This was the footage that was used later for the MK2 trailer for consumers who want to request an arcade machine for their business establishment. (Seen on Midway Arcade Treasures 2 VG)
About half of the sound effects are there. No blood, aside from Kitana's fan throw and Baraka's slice move (and some fatalities). No Round introduction or any announcements, just starts when you want to. Seems to be only 2 music tracks, Wastelands and The Living Forest, Jax does his ground pound for about a second longer, Raiden's default is red, and many of the characters' default colors are the 2nd players' color scheme. Baraka has his spinning attack. He also does a hard stun punch like Jax can do at close range. His blade attack adds a knockdown sound after the other player falls down. 1 player mode does not work yet? It just shows the 1 Player CPU tower go up and down the roster list, Kung Lao is in Kintaro's place, no Shao Kahn yet. When a player joins a game it says 'Player One has entered the Tour ament!' Some of Liu Kangs' sounds are different-his flying kick battle cry sound is longer too.His bycycle kick is completely different sound. Fatality theme is different. Mileena is not playable yet or just not shown in a match. Shang Tsung has an alternate dark blue color palatte for his clothes at 18:08, instead of light blue for 2nd player. There is a score tally and returning fight stats at the end of the round-even though no score is present (just the 00 WINS tally). Reptile possibly doesnt have his slide yet. His force ball has different sound effect. Johnny Cage has his Otomix pants, not edited out yet. Kitana's fatality has a different sound and visual effect when her opponent explodes. Jax's ground pound has no visual (or barely any) effect yet. Raiden doesn't have electricity out of his fingers when he wins. Bios are blank, just their portraits. Oh, and no player Versus matchup screen yet. No Spikes in the Tomb stage, and no Yin/Yang Icon on the floor of that same level. Statues are in the tower, before their removal. Some fighter yelps are different/removed. At the end it shows lightning and the MK logo and it keeps looping the animation, and no Mortal Kombat 2 logo shows up as it would normally later at that spot. Not as many stages, and many other details im sure i missed. Great find! Where was it from??? Ed Boon was probably testing it out.
12:38 So Baraka's spinning blade really was planned to be a special move from the beginning. I always assumed the MK Trilogy team just recycled some t-pose test frames into a "new move". That all the claims by the public that it was a lost MK2 move were merely based on assumption. Strange they call this version 0.1. This seems way too deep in development to be assigned an alpha version number.
I always wondered how they made those new moves in MK Trilogy, but I read on The Cutting Room Floor that they were almost all originally in the MK2 data. Baraka also has that flying kick move unused in MK2.
There were quite a few special moves that were removed in the original three games, and added later on in Trilogy and also in the 3D era games. Kano's knife furry attack (deleted from MK1, later added in MK Trilogy), Johnny Cage's backflip special move (deleted from MK1, and then added 10 years later for MK Deadly Alliance), Baraka's blade spin (deleted from MK2, later added to Trilogy) and Kung Lao's flying Superman move (deleted from MK2 and later added to MK Trilogy) are just a few examples.
The move was actually shown and listed in a very early magazine preview, I believe EGM, so it wasn’t rumor. Most people don’t remember the article though, so it has fallen into legend.
@@LeftyPem I also remember seeing it listed in a move list printed by another magazine, I don't think it was EGM. I just remember it had "Spin" in the name. I can't recall if they had a pic of it, but I knew something was odd since it couldn't be executed. Years later I saw the spinning move in MKT and realized it must be the missing attack from that old MK2 move list.
What an amazing find! Now if only we could get a rom of it on MAME or somewhere else. I'd be quite interested to see a full playthrough of this version of the game.
Great find James and YourMKArcadeSource. Hard to believe Jax started out as an overpowered character and only improved in later revisions. 9:40 and there are the terracotta warriors statues on full display. 🙏🙏🙏
Interesting that they still had score in the early builds of MK2. Wonder why they scrapped it. And that early fatality jingle is so much better, kinda spookier.
This is likely the video used in the promo video for the game. Notable things to spot: * characters that normally wear blue accessories (i.e. Raiden) are in red. This is reversed for characters who normally wear red like Jax and Liu Kang. * Johnny Cage is seen wearing the Otomix brand pants. * Large Terra Cotta statues are in the tower stage
Incredible! it's fascinating to see and hear the stuff that was changed before the official release, the most noticeable differences it seems happen to be some sounds, like Liu Kang's gibberish and attack yells are a bit different from the other versions as well as the fatality music.
