Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection Announced (Digital Eclipse)
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cartman414
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I wonder if they'll include the cancelled Nitro edition of 1 for the SNES, even if that means finishing an incomplete build.
Dr.Morris79
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No Amiga version of 1??
What kind of Kollection is this??
What kind of Kollection is this??
Soodanim
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Mega Drive MK1 > Arcade, and I'm ready to die on this hill. Cheats, better music, better sfx.
I also found this
On PS3 there was a great arrangement that from what I can gather was never used anywhere else:
I also found this
MrCunningham
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Lets See:
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat
- Arcade ROM
- Genesis/ MD ROM
- SNES ROM
- Sega CD iSO (hopefully)
- GameBoy ROM
- GameGear/ Master System ROM(s)
- DOS (DOSbox?)
- Arcade
- Genesis/ MD
- SNES
- 32X
- GameBoy
- GameGear/ Master System
- PS1
- Saturn (Japanese release only?)
- MS-DOS
- Arcade ROM
- SNES ROM
- Genesis/ MD
- Playstation
- GameBoy
- GameGear/ SMS
- MS-DOS
- Arcade ROM
- SNES
- Genesis/ MD
- Sega Saturn
- Windows
- Game Boy Advance (kinda)
- PS2 (Via Armageddon)
- Arcade
- N64
- Playstation
- GBC
- Windows
- Dreamcast (Mortal Kombat Gold)
March Climber
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They should find a way to include the tiger electronics version emulated in-game, unlockable with a secret code.
SkylineRKR
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Why would anyone want Amiga versions? Music? I had 1 and 2 on that, MK with 1 button and no parallax scrolling lol. Thought they were ass.
The Gen/SNES versions... well at least they were more fun against AI. 1 on Gen had worse visuals but otherwise good feel. SNES port was shit. MK2 I found excellent on both, probably best on 32x. Saturn and PS1 versions existed too, but had loading.
MK3 on PS1 was one of my first PS1 games. I thought it was kinda mid. Again, load times. UMK3 on Saturn was better, but the whole overhead and title menu was just ripped from vanilla PS1 version. It had the same issues.
I'll stick with the arcade ports, but admittedly, the AI does ruin a lot if you play solo.
The Gen/SNES versions... well at least they were more fun against AI. 1 on Gen had worse visuals but otherwise good feel. SNES port was shit. MK2 I found excellent on both, probably best on 32x. Saturn and PS1 versions existed too, but had loading.
MK3 on PS1 was one of my first PS1 games. I thought it was kinda mid. Again, load times. UMK3 on Saturn was better, but the whole overhead and title menu was just ripped from vanilla PS1 version. It had the same issues.
I'll stick with the arcade ports, but admittedly, the AI does ruin a lot if you play solo.
Crispy Gamer
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A dream come true
PendekarRajawali
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I think they will include the two games in the next collection. They'll definitely milk this, just like Capcom did with the Street Fighter and Mega Man series.
RAIDEN1
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If I remember correctly wasn't there a project to bring out a remastered version of the original Mortal Kombat games, with "revitalised" digital graphics/reshot, in essence a HD version of the game, in the vein of Streetfighter the HD collection, but for one reason or another it didn't move forward, which then resulted in the Kombat Kollection? And so this is another attempt to bring it to today's consoles..but why would you want to play Deadly Alliance the Gameboy Advance version instead of the mainline console versions I don't know..
spookyfish
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Oh man. Hoping emulation FINALLY has given us an arcade-perfect MK4. (Hoping the Dreamcast MKGold is on here, as well.)
Day one.
Day one.
dragonyeuw
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I'm at a point where this release got the most reaction from me ( and the Marvel fighting game).
S0ULZB0URNE
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Physical and priced right plz.
poodaddy
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4 is absolute garbage but I shamelessly love it. I'm worried that Trilogy won't be there or else it'd be listed. Trilogy is easily the best of the classic series, and for some reason it never gets it's due, can't figure out why. I really hope it gets included, but either way, this is a damn fine collection. I hope it gets a little more love than the SF 30th collection did. Good list of games there, but Digital Eclipse is really uneven with their execution sometimes, and SF 30th didn't even have the ability to map macro button presses, like literally every home port of a SF game ever made, and for some reason they never patched it in either. Just shameless and lazy, but I was immensely impressed with the curation and execution of their more recent collections, so perhaps this one will be more along those lines, or at least I hope.
mk4 too !
