MORTAL KOMBAT SNES vs GENESIS 👊 Sprites Comparison
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2022
- Commemorating Mortal Kombat's 30th Anniversary, for this #shorts we make a graphical comparison of the sprites of all playable characters of the original Mortal Kombat. Side by side we confront the Super Nintendo port against the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive one #mortalkombat #snes #segagenesis #fightinggames #bitsandbeats
Games Featured
Mortal Kombat (Super Nintendo 1993) Midway | Sculptured Software
Mortal Kombat (Sega Genesis 1993) Midway | Probe Software
Characters Featured
Johnny Cage - Daniel Pesina
Kano - Richard Divizio
Liu Kang - Ho Sung Pak
Raiden - Carlos Pesina (voiced by Jon Hey)
Scorpion - Daniel Pesina (voiced by Ed Boon)
Sonya - Elizabeth Malecki (voiced by Peg Burr)
Sub-Zero - Daniel Pesina
Music Featured
MORTAL KOMBAT X OST - Scorpion: Ninjutsu (Theme)
Clips Featured
The Courtyard Stage Mortal Kombat (SNES)
The Courtyard Stage Mortal Kombat (MegaDrive)
⚠️ All gameplay recording, game curation and opinions included in this video, as well as editing is completely done by me 
Игры
Sega or Nintendo, which version is your favorite?
SNES, overall.
More smooth backgrounds, colors are more defined and richer, sprite movement is better, sprite poses are correct from arcade, sounds are more akin to the arcade.
MD/GEN had better sprite definition, more shadows, blood.
It’s all about pros and cons. The Sega version was overall more received because of blood and fatalities, but performance wise, Nintendo overall did the job.
Sega. let there be BLOOD!
@@ggarzagarciamissing the part of how bad the input lag was on the snes. Okay for super casual players but anyone with a little skill the snes version is unplayable
I grew up with MK on the SNES so...
@@mikoswhackgameandstuffvids480 sorry for your loss
Subzero pose/fighting stance difference.
Sega: Just a blue Scorpion sprite.
Primeira coisa que reparei, segunda foi que no genesis tiraram o sprire do guarda as vezes pro jogo ficar mais leve e rodar melhor! Mesmo sabendo que Nintendo tinha mais potência eu preferia o Mega!
You mean fighting stance .
That’s lazy. Sega didn’t even change out the Scorpion fighting stance.
@@evansusmc Sega? Nothing to do with them! also not lazy, saving memory space. I mean, you do realise Sub Zero and Scorpion share quite a few animation sprites anyway.
@@RetroGamesBoy78 yes they shared same palette. Same fighting stance? No. Save memory space?? Well I guess that’s why some sounds are missing also.
Damn, SNES version was SMOOOOOOOOOTH!
Smooth standing still until you played the game. It was laggy dog crap
@@Nobunaga1983 and the fatalities sucked
It looked and sounded more like original, but genesis had blood and normal fatalities in it, and some cool retro music, love it
Yeah… until you played it! Lol
Back when devs try to use Anti-aliasing visuals even if it doesn't exist yet (technically)
SNES has more color and smoother animation, but strangely enough, the shadows on the floor are solid black even though the console supports transparency effects. On the other hand, the Genesis, which has limited support for shadows and highlights, has semi-transparent shadows.
SNES graphics was miles ahead of the Genesis in MK1 and MK2.
I can definitely agree with that.Still,they didnt need to remove the blood thing
The only thing I prefer on the Sega version is the uncensored blood, everything else is much smoother on the SNES.
I like some of the sound effects better on genesis. Also the proportions seem more accurate to the arcade on genesis. SNES t he played models look slightly smushed
No the snes version is a buggy input laggy mess
@@Nobunaga1983 Yeah. That wasn’t the fault of the hardware though. Turns out a disgruntled dev sabotaged the port over the blood censorship
@@Framed_Niner any truth to that?
@@hiro0500 game genie you can turn the sweat red
Out of alll characters only Sub-Zeroo is different he has the Scorpion standing animation
A according to what u know sub was create firts then cines escorpión
The genesis version also has fewer animation frames for all characters
Proof that the Genesis memory was lacking, as well as over GPU capabilities. Games like these proved that CPU clock speed meant jack in many use cases.
Snes Sub-zero is arcade accurate.
Missing too many frames. Of animation
@@evansusmcdont forget he has 2 different fatatlies in both version.
@@LucinaFireEmblem1997 Sub zero has two different fatalities in each?? For the SNES version he only has one.
@@evansusmc Sega and SNES .. watch it.
@@evansusmc they mean different fatalities between the two versions. But yeah a few characters have 2 fatalities on Genesis because of the ones without the blood code as well.
