If I understand right, the massive beating you gave him in MMBN3 broke through to make him sane again.

Yes, I know I\'m wrong.

Either way it would be sweet to play as him as an extra to the game in MMBN4. Or a new game plus like thing where you can play as him.

What he\'s saying, if I enterpret(sp?) correctly, is that beating the stuffing out of Bass after he absorbed Gospel puts him right back in his normal, human-hating but sane state. then again, he could be wrong, and Bass simply fled to avoid deletion, coming back in the next game blind with the power from Gospel (aka the BugFrag Trader).

Gospel is a bugfrag trader?

Mettaur 999 or whatever... you need to cut back man. I don\'t mean to be rude, but most of your replies have been somewhat pointless.

Capcom make bass.:lol:
They made the game.

[Edited on 6/25/2004 by deltafist]

[Edited on 6/25/2004 by deltafist]

[quote]Originally posted by deltafist
Capcom make bass.:lol:
They made the game.

[Edited on 6/25/2004 by deltafist]

[Edited on 6/25/2004 by deltafist] [/quote]
Pointless post dude..

sorry to barge in on this topic but I\'m a HUGE Bass fan! problem is... I don\'t know how to pronounce his name; is it Bass like the fish, or is it Bass like the type of guitar?PLLLEASE don\'t point me to another topic, just tell me the pronounciation and I\'ll start posting 100%topic related posts like everybody else.(THIS QUESTION HAS BEEN HAUNTING ME IN MY SLEEP FOR YEARS [realised caps lock was on] Help Me!!!)

I found info about his backstory:

It begins with doctor Cossack. He was the head of the Independent
Navi project- a project to create a net navi able to perform on
its own without an operator. The result of the project was an
immensely powerful net navigator able to obtain abilities from
fallen enemies. Even without that, that navigator was able to
defeat armed opponents with its bare hands. Its name was \"Forte\".

At the same time, Hikari Tadashi was working on the Proto, which
would later be known as the prototype of the networks used in
the EXE series. As we have seen in EXE3, the Proto was dangerous.
Forte had earned infamy throughout the science labs, as he
constantly attacked and deleted navis that the scientists were
working on. They were, of course, displeased. Forte saw it as
helping them, as he was supposedly showing them how weak their
navis were.

When, one day, all of the devices connected to the Proto
malfuctioned, the scientists blamed Forte, who had caused
similar problems before. He was then sealed away for some time.
Later, he awoke to find that his prison was gone, and that there
was a large amount of destruction caused all over. The scent of
the perpetrator was still fresh in the air- he knew that the
culprit was Proto. However, the science lab\'s elite navi corps
soon showed up. Despite the evidence pointing towards the fact
that the destruction was Proto\'s work, the corps attacked Forte,
who fought back. All of them were defeated easily save for one
who managed to strike Forte across the emblem on his chest.
Forte\'s bond with Cossack was severed, and he was heavily
wounded. Using his latent ability, the Get Ability program for
the first time, Forte created a copy of the sword that had
cleaved his soul in two, and struck down his last opponent.
In the aftermath of the battle, Forte thought about the events
that had happened. Even though Cossack knew that he was innocent,
he had agreed to confining him. Even though it was obvious that
the Proto had caused all of this, he had been attacked and almost
killed. He blamed Cossack for the treachery. Not just Cossack-
all of the scientists, all of the humans were at fault!

Forte fled into the shadows, escaping into the deepest recesses
of the internet. He was attacked by viruses and navis, and upon
each victory, he grew stronger with the Get Ability program.
Soon, he had become a legend- the \"Black Shadow\", a mysterious
navi lurking in the deepest, darkest corners of the internet,
with incredible power capable of defeating any opponent.

After this, the plot diverges from the games\'. Many years later,
Rockman gets the legendary Saito Style, and ends up fighting
Gospel. Forte detects the energy used in the battle, and travels
to the server on the cruise ship Netto and Obihiro were on by
going through sattelites. His coming was signalled by each
sattelite, unable to sustain his data for long, exploding. When
he arrives, he immediately destroys Gospel, uses the Get Ability
program to go into Saito Style, and fights Rockman.

