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Capcom has released a major upgrade for its iPhone port of the classic 8-bit platformer Mega Man II. Version 1.5 of Mega Man II features a landscape orientation option, an improved control setup, and a new Classic Mode that disables all iPhone-specific difficulty rebalancing.
All of these features can be found in the free Lite version of Mega Man II, released today in the App Store. The demo allows players to experience the Wood Man stage in its entirety.
(Really, though, don’t bother. The control improvements at least make the game playable — barely — but otherwise, it’s as bad as you’d expect.)
In less depressing news, Capcom recently released an iPhone port of BioHazard 4 (aka Resident Evil 4) in Japan…and then almost immediately removed it from the App Store. No explanation for the removal has been issued, and Capcom has made no announcement of when (or if) the title will be released overseas.
Before BioHazard 4: Mobile Edition was taken down, Japanese iPhone news site AppBank was able to download a copy and post a gameplay video, embedded below. The game appears to be a port of the adaptation of Resident Evil 4 previously released for cell phones, with upgraded graphics and a new control scheme.
I disagree with your opinion regarding the Mega Man II update. The improvements are great. Not perfect, but great. What was once the worst port on the iDevice has (in my opinion) become one of the best. (Maybe 10th best; I’m not being unreasonably generous here.)
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