Regardless, this is bought. Do we know anything about the release date?
SkylineRKR
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Mythologies... I... I kind of liked it.
I rented it in 1997. And MK3 dial a combos worked out of the gate. So I unlocked all abilities quite fast. You got rewarded if you played good. What I liked was that Sub Zero has his entire MK3 toolset (despite being a prequel to MK1). But its atrocious as a platform game. Beat it numerous times though, also with the blooper ending (actually defeat monster Shinnok with that charged ice AoE).
I never played Special Forces though.
MK4? I love it. You can rushdown and mash, throw weapons and rocks. We had tons of fun with it in the arcade, it was even the incomplete 1.0 with no boss, missing characters and fatalities etc. The N64 version would be quite popular and a good port. We also played it quite a bit on console. Pretty fucking good stage fatalities, and that leg beatdown never gets old.
I rented it in 1997. And MK3 dial a combos worked out of the gate. So I unlocked all abilities quite fast. You got rewarded if you played good. What I liked was that Sub Zero has his entire MK3 toolset (despite being a prequel to MK1). But its atrocious as a platform game. Beat it numerous times though, also with the blooper ending (actually defeat monster Shinnok with that charged ice AoE).
I never played Special Forces though.
MK4? I love it. You can rushdown and mash, throw weapons and rocks. We had tons of fun with it in the arcade, it was even the incomplete 1.0 with no boss, missing characters and fatalities etc. The N64 version would be quite popular and a good port. We also played it quite a bit on console. Pretty fucking good stage fatalities, and that leg beatdown never gets old.
poodaddy
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Man, I really find your constant negativity to be a drag in most threads.....but you're fuckin right. Trilogy and MK3 Ultimate are easily the best of the classics, and I'd much rather have proper versions of those classics than any of the other stuff as the truth is I'll try everything else once just for the novelty, but Trilogy and Ultimate are the games I would consistently, exclusively play if they were rebalanced and given a new coat of paint.
ReBurn
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I have it, too. Legend says it's still loading...
swaffles23
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MKII is my jam. I spent so many hours in that game as a kid on SNES and playing the arcade at Wal-Mart while my mom shopped. The Pit II is still the goat stage fatality
SkylineRKR
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1 and 2 aren't really fun anymore, but always cool to have. UMK3 however I had a ton of fun with online. MK4 is also quite fun in vs play imho.
Those console and handheld versions, whatever. I guess its kind of a novelty to have them in there. But really, who is going to spend more than 2 minutes on a GB version of MK1 or MK Advance?
But if it was just UMK3 with rollback and I would've caved. I buy it for this and 4.
PrefectAboro
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I wonder if they'll fix the cheap/cheating AI in MK2 (arcade). Tried emulating it on MAME a few years ago and the CPU was super cheap. At least the SNES version was playable LOL!
darrylgorn
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Could this replace the MK Komplete mugen? You have my attention!
RetroGamingUK
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What was significant about the PS1 version?
Kacho
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It was the best way for me to experience the game at home. Going from the SNES version to the PSX one was awesome.
RetroGamingUK
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How did it compare to the arcade?
Apart from loading it seemed pretty much arcade perfect.
Kacho
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Pretty good. The load times were the only complaint that I can recall. I think the Saturn version was technically better but I never tried it.
MK Trilogy was my main MK game on PSX. So much content.
sloppyjoe_gamer
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Super Lemon Drop
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It is 2025 and people pay thousands of dollars for graphics cards but complain about and demand the inclusion of old ass Amiga versions of old games. Gamers are truly ridiculous most of the time. I am no corpo apologist and I cannot stand the state of the modern game industry at all, but this type of mentality from gamers is laughable and telling of individuals' awkwardness and inability to use reason and logic.
CrimsonTide
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Would be amazing to get ALL of these
MrCunningham
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Ultimately it would be amazing to get a mega collection of everything relating to the first four games. It sounds like the 8-bit ports will be in. The SNES and Genesis/ MD ROM's will be included. Arcade ROM's most likely. Not sure about Sega CD and 32x. It would be nice to see a release of the Playstation version of Mortal Kombat 3 that fixes Shang Tsung's loading during morphs. Which is a problem with Shang Tsung in just about every CD release of MK II and MK3.
I own a copy of MK Gold for the Dreamcast. I also rented MK4 for the N64, back in the day. MK4 still retained the 2D gameplay style of the original. But it had a rough transition to 3D. I think going to early clunky 3D models made the game lose some of its appeal. The original digital sprites were well made.
