Mortal Kombat 3 for the SNES, play through. How does this version hold up?
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- Опубликовано: 27 дек 2023
- Do you remember “Vanilla” Mortal Kombat 3? I personally found single player MK3 to be better balanced then UMK3 on the arcade. Is this the same for the SNES? Let’s see.
Enjoy! 
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It's been almost 30 years, and I'm still amazed at how good this looks on the SNES
It looked great back then on a CRT of course but it still looks nice still.
SNES had the best ports for what the system was capable of.
And SEGA
It was the most capable 16-bit console of its generation. You had to go Neo Geo (24-bit, hideously expensive) to outperform it.
@@jaymum23 I agree for 16 bit not bad esp MK2 for SNES looked and sounded great.
@@miamimagiciansSega ports never looked as good as SNES ports
@@bluekinopio9390 True. Snes has colour behind it. Genesis really struggles with the colours. It came far with just 64 colours on screen at max. But eventually snes outran it.
After middle school I had to spend a lot of time at a community center. There was a copy of MK3 on SNES there. We played the holy shit out of this game. So much so, that I asked for a copy of UMK3 for Christmas, and I brought that up there to play it with everyone. I wrote my name on the back so no one could steal it! 😆 Thanks for the memories, man.
When this first hit the arcade our minds was blown
That *growl* sounded like Sable’s opening intro from wrestling 😂 (Animality)
When my girlfriend asks me: "How do you remember MK3 special moves and not out anniversary?! That's so useless."
I tell her: "There is no knowledge that is not power."
You said girlfriend. So I'm assuming you guys are not married. Why would you care how long y'all been together? Female Logic
😂😂 that’s the best response EVER 👊🏼
Snes version rocks. The blood drop sounds aren't annoying like the mortal Kombat 2 on SNES. And unlike the arcade version of MK3. The SNES doesn't have 50 skulls, 500 ribcages, 20,000 legs and 70,000 arms.
Back in the day, I got a handwritten sheet of paper where all the codes of the secret menus as well as the smoke code were written on from my uncle.
Man those were good times.
I also remember that back then i had only one controller. Whenever i wanted to try out the fatalities i used to switch the sockets real quick to enter a self made "practice mode".
We had to be super creative back then haha
this was an admirable port, but at the time it really was the port that began to show the SNES age. Paled in comparison to the PS1 version , it really showed that the PS1 was very very far ahead.
Comparing a SNES port to the same game on PS1 is just silly. Was the SNES showing how “old” it was, or was the PS1 showing what “new” meant for gaming at the time? 🤷🏻♂️
@@danielf6734 Not silly at all, SNES was the best selling console by a mile when PS1 came out. Plenty of more powerful systems had come out and bombed Mk3 was a nice win at launch for Sony over Nintendo, and gave a nice glimpse of what it was capable of, whild the SNES was showing it was no longer the console that could handle fighting game ports, something that had been its bread and butter. Easy to sit here in retrospect and laugh at tbe comparison, but it wasn't very clear at all at the time how much better the PS1 version would turn out to be.
@@gamble777888 I respectfully disagree. At the very least, one would expect the sound quality of a CD port to be of a significantly higher quality, if not “arcade perfect”. I’m old enough to remember the PS1 launch, and was enough of a gamer nerd that I had monthly subscriptions to various gaming magazines (EGM, Gamepro, Nintendo Power etc..) I understood the PS1 meant we were moving to the next console generation, and that Nintendo would be releasing what was then known as the “Ultra 64” console the following year.
I was a huge MK fan, and was beyond excited to get the PS @ launch along with MK3 in its glorious oversized jewel case.
I will always give the SNES credit for their fighting game ports during that era, including the ballsy move of porting “Street Fighter Alpha 2” onto the console (which turned out better than expected lol) but I was definitely ready and excited to start playing perfect ports of the arcade versions. I think the fair comparison would be between the PS port and the N64s “MK Trilogy”
But since we’re talking fighting game ports of that era, I’m going to give a quick shoutout to the Sega Dreamcast. Could argue that they were the best for fighting game ports during its run. That console was criminally overlooked by many people, but I blame Sega for that.
Fun fact: Sony published Mortal Kombat 3 for PS1. It's a very faithful arcade port
It's really close to being arcade perfect!
Yup, I had that version also and remember other than the load times it being VERY good. Thanks for the comment 🙏🏽
I remember the first day I got this. My father took me to Toys R U, I believe he paid $75. Great times, shortly after I was blown away by the PlayStation version.
