Items Guide
The item list shows where all the special items are to be found and how they can help out X and Zero. The list is split into two sections, one for X's mode and one for Zero's mode. Both modes each have four hearts and one sub-tank to find, as well as the four armor upgrade capsules for X and Zero. The Extreme game mode has both lists of items to be found, refer to them both when searching for them.
X's items
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The first heart can be found in Neon Tiger's stage. Near the beginning of the stage, you'll come across an armored carrier. Jump in and walk forward. You'll see large trees ahead which you can break open with the carrier's fists. Once you reach the seventh tree, stand on the left of it and jump up. Hold A to hover up and you'll notice another breakable section further up the trunk. Blow it open to find this heart. |
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The second heart is in Flame Mammoth's stage. Once you reach the large area filled with lava and the mattock-throwing robots, stay low on the platforms and head right. Eventually you'll come up to a large wall, you should notice the heart just below the platform you're standing on. To reach it, jump down one of the holes on the left created by the fireballs, then quickly run right and grab the heart. You'll take damage, but it will help if you've already beaten the stage so that you can quickly escape once you get the heart. |
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The third heart is in Launch Octopus' stage. You'll need the Boots Upgrade to reach this one. As you proceed in this underwater stage, you'll eventually come across vents in the ground which shoot up huge wave-vortex bars which can allow you to jump up. Once you reach the third one, jump up to the top of it, then using the vertical mid-air dash, jump over to the platform above the water on the right to find this heart. |
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The fourth heart is in Volt Catfish's stage. You'll need to have beaten this stage already before you can safely reach this heart (but you can still make it if you're quick). Once you reach the second area with the deadly waves that streak across the screen, you should see the heart just below the platform you're standing on. Go right, then wait for the waves to appear. Once they pass, jump down and quickly head left to the heart. Grab it and quickly exit the stage before the waves come back, or if you time it right you should be able to grab the heart and get back to safety before the waves reappear. |
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The sub-tank is in Flame Mammoth's stage. You'll need the boots upgrade to reach this one. Once you reach the large lava-filled room with the mattock-throwing robots, jump up the platforms, and make your way up to the highest on the left. Once you reach the highest platform, jump off the edge of it and mid-air dash to the left. You'll land on a high wall and should spot the sub-tank behind a wall. Break the blocks by jumping off them to reach the tank. |
Body upgrades
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Armor Upgrade | Stage: Launch Octopus |
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| The Armor upgrade is found in Launch Octopus' Stage. Eventually you'll come across the large green sub similar to the one found in X1, jump up the swirling vortex on the left of it to reach the sub. Jump up onto it and blast away at the glass cockpit in front of you. Once the sub blows, fall down into the deep chasm it creates, then go right. You'll reach a large room filled with spikes, and a large red serpent will appear. Ride on it's back and blast away at the head or tail to eventually destroy it. Once it blows head right to find the capsule. This upgrade will enhance X's defensive capabilities by reducing damage inflicted from enemies to half the normal rate. You'll also receive the G-Crush weapon, but to fill up weapon energy for it you'll need to take damage from enemies. Once the energy bar is full, select it from the sub-screen to discharge a huge energy blast that destroys all enemies on-screen. |
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Helmet Upgrade | Stage: Neon Tiger |
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| The helmet upgrade is found in Neon Tiger's stage. After traversing across the moving platforms with gun turrets, you'll cross the ravine and see the capsule hidden behind a wooden wall. You'll need the Fire Wave weapon to reach it. Using the Fire Wave weapon, destroy the wall blocking the capsule to reach it. This upgrade will allow X to destroy certain blocks with a head-butt. |
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Boots Upgrade | Stage: Volt Catfish |
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| The boots upgrade is in Volt Catfish's stage. You will eventually come across a large shaft leading up with waterfalls gushing down. Jump up the shaft, destroying any enemies you come across. Once you reach the top, the rest of the stage will head off to the right, but before going, continue to jump up the wall on your left. You'll eventually see an opening on the right, head in to find the capsule. This upgrade will allow X to perform a horizontal and vertical dash in mid-air. |
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X-Buster Upgrade | Stage: Flame Mammoth |
