We finally, finally, FINALLY beat Neon Tiger.
Neon Tiger
After the empty room, be careful. When you drop down, stay to the right so you don't hit the floor spikes, which are instant death and can lead to an embarassing loss of a life.
The green spiked robots that crawl on the floor will gnaw on the floor and change it to instant death spikes. Be careful.
Neon Tiger is perhaps the easiest to fight with the X-Buster, even slightly easier than Toxic Seahorse. He'll shoot at you with the Ray Splasher through his tail, but these shots are easy to dodge. He'll also wall jump around the room at 45-degree angles, and the jumps are easy to anticipate. He can also stand on the wall and fire his Ray Splasher from there, making him a prime target for his weakness: the Spinning Blade. Just don't be under him when it hits him, because it not only knocks him back on impact, it also knocks him down when he's on a wall. If you can time it right, you can put Neon Tiger in an infinite loop where he leaps on the walls only to get hit by the Spinning Blade.
Beating Neon Tiger gives you the Ray Splasher. This shoots dots of light similar to Neon Tiger's, but they are much more frequent and much smaller.
When you beat all eight Mavericks, you'll find out that Dr. Doppler is creating a Battle Body...and it's probably for Sigma. You'll then be able to enter Doppler's underground lab.
Dr. Doppler Stage 1
Dr. Doppler has pulled out some of the stops to make sure you don't get very far. Tread carefully near the spiked ceilings, as some of them will lower as you're moving to the right and also making crucial jumps.
The first mini-boss is a guy on a dinosaur head tank. If Zero is alive, he'll try to stop the crushing ceiling. Otherwise, you'll have to race against time. This guy can easily be defeated with four shots of the Acid Burst.
The second section has a wide open area, where you can find some energy and power-ups if you know where to look.
When you see the pile of metal, you'll see the first of a few chutes that drops spiked metal balls that will roll toward you. You'll find something in the left side of the pit before this, which will be mentioned later.
If you beat Bit and Byte with their weaknesses, the boss will be some sort of crusher robot that commands a conveyor belt. You'll not only have to deal with this thing, but you'll also have to deal with the chute above that moves back and forth and shoots out robots that can fire at you. It was also shoot metal blocks that can be used as platforms. If you use the Parasitic Bomb on these robots, you can send the robots directly into the crusher's head.
Aim for the head of of the crusher on the right, and do not let this thing grab you. You'll also want to avoid the metal object that shoot downward from the chute above. The trunk of the crusher also shoots miniature acid rounds, which you'll also want to avoid. And of course, you're on a conveyor belt that leads to a set of grinding spikes that are instant death.
You can damage the trunk, but it's not recommended. When and if you do enough damage to the trunk, the trunk will come off and a pool of acid from the acid rounds it can fire will cover the floor. You'll want to stay on the wall and keep shooting at the head with the X-Buster if that happens. Be sure to use your Sub-Tanks, because you're going to need them here.
The Ray Splasher, Frost Shield, Tornado Fang and Spinning Blade do the most damage. Pick one and fire away.
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