Lol, I was just thinking the same thing. It was so expensive. More than even Killer Instinct. Then I saw the PS1 version 😮.
@@Shinobi33Killer Instinct was really expensive. Damn.
That’s awesome that you remember the price, because while I don’t remember how much I paid for this back in the day, I sure remember how much I paid for the SNES version of UMK3, it cost me 99.99 plus tax, over 100 dollars for a new copy, and that was back in 95-96. And I enjoyed Vanilla MK3 more, I remember feeling cheated when I bought it. Thanks for sharing that 👊🏼
@@BushyStallionI picked it up here in Ireland at launch too and it was definitely more expensive than usual. Pretty sure I paid 70 to 75 for it which is on par with modern releases.
UMK3 was missing a lot of backgrounds and voice samples. There is a rom patch that adds all of the stages including the graveyard, and Music and voice samples. Making it the best version available. The prices were definitely on the higher levels, that is why when I hear gamers today complaining about the prices I just chuckle
I had this for the SNES as a kid. I was disappointed that Scorpion and Raiden weren't in it.
So many times I ditched school to go play SNES MK3 at my friends house. Great childhood memories.
Sega switch developers for MK3 from Probe Entertainment for MK1 & 2 to the same developer Nintendo was using, Sculpture Software, which was the reason why both ports looked almost identical!
A shame the Graveyard stage was not in this version. I remember I played the arcade version every time the family went to Round Table Pizza.
Just for the nostalgia alone you have a new subscriber I’m 44 this was my teenage years man cheers 🍻
Thanks bro, same age 👊🏼
I played this on the SNES so much when I was a kid. I was always impressed with how good the graphics looked for the SNES, so don't let this vid be a reflection on how the game looked on a regular TV in the mid '90s.
Waited in line at Walmart to buy this on release day. The last memory I have of standing in line for an SNES game.
I remember they were still selling Mortal Kombat 3, complete in the box for $39.99 at Walmart in the spring of 1999.
love the channel. Big fan from Warren, MI!
I appreciate it, the only reason I’m familiar with Warren MI is because of the Em song W.T.P lol thanks for the support dude 👊🏼
I love the shade of blue they use for the cyber ninja's blood in this version. I think in later versions, it became black.
I could watch you play this all day man please make more bro keep it up 🎉
I remember buying it when it came out.. memories 😀
It’s all about the memories associated with these games 👊🏼 thanks for the comment
Cyrus and this version of the game is the ultimate character once you've learned how to master him believe me
Nice, i got mortal kombat 3 as a kid on Christmas and boy did it feel so good, its a nice port.
By this time I switched to PlayStation w/ MK3 as a launch title. Epic game whatever system it’s on.
But who asked ???
Absolutely. And that version was really good also minus the loading times.
I grew up with this version. I remember the game was expensive like $60 or more back then, I begged my older siblings to get it lol I remember the sound was muffled but the music was pretty good. The music blew the genesis away lol I remember playing this game on a small RCA crt and it looked pretty good on it.
LMMFAO man listen I remember in high school,one of my classmates had the game and knew the codes and when he told me,he wrote it on a piece of paper slid it to me,he didn’t want anyone knowing what it was. Still friends till this day. when I tell you if I could have cut school just to go home I would have done it. I couldn’t get off the bus fast enough,I couldn’t even focus in class the whole day,and what made it crazy,I did my homework in other classes so I wouldn’t have any lol.
I had this back when it came out for the SNES. Played it a lot back then. The cheats were secrets I had to learn from a relative. The smoke fatality with grenades was something new to me at that time.
This is one of my favorite games ever! I still remember opening the MK3 box at Christmas... and it was something totally beautiful! ❤
Nice vid, I was addicted to this and MK 2 on SNES. I still remember MK3 was a Christmas gift that year but my folks when they got it for me in when it came out, few months before Christmas(It was October 13th 1995) let me try it out for one day to test it made sure it worked. So I did but in that time I quickly drew a decoy MK sticker then took out Battle Tanks and using clear scotch tape carefully put it on that cartridge then switched it out so I really had MK the whole time haha but I'd only play when my folks weren't around went out. 😁
Lol sneaky
@@alexojideagu Indeed! LOL 😁
Didn't even know there was a mk3 on SNES. Thought they stopped at 2 and the third One was only on 32 bit consoles
Umk3 made it to the 16 bits too surprisingly!
