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  • Acclaimed Flop: Downplayed, as the series at that time had average reviews, but Star Force 3 was the best received for its various gameplay improvements and stronger story. However, it was also the lowest selling of the trilogy, which was one of the reasons that led to the cancellation of Star Force 4.
  • Contest Winner Cameo: Kung Foo Kidd and Moon Destroyer were designed by fans.
  • Dummied Out:
    • The localized third game removed access to the hidden menus managing Capcom's Merchandise-Driven enhancements—Noise and Purpose cards and the Secret Satellite Server. They can, however, be made available via hacking.
    • The Special Congratulations at the end of Star Force 2.
    • The special Mail calls in Ace and Joker.
    • The Mega Weapons of the first game had their names localized, but are only ever used in abbreviated form. Fuller names exist in the game codenote , but are never seen by the player.
  • Franchise Killer: While it had been on the wane since Battle Network 4, the overwhelming mediocrity of Star Force 2 ended the popularity of the universe both of the subseries belong to, the former of which was the last popular Mega Man subseries, in Japan. They got their act together for the third game, but sales didn't perk up. Not much funding at all was allocated to Operation Shooting Star, an attempt to un-cancel both Battle Network and Star Force that might have worked had it been a proper remake. A sad fate for the latter subseries that had its iteration of Mega Man as the face of the 20th anniversary for the wider franchise.
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: No DVDs of the anime were ever released in the US or Japan. Manga UK released a DVD set with all the dubbed episodes, but not only is that not much help to those outside the UK without a region-free player, the dub itself doesn't cover the entire Japanese run. Not to mention the DVD itself it out of print.
    • Averted with the Japanese version, both seasons have been recently released on various japanese streaming sites. No word on a Blu-Ray or DVD release yet.
  • No Export for You:
    • Operate Shooting Star, a Video Game Remake of the first Mega Man Battle Network title (with some extra Star Force content), was never localized. Though later it was fan translated.
    • The Lunar Knights link features in Star Force. Though later Fan patched back in via the DX Rom Hack.
    • The Wave Command cards in the European version of Star Force 2 and the Noise Mod Gear cards in the non-Japanese versions of Star Force 3 (which were ironically mentioned on the North American version site).
    • In Europe, Star Force 3 was never released.
    • As mentioned above, the only DVD releases of the anime series has been in the UK, and even then, it only covers the dubbed episodes.
  • The Other Darrin: Taurus was voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama in the anime, but is played by Nobuaki Kanemitsu in Star Force 3.
  • Recast as a Regular: Kentarō Itō, who previously played recurring antagonist-turned-ally ShadowMan.EXE in MegaMan NT Warrior, now plays co-protagonist Omega-Xis in this anime.
  • Scunthorpe Problem: The US versions of the first trio of games have a swear filter that suffers from this. It makes one of the Cipher E-Mails impossible to send in those versions.
  • Unfinished Dub: The English dub of the show covers only most of the first half of the first season, and didn't even make it to Cygnus Wing's return arc.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • Star Force 4 was in the works, but due to poor sales of the series they were informed they had to wrap the games up with 3, leading to the ending.
    • Before the creation of the Noise Forms in the third game game it was proposed to bring back the Tribe On, a Pirate and Angel tribe were designed before being scrapped.
    • And a noise form based off of Harp Note in the third game, also some of the noise forms were to have the old Megabuster from the first two games.
    • According to earlier statements by Xebec, the Tribe anime was meant to have 55 episodes, same as the first season. Concept art of the anime includes images of Apollon Flame and General Auriga, suggesting the anime was originally planned to have arcs including them.
    • Some of the earliest designs for the character who eventually became Ace set him up as another superpowered individual on Geo's and Solo's level, but who was more of a hooligan than anything else and with vague connections to Dealer. Concept art shows him rescuing Luna and getting under Solo's skin. Also notable was that his EM human form was largely an imitation of Mega Man's appearance.
    • Before she became the Emotionless Girl we all know, Tia once had a perkier nature.
    • Expanding on Star Force 4, information regarding the project finally came to light on June 14 2019, along with a piece of concept art by lead artist Shunsuke Komaki. The details are still scarce, but it would have taken the series in a darker and more mature direction to win back audiences. Geo would team up with a hacker named Kazuma, who would be a direct descendant of Lan Hikari and they would be outlaws with an 8 million zenny price on their heads and hacking would be the major focus. However, due to the failure of Operate Shooting Star to breath life back into Mega Man Battle Network and Star Force, as well as declining sales from the franchise overall during this time, it was shelved along with Mega Man Legends 3 and Mega Man Universe.
  • You Look Familiar: The Japanese version of the anime features some returning actors from MegaMan NT Warrior (2002):
    • Hope is voiced by Akiko Kimura, who previously played MegaMan.EXE.
    • Omega-Xis is voiced by Kentarō Itō, who previously played ShadowMan.EXE; he also notably played the eponymous X of Mega Man X4.
    • Taurus is voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama, who previously played Rei Saiko.
    • Shepar is voiced by Kenji Hamada, who previously played SlashMan.EXE.
    • Damian is voiced by Tetsu Inada, who previously played SwordMan.EXE.
    • Wolf is voiced by Tokuyoshi Kawashima, who previously played Yuichiro from Stream onwards.
    • Cancer is voiced by Daiki Nakamura, who previously played ThunderMan.EXE.

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