So, I decided to pick up Mega Man 3 again and see if I could do a better Afro Man hack after all. Survey says? Yes, I can. I don't know if I'm just taking it more seriously than I did way back when I was messing around with it the first time or if I actually have more talent and/or patience than I did then, but either way, there's no denying the difference.
Heh, maybe I should make one of the bosses be the original Afro Man as a joke. He's a time traveler, after all. Maybe he can travel to 1999 and blow his old crappy self up.