Missing an upgrade? Let's figure out what it is and where to find it. Refer to the stage walkthrough pages for more details on finding each upgrade.
Heart Tanks
Heart Tanks increase the capacity of your health meter. There's one Heart Tank hidden in each of the Maverick stages, for a total of eight. Once you have six, your health meter will be about the same size as the weapon meter, so all eight will make it a bit larger than that.
Sub Tanks
There are four Sub Tanks to be found. When you collect a health pickup when your health meter is full, it's stored in a Sub Tank for later use. These are very handy as they effectively quintuple your maximum health. Here's where to find them:
- Spark Mandrill Stage - Requires Boomerang Cutter
- Flame Mammoth Stage - Requires Leg Parts
- Storm Eagle Stage
- Armored Amadillo Stage
X Upgrade Capsules
These (mostly) super useful upgrades will give X new permanent skills and attributes. Definitely collect all of these, even if you don't want to bother with the Heart Tanks or Sub Tanks.
- Leg Parts - Chill Penguin Stage. Allow X to dash.
- Body Parts - Sting Chameleon Stage. Cut damage received in half.
- Head Parts - Storm Eagle Stage. Allow X to break certain blocks with his head.
- Arm Parts - Flame Mammoth Stage - Requires Head Parts. Adds a new level of charge shot to X's X Buster. Also allows him to charge special weapons.
- Hadouken - Armored Armadillo Stage - Requires everything. See "Getting the Hadouken" section for details. Does massive damage.
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