No soundtracks were available from the original or the X series and arrangements were scarce as well.
To this day, I am still baffled as to why Capcom let this series, which has been largely driven by its excellent music, slide for as long as it did (especially given the lush music treatment of series like Street Fighter and Resident Evil). If you've been following the game music scene since then and consider yourself a Mega Man fan, this should sound all too familiar.
In 2002, Capcom somehow finally got the message and released the excellent Rockman 1 ~ 6 Famicom box set. Shortly afterward, a small company called CocoeBiz secured the rights to distribute the album overseas. It was originally only available at Capcom's Japanese online store, which is near-impossible for people outside of Japan to use copies were going for insane prices on eBay at the time. The intention was to show the results directly to the Japanese companies.Īround the same time, CocoeBiz set up a survey to see which soundtracks people outside of Japan would have interest in being published. Among the entrants were the soundtracks to the games from the Rockman X games. I won't pretend to know the results of the survey, but they're probably not too difficult to guess. By August 2003, Capcom was readying the Rockman X1 ~ X6 complete box set for release at the Tokyo Game Show, in time for Rockman's 15th anniversary.
