tehdrewsus
UMK3+
Last night my cousin and I made a trip out to Arcade Legacy here in Cincinnati... They have a UMK3 arcade machine there, and I haven't played on a machine in years. It's actually a converted MK4 machine, still has the MK4 CP Layout and side art, and the buttons were convex instead of concave...it wasn't incredibly comfortable but I got used to it.
Since it was the first time I'd played on an actual cabinet in years, it took some adjusting, and while my best guys playing on a pad are both Smokes and Ermac, I found I was very good on my OG's from when MK3 first came out in the arcades years ago: Cyrax and C.Sub. The first combo pulled with Cyrax was near bomb, roundhouse into bomb explosion, aaHP, aaHP, jump kick. 5 hits 57% damage.
But the weird thing was I wasn't getting the combos out with Human Smoke the way I did playing on both MKAK for PS3 and MAME (juggernaut). It's really easy on both of those to do the HK LP aaHP Spear juggle. Last night on this cabinet I could barely reach with the aaHP. Almost like doing a HK LP aaHP with Ermac. Was there a version of UMK3 that had Smoke with a slower/normal walking speed? Something up with the stick? User error (most likely)?
I LOVED playing on a cabinet, though. Brings back memories.
Since it was the first time I'd played on an actual cabinet in years, it took some adjusting, and while my best guys playing on a pad are both Smokes and Ermac, I found I was very good on my OG's from when MK3 first came out in the arcades years ago: Cyrax and C.Sub. The first combo pulled with Cyrax was near bomb, roundhouse into bomb explosion, aaHP, aaHP, jump kick. 5 hits 57% damage.
But the weird thing was I wasn't getting the combos out with Human Smoke the way I did playing on both MKAK for PS3 and MAME (juggernaut). It's really easy on both of those to do the HK LP aaHP Spear juggle. Last night on this cabinet I could barely reach with the aaHP. Almost like doing a HK LP aaHP with Ermac. Was there a version of UMK3 that had Smoke with a slower/normal walking speed? Something up with the stick? User error (most likely)?
I LOVED playing on a cabinet, though. Brings back memories.