MK Gold for the Dreamcast was a really good port of MK4 on the Dreamcast. I am not sure what was broken about this port? It looked good. In some ways better than the arcade. Still a Dreamcast exclusive.
To be honest I have never played the arcade version of MK4. I have never seen a cab anywhere. I have played arcade I - III and Ultimate in the arcades. Mortal Kombat II cabs use to be so common.
CrimsonTide
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Dream collection to get every port
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Characters were smaller and other little things, this is the case with every release except for the stand alone release of MKII on the PS3
the one in the PS3 Collection isn't the same either.
s_mirage
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I'm looking forward to this. Hopefully we'll finally get a virtually perfect way to play the arcade versions legitimately without actually owning the arcade boards. Somehow they've managed to whiff on every other official release.
Yeah, they were really late in the day. They were also really pushing what they could fit into the cart. They desperately needed something like a 48Mb cart, but instead got a 32Mb one. Pretty big for the SNES and MD/Genesis, but it was no bigger than vanilla MK3's and led to compromises.
Yeah, they were really late in the day. They were also really pushing what they could fit into the cart. They desperately needed something like a 48Mb cart, but instead got a 32Mb one. Pretty big for the SNES and MD/Genesis, but it was no bigger than vanilla MK3's and led to compromises.
Ulysses 31
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So this is like a rom collection of past releases like the TMNT Cowabunga Collection? No remastered MK 1-3 with HD sprites/backgrounds and improved animations? 
MrCunningham
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I will also say that I thought the N64 Mortal Kombat Trilogy was pretty good.
It uses the N64 hardware to upscale the "sprites", I do not recall how much it is missing animation wise. It was limited to a 64Mb (8MB) cartridge, but I guess with N64 compression and such they could get quite a bit out of that 8MB ROM.
Shang Tsung morphs with no pausing.
The PS1 version looks great... but Shang Tsung's morph loading times are like 2-4 seconds:
Shang Tsung's morphs has generally been an issue on CD based consoles. If they include any of the 32bit CD-ROM console ports, they could probably fix that issue?
Just to add one more video... Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for the Sega Saturn:
Shang Tsung's morphs do cause the game to freeze for a few seconds, so the game can load a different set of animation tiles.
Mortal Kombat 3 did not appear on the Saturn, because Sony paid for it to be a PS1 launch exclusive. The Saturn did receive a version of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 in 1996 instead. The Playstation never got a port of this version. The Saturn, PS1 and N64 all did get Mortal Kombat Trilogy.
It uses the N64 hardware to upscale the "sprites", I do not recall how much it is missing animation wise. It was limited to a 64Mb (8MB) cartridge, but I guess with N64 compression and such they could get quite a bit out of that 8MB ROM.
Shang Tsung morphs with no pausing.
The PS1 version looks great... but Shang Tsung's morph loading times are like 2-4 seconds:
Shang Tsung's morphs has generally been an issue on CD based consoles. If they include any of the 32bit CD-ROM console ports, they could probably fix that issue?
Just to add one more video... Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for the Sega Saturn:
Shang Tsung's morphs do cause the game to freeze for a few seconds, so the game can load a different set of animation tiles.
Mortal Kombat 3 did not appear on the Saturn, because Sony paid for it to be a PS1 launch exclusive. The Saturn did receive a version of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 in 1996 instead. The Playstation never got a port of this version. The Saturn, PS1 and N64 all did get Mortal Kombat Trilogy.
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Nydius
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Depending on the price, I'll probably pick this up.
It's an "old man yells at clouds" moment, to be sure, but this is when Mortal Kombat was worth a damn. Modern Netherrealm Mortal Kombat has been ass. Some less so than others, but none of them have the same 'magic' as the classic arcade days of MK1-3/3Ultimate.
It's an "old man yells at clouds" moment, to be sure, but this is when Mortal Kombat was worth a damn. Modern Netherrealm Mortal Kombat has been ass. Some less so than others, but none of them have the same 'magic' as the classic arcade days of MK1-3/3Ultimate.
s_mirage
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They could always port the PC version; it never had the issue.
DeepEnigma
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That's how the fatalities were on the Sega CD version of the first Mortal Kombat as well. But it had the sweet, sweet arcade sounds/music.
SkylineRKR
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That was a really good port. It was the arcade version and with a decent netcode for the time.