Central Highway

Central Highway is a stage in Super Smash Flash 2, hailing from the Mega Man universe. The stage focuses on a small area of the highway with some buildings in the background as well as some destroyed cars.

Origin
Central Highway is the first stage that appears in the game Mega Man X. Mega Man X has to traverse the highway while the Mavericks are launching an assault. Constant attacks and the crumbling highway make it difficult for X to get through. At the end of the stage, Vile is encountered and eventually fought. After Central Highway, X starts his mission to take down several Mavericks.

In Mega Man X7, Central Highway again appears as one of the early stages in the game.

Central Highway also reappears in Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X, once again serving as the opening stage for both X and Vile.

Layout
The stage consists of the platforms (all with gaps between them), placed in an up going motion. Prior to v0.9b, the stage used sprites from Mega Man X itself, therefore giving it somewhat of a nostalgia effect. Wrecked cars and broken pieces of the highway can be seen. In the background, the large city is seen, and occasionally a Bee Blader will fly by too. After a certain amount of time, fall-through platforms appear over the middle and right main platforms and the left main platform shakes and then falls down slowly. After some more time, the right main platform will shake and then fall down slowly. After even more time passes, the right fall-through platform will fall down slowly without shaking first, leaving the middle main platform and the middle fall-through platform on the stage. This stage will not return to its original form.

Music
This stage's BGM is Opening Stage (Central Highway) from Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X.

Tournament Legality
The stage was banned due to the platforms making a stepping stone section where sides of the platforms are walls and people could perform wall combos. The deep pits were another issue because it would make recovery impossible for some characters, such as. However, the stage was a counter-pick when hazards were turned on due to the platforms disappearing and getting rid of the death pits. However, the stage would be banned, even with hazards on, due to the stage being too big and the blast lines being far away.

External link

 * Central Highway's page at Smash Flash DOJO!!!