

Chaos Unison bypasses the glitch, but with a twist, so it is also rather ineffective, unless the player needs to reuse a Soul Unison, as the same Chaos Unison and Soul Unison can be used in the same battle. Each folder can hold up to three Dark Chips at one time.ĭark Chips are the most powerful chips in both games if the player used them frequently, but the glitches they cause can discourage players from using some of them. In Mega Man Battle Network 5, the Dark Chips are Battle Chips on their own, with their own code. When one is "dark" enough, he can enter the battle with Dark Chips already displayed. They will take up the last two slots of the Custom Screen, and cannot be used with any other chip, aside from another Dark Chip. In Mega Man Battle Network 4, Dark Chips can only be used when MegaMan enters an "anxious" state, after taking several hits in succession without fighting back.

Interestingly, MegaMan can control Dark Chip influence if used, but an overload of dark energy like a Dark Chip implant or a direct infusion of dark energy will cause him to turn into MegaMan DS, who also cannot die from Dark Chip use, due to the fact he was born from pure dark energy. Hikari states that the Dark Chips are a type of chip which trades a Navi's soul for power (sort of like "a deal with the devil").ĭark Chips can be strongly compared to drug addiction in both the games and anime in many ways. After a while of addiction, it starts to corrupt their data, until eventually they become so corrupted that they are deleted. They start out using them to become more powerful, but soon become addicted and need them. Regal, that increase a NetNavi's power beyond limits, but destroys the Navi's connection with its NetOp and turns them into a Dark Soul Navi, or even Darkloids which use these chips to survive.

A Dark Chip in the MegaMan NT Warrior Axess anime.ĭark Chips are vastly powerful Battle Chips created by Dr.
