Monday I decided I would look into doing a hack I wanted to do for awhile now. In MK2 on SNES, if you used Pro Action Replay cheats, you could pick one of the hidden characters (smoke, noob, and jade) but there is a bit of a problem. The game wasn't programmed to let you control them so if you make any action other than Up, Down, High Punch, or Block, the game will crash. This hack I made fixes a bunch of various crashes and problems with the hidden characters making them fully playable. Then I also enabled Fatalities for them, unlocked them from always fighting on Goro's Lair, and most importantly I added in-game codes to pick these characters. You enter the codes on the character select screen. Quickly press the button sequence for the character you want. After hitting select you'll hear a sound to confirm code entry. After you hear that sound, hit one of these buttons: ABXYLR. These codes were meant to be simple to enter. Smoke: Right, Right, Right, Right, Right, Select Noob: Left, Left, Left, Left, Left, Select Jade: Down, Down, Down, Down, Down, Select A couple things to note, currently in 2 player Versus the hidden characters can only be played by player 1 and the portrait shown is Kung Lao. Later on I may add unique portraits or a Question Mark style one. Also, there is no ending for single player play. When you beat Shao Kahn, there is no story board ending, the game just stays at a black screen. Later I may add unique endings or just bypass straight to the credits. Get it here: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/537/
Very cool hack. Kudos for your time and efforts. I always wanted to play as Nood Saibot back in those days =)
Yes, you need the US version 1.1. The moves for Smoke are Scorpion's and Noob Saibot I decided to give Sub-Zero's. Unfortunately when I did that I slightly messed up the CPU controlled Noob, but I'll fix it in the next version of the patch. Oh and Jade obviously emulates Kitana's moves. Another little bug I've noticed is if you fight Jade as Jade, the game tends to crash. But since this is more about YOU being the secret characters and not fighting against them it shouldn't bother you much at all. I do intend to fix these issues in a later version. Also is everyone cool with Noob having Sub-Zero's set? I figured it was a better idea than basically having two Scorpion clones.
That is another one of the things I am planning to fix. Edit: Smoke's smoke now shows up again for the CPU controlled Smoke (I knew of this bug when I released the first patch) and I'm sure I can figure out if it's possible to let a human Smoke have the effect. Another thing is I fixed Noob Saibot's CPU controlled bug, also it seems the Jade Vs Jade CPU bug may be fixed now too. I plan to add back the cheats codes I removed for using to choose secret characters too. Update: Also I fixed the issue where the game locks up when your ending should appear as hidden characters, however since I don't have endings in the game for them yet, it defaults to Kung Lao's story board and then goes to the regular credits roll. The new version of the hack is version 1.01 and should be updated and put onto the romhacking database soon.