Sega Genisis was Killer I remember moms getting me MK 1 and 2 in the early 90s. It was a must have
Not the best ports, just because the first one got the blood, the port it was not so good compare with the 2 SNES versions!!
SNES absolute destroys the MD/GEN in graphics. It's a shame that the gameplay isn't as good in MK1 on SNES but one year later they did it justice with the great MK2...
Slightly better graphics. But snes is cropped, blurry, censored. And plus the gameplay is a laggy buggy mess
@@Nobunaga1983 every background, sprite and animation looks MUCH better on SNES. But the gameplay sucks for real, they had to rush it for the release date on Mortal Monday, somebody should fix those lag. The arcade original must be super cropped...
@@greensun1334 yea the backgrounds are more true to the arcade in snes version and the standing animation is better. But genesis graphics are decent enough with way better gameplay and blood.
MK2 and SF2 played better on the Genesis
@@AFR0MAMBA MK2 no way. It's faster because of more missing frames. If you want to play closer to the original, the SNES is the way to go.
SNES even without the blood code enabled
is still AWESOME
Sub zero snes:almost mk2 sprite
Genesis:blue scorpion with different moveset
This is like comparing Turtles In Time for SNES to Hyperstone Heist for Sega. And i bet SNES's Turtles in Time would win in a landslide!!
Hyperstone heist is way faster with better controls
SNES-MK2 FOREVER!!!(was my Christmas-Present back then....)
The Background on SNES looks better....
I also got it for xmas that year. Good times.
No blood, it's a baby game.
@@RumchugMusic MK II WAS THE FIRST OFFICIAL BLOODY NINTENDO GAME. AND YES, THERE IS BLOOD( WITHOUT CHEAT ETC)!! MK I on SNES IS A JOKE, THATZ FOR SURE...
@robogod3000 and this is why Nintendo OWNS SEGA!!! 😂
@@JayByrd83 DISNEY OWNS NINTENDO!🤜😁
SNES looks way better. I never did understand why Sub Zero has the same stance as Scorpion in the Genesis version.
You can clearly see the SNES has smoother and more finished animations yet Sega fanboys will still tell you the Genesis version looked better.
Genesis characters skip leg days
Whoa, the monks and the entire background was changed
The Super Nintendo version was graphically more on point.
Also sounded better, and controlled better.
So what if Snes players had to wait until Mortal Kombat 2 to see blood and fatalities? Those were better days.😁
The SNES version certainly did NOT control better. All directional inputs had a very noticeable delay. Oddly enough all the button inputs had instant response.
Blast processing lol
But the playability of Gênesis is much better
I actually like the grittier look/feel of genesis MK.
SNES even without blood
Also the Sega version censored Sub-Zero's fatality. You could pull off the move but the screen would go black.
At least in Pal version for Spain the fatality can be viewed correctly with the blood etc. I played it in my own sega Mega Drive when I was child. Regards!
Man even the crowds are different on genesis, was this a port or a remake from the ground up I don’t get it
I’ve never noticed Sub Zero’s stance differs
I remember the color of the SNES version being just massively better than the Genesis one. But looking at this comparison, the difference is significant but maybe not that big of a deal. Could have been the much higher quality of the composite output on the SNES?
This has nothing to do with output, it has to do with pure hardware capability. The main detail to look at are the Sub-Zero sprites in both games. The Genesis port borrowed the Scorpion sprite set because it did not have the RAM to utilize a completely different animation set for Sub-Zero. Then, you look at the frames of animation. This was likely all to do with RAM, as the SNES has SIGNIFICANTLY more animation frames per character. Color is of course far more accurate on SNES, due to a larger color palette. Sound is overall better and more accurate on SNES as well.
@@HumorousLOL It not about the RAM, but rather the available space in the cartridge. In the Sega version many frames were sacrificed in favor of other graphics such as Goro from the intro and the fighters' bios and endings.
@@Holothurion Not true. Cart space had very Iittle to do with it. If that was the case, the MK2 games on both consoles would have looked and sounded identical, and SNES beats Genesis in that game as well; they were both about the same cart size.
@@HumorousLOL Did you even read what I wrote? Yes, they are around the same size, but they used the space for different things, one version opting for more frames, while the other went for graphics regarding the presentation. RAM was not a problem in this case as, besides not being on screen at the same time, other fighting games have more frames in the MD/GEN version than in their SNES one.
@@Holothurion Dude, are you really that dense? The sheer amount of differences between the two versions have little to do with cart space. It is literally the hardware that separates the two. If you honestly think the Genesis can look as good as the SNES version, you're out of your mind. The SNES beats the Genesis in animation frames, color palette, sprite count, overall presentation, and sound. You really think that's because of cart space? You can look at almost every port of any of the same game - the SNES almost always beats the Genesis in the graphical department. Unless the MD was using a significantly smaller cart than the SNES, how would space make the MD version look worse? Please name me a fighting game where there are more animation frames in the MD version than the SNES version that is due to cart space differences. This more often than not has to do with the developer coding, not the space on the cart.