@@MoneyManHolmes According to the information available (on MKSecrets), the earliest revision that was made public (for play at least) was revision 1.1, so this is at least 10 revisions prior to the first public arcade.
@@LordRaptor not really, revision 1.0 is just release version. There could be infinite number of iterations before 1.0, like 0.5b, 0.46c and such. 1.0 is usually the one the game is considered in its complete state. Altough in MK2 case, 1.0 had to be delayed because it was less than ready. And first release in this case was 1.1. Wich was STILL incomplete (some characters didn't have fatalities, no endings. Buggy AI). MK2 development was a hell for what i heard and it needed some extra iterations before it was in an actual complete state, 2.1 to be precise.
Not sure if it was this exact version but My Arcade in Huntington Beach, CA was a test location for MK II and I remember a lot of the things in this video when we first got to play it.
I like how this early version of the game awards you points, but there's no area (on screen) to show how many points the player has accumulated. Reminds me of Sonic 2 betas, where they still had legacy components still present before the official release.
Watching this brought back those feelings when I 1st read about mortal kombat ll in gamepro mag seeing reptile as a playable character and wondering who jax and kung Lao were.
Yes it is different. Funny enough, I think it sounds like the SNES version of the fatality sound. Listen to a clip of it yourself on UA-cam. Sounds pretty similar to me.
14:38 Always imagined Shao Kahn throwing boulders off that mountain, that battle plan song has some sort of off tune knocking in the background. Strange to not even hear my boy at all.
That *is* weird, I couldn't get Kitana's Kiss Of Death to work on Revision 1.1, so I don't know if they changed the input needed or what, but seeing it in this earlier version was quite strange.
Some news of a source code leak for MK2. Unused sprites and stages props have been unearthed! This includes those terracotta statues, unused moves, fatalities, and so much more! Hopefully, it will be added to the MK2 plus project. Which is using existing software of original arcade. Can't wait!
5:18 I wonder if the grunt sounds from Liu Kang's half when bouncing into the ground was a bug from this revision, something added intentionally, and whether this is still in the final game or not...because it was funny to realize a dead man's half body still having to OW lol
The actual Raiden costume was red like in this version. I used to think that was to prevent clashing with the Blue Screen during filming, but the Kitana/Mileena costume was blue.
@@No-cs2xf Okay, I see now that player 2 gets the red costume. But I had a magazine with behind-the-scenes photos from making MK2 and the costume the actor (Carlos Pesina) wore was red.
is it just me or is 11:48 a little weird. was Raiden's grab and shock fatality originally just an ordinary move? iirc he had a move like that in Deadly Alliance and Deception so maybe we learned something today.
So did they take Baraka's spin out later due to balancing issues I wonder? It always seemed like a janky move to me anyways in MK Trilogy. I can't remember if it's restored in MKII+...
It's weird that they'd remove it for balancing cuz they only left him with two special moves. I'm not disagreeing with you or anything; I just think they made him into a boring character by removing it since the spark move probably has the smallest hitbox for a projectile in the game other than Reptile's spit or, possibly, Scorpion's spear. Other than that, he only had the blade shred move which was vey easy to predict and avoid for seasoned players.
@@DerekMoore82 Ooh! Good catch. I was aware of both of those but they both feel so weirdly detached from the game cuz the swipe is either impossible to put into combos or at least very cumbersome and the popup kick was something I only would get occasionally by accident cuz I think most game mags failed to include it in their "comprehensive" moves lists. That said, he still felt like a very incomplete character that looked cool but was underwhelming to use. Shang Tsung is probably the only less-fleshed-out character than him if we're talking the pure character and not including morphs.
This is such a cool thing to see! Its always interesting to see where the games started off. Do you think the blood is turned off? Or not developed yet? I noticed fatalities had the blood spurts so it was confusing.
Yes, I do. But I can't seem to find any info on this either. I remember when you did the freeze, the ice particles would stay on the screen making it practically impossible for the other player to win. It was ver. 2.1 if I remember correctly.
