Interesting find in MK2 game code

[xDisciplex]

I was looking through the MK2 game code for PSP's Midways Treasures with MK1-3 and found this in the MK2 game code under player wins sections for titles to come up:

Look at the last section of Wins names.

 

[xDisciplex]

I just found this too in the MK3 code in that game, which is off of MK3 2.1 Jamma roms:

Looks like Scorpion, Reptile, Kitana and Mileena were originally going to be in MK3 and look there's a section for Johnny Cage wins and there's a spot that says Johnny Cage transformation activated... what?!?

 

[McCarron]

Funny these were found 15 years ago or so when people dumped the games early on to find secrets. They were Red Herrings put into the game code to make you look for something that wasn't there. The "Cage transformation" bit is also barely hidden, as it's in the game's Audit Screens which you can not access on the Official Emulated versions of the game. No way to make it say anything but 0 though.

 

[NinjaGrinder]

Of course kitana, scorpion and reptile were gonna be in mk3. They just didn't have the time I guess. Even in UMK3 they left some stuff unfinished.

 

[TerryMasters]

McCarron is right. In a pre-MK3 interview Ed Boon stated that some operators would actually go through the rom data trying to find the secrets in the game, and deliberately added that text to throw them off.

Also, loving the new title! Thanks Scheiss ;D

 

[ded]

you may be interested into this then:

check this:

and this: http://mksecrets.net/index.php?section=mkt&lang=eng&contentID=3986

 

[Tim Static]

You are the fucking man, ded. The true king of combos!

 

[TerryMasters]

Hah, ded nailed it. That was the video I was talking about. Good job man, I really need to start favorite-ing those things.