A Classic 'Mortal Kombat' Bootleg For The NES Is Getting An Overhaul

Still not as good as the Gamegear/Master System version LOL

That's totally a labor of love. It'll take a lot of work to make sure the hit boxes, frame times and input lag all align properly. But, I applaud the effort!

This is really impressive, shall be keeping an eye on progress for this!

@845H I don't know, I'm a huge Master System apologist and I love the MS ports of I & II, which clearly have bigger and in some ways more accurate sprites. But this framerate and number of animation frames is vastly larger and there's features and and details missing from the MS stuff. Its clearly unfinished but a very promising start.

I'll argue til the cows come home that the SMS is superior base hardware to the NES, however the MMC3 chip they are using significantly upgrades the capabililty of the console and allowed for many of the most impressive NES titles including Mario 3, Kirby's Adventure, and Mega Man 3-6.

Proof for how much of a SMS nut can be seen in my current passion project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUTkCp485BA I'm usually first to shout from the hilltops when the system does something better than the NES could. But that footage is running better than any 1v1 fighter officially released on the SMS - Masters of Combat being perhaps the closest. The only thing I can think that beats it is Jang Pung 3, an unlicensed South Korean game which is an incredible title that pulls off some witchcraft I don't fully understand! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYiNdRpELps

@845H True or Mortal Kombat II on Game Boy 😂

@samuelvictor @samuelvictor Master System hardware was of course superior to the NES as it was a souped up Sega Mark II from 1983 just with a better GPU and slightly higher clocked CPU along with more memory, however they kept the same sound chip which is why the NES has much better sound. Mortal Kombat II on Game Boy is a better fighter than any fighting game on either NES or Master System though.

@wizzgamer Funny story, when I was young, my parents wouldn't let me buy Mortal Kombat for my Master System because of all the news stories about it. However, they suggested perhaps I could have it on GameBoy because the screen being small and it not being in colour would somehow make the violence less impactful to my childhood brain?

Thing is, I didn't own a GameBoy and I've no idea where they got that idea from. But that Birthday I got a GameBoy, specifically so I could play Mortal Kombat, perhaps the stupidest reason anyone has ever bought one. It wasn't very good. In fact it was awful. But it was all I had so I made do. A year or so later I got Mortal Kombat II not expecting much and it was SO much better! I genuinely rave to this day about how good Gameboy MK II is. Its genuinely amazing how much of an improvement it is over the first.

Thank you friend for the article, I stopped by here because you told me, it has given me a lot of joy, I am Drax01 and I want to share with everyone my YouTube channel where I keep the progress of the project:

https://www.youtube.com/@Drax01-qe9lp/videos

I clarify that we are not seeking to surpass any version, only to give the NES a version worthy of the title.

Thanks

@Drax01 You are doing fantastic work, this is really impressive!

@samuelvictor

Thank you It's a great team effort, where everyone contributes what they know. Follow my forum or channel to be informed when we release the game.

@Drax01 Already subbed!

thank you so much