A lot of people don't remember this but Sub Zero had a GOD TIER glitch in this version. He would be able to do the deep freeze (fatality freeze) on every character except Shao Kahn. Sub Zero would do the deep freeze and if any character walked into it they would get frozen. This allowed Sub Zero to control the whole screen. Completely broken, but awesome if you knew how to do it.
Instead of wasting their time creating the friendships and babalities, they should have focused on really pimping out the blood effects and body damage on the fatalities. The trend of dry skin and bones explosions that started here and spilled over onto MK3 was really lacklustre.
I was a tad bit suspicious, but this seems to be real deal No announcer No round intro or VS screen Recycles the scoring system from MK1 despite no score meter, so was most likely a quick holdover No blood Liu Kang's kiai sounds are slightly different Baraka's Blade Spin is available for use until it was taken out in later builds. Was reintroduced in Trilogy. No sound effect for his Blade Chop and Chop Chop Blades Raiden is lacking his gibberish way cries when using the Torpedo Uppercuts don't send the opponent as high into the air but travel further away Fatality jingle originally had a wind instrument channel to it Kitana's Kiss of Death had no gibs and a different explosion sound effect 1P mode is glitched. Battleplan fails to load and crashes at times. AI is non-existent Boss characters and the ? fight are absent Player 2 always uses the 2P color palette Johnny Cage's pants have the OTOMIX brand on it before it was digitally edited out. Shang Tsung's 2P color had a deeper blue hue. Remnants of this are still in the playable/final revisions whenever dismembered from a finisher Reptile's 2P color was much darker in tone, closer to an earthly green If the game crashes/restarts, the intro will instead reference the last background loaded, even during the Battleplan section
Poor Raiden, he's stigmatized for life saying "gibberish" in torpedo, while in the same time "attack-tak-peruket" is acceptable as tatsumaki-senpukyaku without complains.
sooo awesome.. so far i can say there was no blood splaters and reptiles sphere makes character idle to come closer instead the knockdown animation..!!! jhonny cage have that word on one legs. im not shure if it was later removed... there is no shao kan voices. no blood drop sound on the fatality screen... whoooaaa baraka doing a spining tornado... kitana balloon fatality makes no bones and blood.
The coolest thing about this version is Johnny Cage's pants. The rest of it is interesting, but not very cool without the blood. The music is really annoying on the demo screens. It repeats over and over and over. I'm glad they shortened that in the final version.
This is pretty neat. Just purchased the A1Up MKII Midway legacy cab and been loving the MK games. Nothing like playing with the correct button layout. MK has to be the most iconic straight up bad ass fighter of all time. The first game is my personal favorite. Part 2 a very close second.
MK2 is definitely more polished then MK3/UMK3, but UMK3 is a far superior competitive fighting game than MK2. I also LOVE the apocalyptic, gothic city backdrop of MK3/UMK3. UMK3 is one of the greatest fighters ever. The physics/combo system creates an endless skill ceiling and so much more possibility that MK2. Too much nostalgia surrounding MK2 from casual players. MK2 is great but has nothing on UMK3.
Yea UMK3 with its busted mess of infinite combos and glitches lol . Lay off the paint thinner, kid. You contradict yourself. If MK2 is more polished, then that would make it the better and more viable competitive game. The reason UMK3 is played more competitively is because it was the last of the 2D games.
@Dude Man. There is no contradiction. Mk2 definitely had more time put into the sprites and colors, animations. There are a lot of things in UMK3 that were left unfinished. Fatality color pallets that are innacurate. Weird stuff that is largely inconsequential to the actual flow of the combat. But the core gameplay, the mechanics of UMK3 reign supreme. Spoken from 10's of thousands of matches, tourneys attended, UMK3 is a high-level, fast-paced adrenaline-fest that is fair and balanced you just have to have the reflexes, knowledge and senses to play at high levels. The inclusion of the run button was a huge advancement toward the pace of play, too. No other MK game anyway has compared to the sheer speed of UMK3. MK2 was great when it came out and still an important fighter. I'm not saying it's trash, just that as a competitive fighter, it's so far behind UMK3. And I'm glad that in my mid 30's you think I look so youthful. 😉
Well, there's some news of the source code leak for MK2. Unused sprites and stages props have been unearthed. Hopefully, it will be added to the MK2 plus project. Which is using existing software of original arcade.