Although Rockman is able to defeat him, this is a good example
of how strong Forte really is. In the games, he never uses the
Get Ability program on Rockman, and has never really fought
at full power. In the first game, no details were given. In the
second, he laughed after taking 2000 damage and left. In the
third, he had used up most of his power destroying the Guardian,
and later, was still heavily damaged from the Proto incident.

Forte\'s name, like those of many other characters in the Rockman
games, is a musical term. A forte is a strong note. A powerful note.
A loud note. What does this have to do with him? Consider that this
name was first thought up for the original Forte, in the classic
Rockman series.

Forte first shows up in Rockman 7. He seems to act like he\'s strong,
and powerful. You end up seeing that he\'s just... loud. This can be
seen best in Rockman 8. Should you play the English version, this
is what you\'ll hear.

\"Mega Man too day we finnish dis!\"
\"Hey Bass! Why mars I fide you? We are not enemays!\"
\"Shyadup!\"

And then Megaman shoots him and he goes \"UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!\".

Forte, in other words, is a suitable name for the original, which
describes his personality. But it would seem that this is the
inverse for Rockman EXE\'s version. In the first two games, he
barely said anything at all, and while he does constantly claim
that he is superior to Rockman, that is because he is.

(c) of White Dragon Nall on Gamespot.

Bass is pronounced the same way as the instrument or musical term. The only way I know this, is because in the games, he has a dog by the name of Treble. Treble and Bass are two different clefts, the types of musical scores found on paper music.

I thought so, anyway, Bass didn\'t go to the secret area to fuse w/gospel, Gospel saved Bass from Alpha. after you beat the game you hear a growling and Bass asking Gospel if he will save him. Gospel saves Bass by fusing with him you see.

thats easy. Doc Cossack(who appears during bubbleman.exe incident) made him
any way i feel a little vulnerable without
my life aura from MMBN2 in MMBN3.

[Edited on 4/29/2003 by pual]

*sigh* well, since this old topic has been bumped (which it shouldn\'t have been), I suppose I\'ll put down a theory for Bass now that we know what happened in MMBN 4:

Apparently, defeating Bass after he\'d fused with Gospel did little to him in BN3. Mad with power, he apparently just shot off somewhere into the UnderNet. There, because of the overload of power he experienced, it is my guess that he went into something of a \"stand-by\" mode, attempting to restore the corrupted or lost data from being overpowered. In the case that an enemy appeared that could do a serious amount of damage to him, he set up a great prerequisite to reach him, so that he was not repeatedly bothered by the Undernet inhabitants, nor caught off guard by someone seeking to destroy him. Thus, when you awaken him in BN4, he does not recognize you as the one who repeatedly defeated him; You are merely a powerful navi, one strong enough to obtain the 5 most powerful DarkChips in circulation, and thus a threat to his catatonic body, which he must then defend.

Now, until the next bloody game comes out, I\'m leaving this alone.

I actually had this other theory that even tied in Saito-style. It was the weirdest...

Here it is BTW, I still had it lying around.

I don\'t get why bass doesn\'t just find a nice obscure comp and settle down for a bit. I mean, why can\'t he just go back to Cossack and be his Navi? When does he get tired of this?
And when does the dark power overwhelm him?

magiman the reason is the officials were
orderd to delete him and the leader was obviosly Protoman who slashed Bass before he deleted them.


[Edited on 4/29/2003 by pual]

[quote]Originally posted by pual
magiman the reason is the officials were
orderd to delete him and the leader was obviosly Protoman who slashed Bass before he deleted them.


[Edited on 4/29/2003 by pual] [/quote]

But when has ProtoMan even come into contact with Bass? I mean, Bass has only made a few small appearances in different BN games so far. I\'m not certain the officials ever even knew about Bass.

Well, that\'s all just theory! No offense to Serpentarius, it\'s an excellent theory, but we can\'t actually prove it. It would really help if Capcom would explain more on Dr. Cossack in the BN series...

I don\'t believe it is just theory. what proof do you have that it is theory?