Oh they didn’t stop there, UMK3 cost me 100 dollars for SNES when it was released back in the day! Crazy to think I paid that much for it. Anyways I’ll get to UMK3 another day, it was very well done also. Thanks for the comment 👊🏼
@@BushyStallion looking forward to that video. I only played the snes version emulated and the sfx were messed up so it would be good to see it properly
Dude your contest is great. Very entertaining and thorough!
Thanks Matt I appreciate that 👊🏼
MK3 was always my second favorite after MK2. Didn't care much for UMK3.
And this SNES port was really great. Always loved the feeling and sound of SNES games more than Sega.
This and Ultimate MK3 on SNES are sooo much fun to play. When you say MK to me I think of Armageddon on PS2. Beautiful game too
Like your content. Very relaxing to watch at night. Gaming mortal kombat as a kid was awesome growing up with.
Thank you Kelsp I appreciate that, and I agree, growing up with these was AWESOME 👊🏼
You should try MK3 on the sega genesis, the game gets crazy hard once you unlock smoke in the cheat menu for some reason.
0:21 looking forward to this… being from the UK… the Super Nintendo is referred as the SNEZZ… dare you to refer it as a SNEZZ on a forthcoming video lol 🇬🇧
Snezzzzzz lol will do 👊🏼
I was playing as Sub-zero on this back in the day. My friend and I were going back and forth, one playing, the other watching. I was in the process of getting the 6 hit combo on Shao Kahn. It stopped right after hit three (the back fist) as I defeated Kahn. My friend instantly started laughing and referred to that as the "bitch slap of death" which made me laugh. We referred to the 3rd hit in the 6 hit combo as that to this very day.
I don't know about now, but back in October 1995 at age 13, it was fn awesome.
Omg I remember playing for SNES because I use to play it the most I really love playing it I play it for long time ago it was old good time and I still play it I really love it so much your rock Darryl keep up the good work Darryl 😁😄
Thanks again Starlight my friend 🙏🏽
I vividly remember renting this for my SNES when I was probably 10 or so. Rented it just before Christmas break and spent a week hooked on it.
Had this version, wasnt so bad on crt. They omitted the graveyard stage for some reason. Remember playing the playstation 1 version soon after and loving that
This was my favorite game to play when I was younger, good times with my older brother and his friends
Excellent memories no doubt, thank you for sharing 👊🏼
@@BushyStallion of course all of the different ports of MK3 are definitely pretty good 👍
Striker was your go to guy? He’s one of the few I didn’t like that much. Kabal and Cyrax were my favorite guys.
Nightwolf had somethin for that a$$ in Round 2 😂
I think I still have the SNES and PC versions around here somewhere. Sad that I still remember those damn menu codes lol
Many memories and the version that Most of us had. Great to revisit this. 👊
Only the cool kids had this version lol 👊🏼
Darryl you are the best. I can’t wait to watch the next livestream.
Decent port in my opinion, Shang Tsung shape shifting capabilities was flawlessly here.
This is a better port than I remember. I was lucky enough to have the ps1 version when that came out so didn't play this on 16 bit consoles but emulated it years ago out of curiosity and wasn't too impressed, but seeing this, I now see it's a good port taking into account the limitations.
Thanks for the comment, I too had the PS1 version and other then the loading times it was pretty darn good that’s for sure 👊🏼
Freakin Insane! I never heard of the 'Mercy' ending fatality. I owned MK2, and MK3 on SNES back in 1996.
lol i thought stryker was one of the corniest characters they came up with... Kabal was my guy in this game
Kabal is definetly overpowered in MK3. His 56% combo is insane.
Amazing port, still holds up.
This was a great port of MK3 for a home system. With the exception of some details (Size of the characters, missing frames of animation, and somewhat muffled audio) the graphics and sounds were pretty nice. I just wish the programmers were allowed more ROM space as the 32-Megabit cart wasn’t enough. I think 48-Megabit cart would’ve been perfect.
i love ur game play plz continue
Thank you 👊🏼
I always preferred vanilla over UMK3, both arcades and SNES. Still remember those codes for the SNES and was bummed when they didn't work in UMK3.
I found out years later that UMK3 was an upgrade sent to MK3 owners as part of the original sale of the arcade machine. This is why you never saw any MK3 cabs in the wild after 6 months or so.
Played a lot of MK3 on PS1 when it was released. My friends and I thought it was bad ass we had an “arcade” game at home when it was still pretty new in the arcade. And it looked 1:1 to us at the time.
Yea... first time I played Street Fighter on SNES, after dumping a hundred dollars worth of quarters in the arcade machine, it felt surreal and unfair to everything other than me that I got to see "Press Start" in place of "1P Insert Coins".
