"Mortal Kombat II 32X Arcade Edition" improvement hack released by Master Linkuei
Romhacker, Master Linkuei, who has worked in other romhacks like Prince of Persia Remastered Edition and Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse FastROM, to name a few, has released v1.5b of his Mortal Kombat II 32X Improvement Hack, which features a ton of Quality of Life updates to make the 32X game the closest experience yet in a home console to that of the Arcade original.
The 32X version released back in 1994 features more detailed SFX, graphics and new cutscenes compared to those from the original Mega Drive / Genesis release. However, the original 32X release still features the OST from the Mega Drive / Genesis version, and it was also widely known of its hard difficulty (but that's a given with anything Mortal Kombat 2).
This romhack adds a toggable option for nerfing the AI and adds a lot of dropped content from the Arcade version, like missing SFX, combos, fixing timings, and much more, and it even has an additional patch that allows the player to use the Arcade OST using a MSU-MD hack, which allows for better quality audio, similar to MSU-1 hacks in SNES titles.
For those interested, the full changelog is detailed here:
Changelog said:
- Added more voices and sfx samples:
- Scorpion's "Get Over Here"
- Liu Kang's Bicycle Kick
- Shao Kahn's Laugh
- Dan Fordden's "Oh waaa"
- Sub-Zero's Ice SFX
- And more...
- Added SFX in the backgrounds:
- Livin' Forest
- The Portal
- Combos restored and improved:
- Jax Flying Kick + Grab in the air
- Scorpion's Flying kick + Teleport
- And more...
- Gameplay and timings improved
- Reset System
ress ABC+MODE to reset or go back to the MEGA ED PRO menu
- Training Mode with an exclusive new music track!
- Deadpool Dan Fordden's "Oh waaa" easter egg restored
- The PIT II fatality improved (sfx, animations and sync)
- 32X+ alternate patch with all the Arcade songs (based on the 32X+ code by jvisser)
- Auto 3 Buttons/6 Buttons detection
- Enable or Disable the Timer option
- Color palettes improved and added shadow mode in some screens to look more accurate with the Arcade game.
- And a lot of other little improvements...
- AI Nerf (by @BillyTime):
- ON = The difficulty selected will be fixed for every fight of the battleplan (even for the bosses)
- OFF = The original AI: after the 3rd fight, the CPU turn into a BEAST lol
- Pause System (by @yosoynacho):
- Press MODE to pause and Start to unpause
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