its not possible. thats why no fightcade too.
Idk why it’s possible for old SF games but not old MK games.
Good question. Maybe has something to do with the code?
I'd imagine if they can manage it with MKX and I2, why not be able to do it for the classic MK's at this point?
They had to recode a lot of things to make it work in MKX. Do you think they can or will do that for the old games?
Exactly. They will have to update the game code to make it work which isn't happening.
I'm sure they can. If they did it for MKX, they can do it for the older games too.
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What? Is it really not that possible? How many years everyone thought they won't improve the netcode for the current games and they did?
And SF games' horse havent beat dead yet? All of those games also got a shit ton of ports over the years. If people want old MK games on next gen systems, they deserve to ask for it.
Mostly because Capcom sees it as worth the money. This all comes down to whether WB thinks it's profitable and is willing to dedicate the manpower.
yes i think the same.
That is because MK4 was made with a very special chip called Zeus, developed by Midway themselves. Not only that it makes the emulation for MK4 a lot harder, but even the home ports of MK4 back in the day were very hard to be ported because of this. I heard that the only home port of MK4 that was close enough to the arcade version was the N64 one, and even that wasn't that close.
I participated in the mk1 tournament at GGA once. My opponent picked Sonya, I picked Subzero. I did ONE slide at him and he threw infinited me til' I died. haha MK4 was pretty alright though, might be a tad clunky by today's standards though so I hear ya.
Maybe games like MK1 with Sonya’s infinite. But the other games are still great. And compared to today’s games they’re actually even better. Today games go through millions of patches and still end up broken or imbalanced, so not sure I understand your point.
They can, but it is VERY unlikely.
I'm staying optimistic on that one.
I'm sorry Juggs but I think you're talking this way too far. While iMK2 and UMK3 are excellent games, you can't say that just because MK9 and MKX got many patches and don't have a super-duper perfect balance they are not as good as them. Aside from that fact that there is no perfectly balanced fighting game or a perfectly bug-free game, NRS/WB actually tried their best to balance MK9 and MKX, and MKX is the most balanced MK game to date, and NRS only improve their balance capabilities with each game, from MK9 all the way to IJ2. Not to say that MK2 our UMK3's balance is completely unbearable, as over the years more and more characters have been used in tournaments in order to show every character can win (for example, the 20th anniversary tourney for UMK3 2 years ago had players who use almost the entire roster), or that MK9 or MKX didn't had bugs at some point or the other, MK9 and MKX are still more balanced overall, and MKX being the most balanced, and once MK11 comes out, considering NRS' improvements, is gonna be even more balanced. How is that have so many top 8's with diverse characters in it pretty much every tourney if they aren't balanced?
The last MKX patch was really great. Not sure so much about MK9... Didn't fix or address the input bug, or the super low tier of the game.
As I said, I'm staying optimistic here.
That is why I said MKX specifically is the most balanced MK game to date. MK9 had been patches several times too, but there are still balance issues and bugs in the game indeed. MKX got way more support from NRS/WB, and it's now not only completely fixed, but is also the most balanced MK game to date.
I never said that. The claim is that the classics aren’t as good as today’s NRS games. My response to that is that while they aren’t by any means perfect, they are just as good competitively and have just many, and in some regards less, problems than today’s games. And when you factor in how today’s games have tons of patches to fix and balance them, that’s pretty impressive how well the classics hold up.
Never even hinted at the fact that the classics are perfectly balanced or bug free, in fact that’s my point. No game is bug free, no game is perfectly balanced. My problem is when people shit on classics saying they’re broken or imbalanced, while holding the new games on a pedestal and claim they also don’t have the same issues.