Heart Tanks, Sub-Tanks and armor capsules
Identify actual original-game item screenshots and understand permanent health, reserve healing and X2’s armor effects.
Original 1994 Super Famicom / 1995 SNES Mega Man X2. X has a ground dash from the beginning; the leg capsule adds an air dash. Armor effects, item placement and X-Hunter encounters follow X2 rather than the first Mega Man X.
4 items · one picture per entry · open a picture for full size.
Item directory
Heart Tank: Wire Sponge
This Heart Tank is hidden near the entrance of Wire Sponge’s stage. Collecting a Heart Tank permanently expands maximum health; inspect the start carefully before following the obvious route onward.
Sub-Tank: Wire Sponge
Wire Sponge’s elevated Sub-Tank provides reserve healing storage. After finding it, collect health while the current gauge is full to build a reserve that can help in a later boss fight.
Body armor capsule
Dr. Light’s body capsule lies beneath Morph Moth’s stage. It grants X2’s Giga Crush system, whose energy accumulates through received damage, rather than reproducing the first game’s armor instructions.
Leg armor capsule
Dr. Light’s leg capsule is in Overdrive Ostrich’s stage. Its upgrade adds an air dash; X already has the ordinary ground dash before reaching this capsule in Mega Man X2.
Every Mega Man X2 upgrade
Upgrades in the original 1994 SNES game.
- Heart Tanks — eight, each extends the life bar
- Sub-Tanks — four, store spare energy
- Head Parts — item tracer that reveals hidden items
- Body Parts — Giga Crush attack
- Arm Parts — double charge shot
- Foot Parts — air dash
- Shoryuken — hidden technique for players with every upgrade
- Zero's parts — recovered from the X-Hunters
Quick notes
- Expand health with Heart Tanks. A Heart Tank permanently increases X’s maximum health.
- Fill a Sub-Tank before relying on it. Sub-Tanks store reserve healing rather than raising maximum health.
- Apply the armor effect from this game. The body capsule in Morph Moth’s stage adds Giga Crush, whose energy fills when X receives damage.
The archive frames the original item screenshots with a small decorative border; the pickup and capsule pictures themselves preserve the SNES game screen.
Picture details
Game artwork belongs to its respective rights holders.