Amazon Area

Amazon Area
Stage Information
Boss	Commander Yammark
Powerups	Life Up Sub Tank Blade Armor's Foot Program
Nightmare effects	Nightmare Dark, Nightmare Wind
Nightmare induced at exit	Nightmare Bugs
Music

Amazon Area (アマゾンエリア, Amazon Eria) is Commander Yammark's stage in Mega Man X6. Despite its title and appearance implying it is in South America, the Stage Select Screen map indicates that it is located somewhere around the Pacific Ocean, near the Northern Mariana Islands. Around the forest are several Mesoamerican-style pyramid buildings.

Description

The stage begins above ground, but soon goes underground into grassy tunnels. It then becomes a cold, ice-like cave full of spikes that must be traversed using the Caterpirides.

Atop a Caterpiride, after luring it to the middle spike bed of the blind jump. The other two Caterpirides are start and destination of the blind jump.

There is an infamous section here mostly referred to as the "blind jump" in which the player has to make a jump without knowing where the lower Caterpiride is, and possibly fall on the spikes around it. The safest way to get through this part is probably to attack the Caterpiride to the left and lure it to the lower spikes to the right. It then opens to another area above ground, with several platforms to cross before reaching Commander Yammark's arena.

The Nightmare Phenomena that may affect this stage are Nightmare Dark and Nightmare Wind. The phenomenon that this stage activates in others is Nightmare Bug.

The Another Route portal can be found down a tall vertical shaft in the upper route of the caves, on the right side. It leads to a segment of grassy platforms over a pit, similar to the end of the normal stage.

Enemies

Image	Enemy
	Commander Yammark (boss)
	Caterpiride
	Nightmare Insect
	Killer Moth
	Worm Sniper
	Nightmare Virus
	Nightmare Bug

Items

Upgrades

	Life Up
	In the teal caves, descend the hole just before the area with Caterpirides on spikes to find a cavern with the Life Up and two Reploids.
	Sub Tank
	After the first underground hall, the Sub Tank is on a ledge in the top left corner. Requires X's Blade Armor, Ice Burst, or the Jumper part to access.
	Blade Armor Foot Program
	After dropping into the first underground hall, there is an opening in the wall behind the Nightmare Insect to the right. The capsule is located there.

Parts from Injured Reploids

	Mah 01404 - Life Up
	The very first Reploid in the stage.
	Satton - Energy Up
	Next to the stage's Light Capsule, in a cave to the right.
	Iso - Life Recover
	Next to the stage's Sub Tank, on a high ledge to the left.
	Goken - Super Recover
	In the open area with grassy platforms, on a ledge to the top left behind a Nightmare Insect.
	Kuborina - Rapid 5
	The Reploid on the left, closest to the Life Up.

Trivia

• If a battle between the real Zero and the Zero Nightmare is triggered through the use of a cheating device in this stage, the Zero Nightmare will use unique quotes when prior to the fight, being the only stage to have this effect; all other stages use the dialogue of Zero's encounter with High Max instead. See the Zero Nightmare page for the exact quotes.
• Due to repetition of background sprites, there appears to be multiple moons in the sky in several locations.