Mega Man Battle Network
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50 free Mega Man Battle Network trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Mega Man Battle Network took a famous action hero and rebuilt him for a wired age. Released in 2001, the first game in the series swapped side-scrolling stages for a schoolboy named Lan, his digital partner MegaMan, and fast battles fought on a grid with collectible chips. It started a long-running series, an anime and a devoted fan base. This quiz sticks to that first adventure, the one fans often just call Battle Network 1. It covers the story and its big reveal, the heroes, rivals and villains of the WWW, the bosses and viruses, how chips and battles work, and the people and ideas behind the game. A few questions follow it to later re-releases and its remake. It is pitched for anyone who has played the game, whether on the original cartridge or in a modern collection. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so even a wrong guess teaches you something about Lan's corner of cyberspace.
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Q 01Mega Man Battle Network's director says a producer insisted the development team watch which hit sci-fi film?
The Matrix
The Matrix, with its heroes plugging into a virtual world, was a must-watch on a producer's orders; the team also sat down together at the office to watch a Digimon film.
Q 02Mega Man Battle Network was built to capture the kind of fun found in which hit handheld RPG series?
Pokémon
Pokémon was the model, but the director found it hard to blend that kind of fun with fast action, because no game quite like it had been made before.
Q 03Lan's late twin brother in Mega Man Battle Network shares his name with which piece of networking hardware?
Hub
Hub died very young of a heart condition, and his father preserved his mind as the NetNavi MegaMan, which is why the boy and his digital partner share such a close bond.
Q 04Which classic Mega Man villain leads the WWW crime syndicate in Mega Man Battle Network, bent on revenge?
Dr. Wily
Dr. Wily turned to net crime after the government cut his research funding and backed a rival's project, and he now runs his gang of hackers from a hidden mountain base.
Q 05Mega Man Battle Network arrived in Japan in March 2001 as a launch title for which handheld console?
Game Boy Advance
Game Boy Advance buyers in Japan could pick it up on day one; it had been announced the previous summer as one of just four games lined up for the new system.
Q 06In Mega Man Battle Network's first chapter, which appliance in Lan's kitchen is set ablaze by a WWW virus?
The oven
The oven fire is the work of a villain posing as a repairman, who is really after a rare fire program hidden inside the Hikari family's appliance.
Q 07Mega Man Battle Network's villain turned to crime after the government cut funding for his research in which field?
Robotics
Robotics lost out to network research in this world, a sly reversal of the classic games, where the same scientist fields an army of mechanical bosses.
Q 08The initials of the WWW, the net-crime syndicate in Mega Man Battle Network, officially stand for what?
World Three
World Three sits at the top of the criminal list in the game's manual, and its agents are behind every crisis Lan and MegaMan are called on to solve.
Q 09Which sword-wielding NetNavi does Lan's rival Chaud operate in Mega Man Battle Network?
ProtoMan
ProtoMan and his operator keep crossing paths with Lan while chasing the same criminals on the government's behalf, and the two pairs finally duel inside a power plant.
Q 10Which hidden boss of Mega Man Battle Network is a NetNavi version of the rival introduced in Mega Man 7?
Bass
Bass lurks in the deepest corner of the Internet and only shows himself once the player has collected nearly every Battle Chip in the game.
Q 11Mega Man Battle Network's team at Capcom was first tasked with making a game in which genre?
Horror
Horror was the original brief, but the project stalled; the team tried a card game next, and only then paired the idea with the Mega Man name.
Q 12Which NetNavi with healing powers belongs to Mayl, Lan's neighbour and close friend, in Mega Man Battle Network?
Roll
Roll is no frontline fighter, but her Navi Chip helps MegaMan in a pinch, and Mayl makes sure Lan gets stronger versions of it as the story goes on.
Q 13Which burly NetNavi belongs to Dex, the classmate who keeps challenging Lan to duels in Mega Man Battle Network?
GutsMan
GutsMan loses to MegaMan early on, and after a rematch Dex hands over his Navi Chip, turning the class bully into one of Lan's firmest friends.