I need the name of this kick ass music!
SNES looks way better!!! So smooth!!
the super nintendo's character animations are smoother
Sub zero fighting set on snes so 🔥
Crazy how we can tell how much space the cartridges had to sacrifice for version, in the Sega there are no palace guards. Some stuff is missing on stages
Yes, the SNES took the blood out, but the four new fatalities aren’t that bad. I like the powdered skeleton finish in Raiden’s update, Sub Zero’s new fatality went on to become an arcade fatality, Cage’s was kinda lame but could be reworked into something better (he shoved his foot in your chest lol). Kano’s was just the same thing but they made the heart black and not pumping.
SNES wins!
song name?
So the SNES looked better. What a shame that the SNES version didn't have a blood code.
It did have a hacked version only playable on the bootleg disk systems like the super magicom, pro fighter Q
Even if it did have blood, it would still be unplayable. The controls are laggy.
It changes the sweat to be coloured red. It’s not the big animated blobs you get on Genesis.
The main issue was Nintendo's stupid censorship nanny system that prevented devs from including any mature content in the game. SNES could have been a near arcade perfect port.
@@nintega9289 That is an issue easily fixed. It's not like the devs couldn't have done it. I bet anything it was rushed to meet deadlines, as it was a hot game back then.
Mortal Kombat SNES would have been perfect if it wasn't for the censorship.
Genesis characters have like 3 frames and the snes has like 8 big difference
Snes had like a half second input lag on gameplay. Terrible game on snes
In the Genesis version, Sub-Zero is a Shirai Ryu instead of a Lin Kuei. He does the Shirai Ryu pose.
Didn't know genesis was 8 bit.
Super Nintendo was better at fighting games.
While Sega Genesis was better at sports games.
In general, yes. But the first Mortal Kombat was better playable on Genesis (but it looks worse). Fighting games, RPGs: SNES
Sports games, shooters: Genesis
Both have some great platformers, running guns, strategy and puzzle games.
Genesis came out 2 years before Super Nintendo remember
Well at least we got more monks then super nintendo do😂
SNES graphics and Sega music. Sub zero set was 🔥 on snes
Didn't the genesis one have blood?
SNES FTW
This was the Gen at the top of it's game. Short timespan actually, but man... I wanted one so bad.
I had an SNES of course, which I think overall just aces it between the two, but man- I would've loved a Gen!
Say what you wanna say, but MK on the Gen was just superior.
The Sega CD was much better, but between these two cartridges, definitely the SNES!
I haven't tried the Sega CD version yet! I hope it's as good as Final Fight!!
The SNES has the best graphics and animations in MK1, also better than the Sega CD version.
@@greensun1334.The SNES version also had shitty controls Which to me was the biggest disappointment. Not to mention,the Genesis version had the arcade endings, the SNES version didn't
@@IslandBoy-808 yes, it has an imput lag but it looks accurate. Neither of both have an arcade ending, Genesis has just a picture and a missing death of Shang Tsung...
@@IslandBoy-808I hate defending the SNES, but just on pure graphics it’s closer to the Arcade and it just has more things going on. More layers in the background, more colors on the sprites, and just more color accurate. The Sega games had blood, more accurate gameplay, and it’s totally valid to say you like the sound on both Sega releases better, I find the mega drive music to have its own charm and like it quite a bit. The graphics though, so off, that flat blue in the background, the graphic bits looking tiny, and grainy. Characters missing animation frames. The SNES owns the graphics on this one.
Snes was always better than sega anyway graphics sound the lot
Solo faltó la.violencia y quedaría idéntico al arcade la versión de snes...
Sega Genesis was a clunky mess of a console.
Now give us a gameplay video
SNES is definitely the winner when it comes to graphics, obviously the graphics of MK1 are smooth on the SNES as for Sega is grainy. Also the sound quality was better on SNES, you can hear the hits and the pain of the MK characters when you do finishing moves. Also the SNES already had 6 buttons which made it easy instead of 3 buttons that Sega had. For Sega at least there's blood unlike SNES all you see is sweat
Snes far superior. Just look at Sub Zero. They used Scorpion lol.
