values over 5 will usually be limited to 1, but some only have a high MB to prevent being a Regular chip, while their real limit is greater than 1.

---- Modifications to the battle engine

•Wind attacks remove Barriers and Auras. This effect pierces intangibility and AntiDmg, but is blocked by shields.

•Added support for making an attack push MegaMan the maximum possible distance in one direction. This effect is referred to as BigPush.

•SuperArmor no longer defends against drag statuses (SmallPush/BigPush).

•MegaMan temporarily receives superarmor while stunned. This does not apply to vine Tangle status.

•MegaMan can now be pushed and pulled by wind gusts while stunned.

•TimeFreeze Parry's active window is increased to 6 frames. The cooldown for TFP is reset each time Megaman is hit, allowing for all hits of a multihit moves to potentially be parried. Reminder: TFP is activated by pressing Left before you are hit by an attack during timefreeze. If done successfully, it halves the damage of that hit.

•The back row on either player's side cannot be stolen.

•Objects are no longer instantly destroyed when hit by a breaking attack. Instead they receive 10 additional damage for each breaking hit.

•When you enter the Custom Menu without having used all the chips in your hand, those chips will not be deleted if you use the ADD function instead of selecting new chips.

•The status effects that inflict push and pull can now move characters onto broken panels if the character has airshoes installed.

•The bonus damage granted by elemental panels is now null element. This prevents the bonus damage from being multiplied additional times.

•Elec element damage on ice panels now gets a 1.5x bonus instead of 2x

•The universal damage multiplier for elemental weaknesses is now 1.5x instead of 2x.

---- Attacks and abilities

•The charge time for all Charge Shots has been slightly sped up.

•Shields have increased cooldown before they can be used again, but their cooldown is sharply decreased if they block anything. This also applies for the Block NCP.

•Shield style's shield heal ability is reduced to healing 5% of max HP. This value scales with HP+ parts.

•AntiDmg will throw the star much earlier when triggered. The chip version now waits for MegaMan's current animation to finish before popping. The NCP version no longer removes other traps when it's used, it also gives the opponent no visible indicator when it's active.

•FastGauge and SlowGauge only last for 3 turns. Once their turn limit is up they will reset the gauge speed.

•GrabBack and GrabRevenge return stolen panels and push the opponent back. The hit no longer pierces shields. This panel-return mechanic is taken from Mgamerz's BN3 patch.

He has a video showcasing this feature here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shHckkHBFd0

And the code is taken from this pastebin file uploaded by him:

https://pastebin.com/bdtSxK6L

•GutsPunch and GutsImpact cause BigPush (non-command input versions).

•The hit from AirSword applies BigPush.

•Auras expire roughly twice as fast compared to vanilla.

•FolderBack restores a max of 7 standard chips. Only attack chips are able to be restored, excluding Friendly Viruses and chips that can recover HP.

•GaiaSword/GaiaBlade will only consume the damage from wood element chips. Any chips that are not eligible to be consumed will not be deleted from your hand.

•BeastMan no longer has the command input that allowed him to hit more than 3 times.

•AntiNavi no longer steals the following Giga chips: Bass, Bass+, Serenade, DeltaRay, and both AlphaArms. (These chips are still compatible with other effects that only work for "navi" chips.)

•Shadow and Mole grant an invulnerability duration that scales with the speed of the custom gauge at the time of activation. During slowgauge their effects will last longer, during fastgauge their effects will expire quicker.

•DarkChip attacks that are used without a DarkHole or DarkLicense will have their attack value reduced to 1/4 instead of poofing. DarkAura will activate and last for 4 seconds instead of poofing.

•Prism's HP has been changed from infinite to 400. It will not spread the hitbox from an attack that destroys it.

•Anubis and Poison Pharaoh no longer pierce invis with their poison. The poison mask series still do.

•The Magnum series will now crack occupied panels instead of leaving them untouched.

•HolyPanel spawns directly under the player who uses it.

•NorthWind now pierces shields.

•DarkHole is no longer affected by the object limit and will not delete existing objects when spawned.

•The Sensor series of chips have had their duration time reduced by 3 seconds. When first spawned, Sensor will wait 60 frames before firing.

---- Styles and Navi Customizer Parts

•Custom Style has a passive Custom+3 boost.

•Team Style has a passive MegaFolder+2 and Custom+1 boost.

•Most of the Navi Customizer Programs have had their size shrunk. Some have alternative shapes that can be toggled by pressing Select.

•HP+ Parts are changed to +50/+100/+200/+400 to go along with their significant size reduction.

•The 11th chip glitch has been fixed.

•The WeaponLevel stat now scales with the buster atk stat. Every +2 Atk increases WeaponLvl by 1. This effect works without the need for installing the WeaponLvl NCP, however they still work normally in addition to this effect.

•Introduced a new tier of armor known as LiteArmor. When equipped, it applies SuperArmor only while in the middle of an attack. While idle or in normal movement, MegaMan is vulnerable to being flinched. Currently it is not available as an individual NCP.

•HubBatch no longer halves HP. It instead sets a flat 300 HP reduction that is unaffected by BugStop. HubBatch grants the following effects: LiteArmor, AirShoes, Shield, Custom+1, BreakBuster, BreakCharge, UnderShirt.

•The NCP version of FastGauge (and its bugged effect, SlowGauge) will apply a speed that is slightly less intense than the chip variants. Each turn, the gauge's speed will increment slightly to get closer to the default speed. When a gauge chip overwrites the effect of the gauge NCP, the speed at the time of it being overwritten will be restored when the chip expires.

---- Miscellaneous things

•The Time Trial fights in Secret Area now feature the Omega versions of Navis.

-the ProtoMan fight is replaced with Bass. Protoman can still be fought at Hades Isle

-The BowlMan fight accessible in the DNN netbattling machine is now a MistMan fight.

