Best and worst Mortal Kombat game on the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis.

[Bastardcat]

MK3 is by far the worst on on the Genesis.
I think the best would be II.

[Curryman123]

MK2>MK3>UMK3>MK (bottom of the crap barrel for being a shitty bugged piece of crap conversion)

[NeoVamp]

MK3 is by far the worst on on the Genesis.
I think the best would be II.

Conversion wise they really did a great job, lots of sound samples and only the graveyard background was cut.

Snes also lost that background btw, which is odd considering the Snes always managed to squeeze that stuff in.

[Cornholio857]

Conversion wise they really did a great job, lots of sound samples and only the graveyard background was cut.

Agreed. It's not so much the conversion, but MK3 itself. I have never enjoyed it as much as MK2. Now if Sculptured did the MK2 port for the Genesis, I believe it would have been just as good as the MK3 Genesis port. Just.....MK2......but better.

[NeoVamp]

Honestly I would love to try redoing MKII myself, or even a proper MK Trilogy on Genesis,
It's possible, the UMK3 source has been leaked and seems to be complete,

If one thing MK3 showed us that Probe's decision to put the lifebar/misc stuff into the character palette is a good choice,
this leaves a full 31 colors for the background, and still decent fighting sprites.

So who wants to give it a go? program it for Krikkz everdrive so the background music can be streamed via pcm,
and if you program it to load only the necessary chars/bg from the SD card the loaded game would never be bigger then.. 500kb tops.

[Mr Smith]

They are all tosh; play Street Fighter!

[The Jackal]

They are all tosh; play Street Fighter!

That's tosh too!

[Curryman123]

ur video link is broken dude ^^

[Tor Landeel]

You misunderstood me. What I meant to say was that the kick buttons aren't very responsive. I think Probe cut corners with the 6B pad capabilities. I have to press kick twice to actually get the guy to kick. Don't tell me my controller is broken, because it works great with other games.

Using a different megadrive solved the very same problem I was having too with Mortal Kombat cart, low kicks not being registered, more like trouble with the C button since it occurs on bonus levels too.
Actually my multimega does the same, but not with Mortal Kombat CD (flawless).
Weird.

[sheath]

My X'Eye doesn't register six buttons sometimes, especially if two controllers are plugged in.

[Ghost Soldier]

I enjoy all of them, but I'm partial to the first MK. I have fond memories playing it with my best friend for hours. The blood code and the fatalities really stuck in my mind. When I want to play Mortal Kombat on the genny I grab the first one. On other systems I go for MK II on the SNES.

[Mark Robert]

I just bought MK3 and UMK3 off Ebay and wow, these conversions are amazing on the Genesis with fast, fluid animation and good-sized sprites. These games are really damn hard though.

[Josh]

I noticed that the Sega Mega Drive ports of MK3 and UMK3 have misplaced tracks, meaning that some of the arcade music tracks play on different levels.

The SNES version of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 has seven stages (eight if you count the stage where you fight Robot Smoke; this stage can be accessed with a Game Genie), while the Sega Mega Drive version has eleven stages. The Bank, The Soul Chamber, The Subway, and The Kombat Temple are present in the Sega Mega Drive port; these stages are not in the SNES version. Rain and Noob Saibot have brutalities, stage fatalities, and babalities in the SNES version. Rain and Noob Saibot only have brutalities in the Sega Mega Drive port, although the CPU can still execute stage fatalities when playing as either of these two characters.

[Bastardcat]

They are all tosh; play Street Fighter!

The word tosh is tosh, as is your overuse of it. I'm voting for a candidate who doesn't have that word as part of their vocabulary.

[The Jackal]

ur video link is broken dude ^^

It was just a vid of SF1.