Mega Man Teams Wiki:About
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[edit] Welcome to the Megaman Teams Wiki!
[edit] What is a Megaman Team?
The concept of Megaman Teams was created circa 1997 by the late Gary Martin. Megaman Teams are Megaman webpages co-managed by several members, and each member plays as one Robot Master from any given Mega Man game. They have become very popular in ten years, and although many teams have died off, a good number are still around today, based around lots of different games in the Mega Man series. It's a great way to show creativity and a good source of fun. You could say it's a game about other games.
Only one team is allowed per game, and no main robot characters (such as Mega Man, Proto Man, Roll, Bass, X, Zero, Axl, etc.) or humans may be featured as characters on a team— although, there were a couple exceptions to the rule that only the boss characters in the game can be played as before any official list of rules was made (for example, the The Mechanical Maniacs had both a Gemini Blue and a Gemini Red throughout most of 2001). Games that may not be used to create a team are the games with no original characters (such as Mega Man Soccer or Mega Man Powered Up). It seems like the only characters that are playable on two different teams are Tenguman and Astroman (they were in both Mega Man 8 and Mega Man & Bass, where the two Robot Masters were reused as bosses alongside six new characters. Several, but not all, Megaman & Bass Teams have featured these two).
The basics that a team needs to survive would be a site with profiles for every member, epilogues and regular updates. Teams will not considered canon until they have a site with the profiles for every member (and, often, at least one epilogue). If a canon team does not make any progress in several months, it will lose its canonicity and the game that it was based on will be considered available for the taking.
Nonplayable Teams exist as well. The three Nonplayable Teams were the first teams in each of three series: The Sinister Six, based on the original 1987 Mega Man game; the X-Force, based on Mega Man X4; and Viral Infection, based on Mega Man Battle Network. No canon teams may be formed to replace these; the Nonplayable Teams are no longer active, but they're considered "closed" rather than non-canon so that they will be remembered for their huge impact on the Megaman Team Community.
