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[IbizaPocholo]

Mortal Kombat 2 Source Code Reportedly Leaked Online

Mortal Kombat 2 source code has surfaced online; the code features various canned assets, sprites, and animations that can finally be viewed.

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Major Takeaway

• Mortal Kombat 2’s source code has surfaced online and is available on GitHub for the community to download and scrutinize.
• The source code contains everything related to the game; all the canned assets, sprites, animations, and other particulars can be tinkered with in the code.
• Various fanciers on Twitter and Youtube have already documented the alluring details hiding beneath all of the leaked material.
• The leak will allow modders and the community to create more ports and mods that could breathe new life into the well-renowned nostalgic game.

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The source code shared on GitHub was revealed in the r/MortalKombat subreddit. The leak details all of the game’s canned assets, animations, sprites, and movesets that never saw the light of day in the version that was officially released.

The nostalgia of many fans has also shipped all over the web, documenting various details in the leak. One YouTuber, TehDrewsus, conducted almost a 3-hour live stream to explore the specifics of the surfaced Mortal Kombat 2 source code.

The YouTuber dives into details like the sprites of the Mortal Kombat 2 roster, background assets, sounds, coding, and much more. Moreover, TehDrewsus could seemingly not even explore half of all the leaked material. Another fancier on Twitter, Pegasus Kid, created a long thread to record all their findings.

 

[Aldynes]

Always cool to see stuff like that pop up from time to time

 

[YCoCg]

Does it confirm the game is scamming and running tricks on you in Arcade Mode?

 

[MALpractice311]

Does it confirm the game is scamming and running tricks on you in Arcade Mode?

C'mon. We don't need the source code to know that. It was always clearly breaking the rules and input reading.

 

[Danknugz]

love all the fan made mk remakes and mods i've come across and even some of the mugen ones are interesting.

 

[Scotty W]

Does it confirm the game is scamming and running tricks on you in Arcade Mode?

It is so sad that they felt they had to stoop so low with this absolute money making juggernaut.

 

[Trogdor1123]

I wonder if any secrets not previously found will be uncovered?

 

[DeepEnigma]

Hopefully they use this version (the far superior 2D MK) to mod new characters like they did 3.

 

[Scotty W]

Anyone know what has become of this?

 

[Eimran]

I don't have a lot of knowledge of this. Can someone explain how this exactly happened?

How is it that the code stayed secret for 30 years. Is it so difficult to hack?
I always thought finding this code was as easy as modding the game or using specific software.

 

[CGNoire]

AI Upscale with Widescreen support incoming.

...and hopefully AI frame generation @ 60fps

 

[BackBackPunch]

Shouldn’t it be “source kode” ?

 

[CGNoire]

Double post

 

[keraj37]

I don't have a lot of knowledge of this. Can someone explain how this exactly happened?

How is it that the code stayed secret for 30 years. Is it so difficult to hack?
I always thought finding this code was as easy as modding the game or using specific software.

After compilation of c/c++ and assembly code, getting the source code is practically impossible without massive, rather impossible manual work for skilled developers.
That is why leaks like that are so important since they are in human-readable fashion, contrary to compiled code which is not human-readable.

Thanks to leak like this it is possible to check for every logic in game, as the mentioned cheating in arcade mode, without it, it is not possible.

 

[VN1X]

MORTAL KOMBAT ON SOURCE 2?! Get outta here!

 

[RoboFu]

I love old 2d hardware. Indexed bitmaps with color pallets is the absolute best way to do 2d. It takes a lot more performance in comparison to replicate that using todays hardware with shaders.

 

[CGNoire]

When are we gonna get the star fox source code. I want Star Fox-Snes at 60fps via a PC source Port.

 

[ZoolNL]

When are we gonna get the star fox source code. I want Star Fox-Snes at 60fps via a PC source Port.

When <insert random totally unrelated game>…

 

[CGNoire]

When <insert random totally unrelated game>…

Its related subject since thats what these source ports hopefully lead too otherwize who gives a shit about the release?

 

[SkylineRKR]

Does it confirm the game is scamming and running tricks on you in Arcade Mode?

This is known. And after about 3 losses the AI suddenly becomes crippled and lets you kill him, this is deliberately built in the game. It uses an invisible slider that remembers the amount of consecutive losses.

It more than reads your inputs, nearly every move the AI pulls on you has priority over yours. They uppercut without crouch, etc. SF2 kinda did the same with charge characters.

 

[skeebs]

Waiting to see if someone found the Nudalities hidden in there

 

[The Stig]

Waiting to see if someone found the Nudalities hidden in there

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

WB Ninjas had this taken offline a week or so after it leaked, but im sure people still have it and its somewhere online.

