Mega Man 9 to Include Flicker Option

Capcom will be giving Mega Man 9 another retro boost, with the news that there will be a Flicker option within the game.

According to Wiiware-World, in an interview with Gamasutra, Capcom producer Hironobu Takeshita stated the following;

Gamasutra: You talked about how people were trying to graphically exceed the capabilities of the Famicom, but what about the temptation to exceed some other capabilities, such as flicker, slowdown, sprite limits, and stuff like that? Was it really hard to get people to stay within the confines of what they could have done, if this had come out after Mega Man 6 in 1993?

HT: Yeah, there were some things, like you couldn't have more than three enemies on the screen at once, so we had to make sure that that's how it stayed in our game. In the part with the dragon with the flame, [there should be] flickering, and whatnot.

In the options of this game, you can adjust that, unlike the old games. We purposely put some of those old-school bugs into this game, so it does recreate that feel.

Flickering was a common occurance with NES/Famicom games, where items appear and disappear rapidly because of too much action going on the screen at once that the machine couldn't handle it. By default, Mega Man 9 should have no problems, but it is good to see Capcom are going the extra retro mile by offering Flicker as an option.

Mega Man 9 is planned for release towards the end of this year on WiiWare, XBox Live Arcade and Playstation Network.

Thanks to Dritttoolegit for the tip.