Mega Man 2 [FC] - Boobeam Trap [Wily Boss 4]

A guide/walkthrough of the battle against Boobeam Trap in "Mega Man 2" for the Famicom.

No damage taken.

This boss, Boobeam Trap, is infamous, due to running out of Crash Bomber and/or Items. They are mandatory to beat this boss.

If you want to save a Crash Bomber for the next stage, you will have to follow this video. Otherwise, every use of the Crash Bomber needs to count.

An alternative strategy is to destroy all the walls, then purposely lose a life and farm from the enemies to refill the Crash Bomber. The walls do not reappear.

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SMALL TIP: The pause trick can be used to avoid the shots. If the timing is right, the shots will phase through.

[William]

Due to Nintendo confirming how to pronounce NES as...'Ness' (as of August 2, 2018) through a game called "WarioWare Gold" (Japanese version), I'm referring to the original Japanese name for both Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super NES). The reason why is because I find Nintendo's confirmation very stupid. Back in the late 1980s and 1990s, they said 'N.E.S.' and 'Super N.E.S.' during the commercials. They said it themselves. Look those videos up, and you'll see what I mean. Now, after 1985 (released on October 18, 1985 in North America), Nintendo suddenly decided to change up the pronunciation of NES (from N.E.S. to 'Ness'). This will cause some confusion between the American/European consoles and the "Mother" ("EarthBound") character, Ness. Therefore, I'm referring to both of those consoles as the Famicom (FC) and Super Famicom (Super FC), as they are originally called that in Japan. You people are free to call those consoles however you want, but I'm sticking with the original Japanese names from now on.

And to those who ask 'Why not call the third generation console just Nintendo?', calling the console that is also the name of the company, and that can cause some confusion between the console and the company. I could call Nintendo's fourth generation console just Super Nintendo, but some people would rather abbreviate the name to just Super NES or SNES for obvious reasons (mainly because the name is very long). That's another reason why I'm sticking to the original Japanese names. From time to time, I may even abbreviate the name Famicom to just FC and the name Super Famicom to just Super FC or SFC. I hope you people understand where I'm coming from with this.

[symphony-of-the-mint]

Whoever designed this boss is a maniac.

[Sumire]

Worst boss in the entire franchise. The final boss is not far behind, too.

[Dfective]

Ok, I didn't know it was possible to beat this boss without dying. I always ran out of the crash man ammo, so I used to destroy the walls and then let the turrets kill me, then refill the crash man gun and destroy the turrets on the second try. I found it really irritating how the game forced me to die on purpose in this fight.

[Linklex]

I use to consider MM2 the best game in the franchise. However, after replaying this boss battle, I’m not sure. This is terrible boss design.

[jeezed]

For anyone reading these comments, yes this boss is ridiculously hard, but wanna know the secret to make it super easy? Spam the pause button when the turrets shoot at you and they can't touch you, just do it until the bullets are pretty much past you. This means you are only vulnerable when using an item or a bomb. So take it slow and play it smart. You don't have to get the well place bomb at the beginning like this guy did.

[mark]

As a kid, I remember thinking the goal was to blow up just the walls lols

[mopbrothers]

The boss that holds Mega Man 2 back from being the greatest Mega Man

[alexthestarchild]

As much as I can praise this game, this boss fight was by far the worst thing to ever come out of this game. I'm talking *worse* than the Alien and Quick Man *WITHOUT* Time Stopper.

[uptowndanram]

Also, LMAO @ how Mega Man's sprite is barely visible in this video due to the heavy flicker this boss caused the NES to do

[dylanblue]

I got so confused when I first got to this part.

[Flpstrike]

You're a god, you won the most dumb boss ever without taking a hit !

[martinzuniga]

I played megaman2 for the first time and fell in love. Definitely deserves a remake.

[Filmblanc]

I think the boss design, the layout etc. is fine. What's not fine and what's poor game design is the fact that there is only 1 weapon that can destroy the walls and the glowing weak points. Even if a charged fire shot could kill the weak points, that would be somewhat acceptable. But given the fact that this game came out in 1988 when developers were still experimenting etc. the boss fights poor design doesn't surprise me in retrospect.

[lloen]

I am confident in saying that this is the worst boss fight in the history of videogames. Great game tho.

[RondoOfBloodX]

It doesn’t matter how old I get this will always be the ONE part of MM2 I will always dread getting to. I mean as a kid MM2 took me HOURS to beat but now I can finish the game in under an hour but this one bullshit boss is always gonna be the worst part of this game for me. I mean I always dreaded the Doc Robot stages in MM3 but even those I’ve gotten used to and actually like to see how fast I can speedrun them. So yeah it’s pretty obvious I HATE this boss. Hell the only thing I hate worse is King Stage 2 in MM&B especially as Mega Man.

[bulb]

I didn't even know it was possible to do with no damage without using the pause glitch. Congrats for suffering through this horrible boss.

[Tiznado]

I could never beat this boss as a kid (10yo). and I finally beat this boss as an adult after 2 hours without knowing what the actual strategy was. So after I beat the boss, I came here to see how you're actually supposed to beat it. fuck this boss, not many kids back then in the 90's knew how to beat this abomination

[thecubeman]

Huh, only now I realised you can beat this damageless without the time barrage glitch.

[courtneysayre]

POV: you ran out of item ammo so you have to die and start at the checkpoint way far away