Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge

{{see also|List of Mega Man Battle Network characters}}

The plot of Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge involves the opening of a new netbattling tournament known as the "Battle Chip GP". Yai is sponsoring the event while the others enter it. Even Chaud enters the tournament, but only for official business. It turns out that there is some type of new organization behind the scenes of the tournament who will delete the winning Navi and take its data for themselves.

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Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge utilizes a different battle system from other Battle Network titles. In those games, the player may battle one or more enemies in real-time by utilizing special abilities called "Battle Chips" with the objective being to delete each enemy's hit points (HP). In this game, the player duels a single opponent simply by setting up 12 Battle Chips on a grid called a "Program Deck". The Program Deck has three columns of chips, with the first column having two chips, the second having three chips, and the last having four chips.{{cite web | author=IGN Staff | date=March 2, 2004 | title=Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge - Game Boy Advance Review | url=http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/496/496145p1.html | website=IGN | accessdate=2010-06-19 | archive-date=2010-12-05 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205200055/http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/496/496145p1.html | url-status=live }} The game selects three chips at random on one of the grid's rows, and the player's Navi uses them consecutively, ending the turn with that character's signature attack.{{cite web | author=Torres, Ricardo | date=March 2, 2004 | title=Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge Review for Game Boy Advance | url=http://www.gamespot.com/gba/action/megamanbattlechipchallenge/review.html | website=GameSpot | accessdate=2010-06-19 | archive-date=2010-06-16 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616235246/http://www.gamespot.com/gba/action/megamanbattlechipchallenge/review.html | url-status=live }} Battle Chips have a variety of effects such as attacking, healing, and elemental status changes. "Navi Chips" will even summon other characters into the battle for a short time. After setting the deck, the player has little control over the match. Battles progress almost completely autonomously for upwards of ten rounds while the player watches for results. At certain points during the fight, the player may "Slot In" two chips to change the outcome of the battle.{{cite web | author=Vassar, Darryl | date=March 7, 2004 | title=Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge | url=http://gba.gamespy.com/gameboy-advance/mega-man-battle-chip-challenge/496686p1.html | publisher=GameSpy | accessdate=2010-06-19 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711072035/http://gba.gamespy.com/gameboy-advance/mega-man-battle-chip-challenge/496686p1.html | archivedate=July 11, 2011 }}{{cite web | author=1UP Staff | title=Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge Review | url=http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3120571&p=19 | website=1UP.com | accessdate=2010-06-19 }}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

One possible outcome of a turn is the destruction of an opponent's Battle Chips. Certain types of attacks not only do damage to an opponent's HP, but to their Program Deck as well, as each chip also has a set amount of HP. The player can win fights not only by utilizing power, but by deleting an opponent's entire deck, making them unable to fight. If ten turns pass and neither competitor has lost all of their HP, the game determines the winner based on how many chips are left in their decks. The game also has an "Open Battle" feature in the game that allows the player to select a certain area with a set amount of consecutive battles to fight. Winning every fifth battle in one of these earns the player a new Navi Chip to use as well as a variable amount of "Zenny", the game's currency. Zenny can be used to purchase more chips from the character Higsby in the game's multiple shops. The game contains six different playable pairs of operators and their NetNavis including Lan and MegaMan, Dex and GutsMan, Mayl and Roll, and Chaud and ProtoMan. There are also two new duos: Kai and Turboman, and Mary and Ring. A multiplayer feature allows up to two players connect their GBAs for battles.

Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge was co-developed by Capcom Production Studio 2 and Inti Creates, the latter of which also developed Capcom's Mega Man Zero and Mega Man ZX series. The game was first announced by Capcom on April 19, 2003.{{cite web | date=April 19, 2003 | title="N1バトルグランプリ"優勝を目指せ!『ロックマン エグゼ N1バトル』 | url=http://www.famitsu.com/game/coming/2003/04/14/104,1050305985,12112,0,0.html | publisher=Famitsu | language=Japanese | accessdate=2011-03-21 | archive-date=2012-10-24 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024123625/http://www.famitsu.com/game/coming/2003/04/14/104,1050305985,12112,0,0.html | url-status=live }} It was subsequently shown at the World Hobby Fair in Japan on June 21, 2003.{{cite web | date=June 21, 2003 | script-title=ja:最新おもちゃが一堂に！ 次世代ワールドホビーフェアが開幕 | url=http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/2003/06/21/103,1056186509,13465,0,0.html | publisher=Famitsu | language=Japanese | accessdate=2011-03-21 | archive-date=2012-10-24 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024123645/http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/2003/06/21/103,1056186509,13465,0,0.html | url-status=live }} An English localization of the game was announced by Capcom on October 21, 2003.{{cite web | author=Harris, Craig | date=October 21, 2003 | title=Capcom Reveals New Mega Man | url=http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/456/456321p1.html | website=IGN | accessdate=2011-03-17 | archive-date=2011-07-13 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713005226/http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/456/456321p1.html | url-status=live }}