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| The X-Buster upgrade is found in Flame Mammoth's stage. You'll need the Helmet and Boots upgrades to reach this one. Just before the large lava area with the mattock-throwing robots, you should see a group of strange looking blocks up on the ceiling. Jump up and using the vertical mid-air dash, begin breaking through them. Jump up the wall on the left to destroy the remaining ones to reach the capsule. This upgrade will give X two different types of stronger X-Buster shots, once you charge him up past purple and then onto white, release fire to fire off a charged shot, then press fire again to fire a second. If the two shots overlap, four smaller energy balls will fly out in diagonal directions. |
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Zero's items
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The first heart can be found in Blast Hornet's stage. Once you reach the second open area with the suspended green robot bugs that you must climb over to reach the next area, on the platform before the first bug robot, slide down the edge of it on the right and you'll notice a robot bug below. Jump down onto it and make your way to the right. Climb over the next few bugs and you should see this heart sitting on one. |
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The second heart is in Tunnel Rhino's stage. Eventually you'll find an armored carrier in one of the long caverns, jump in and move forward. Knock down any of the enemy carriers that get in your way, but look out for the crumbling rocks in the floor below. You should easily spot it, jump up and hover over it. You'll have to jump a second one before reaching the dead-end. Once you reach a large wall, stand back from it and jump straight up. You should easily see the heart high up on a platform, hover up, then jump out of the carrier to reach the heart. |
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The third heart is in Wire Sponge's stage. This heart is extremely easy to find. Once the stage begins, just jump up to the top corner of the wall behind you to find the heart hidden in a small alcove. |
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The fourth heart is in Overdrive Ostrich's stage. This heart will be difficult to reach safely. Once you reach the second area where you have to ride on the jet bike, eventually you'll reach an area where you should see an enclosed room below a large platform, you'll need to drop down into the hole on the left and land inside the room to reach the heart, then charge at the door blocking you in to get out of the room. This heart will be tricky to get to, it might take some practice, try to jump so that when you fall down the hole you land on the platform without touching the edge of the upper platform. |
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The sub-tank is in Wire Sponge's stage. Once you reach the area with spikes lining the floor and the floating pillars, jump up to the first pillar, then jump back onto the wall on the left. Jump up to the platforms above, then make your way to the right to find the sub-tank. |
Body upgrades
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Armor Upgrade | Stage: Blast Hornet |
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| The Armor upgrade is found in Blast Hornet's Stage. You'll need the Drill Crush technique to reach this one. Once you reach the large flying ship with the array of gun turrets, make your way to the right. Once you reach the area where if you shoot out the two turrets and the flame thrower, the floor breaks away, destroy the first turret and the flame thrower, but leave the last turret. Jump up and dash over it, then continue on. You'll come across a large wall. Use the Drill Crush to destroy it to find the capsule. This upgrade will enhance Zero's defensive capabilities, reducing the amount of damage inflicted from enemies. |
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Boots Upgrade | Stage: Wire Sponge |
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| The boots upgrade is in Wire Sponge's stage. Once you reach the indoor area where large platforms are rising up a tall shaft, wait for the next one to clear, then drop down the hole in the ground and fall down to the right. You'll land on a platform below, head right to find this capsule. This upgrade will allow Zero to destroy certain blocks by jumping off them. |
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X-Buster Upgrade | Stage: Tunnel Rhino |
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| The X-Buster upgrade is found in Tunnel Rhino's stage. You'll need the Lightning technique to reach this one. Once you reach the armored carrier in the cavern with breakable floor, get in the carrier and drop down through the crumbling floor. Once you reach the bottom of the shaft, head left. You should reach an opening in a wall too small for the carrier, so jump out and go into the opening. You'll see a metal wall blocking your way, use the Lightning technique to destroy it to reach the capsule. This upgrade gives Zero his strongest technique, Zero Final, which can destroy smaller enemies easily or heavily damage bosses. |
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Helmet Upgrade | Stage: Overdrive Ostrich |
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| The helmet upgrade is found in Overdrive Ostrich's stage. Once you reach a ladder leading down that has a huge wide chasm to the left of it (just after the area with the instant-death vortex pillars). Stand on the edge of the ladder, then jump out to the left and mid-air dash. You should see another ladder leading up, just as you hit the lower part of it press up to grab on to the ladder. Climb up to find this capsule. This upgrade will allow Zero to destroy certain blocks with a head-butt. |
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