Now the game seems to have popped up again.  1-Up reports that - get this - Capcom has lost the original source code from those old Game Boy titles.  I can understand a little disorganization in a company here and there, but how does one lose up to five games of one of their most profitable licenses?  For a company that is known for pumping out the same content over and over again (Street Fighter II, the Resident Evil ports and remakes, etc.) it just seems so un-Capcom to lose old code like this.

Without the original code Capcom can't add the little tweaks and updates to the games (such as full color and game save abilities), so rather than wait and hope the old code shows up, the developers are rewriting some missing data from scratch.  Apparently, as a result the game has been kicked up the food chain to a Nintendo DS title.  No word on any DS-specific enhancements, if any.  At this rate the game should be ready for release in time for the blue bomber's twentieth anniversary.  At this point Capcom should just toss the two Mega Man Xtreme titles from the Game Boy Color days into the collection as well and market it with the upcoming Mega Man X Collection.  If they can find the original source code, of course.