"You mean... I get unlimited plays??" Was my inner thought.
Edit: Street Fighter II
There was a time that "street fighter" automatically referred to Street Fighter II. .... Man, I'm old. I remember when Capcom refused to call any Street Fighter sequel anything other than 2.
@@BowenEros-gt8gnoh my gawd you sound so kissable right now zaddy!!
@@BowenEros-gt8gn I feel ya man. Me and a cousin spent many hours and money in the arcades playing sf2. Then when it came out on SNES in 91-92? My cousin got it for Xmas. And it was amazing! We played it day and night especially since on the weekends… it was great times!
Keep your videos coming dude 👌
ahh, glad to see you pull this one out on snes. IMO, it needs to be UMK3 for sure! Have to have those classic characters, but I guess how the AI plays is way more important. You're legendary at Mortal Kombat. I always liked Stryker when I was a kid, even though his moves aren't the best, he's definitely the coolest dude on the roster imo.
So funny you mention the sound sounding like there's a pillow over your head. I'm pretty sure one of the game magazines back in the day referred to the sound as sounding like it was recorded through a pillow. Lol
Maybe I read that and it stayed in my subconscious lol who knows? But that’s what I think playing all 4 versions of MK on the SNES lol thanks for the comment Teh 👊🏼
I had the TecToy publishid MK3 for MegaDrive in Brazil. I really liked that version but I had no other reference. Played it to death!
@DarrlyTsung06 Fun Fact: I Discovered this completely by accident when I was in high School my freshman year.
How to use The bosses in single player mode. Make sure the cheats for them are active and pause cheat is enabled then start a 1P game. At the character select screen press start on a P2 controller and do stealth select on both controllers and put the cursor on the same character. Don't select them let the time expire. You will be taken to the destiny screen and be in single player mode. When the match starts press start on the player 2 controller the game should pause, and then after that press start on the player One controller you will return to the character select screen and you will be in one player mode the bosses will appear in the middle after smoke and you can select them and use them in one player mode.
Same happened to me when playing against a friend. We were using the stealth select because for each character I'd pick he would pick one that I was weak against, so it happened that we ended up choosing the same character and the glitch happened. I noticed and we documented it and sent to a video game magazine. Cool stuff!
Mk 3 was so awesome on the snes. The music, control, graphics,ect ect. My favorite character was smoke cyborg and i loved the pit 3 stage fatality and music.. my second favorite was kabal i liked his scare the shit outta u fatality and secondly the bell tower stage fatality was cool too.
Dam Im 41 years old just found this out wow never knew about these particular codes 👍🏿
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the explosion from Kabal's fireball was mind-blowing back then
Mind blowing and awesome 👊🏼
I played MK1 and II almost exclusively on SNES and a lot in the arcade as well. But by the time MK3 came out for home consoles, I had already moved on to the PlayStation, so I never really played this version until many years later. I'm also fortunate now to own all 4 original Mortal Kombat arcade cabinets, so I rarely play the console versions anymore.
That’s awesome about owning the original cabs. There would be no need to play the home ports other then for nostalgia sake, and if you were already playing the PS1 version, then there’s no need at all cause of all the loading times lol thanks for the comment 👊🏼
Im enjoying your channel
I’m enjoying this Arby’s mega slop pile
Thank you 🙏🏽
Talk about nostalgia...
I've owned the three 'major' ports of MK3 (SNES, Genesis, & PS1) for years now, and this is both the first MK game I owned & played the most, so it definitely brings back so many memories of the overall hype behind MK3, playing it in the Arcade (and the crowds around the machine, just like with MK2 lol), memorizing special moves, Fatalities, Friendships, & Animalities from game magazines & strategy guides, etc...lol
But yeah, the SNES port was decent enough, especially gameplay-wise (and quality-wise sits between the PS1 port [The best despite the load times with Shang Tsungs' morphs] and the Genesis [The worst, though still not terrible]), though I recall one of the biggest criticisms about the SNES port being the sound quality (or lack thereof).
P.S. All versions of Vanilla MK3 have an infamous game-breaking bug with Sub-Zero's Ice Clone move (jump or jump kick toward your opponent, then the moment Sub-Zero's sprite overlaps with your opponent, do the Ice Clone; it will always freeze your opponent even if they're blocking. This bug of course was removed in Ultimate MK3 & Trilogy.
First fight with Sonya couldve been a domestic dispute that happened in public. "Officer kills wife on subway".
Thanks for the playthrough!
