Hey everyone.
Mega Man 6 as far as we know is 95% glitchless in real time (and mostly TAS too). However while I was learning a romhack for the game called Rockman 6: RE I had this happen
https://youtu.be/aP_eKtA4nrY?t=1m24s
in Flame Man's stage. Basically I went back on a certain pixel and it despawns the boss gate actually being there, which saves a lot of time in screen transition and gate animation not being there.
(for fun you can enter the boss using the left gate at that point and fight him without the stage being completely there. If you enter more than once you softlock upon the kill. You also softlock if you die)
Currently we think this is only doable in this romhack on this stage, however you never know. I was wondering if anybody would be willing to look into it for both the romhack and especially (or at the very least) the actual game. If it works it could likely work on the stages of Flame, Plant, Tomahawk, Yamato, Knight, X2, X3, X4, and Wily 2 in the real game as their stages don't lock when the boss door is on screen, you can go backward still while in the same room.
Thanks for your time in reading this!