{{Video game reviews

| GR = 49.90%{{cite web | title=Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge for Game Boy Advance | url=http://www.gamerankings.com/gba/918715-mega-man-battle-chip-challenge/index.html | publisher=GameRankings | accessdate=2010-06-19 | archive-date=2010-06-15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615181324/http://www.gamerankings.com/gba/918715-mega-man-battle-chip-challenge/index.html | url-status=live }}

| MC = 54 out of 100{{cite web | title=Mega Man: Battle Chip Challenge for Game Boy Advance | url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/mega-man-battle-chip-challenge/critic-reviews/?platform=game-boy-advance | website=Metacritic | accessdate=2011-10-12 | archive-date=2012-04-29 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429115607/http://www.metacritic.com/game/game-boy-advance/mega-man-battle-chip-challenge | url-status=live }}

| 1UP = C

| EGM = 5.7 out of 10{{cite magazine |magazine=Electronic Gaming Monthly | publisher=Ziff Davis | title=Reviews: Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge | url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-112553442/mega-man-battle-chip.html | issue=176 | date=March 2004 | page=130}}

| Fam = 27 out of 40 (GBA)
23 out of 40 (WS){{cite web | author=Shenrone | date=July 30, 2003 | title=Nouveaux scores de Famitsu | url=http://www.cf-network.com/cfan/breve_cfan.php3?id_breve=4151 | publisher=Consoles Fan | language=French | accessdate=2010-06-19 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708133233/http://www.cf-network.com/cfan/breve_cfan.php3?id_breve=4151 | archivedate=July 8, 2011 }}

| GI = 6 out of 10{{cite magazine |magazine=Game Informer | publisher=Sunrise Publications | date=March 2004 | title=Reviews: Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge | issue=131 | page=114}}

| GSpot = 8.2 out of 10

| GSpy = {{rating|2|5}}

| IGN = 4 out of 10

| NP = (3.3/5){{cite magazine |magazine=Nintendo Power | publisher=Nintendo of America | title=Now Playing: Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge | issue=178 | page=122 | date=April 2004}}

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Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge was not well received by most reviewers, currently holding an average score of 49,90% on GameRankings and a 54 out of 100 on Metacritic. Most reviewers such as IGN and GameSpy (among others) criticized the game for a lack of both player participation, and overall presentation. IGN even went as far as calling it "quite possibly the worst game to bear the Mega Man name". Both reviews only praised the game's audio.

The GBA version of Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge was the 22nd best-selling game in Japan during its release week at 7,403 copies sold.{{cite magazine | author=Dom Ex Machina | date=August 15, 2003 | title=Top 30 Japanese Video Games 08/10/03 | url=http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/30758/top-30-japanese-video-games-08-10-03/ | magazine=GamePro | accessdate=2010-06-20|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607072705/http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/30758/top-30-japanese-video-games-08-10-03/|archivedate=2011-06-07}} A total of 44,844 copies of the game were sold in the region by the end of 2003 according to Famitsu.{{cite web|title=2003年テレビゲームソフト売り上げTOP300 |url=http://geimin.net/da/db/2003_ne_fa/index.php |publisher=Geimin.net |language=Japanese |accessdate=2010-06-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627132904/http://geimin.net/da/db/2003_ne_fa/index.php |archivedate=June 27, 2015 }}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130908110145/http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/software/a89j/index.html Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge] at Nintendo {{in lang|ja}}
• [http://www.swan.channel.or.jp/swan/partner_title/title/rock_n1/ Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge] at the WonderSwan Channel {{in lang|ja}}
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