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This is Amazing and very well put together. But, there is one small problem that I wish could be fixed. The sound effects for landing an uppercut, sweep, and roundhouse don't sound right. Please, put back the original sounds from the Genesis version, and this will be perfect.

THIS game should have been on the Sega Genesis instead of that INFERIOR Regular MKII game! WOW! What an INCREDIBLE game! They even threw in Ermac as the Hidden Opponent to Fight too! Too bad you can't play as him though, unless you use a Game Genie. Anyways, when it comes to Ermac, here's the Game Genie code to play as him & here's how to find him:

Play as Ermac: Enter "30006A: 0015" as your code!

Fight Ermac: Fight your way up the tournament until you reach the fighter just under the ? Portrait. Defeat the opponent by only using Low Kicks. Yo'll now go to Goro's Lair to fight Ermac.

Thanks to your work I have the best version of Mortal Kombat 2. So well I have to thank Pyron for improving the game's coleers and Pepodmc for translating the game into Spanish.

Mortal Kombat II has often been hailed as the best game in the series, at least up to MK9 in 2011, and the Genesis version was a pretty good port of the game. Smoke managed to take this and inject an incredible amount of life into the game, and turned it into an experience that rivals (if not surpasses) the original arcade version.

Having all five unplayable characters available is a huge treat. From a technical standpoint, Jade, Smoke, and Noob Saibot are little more than faster pallet swaps of the other ninjas, but being able to play with them in their debut incarnations is a blast. And as expected, the two bosses are beastly overpowered. Having Ermac thrown in as a hidden battle also brought a smile to my face, as did the other things that were added, like the omitted character name announcements and backstory cards.

The running and dial-a-combo system are neat additions and are optional for those who want an experience closer to that of MK3. While they both work well enough, the softer presentation of either feature doesn't quite deliver the same level of audio-visual impact as in MK3. Both are conveniently managed in the options menu, so you can do neither, or one, or both.

The Practice and Endurance modes also provide a more complete console experience. Granted, the former could've benefited from an exit command to return the player back to the title screen, but it's nothing a hard reset can't fix. However, this brings us to one issue that I encountered.

My only gripe is that while it's nice having the omitted prologue added back in, it's actually not possible to cut straight to the title screen. Granted, you can mash B to jump to the next story card, but this only adds to the already long chain of screens leading into the title.

Despite that annoyance, this hack is an absolute dream. Even without the expanded roster, it adds back so much of what was taken out, and goes well beyond what the arcade version offered. The run/combo features aren't for me personally, but they still breathe a lot of new life into this game and makes for a great segue into MK3. This hack is easily 9/10.

If this game was released like this I would have been in love with this port. However at it's release it was horrible. This makes the port great. However I can play the arcade version at my house now and on my cell phone. This works on the new beta fw on the Retron 5 btw. That's how I tried it. :-)

If you like Mortal Kombat II on the Genesis. I prefer the SNES version, and hope that it will make it's way to the SNES version. As far as the hack goes it is very top notch.

This hack is awesome! It features everything I wanted to see in MK2! Never thought this was possible The special attacks are a lot easier to make, I can't stop playing it on my mobile phone! Thank you Smoke for this timekilla! Hope other gamers will try it, cause this is a jewel which I definitely recommend for others to try!