 

[Scotty W]

When are we gonna get the star fox source code. I want Star Fox-Snes at 60fps via a PC source Port.

You might be interested in this. IbizaPocholo posted about it a few months ago.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/ex-zodiac-the-16-bit-star-fox-of-your-dreams.1639345/

 

[Knightime_X]

Does it confirm the game is scamming and running tricks on you in Arcade Mode?

Mk2 literally used cheat codes to gain an advantage over human players.

 

[Scotty W]

When are we gonna get the star fox source code. I want Star Fox-Snes at 60fps via a PC source Port.

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There outs this too. I could swear I saw something else as well.

 

[Scotty W]

Sad that nothing ever came of this.

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

Can someone tech-savy explain why we cant get in 2024 a crisp and clean version just like in the arcades, instead we get low-res sprites (GOG, STEAM) version. This video shows perfectly how good the game can look but the versions I mentioned look like ass. Timestamped:



And this is how GOG version looks like:

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Lmao dude Kurt angle was fucking hilarious

I wish there was a way to watch wwf from 96-2000, uncensored and including commercials

 

[zeomax]

Can someone tech-savy explain why we cant get in 2024 a crisp and clean version just like in the arcades, instead we get low-res sprites (GOG, STEAM) version. This video shows perfectly how good the game can look but the versions I mentioned look like ass. Timestamped:



And this is how GOG version looks like:

Old games are made to be displayed on an CRT TV and not on LCD. Connect an old CRT monitor to your PC and the game will look crisp and clear like in the arcade.

 

[Scotty W]

Can someone tech-savy explain why we cant get in 2024 a crisp and clean version just like in the arcades, instead we get low-res sprites (GOG, STEAM) version. This video shows perfectly how good the game can look but the versions I mentioned look like ass. Timestamped:



And this is how GOG version looks like:

Exactly. Make it look good, fix the broken ai.

 

[deriks]

Does it confirm the game is scamming and running tricks on you in Arcade Mode?

That was confirmed since the early internet days, and MK2 wasn't the only that did this

 

[john2gr]

Can someone tech-savy explain why we cant get in 2024 a crisp and clean version just like in the arcades, instead we get low-res sprites (GOG, STEAM) version. This video shows perfectly how good the game can look but the versions I mentioned look like ass. Timestamped:



And this is how GOG version looks like:

You can use filters to make MK2 look just like the arcades via MAME64. I don't really remember the settings I've used, but here are MK2 and UMK3.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

By far my favorite in the series.

 

[MAtgS]

Damn, MK1 just came out last year and already they got a sequel?!

 

[Ozriel]

Thought this was about source code for a sequel to MK1 (2023)

 

[s_mirage]

Can someone tech-savy explain why we cant get in 2024 a crisp and clean version just like in the arcades, instead we get low-res sprites (GOG, STEAM) version. This video shows perfectly how good the game can look but the versions I mentioned look like ass. Timestamped:

And this is how GOG version looks like:

The GOG version is the old PC port, not the original game. It ran at lower resolution.

Why isn't there a perfect home version? Who knows at this point? The original MK games have been pretty much perfectly emulated in MAME for something like 20 years now, yet every commercially emulated release has been half-arsed.

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

It's too bad WB hates MK's 30yr history so much that we will never get a true modern Klassic Kollection of arcade perfect versions of MK1-MK4 on today's systems. The sad thing is, Ed Boon has said many times he'd love to do something like that using all they've learned in the 30yr history of making the games to do them too, like a Directors Cut.

Unless NRS can get away from WB, i don't think it will ever happen. Look at how bad WB has ruined MK1.....they just don't care about what makes MK great.

 

[Admerer]

AI Upscale with Widescreen support incoming.

...and hopefully AI frame generation @ 60fps

Another vote for Ai upscale, since we never got the HD MK remake.

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

I wonder if this would help the guy porting 1 to the Jaguar at all. Of course he should finish that first.

 

[Trunx81]

Always interesting to look into developments like this. If it´s an old game, that is.
This guy here is fooling the AI in the Arcade mode, quite interesting to see how they did not foresee that:

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

Always interesting to look into developments like this. If it´s an old game, that is.
This guy here is fooling the AI in the Arcade mode, quite interesting to see how they did not foresee that:

Ah yes, the old jump back and then the AI jumps towards you for an easy hit lol......i used that one all the time.

 

[RAIDEN1]

It's surprising that MK2 got ported to the 32x yet in its lifetime the Jag never got a version...

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

You can use filters to make MK2 look just like the arcades via MAME64. I don't really remember the settings I've used, but here are MK2 and UMK3.

I just wish they made proper ports for the consoles. Its not that hard and it would sell at $20 a pop. Bring all the filters included as well etc. Honestly that is what I was expecting we were going to find in Invasion mode but alas.