This was the footage that was used later for the MK2 trailer for consumers who want to request an arcade machine for their business establishment. (Seen on Midway Arcade Treasures 2 VG)
About half of the sound effects are there. No blood, aside from Kitana's fan throw and Baraka's slice move (and some fatalities). No Round introduction or any announcements, just starts when you want to. Seems to be only 2 music tracks, Wastelands and The Living Forest, Jax does his ground pound for about a second longer, Raiden's default is red, and many of the characters' default colors are the 2nd players' color scheme. Baraka has his spinning attack. He also does a hard stun punch like Jax can do at close range. His blade attack adds a knockdown sound after the other player falls down. 1 player mode does not work yet? It just shows the 1 Player CPU tower go up and down the roster list, Kung Lao is in Kintaro's place, no Shao Kahn yet. When a player joins a game it says 'Player One has entered the Tour ament!'
Some of Liu Kangs' sounds are different-his flying kick battle cry sound is longer too.His bycycle kick is completely different sound. Fatality theme is different. Mileena is not playable yet or just not shown in a match. Shang Tsung has an alternate dark blue color palatte for his clothes at 18:08, instead of light blue for 2nd player. There is a score tally and returning fight stats at the end of the round-even though no score is present (just the 00 WINS tally). Reptile possibly doesnt have his slide yet. His force ball has different sound effect. Johnny Cage has his Otomix pants, not edited out yet. Kitana's fatality has a different sound and visual effect when her opponent explodes. Jax's ground pound has no visual (or barely any) effect yet. Raiden doesn't have electricity out of his fingers when he wins. Bios are blank, just their portraits. Oh, and no player Versus matchup screen yet. No Spikes in the Tomb stage, and no Yin/Yang Icon on the floor of that same level. Statues are in the tower, before their removal. Some fighter yelps are different/removed. At the end it shows lightning and the MK logo and it keeps looping the animation, and no Mortal Kombat 2 logo shows up as it would normally later at that spot.
Not as many stages, and many other details im sure i missed. Great find! Where was it from??? Ed Boon was probably testing it out.
you missed one, in the wasteland fight. Music for the armory plays
@@molotovcockvore Good catch, would have been weird if that were the music there.
Also the uppercut works similar to MK1, a curved launch than the new straight up launch we see in MK2
Cuando dice Fatality no está la música.
@@bandicootbrawl9674 I could be wrong but I think that uppercut was kept in the final version but only when you do it to Kintaro and Shao Kahn.
12:38 So Baraka's spinning blade really was planned to be a special move from the beginning. I always assumed the MK Trilogy team just recycled some t-pose test frames into a "new move". That all the claims by the public that it was a lost MK2 move were merely based on assumption.
Strange they call this version 0.1. This seems way too deep in development to be assigned an alpha version number.
I always wondered how they made those new moves in MK Trilogy, but I read on The Cutting Room Floor that they were almost all originally in the MK2 data. Baraka also has that flying kick move unused in MK2.
There were quite a few special moves that were removed in the original three games, and added later on in Trilogy and also in the 3D era games. Kano's knife furry attack (deleted from MK1, later added in MK Trilogy), Johnny Cage's backflip special move (deleted from MK1, and then added 10 years later for MK Deadly Alliance), Baraka's blade spin (deleted from MK2, later added to Trilogy) and Kung Lao's flying Superman move (deleted from MK2 and later added to MK Trilogy) are just a few examples.
The move was actually shown and listed in a very early magazine preview, I believe EGM, so it wasn’t rumor. Most people don’t remember the article though, so it has fallen into legend.
@@LeftyPem I also remember seeing it listed in a move list printed by another magazine, I don't think it was EGM. I just remember it had "Spin" in the name. I can't recall if they had a pic of it, but I knew something was odd since it couldn't be executed. Years later I saw the spinning move in MKT and realized it must be the missing attack from that old MK2 move list.
I cant imagined they'd have reason t film/photograph t poses; this predates most, if not all, 3d skeletal animation setups.
4:35 a unique kang voice
the dun dun dun start of the fatality music is different, neat.
