Trivia / Mega Man X4

• Acclaimed Flop: Despite being considered in the running for the best X game in the Mega Man X series, X4 ultimately underperformed for the budget that was put into it, barely getting close to breaking even. This would result in the budget for Mega Man X5 being reined in significantly.
• Acting in the Dark: X's voice actress Ruth Marie Jarman (then Ruth Shiraishi) was not told that her lines for X4 and Mega Man 8, which were recorded in the same session, were for two different games and characters. She therefore performed X as if he were the original Mega Man.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: X in the English dub, as well as Split Mushroom.
• Fan Translation: A fan translation of the Japanese version was made a available through the Final Weapon mod project for the PC version, which would later be used in PlayStation version via a ROM hack.
• No Dub for You: A minor case in the English release. In the Japanese version of the game, the Maverick bosses have voiced lines just as their battles start. The overseas release cuts out their dialogue entirely.
• The Other Darrin: In the redubs mentioned below, two of the scenes with Lucas Gilbertson as Zero have Ashley Schroeder as Iris during her death and Carol-Anne Day in the duel with Colonel. Two versions of Zero's fight with Sigma (also featuring Gilbertson) have a different actor voicing Sigma in both versions.
• Redubbing: While it was planned for both Maverick Hunter X4 and the X Collection before both plans were scrapped, fans have taken it upon themselves to redub many of the cutscenes found in the game, with at least three being done by Zero's official voice actor Lucas Gilbertson. One redub of Double's betrayal also had the involvement of Yuri Lowenthal as members of the 17th Unit and Brad Swaile as X, in a way that was connected to one of Mark Gatha's other roles.
• What Could Have Been:
  • A whale Maverick was planned, but scrapped due to difficulties imagining his character. This concept was later reused for Tidal Whale in X5.
  • According to this article, the person who designed X's Ultimate Armor also designed an armor for Zero that would've been related to Dr. Wily. It sadly didn't make it into the game. This does explain why the Black Zero code doesn't do anything: like the purple recolor of X, the new color was just meant to show that the secret armor code had activated.
  • Concept art of X's Ultimate Armor had it turn into a glider board. This was retained in the Japanese only model kit by Bandai, and later got a Development Gag in Mega Man X DiVE.
  • Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X was intended to be a Continuity Reboot of the Mega Man X series, up to X6. X4 was well-received but suffers from Narm in its cutscenes, so it would have been interesting to see how the game would be received with new cutscenes and voice acting (not to mention a possible fleshing out of Magma Dragoon and Repliforce in general). To make matters worse, the new dub for the Updated Re-release was removed so it could be a new feature for the reboot series.

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