•The bosses that follow typical flinch behavior now mimick the way MegaMan flinches. While already flinching, getting hit again will not refresh the flinch duration. This should allow for combo practice that better represents the timing required to combo real players.

•As a reminder, you can bring your custom folders into the Time Trial battles.

•TimeFreeze chips fade in and out slightly faster.

•Many chips and NCP descriptions have been rewritten so they make more sense. There are also emojis to represent elements and dark chips now.

---- Singleplayer-exclusive differences

•None of the chips or PAs are disabled.

•Chips have vanilla damage values, except for Muramasa and Poltergeist.

•The ModTools EX Codes have vanilla behavior. Customizer Errors are still fixed with a blank code.

•Friendly viruses have vanilla behavior.

•Story NCPs (Press, Alpha, etc) are not applied automatically.

•Custom and Team Style do not have buffed stats.

•The new emails are not included, as they would overwrite existing emails that are arguably important to plot details.

•When starting a new save, the Mistman chips will be added to your library.

•The tutorial is skipped at game start. You're welcome.

wave 1, version 2

This release comes after a month of active development. This is very much a preview. The majority of modifications are among the simplest changes planned, both in design and implementation. The next public release isn't planned until after a much more comprehensive set of changes has been implemented.

Thank you for showing interest in the development of this patch.

--- System Changes

• Shield ability input (B <-) is rebound to Select. The original input no longer works

• Universal invis duration inflicted by "flashing" chips reduced to 60f

--- Quality of Life

• HP visually drains faster while taking damage (from MGamerz's asm tutorial)

• Serenade's Time Trial battles don't switch to your xtrafolder

--- New Content

• The following chips were ported from White version

Navi Recycle

Bass

Serenade

Balance

Alpha Arm Sigma

--- Unique Move Changes

• Rope 2 & 3

Vine Stun reduced to v1

• Shock/Sonic/Dyna Wave

crack panels, move at max speed

• KillerEye

reduced cycle speed, removed omega version

• Scuttles

reduced cycle speed, removed grass and omega version

----- Frame Data

• AntiMagic

26f active defense

40f cooldown on miss

6f cooldown on hit

16f throw endlag

125f despawn timer on plushie

throw animation sequence keyframe duration values:

00 - 01 - 00 - 02 - 00 - 00

• Shield / Reflect

18f endlag duration

• Burner & Burning

1f delay between flame pillar spawns

• Rope

reduction to startup and endlag

(too many values for this one to make any sense at all, just trust me it's faster)

• Pawn

60f endlag on sword swing

• Shake Series

15 panel movements before despawning

• Team1

10f delay between visual attack spawn and hitbox creation

• AirStorm series

9f delay before first tornado

6f delay between tornados

• Magnum

24f v1 cursor cycle speed

24f v2 cursor cycle speed

8f v3 cursor cycle speed

• MetalMan

60f command code input window

• Guts Punch Series

60f command code input window

• Startup Lag changes on the following moves

1f Heat Charge shot

10f Fishy

15f Condor

12f Lava Cannon

• Chip Lag changes on the following moves

2f Buster

1f Ice Wave

1f Spreader

1f Bomb Throw Family

8f Fishy

20f Boomer

15f Rock Arm

25f Black Bomb

1f Burner

1f Burning

3f ShockWave

4f Air Storm

4f Ratton Series

1f Arrow

1f Shake

10f Elemental Waves

30f Spice

1f Geyser

20f Rope

("chip lag" is a state in which megaman is actionable but can only move and fire the buster)

---- Flinch and Status

• changed to Flinch

Bombs (Mini/Single/Double/Triple)

Team1

Pawn

Shake

Meteor

LavaStage

• changed to Stun

ElecSword

• changed to No Flinch

Guts Machinegun

Needler

----- Chip Classes

• changed to Mega Class

Mole3

Aura

Varsword

Sanctuary

• changed to Standard Class

Poltergeist

HeroSword

---- MegaByte Values

• Herosword 24

• Airshoes 55

• Poltergeist 42

• Mole3 60

• Aura 50

• Dark Aura 69

• Killer Eye 51

------ Chip Codes

• Metagel Y -> P

• Lance Y -> *

• Poltergeist G -> *

• Northwind Z -> *

• Barrier100 * -> B

• Mole3 M -> K

• Aura Y -> *

• Magnum A B C M S

• Airshoes B Z I N G A

• Team2 N O U K Y Z

• VarSword L R U

----- Object Health

• Rook 300

• Meteors 210

• Needlers 150

• Team1 150

---- Damage and Element

Many Battle Chip damage values and elements are changed. Most values are visible on the chip, and the amount of changes are numerous, so view the chips themselves to see exactly what their values are.

• Damage values that are not visible:

Poltergeist 50

GrabBack 30

GrabRevenge 50

Snake 30

LavaStage 25

Meteors 30

Darkman 25

• Program Advances:

BubbleSprd 250

HeatSpread 250

BodyGuard 50 (per hit)

• Friendly Viruses:

The damage system for friendly viruses was changed. Viruses can no longer be fed or have their bonus damage redistributed.

To view the exact damage values of a friendly virus chip, check with the Progs in the virus breeder.

• Other

• Custom Sword

damage climb relative custom gauge is linear, damage value stays maxed while custom gauge is maxed

• Muramasa

max damage is capped to 500

----- Disabled Chips

These chips have been disabled or replaced. Disabled chips will do nothing if used in battle. You can tell a chip is disabled because its chip art will be pitch black.

• Metagal 2 & 3

• Mole 1 & 2

• Jealousy

• Punk

• BassGS

• PlantMan & Flashman versions 1-4

• every other Navi versions 3-5