Mega man x question?

Question

ok, you know how when you kill an enemy sometimes a thing will appear that will either increase your health or weapon energy?(for whichever ones are low) Well why is it that the ones that increase your weapon energy appear in the Very 1st level? (the one where you fight Vile for the very 1st time.) I mean there's no use for them since the only weapon you have in that level is your basic X-Buster, unless you have a gameshark or something. And you never go back to that level anyways.

Answer 1

Probably because it's easier for them to have let a (then) useless item drop than to change the mechanics of the game for that one map to not drop anything when the weapon power item would otherwise drop. Particularly back then, since MMX was probably only a 1 or 2 MB game.