What an amazing find! Now if only we could get a rom of it on MAME or somewhere else. I'd be quite interested to see a full playthrough of this version of the game.
Source code for many MK titles has leaked, I think many versions could be compiled from the ground up.
@@GeomancerHT nah there was only source for MK3 and Trilogy and I don't think they could be compiled.
I'd love to play it. For sure.
@@piratesephiroth why you think so?
@@KeshaFilm because they're incomplete
the fatality sounds remember the snes version
Great find James and YourMKArcadeSource.
Hard to believe Jax started out as an overpowered character and only improved in later revisions. 9:40 and there are the terracotta warriors statues on full display. 🙏🙏🙏
Do you know ow why the Terra-cotta warrior statues were removed from the final version?
@@michaelcampbell6326memory restraints I believe
After Jax' ground pound in this he sits with his fist on the ground for almost a full second. That's the way they should've kept it!
Interesting that they still had score in the early builds of MK2. Wonder why they scrapped it. And that early fatality jingle is so much better, kinda spookier.
This is likely the video used in the promo video for the game.
Notable things to spot:
* characters that normally wear blue accessories (i.e. Raiden) are in red. This is reversed for characters who normally wear red like Jax and Liu Kang.
* Johnny Cage is seen wearing the Otomix brand pants.
* Large Terra Cotta statues are in the tower stage
MORTAL KOMBAT II
MORE CHARACTERS
MORE HIDDEN MOVES
MORE BATTLEGROUNDS
Johnny "Otomix" Cage
I remember playing MK2 for the SNES and seeing some writings on his pants. Didn’t know it was “Otomix” written on it
Incredible! it's fascinating to see and hear the stuff that was changed before the official release, the most noticeable differences it seems happen to be some sounds, like Liu Kang's gibberish and attack yells are a bit different from the other versions as well as the fatality music.
So was this version tested in arcades, or kept in house? I’m not familiar with the numbering system used in gaming and apps.
@@MoneyManHolmes According to the information available (on MKSecrets), the earliest revision that was made public (for play at least) was revision 1.1, so this is at least 10 revisions prior to the first public arcade.
I don't like that flute sound in the Fatality movement. Great choice scrapping that, because it sounds lame.
@@LordRaptor not really, revision 1.0 is just release version.
There could be infinite number of iterations before 1.0, like 0.5b, 0.46c and such. 1.0 is usually the one the game is considered in its complete state. Altough in MK2 case, 1.0 had to be delayed because it was less than ready. And first release in this case was 1.1. Wich was STILL incomplete (some characters didn't have fatalities, no endings. Buggy AI). MK2 development was a hell for what i heard and it needed some extra iterations before it was in an actual complete state, 2.1 to be precise.
Pretty interesting! Wonder if they removed the sounds because of memory limits.
Not sure if it was this exact version but My Arcade in Huntington Beach, CA was a test location for MK II and I remember a lot of the things in this video when we first got to play it.
Great to finally see this, and very interesting to see the little differences!
What exactly are we looking at tho🤷♂️
@@NicenessWins An earlier version of MK2
I'm glad you didn't edit out the first one minute of noise. people need to know what that's like.
You’ve worded this so perfectly, it’s hard to detect if you’re being sarcastic or sincere.
I like how this early version of the game awards you points, but there's no area (on screen) to show how many points the player has accumulated. Reminds me of Sonic 2 betas, where they still had legacy components still present before the official release.
12:38 need more of that Baraka spinning move!
In trilogy its a regular move
They also included it in MK2+ which is an amazing arcade rom hack. The graphics were still in v3.1
Watching this brought back those feelings when I 1st read about mortal kombat ll in gamepro mag seeing reptile as a playable character and wondering who jax and kung Lao were.
NICE to see the old versions of MK games!
This is truly something special! Thank you for sharing!!!
Baraka's spinning blades!
This is so Amazing!!! Rare footage of Mortal Kombat 2.... I better play some MK 2 tonight!!! "GET OVER HERE"!!!
5:20 fatality sound is great like that
Amazing find!! is it me, or is fatality's tune a bit different 8:34?. Sounds incredible to be one first versions!! :O
Yea it is a bit different.