No problem, it was fun to play 👊🏼
I'm very curious how much money I spent on this game. I never owned it as a kid but I remember renting it constantly, and I played it a ton in the arcade
3:19 the compression of the audio is extremely harsh… but, it’s a 16bit bruv
I loved the SNES version. Fav console version of 3 imo.
Haven't seen this version in a long time 😮😮😮
Besides the extra pixelation, it's just as I remember. Still my favorite version. Can't wait till you get a crtv for these.
A CRT is easy to get here people are even giving them away on Marketplace for free I found, I just need the space to set one up.. in time. Hopefully 👊🏼
Ed boon is definitely outta this world fr
Do you have to hold block when you put in the inputs for their fatality? I had this but was never that good at it.
You can hold block. It's optional. Seem easier for me to do.
this motaro did plasma ball when you jump kick you. thats awesome
The memories 🥹
Good memories no doubt 🙏🏽
Yo Darryl you ever heared of or been on fightcade ? There’s a lot of UMK3 players on there. Even afew MK2. I think you would like it 👍
Oh yeah I’m well aware.. There’s a huge community of MK players on there, I’ll install it one day but I need a new laptop first. Thanks for the comment 👊🏼
I always loved the final hit on shao khan on this game
hey darryl, what's the combo button sequence for subzero?
HP HP LP LK HK B+HK
Mk was much better on Genesis.
MK 2 was much better on SNES.
3 was more balanced. The SNES version looked better overall. The Genesis version played a bit better and had better voices (i hated how Shiva sounded like Sonya on the SNES version). Neither were perfect (SNES sound was muffled, Genesis voices were a bit raspy)
Genesis dominated MK 1&2 for me. I didn’t know anyone who preferred MK on Nintendo - they turned into KI fans…MK3 was on PS and that override Genesis and SNES.
@@justadrum the PS one was good, except when Shang Tsung was one of the players...
I agree with THIS take. Overall, MK3 on Genesis played better, and there was more effort on graphics even on Genesis. MK2 Genesis was the laziest port of MK2.
Friendship sounds different because - I guess - the second "friendship" voice is just the first one being repeated in a different pitch to save memory. The same with the weird Raiden friendship voice in MK2
I agree 👊🏼
You mentioned in MK2, Shao Kahn doesnt announce/commentary on his fight, but just coming from watching your mk2 on 32X i noticed on that version he does play announcer during his match.
Definitely a lapse in design on that and this version I agree
I grew up on the game. First rented it. Then my dad bought it for me. I was mystified by the urban feel and velocity of the game. It was futuristic. Knowing limited English and there being no convenient cameras or anything at the time trying to make the most of the endings was challenging. One big problem with the SNES version (and perhaps any version) was the limited fatality time relative to the inconvenience of the moves. MK2 gave you more time and the button combinations were simpler.
In this Version Sheeva is the best for Motaro and Shao Kahn. All she gotta Do is repeating her teleport stomp. Just push down then up umtil you win. Motaro got no Chance to escape it and is beaten in 10 seconds. Shao Kahn is to beat the same way but He Hits back sometimes. I Do this on my cellphone in very hard very offen. MK3 for SNES is the only Mortal Kombat I actually can beat on my Phone.
this was the first version of mk3 i ever played. after growing up with mk1 and mk2, mk3 felt so different. it was faster and tougher to master.
Great video, Darryl! Are you using emulation for most of these videos? If so, what emulator are you using and what controller brand?
When I do use an emulator outside of these videos I’ll use a RetroPi with and SNES style wired controller 👊🏼
I say yes :) my favorite is MK Trilogy ps1
Cabal was my favorite at mk3.i played on ps1 long ago.at end of combo you can use the circle spezial möge.i forgot thename
cyrax, subzero, cabal and smoke has the best character in the series.
The SNES version is definitely played an emulated version not that long ago difficulty is insane
I never enjoyed this game as a kid, mainly because it was too hard, you could always easily win 1 fight, then the next one would be almost impossible... After dying once, the fight became too easy, then the next one would be impossible again...
Same here.... probably a bug that was missed; I switched over to the genesis port before I bought a a ps1 a couple years later.
Snes had the better graphics but the Genesis had the better sound / music imo
Very very incredible
Awesome version of the game, thanks for checking out the video 👊🏼
Takes me back to being an 8 year old watching my older brother play for hours and hours without a turn 😂
happy holidays 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Happy Holidays my friend 🙏🏽
AYBX for the sound menu, if you had turned on quick finish in Kooler stuff you could of done 1 button fatalities