
#MEGAMAN BATTLE NETWORK 5 TEAM COLONEL GAMEHACKING SERIES#
Battle Story MegaMan NT Warrior: The second manga series by Jun Keijima and Miso Asada, printed between 20 unlike the previous manga, it was not released in North America. Only the first season and Axess were released internationally. MegaMan NT Warrior (2002): An anime series that ran from 2002 to 2006 with 5 seasons and a movie. It loosely follows the games, though the English translation uses terms from the anime due to being printed after it in North America. MegaMan NT Warrior (2001): A manga series by Ryo Takamisaki that ran from 2001 to 2006. Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection (2023, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Steam): a physical release containing all six of the Game Boy Advance games and two volumes of digital releases, with the first volume containing the first installment, 2, and each version of 3 while the second volume contains each version of 4, 5 and 6. Mega Man Battle Network 6: Cybeast Gregar and Cybeast Falzar (2006, GBA). Rockman.EXE Legend of Network (2006, Mobile Phone Game): Japan-exclusive. Mega Man Battle Network 5: Double Team DS (2005, Nintendo DS): Both an Updated Re-release and a Compilation Rerelease of the GBA versions. Mega Man Battle Network 5: Team Colonel and Team ProtoMan (2005, GBA). Rockman.EXE Phantom of Network (2004, Mobile Phone Game): Japan-exclusive. RockMan.EXE 4.5: Real Operation (2004, GBA): Japan-exclusive. Mega Man Battle Network 4: Red Sun and Blue Moon (2004, GBA).
Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge (2003, GBA/WonderSwan Color): The WSC port is Japan-exclusive. Mega Man Battle Network 3: White and Blue (2003, GBA). Mega Man Network Transmission (2003, Nintendo GameCube). Rockman.EXE WS (2003, WonderSwan Color). Rockman.EXE Operate Shooting Star (2009, Nintendo DS): The Japan-exclusive Updated Re-release/ crossover with Mega Man Star Force. Mega Man Battle Network (2001, Game Boy Advance). It also has more than one Spiritual Successor (to its gameplay) in One Step From Eden and EndCycle. Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection contains each version of the main six GBA installments and notably brings them to non-Nintendo systems for the first time. Like Mega Man (Classic) and Mega Man X before it, Battle Network would receive a Compilation Rerelease, announced in 2022 with a release in 2023. It spawned a sequel series focusing on radio waves and set 200 years in the future, Mega Man Star Force. The series lasted for six main games with a few side games before ending, and is the second series in the Mega Man franchise to reach a proper conclusion.
Lan and MegaMan, naturally, have to face these forces off. Viruses are monsters that must be destroyed, and hackers are able to control all of the things mentioned above that the Internet is connected to - even the Mafia is Internet-based. Since power in this universe is through the Internet, public enemies are those who would conquer or destroy it. The stars of the series are the initially 10-year-old Lan Hikari and his NetNavi partner, MegaMan.EXE.
So they've created helper Artificial Intelligences, called Network Navigators ("NetNavis" or "Navis" for short). The programming required to run society has gotten so complicated that humans cannot comprehend it by themselves. Everything - cars, refrigerators, toliets, schools, the weather - literally Everything Is Online. Set 20 Minutes into the Future relative to the early 2000s, everything is completely run by the Internet and life is more-or-less peaceful. Mega Man Battle Network (Rockman.EXE) is a Spin-Off/reimagining of the Mega Man series. Light went into computer networking instead of robotics?