GOLD WAR MACHINE MEGA OPTIC BLAST v4 — WINDOWS INSTALLER
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This package contains no ROM data and downloads nothing.

WHAT IT DOES
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Gold War Machine gains an air-only Mega Optic Blast:

    Quarter-circle forward + any two punch buttons

It costs one super level and works during normal jumps and true down-up super
jumps. Version 4 preserves v3 command, chest placement, native B4 collision
and damage, meter behavior, object/palette cleanup, and stock assets, then
fixes Gold's body recovery after the last beam object:

  * the first post-beam frame now uses stock unlit air-MP cooldown;
  * normal-jump evidence transitions from the last B4 at age 186 to unlit
    recovery at age 187 in both facings;
  * true-superjump evidence transitions from age 203 to 204 in both facings;
  * recovery returns to ordinary airborne control and normal landing;
  * the ordinary plasma child and normal fighter attack metadata stay absent.

The final queued Onslaught oval/cap may remain over the opponent for its two
native trailing frames. Gold himself is already unlit and the B4 census is
zero; the donor composite then clears normally.

Ground Proton Cannon, plain air medium punch, the HP+HK team command, regular
War Machine, and native Onslaught remain on their stock paths. No graphics or
audio are imported and the ROM is not expanded.

WHAT YOU NEED
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Windows and your own clean, encrypted Euro-parent mvsc.zip. The installer
accepts only the exact 21-member set containing mvce.03a and mvce.04a.

ZIP timestamps and compression may differ, but all 21 case-sensitive member
names, canonical order, sizes, and decompressed bytes must be exact. Phoenix,
USA, Japan, expanded, reordered, previously patched (including v3), mislabeled,
extra/missing/duplicate-member, or byte-corrupt archives are rejected before
an output is created. Do not stack standalone installers.

HOW TO RUN IT
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Put the v4 CMD beside mvsc.zip, open PowerShell in that folder, and paste:

    & ".\MVSC-GOLD-WAR-MACHINE-MEGA-OPTIC-BLAST-v4.cmd" ".\mvsc.zip"

You can also drag mvsc.zip onto the CMD, or use Command Prompt:

    MVSC-GOLD-WAR-MACHINE-MEGA-OPTIC-BLAST-v4.cmd "mvsc.zip"

No administrator access, Python, Git, 7-Zip, network connection, or extra
PowerShell module is required.

OUTPUT
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The clean input is never opened for writing. New files are written beside it:

    mvsc_gold_war_machine_mega_optic_blast_v4.zip
    mvsc_gold_war_machine_mega_optic_blast_v4.zip.receipt.json

The installer refuses to overwrite an existing output, receipt, or temporary
file. Move or rename old files yourself before running it again.

DISCORD / TERMINAL NOTE
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Attach this ROM-free package or CMD in Discord. Do not paste the full CMD body
into a message or terminal; paste only the one-line PowerShell command above.

VERIFY THE DOWNLOAD
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On Windows:

    Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 .\MVSC-GOLD-WAR-MACHINE-MEGA-OPTIC-BLAST-v4.cmd

Expected SHA-256:

    893c8535db07642bd20817c2e044046cee0fb170bab2f5594b25ea1a75397000

You can also compare both included files against SHA256SUMS.txt.

ONLINE PLAY / SCOPE
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This produces a stock-size, Fightcade-oriented modified ROM shape. Both peers
need byte-identical patched member bytes and an emulator/session that accepts
them. Modified CRCs may be rejected; this is not official Fightcade or Capcom
support.

This is the standalone Gold patch. Use the separately frozen Combined v2
package when Mega Man Magnetic Shockwave is wanted in the same ROM. Never run
the Mega standalone installer on this output.
