Mega Man X Regenesis 100% Collection Guide

Do not turn every first clear into a scavenger hunt. Finish the stage, grab what is on the normal path, and leave a note when you see a ledge or wall you cannot deal with yet. That is enough for now.

Use the Current 1.00.9 Video

The embedded 47:56 run is a player-recorded 1.00.9 reference, organized by all eight Maverick stages and ending with the Secret Boss. Use its chapter labels to compare the room in front of you with the run, not as a substitute for the checklist below. The video records item-location changes, so an older guide or video may point at an empty capsule room.

It is not an official item map, and the official download has moved on since this run. When the footage and your current game differ, record the stage, item, and build number instead of changing a collection route from memory.

Start Your 100% Cleanup

Use Stage Select as your first check. A stage with every item and chip found shows Mission Complete on its image. If it does not, do not replay the whole level blindly. Pick one missing thing: a Tank, a capsule, or the chip trail near a route you already know.

The early detours worth taking are the ones that make later detours easier. Get a Sub Tank when it is nearby. Pick up Double Jump, Uppercut, or Air Dash when you can reach them. Save the long spike rooms and the fussy platform chains for after that.

Chips, Armor, and Your Return Route

Armor capsules cost chips. Most of the important movement parts cost 15 or 20, so it is easy to find a capsule and realize you spent too freely earlier. Keep the chips until you know which movement part you want next; you do not need to vacuum every corner before the first few clears.

Heart Tanks and Sub Tanks are less glamorous, but they are what make a missed jump worth retrying. A Sub Tank also does not have to be drained in one go, so topping off after a rough room is fine. Take the easy ones on a return trip, then go back for the parts that open another route.

For the final secret move, use the Hadouken guide after your chip and stage checklist is under control. Boss rewards can also open collection routes, so the Boss and weapon guide is the right companion when a blocked path appears to need a particular tool.

Stage-by-Stage Return Routes

Turbine Facility

The Sub Tank on top of the red building needs Double Jump. The Uppercut capsule costs 20 chips: after the falling blocks and bird attacks, follow the blocks left, then wait for the floating platform at the dead end. It gives extra height and keeps dash momentum, so it immediately pays for itself in this stage. After the wall fans, dash-jump left and use Uppercut to keep climbing for the Life Up.

Geothermal Power Plant

At the mid-stage 1-Up, take the upper path for the Life Up. You need Double Jump or Uppercut, and the spike crusher keeps moving, so do not stop to admire the view. The Laser Charge capsule is behind a false wall during the zigzag lava descent; look left for the wall with gaps and a visible life refill. It costs 15 chips.

Forest Railway

The Life Up is above the first group of train cars after the Ride Armor. Climb the car to its right, then cross back. The Double Jump capsule is nearby but sealed behind flammable canisters, so return with Flare Burst from Arson Vulpine. It costs 15 chips and turns several later jumps from annoying into normal.

Waterfall Caves

The Air Dash capsule costs 15 chips. In the area with two green gunboats, climb along them without sinking them, then keep going up-right past the chip. For the Life Up, leave the second gunboat alive, drop into the water beneath it, and take the narrow spiked corridor. Air Dash makes that part much less miserable. There is another chip just beyond it, so do not exit the stage immediately.

Frozen Ruins

Shoot the wall on the far left as soon as the stage starts for a Sub Tank hidden behind the foreground. At the Ride Armor, do not enter it if you want Shock Buffer: climb the wall above it, then dash-jump right. You need Uppercut or Double Jump. The Life Up after the Ride Armor is down the left gap in the breakaway ice platforms, and it needs the same height tool.

Desert Data Center

Weapon Charge is the awkward one here. In the first indoor section, break the rocks on the left with Comet Splitter from Stellar Primate, then make the jump with Uppercut or Double Jump. The Life Up after the climbing sand is easier to miss: look left just after the loose chip on the ground. It is hidden behind the sand, not in a separate room.

Orbital Research Station

During the Ride Armor blackout section, break the three glass tubes before the flamethrower bot. The blocked path on the left opens with Cryo Shard and leads to Dive Kick. Later, in the open room with time-bomb platforms, fly the Ride Armor as high as it will go to find the Life Up through the roof gap. The Sub Tank is in the bottom-right of that room behind a cracked floor; break it with Dive Kick.

Biomechanical Preserve

The stage likes false walls. In the first acid-drip room, slide down the right side of the last stair platform and go through the wall for a Life Up. For Rapid Shot and Quick Charge, drop down the big gap before the second spider chase, stay left, and look for another false wall. That capsule costs 15 chips.

When a Capsule Is Not Where You Expected

Do not spend an evening trying to force open a capsule route that used to work in an older build. A few upgrade capsules were moved to make the overall route flow better. If a guide sends you to an empty capsule room, stop there and check the current route before you burn through every life on a false lead.

This matters most if you updated an existing save. If a capsule appears but will not finish its pickup sequence, record the stage and move on rather than repeating the same room. A clean save on the current game build is the safer choice for a full cleanup run. Keep your notes focused on the item you still need, not the old room where you expected it.

Tanks, Upgrades, and Difficult Detours

If a room looks absurd, it probably wants a movement part. Come back after Double Jump, Uppercut, or Air Dash instead of burning ten lives on the same first-clear jump. The hard optional rooms are still there later.

For the final secret move, finish the stage screens first, then use the Hadouken guide. If a weapon gate is what stopped you, check the Boss and weapon guide before making another lap.

Before You Leave a Stage

• Let the clear finish so Stage Select can update.
• Check for Mission Complete before you re-enter.
• Write down the room and the missing item, not just “come back later.”
• Bring the one weapon or movement part the route needs.