Added bells or so
It’s slightly different. There’s like a tune that was removed. Good ear
Yes it is different. Funny enough, I think it sounds like the SNES version of the fatality sound. Listen to a clip of it yourself on UA-cam. Sounds pretty similar to me.
seems like they removed or changed an instrument
I remember seeing this version when I was a child this is the first version of mortal kombat 2 when it first came out😮
10:35 High kicks make fall. This was cool.
I was missing some moves with 1.4 so upgraded to 3.0 but this is legendary legacy! Thanks for sharing!
I've already watched this about 5 times today. Incredible!
14:38 Always imagined Shao Kahn throwing boulders off that mountain, that battle plan song has some sort of off tune knocking in the background. Strange to not even hear my boy at all.
That *is* weird, I couldn't get Kitana's Kiss Of Death to work on Revision 1.1, so I don't know if they changed the input needed or what, but seeing it in this earlier version was quite strange.
That is probably it. I remember they changed some of the fatality moves when they released 2.1
The most difficult artificial intelligence in the history of fighting games had not been created.
Super street fighter 2 turvo hold my beer 🍺
And if you know how to manipulate it. It's the easiest AI to beat.
8:44 Pretty sure they edited Divizio's sprite to be symmetrical. I don't remember it ever being that off center.
Some news of a source code leak for MK2. Unused sprites and stages props have been unearthed! This includes those terracotta statues, unused moves, fatalities, and so much more! Hopefully, it will be added to the MK2 plus project. Which is using existing software of original arcade. Can't wait!
12:39 Barakas spinning
Baraka: WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I actually miss this old scoring system
5:18 I wonder if the grunt sounds from Liu Kang's half when bouncing into the ground was a bug from this revision, something added intentionally, and whether this is still in the final game or not...because it was funny to realize a dead man's half body still having to OW lol
Raiden’s uppercut at 12:11 is very slow! And there are very few blood particle effects outside of the fatalities.
12:10
The actual Raiden costume was red like in this version. I used to think that was to prevent clashing with the Blue Screen during filming, but the Kitana/Mileena costume was blue.
No, it was blue, if you pay attention, the second player always gets the alternate costumes.
*_Player 1_*
4:11
*_Player 2_*
4:16
@@No-cs2xf Okay, I see now that player 2 gets the red costume. But I had a magazine with behind-the-scenes photos from making MK2 and the costume the actor (Carlos Pesina) wore was red.
@@HelpTheWretched I had that same magazine back in the day. Although his costume was red, they changed the color palette for it, while in development.
THAT WOOAHHH BY LUI KANG WAS AWFULLY SICK AND COMICAL 😆
I actually like how the fatality music is a bit different and I like Liu Kang's different sounds. This is an awesome find.
is it just me or is 11:48 a little weird. was Raiden's grab and shock fatality originally just an ordinary move? iirc he had a move like that in Deadly Alliance and Deception so maybe we learned something today.
It’s a regular move. Hold HP for 5 seconds and release (only works in 2-player mode but CPU can do it in a 1-player mode).
4:52 more unique kang voices
there's nothing quite the MK2 select screen. Fantastic
I fucking love Liu Kangs screaming flying kicks...especially his bicycle kick
timestamp plz?
@@hinglemccringleberry5431 4:45
Those awesome statues from The Tower.
Baraka had that spin move.
Straight up they grabbed this version to be the genesis one.
Johnny has blue pants in that one so both are probably in a weird vortex of different companies
So did they take Baraka's spin out later due to balancing issues I wonder? It always seemed like a janky move to me anyways in MK Trilogy. I can't remember if it's restored in MKII+...
Yes and yes!
It's weird that they'd remove it for balancing cuz they only left him with two special moves. I'm not disagreeing with you or anything; I just think they made him into a boring character by removing it since the spark move probably has the smallest hitbox for a projectile in the game other than Reptile's spit or, possibly, Scorpion's spear. Other than that, he only had the blade shred move which was vey easy to predict and avoid for seasoned players.
@@blakfloyd He also had the Blade Swipe (Back+HP) and the double kick popup (HKx2 in close).
@@DerekMoore82 Ooh! Good catch. I was aware of both of those but they both feel so weirdly detached from the game cuz the swipe is either impossible to put into combos or at least very cumbersome and the popup kick was something I only would get occasionally by accident cuz I think most game mags failed to include it in their "comprehensive" moves lists.
