Odd bug with Mega Man X

[andres-asm]

I seem to remember this happening some time ago:

• Pass the highway level
• Beat chill penguin
• Lost and game over in spark Mandril's and I was dumped back to the highway level instead of the startup screen
• When those blue bugs hit me with 2 missiles after that happened (but not only one) I get dumped to the password stage and forced to restart the stage

Then I reproduced it, gameover anywhere caused this to happen

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[andres-asm]

Was just able to reproduce this on PC,

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/149537/Mega%20Man%20X%20%28USA%29.state
Just died after getting the speed powerup, and saved there, just gameover now and you'll go back to the highway

[vaguerant]

The first release of Mega Man X has all kinds of weird anti-piracy stuff which trips up old emulators (which Snes9x-Next essentially is). Obviously it's not ideal for Snes9x-Next to (not) work that way, but worse compatibility is to be expected and is kind of the point, even. On the upside, later pressings of Mega Man X used a much simpler anti-piracy technique which isn't tripped by most emulators. Try the ROM labelled by various sources as "(Rev 1)", "(V1.1)", etc. which will work fine.