Q 21In Mega Man Battle Network, sending a NetNavi from a PET into a computer or household gadget is known as what?
Jacking in
Jacking in lets operators explore the insides of everyday devices as if they were places, so even a doghouse can hide a nest of viruses.
Q 22Which of the original Mega Man's six stage bosses has no NetNavi counterpart in Mega Man Battle Network?
Cut Man
Cut Man sat the first game out while his five stablemates were reborn as NetNavis, then joined them as a boss in the sequel.
Q 23Which hard-hatted virus from Mega Man Battle Network is the only species to return in every sequel?
Mettaur
Mettaur swings a pickaxe to send a shock wave along the ground, and it is a digital take on the helmeted Met enemies of the classic games.
Q 14In Mega Man Battle Network, what does WWW agent Ms. Madd sabotage to cause chaos across DenTown?
The traffic lights
Traffic lights all turn green at once, and the WWW then emails drivers an offer to sell them a fix for their automated cars at an enormous price.
Q 15Lan's friend Mayl is trapped aboard which runaway vehicle, rigged with a bomb, in Mega Man Battle Network?
A bus
A bus carrying Mayl speeds through DenTown until MegaMan brings it to a halt, and when the villain sets off the bomb anyway, Mayl's own Navi blocks the signal.
Q 16Which currency, also spent in Breath of Fire and Monster Hunter, buys Battle Chips in Mega Man Battle Network?
Zenny
Zenny turns up across its publisher's games, and here one unit seems to be worth about a single Japanese yen, so even cheap items cost hundreds.
Q 17Mega Man Battle Network's enhanced remake, released only in Japan in 2009, appeared on which console?
Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS owners got a touchscreen map of cyberspace in the remake, but it took a fan translation, finished in 2018, to bring the game into English.
Q 18Mega Man Battle Network's 2009 remake lets players swap to the hero of which successor series?
Star Force
Star Force's hero can stand in for the original MegaMan, bringing a lock-on for far-away targets and a brief shield into the older game's grid fights.
Q 19Which producer, an artist on the very first Mega Man in 1987, oversaw Mega Man Battle Network?
Keiji Inafune
Keiji Inafune wanted the new series to mirror the real lives of children growing up online, so its hero became a schoolboy in a town run on the internet.
Q 20Mega Man Battle Network is known in Japan by which shorter name, matching its hero's name there?
Rockman EXE
Rockman EXE is the short form of the Japanese title, and it explains why the English hero is MegaMan.EXE, a name ending like a program file.
Q 24In Mega Man Battle Network, what name is given to the 30 Battle Chips a player picks to carry into fights?
Folder
Folder building is the game's answer to deck building: only chips placed there can be drawn in a fight, while the rest wait in a reserve called the sack.
Q 25In Mega Man Battle Network, hitting an enemy with an attack of the element it is weak to has which effect?
Double damage
Double damage rewards matching the right chip to the foe, with every chip and enemy aligned to fire, water, electricity, wood or no element at all.
Q 26Mega Man Battle Network's artists designed the hulking boss StoneMan to resemble which kind of structure?
A castle
A castle of stacked masonry was his motif, part of a plan to build every boss's body around one clear theme and surprise fans of the classic versions.
Q 27Which final boss of Mega Man Battle Network is assembled by the WWW from four stolen super programs?
Life Virus
Life Virus is nearly indestructible and was built to wipe out the Net and every device on it, starting with the planet's military satellites.
Q 28The WWW's leader in Mega Man Battle Network was once a research colleague of which relative of Lan?
His grandfather
His grandfather pioneered network research and won the state's backing, a snub the villain never forgave and now takes out on the networked world that research built.
Q 29Which shadowy region of cyberspace must MegaMan enter to track down the WWW's server in Mega Man Battle Network?
Undernet
Undernet access takes memos from reformed ex-members of the gang, and the area returns in later games as the black market of cyberspace.
Q 30In Mega Man Battle Network, several different Battle Chips can be sent in one turn only if they share what?
A letter code
A letter code is printed on every chip, so strong players stack one letter and send whole hands at once instead of a single chip per turn.