That said, he still felt like a very incomplete character that looked cool but was underwhelming to use. Shang Tsung is probably the only less-fleshed-out character than him if we're talking the pure character and not including morphs.
I knew I wasnt crazy when I said there was a logo name on Johnny Cages pants
4:20 the sweat points branding
16:25 Hilarious 🤣
Where's the chunks?
5:21 bells in the fatality them
Historical footage right here!!
It's a pity that in the final cut the game lost a lot of movement frames
I thought I imagined that Johnny Cage had writing on his pants. THERE IT IS! Was there a version with the pants writing in the arcade at all?
This is such a cool thing to see! Its always interesting to see where the games started off. Do you think the blood is turned off? Or not developed yet? I noticed fatalities had the blood spurts so it was confusing.
I just don’t think that the source code for the blood was made yet or it at least wasn’t finished at this point.
What is the writing on Jonny Cage's pant leg?
Otomix
wow this is quite some find here.😱
Funny that Jax Eartquake seems more balanced here, with the extra recovery than it is in final version XD
Took me a while, but I realised why it seemed odd to me, there is no Vs Screen, just straight into the battle,
Does anyone remember a version of MK2 in the arcades where subzero could do his perma-freeze mid-match? Please help me find it!
Yes, I do. But I can't seem to find any info on this either. I remember when you did the freeze, the ice particles would stay on the screen making it practically impossible for the other player to win. It was ver. 2.1 if I remember correctly.
I wish someone could find the nba jam Jordan builds and the nba hang time Chicago build with the breaking backboard feature.
I wonder what Boon would have to say about this find, heh.
Cool. No blood during the fights but still there for the fatalities.
I still am waiting for Santa to bring my MK2 arcade cab. I know it's big but damn..
Someday Santa will pay his debts lol. I'm still waiting for my copy of MK2, Killer Instinct and a SNES.
Man, what a great find! Love your kontent. Been watching your channel for about 5 or 6 years now. Keep it up!
Plays well for such an early release. 👀
A lot of people don't remember this but Sub Zero had a GOD TIER glitch in this version. He would be able to do the deep freeze (fatality freeze) on every character except Shao Kahn. Sub Zero would do the deep freeze and if any character walked into it they would get frozen. This allowed Sub Zero to control the whole screen. Completely broken, but awesome if you knew how to do it.
That was a later revision.
So The Wastelands was like the placeholder or testing music back then.
Niiice job dude!!!!... Excellent material!
Is this the version where you could walk on the ceiling
Notice that blood is off during Kombat.
Because this version was used for promo videos
ua-cam.com/video/iTMMfCeFo00/v-deo.html
Instead of wasting their time creating the friendships and babalities, they should have focused on really pimping out the blood effects and body damage on the fatalities. The trend of dry skin and bones explosions that started here and spilled over onto MK3 was really lacklustre.
I was a tad bit suspicious, but this seems to be real deal
No announcer
No round intro or VS screen
Recycles the scoring system from MK1 despite no score meter, so was most likely a quick holdover
No blood
Liu Kang's kiai sounds are slightly different
Baraka's Blade Spin is available for use until it was taken out in later builds. Was reintroduced in Trilogy.
No sound effect for his Blade Chop and Chop Chop Blades
Raiden is lacking his gibberish way cries when using the Torpedo
Uppercuts don't send the opponent as high into the air but travel further away
Fatality jingle originally had a wind instrument channel to it
Kitana's Kiss of Death had no gibs and a different explosion sound effect
1P mode is glitched. Battleplan fails to load and crashes at times. AI is non-existent
Boss characters and the ? fight are absent
Player 2 always uses the 2P color palette
Johnny Cage's pants have the OTOMIX brand on it before it was digitally edited out.
Shang Tsung's 2P color had a deeper blue hue. Remnants of this are still in the playable/final revisions whenever dismembered from a finisher
Reptile's 2P color was much darker in tone, closer to an earthly green
If the game crashes/restarts, the intro will instead reference the last background loaded, even during the Battleplan section
Poor Raiden, he's stigmatized for life saying "gibberish" in torpedo, while in the same time "attack-tak-peruket" is acceptable as tatsumaki-senpukyaku without complains.
Ummmm... That’s why it’s version 0.1
Bro is forgetting this is a very early release💀💀💀💀
@@FnafFrosty_games Dude forgets fake footage and fan edits are a thing
@@swoocu So you don't know that fan edits are a thing?
Really interesting how high kicks cause a knockdown. I wonder why they changed that.
sooo awesome.. so far i can say there was no blood splaters and reptiles sphere makes character idle to come closer instead the knockdown animation..!!! jhonny cage have that word on one legs. im not shure if it was later removed... there is no shao kan voices. no blood drop sound on the fatality screen... whoooaaa baraka doing a spining tornado... kitana balloon fatality makes no bones and blood.
The coolest thing about this version is Johnny Cage's pants. The rest of it is interesting, but not very cool without the blood. The music is really annoying on the demo screens. It repeats over and over and over. I'm glad they shortened that in the final version.
Amazing find!!
Ainda tinha a marcação de pontos, como em MK1, no lugar das moedas.
Wow! This is early in the game’s development. There’s no announcer or blood (well, the fatalities themselves have blood anyway.)
Because this version was used for promo videos
ua-cam.com/video/iTMMfCeFo00/v-deo.html
Nice Looks Very Cool
👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 Great Find
Nice!!!! great find sir
Awesome! Was this released by Ed Boon on Twitter as part of the 30th anniversary?
Now some dump the wavenet roms
Que no hay versión jugable?
This is the footage that was used in the promotional video?
6:13 super delayed reaction time lol
Amazing find!!!
This is pretty neat.
Just purchased the A1Up MKII Midway legacy cab and been loving the MK games. Nothing like playing with the correct button layout. MK has to be the most iconic straight up bad ass fighter of all time. The first game is my personal favorite. Part 2 a very close second.
This never made it to the mainstream.
It also seem to be tech demo.
Thank God they finished it with sound effects and announcer.🙏☯️🐲
Cool find. I wonder if the AI was a jackass in this version too? Probably…
The picture of mileena is so beautiful she looks stunning
Awesome!
Shame the direction they went with MK3. Mortal Kombat II just oozes atmosphere and style.
MK2 is definitely more polished then MK3/UMK3, but UMK3 is a far superior competitive fighting game than MK2. I also LOVE the apocalyptic, gothic city backdrop of MK3/UMK3.
UMK3 is one of the greatest fighters ever. The physics/combo system creates an endless skill ceiling and so much more possibility that MK2.
Too much nostalgia surrounding MK2 from casual players.
MK2 is great but has nothing on UMK3.
Yea UMK3 with its busted mess of infinite combos and glitches lol . Lay off the paint thinner, kid.
You contradict yourself. If MK2 is more polished, then that would make it the better and more viable competitive game. The reason UMK3 is played more competitively is because it was the last of the 2D games.
@Dude Man. There is no contradiction. Mk2 definitely had more time put into the sprites and colors, animations. There are a lot of things in UMK3 that were left unfinished. Fatality color pallets that are innacurate. Weird stuff that is largely inconsequential to the actual flow of the combat.
But the core gameplay, the mechanics of UMK3 reign supreme. Spoken from 10's of thousands of matches, tourneys attended, UMK3 is a high-level, fast-paced adrenaline-fest that is fair and balanced you just have to have the reflexes, knowledge and senses to play at high levels.
The inclusion of the run button was a huge advancement toward the pace of play, too. No other MK game anyway has compared to the sheer speed of UMK3.
MK2 was great when it came out and still an important fighter. I'm not saying it's trash, just that as a competitive fighter, it's so far behind UMK3.
And I'm glad that in my mid 30's you think I look so youthful. 😉
Katalin is the only kitana
Weird that they waited to add blood for most attacks.
Because this version was used for promo videos
ua-cam.com/video/iTMMfCeFo00/v-deo.html
Why does it look wide
Hope someone finds this rom and leak it. Really want to see a full playthrough
Well, there's some news of the source code leak for MK2. Unused sprites and stages props have been unearthed. Hopefully, it will be added to the MK2 plus project. Which is using existing software of original arcade.
@@JoeyXSmith thank you! It's like a MK2: Director's Cut. Hope to see that version soon
great man