SNES game played looked, sounded and played better (pause anyone?). Just Nintendo had to eff it up, but at least then came MK II 😎
What about the response on the controls
Sega version player very well just alot of the voice samples where taken out that bothered me
SNES was by far the better game just missing the blood and real fatalities
en los noventas la mejor grafica era la de las máquinas arcade y fe videojuegos casero la de superNintendo, que buenos recuerdos de mi adolescencia en cuanto a videojuegos
SNES version for best graphics and animation. Genesis version for best sound and music. As for the gameplay, well… the SNES version lacks fatalities… But the Genesis version does. 😆
SNES was smoother, but Genesis had gore lol
Nah snes was laggy buggy mess
Concordo com Ed Boon. “Mortal Kombat do Mega Drive tinha jogabilidade melhor”.
SNES has way better animation.
Nintendoes what Sega Generally doesn't.
Sculpture software were just better developers. Look at their Genesis ports of MK3 and UMK3.
Sega version looks last gen at the time… compared to Snes
wait, the SNES had better animation?
Of course!
SNES was way better color grathics smoother but no blood damn😢
So basically Genesis sucked and the only reason it was loved was because of the blood and gore… big fucking whoop
Snes.. all the way.
*HOW EMBARASSING ON SEGA*
Sega didn't make ANYTHING good MK wise until UMK 3 on Saturn
Snes Wins
Genesis is known to have a lot of fighting games, I prefer to play this on the Genesis
Nes did look better on snes and i played both as a kid growing up
lol
Sega genesis sin dudarlo,la censura es algo que no me gusto y el maldito control... ERA UNA CAGADA no respondia bien casi nunca y si lo hacia era por que apretaba a lo loco
SNES. Here’s another game which shows how limited Mega Drives colour palette was
You forget that just came out two years before the superintendent. It would be different if it was a more powerful. The fact that it wasn’t more powerful says a lot about the power of attorney Genesis is the superintendent will be relatively.
That's bullshit. Genesis was the far more capable console thanks to the blast processor. Nintendo fanboys claim the SNES could display 32,768 colors, but that's a lie from Nintendo as that many colors don't even exist. There's red, green, blue, black, white, grey, pink, orange, etc. along with some variants of those colors.
@@costumeninja1914 Two years after the Genesis, and they didn't even give it a blast processor.
The Mega Drive has technology 2 years older than that of the Snes, such a pointless argument. And wasn't the Megadrive close to being 5 years old when the game came out?
@@RetroGamesBoy78 what does that got to do with the limited palette of Mega Drive?
Damn if snes had the blood code....def smash on sega....wish i still had my snes with mk1
LIU KANG is badass
Laggy controls and no blood are what killed Mortal Kombat on the SNES.
Everything else is better.
ABACABB
SNES looked better and had better color reproduction. I owned both back then but prefered SNES
Super Nintendo and it's not even close. Super NES looks and sounds much closer to the arcade. Sega Genesis looks horrible even back then.
The Genesis had more responsive controls and of course had the blood/fatalities like the arcade. The Super Nintendo had better graphics and sound. Both were good, but I preferred the Genesis version.
The graphical differences meant nothing to me as a teen. All I cared about in this game was the blood and violence. SNES utterly disappointed me for it is not a mk game if there is no blood. ABACABB " GET OVER HERE!"
SNES: smooth but blurry
Genesis: choppy but clear
ya diferentes diferencias
The SNES was an objectively better conversion. People who have low IQs say the genesis version is better BeCauSe BLooD.. no. If you look at it from a techncial aspect, the SNES is clearly superior in sound, sprite detail and animation, as well as presentation. The only 2 things that kept it from being truly successful are the input lag, which is a huge oversight from the devs, and the lack of blood, which was not due to technical limitations, but Nintendo's boneheaded, strict family oriented software policy which prevented the devs from adding mature content to the game - which was thankfully corrected in MK2, making that the best version of the home ports by far overall. The SNES could have made a near arcade perfect port from a technical side. The Genesis could not.
The Snes version is a fairly faithful port of the Arcade in terms of visuals and sound, but the gameplay on the other hand is not, it's been messed about with, those flying kicks are different from the arcade and this completely changes how the game plays.
The Mega Drive version was far closer in terms of gameplay, and if you hold the 2 versions side by side to the arcade you realise just how much other stuff is missing from the Snes port but is included in the Mega Drive version.
@@RetroGamesBoy78 I am not talking about the gameplay. That could EASILY be fixed with tweaks. I am talking about the potential for a neer perfect arcade port. The Genesis could never have done that. It doesn't have the hardware for it.
@@HumorousLOL
With stock hardware there is no chance the SNES could replicate MK1's arcade graphics, even the Saturn and PS1 couldn't quite pull off the graphics of MK2, but maybe in the right hands they might have, but those two machines would certainly be able to pull off an arcade perfect port of MK1, but the 16bit SNES?, I mean done correctly it would be a port I'd love to get my hands on for sure, but as cool as that would be, it certainly wouldn't be graphically as close to arcade as you're thinking it might.
@@RetroGamesBoy78 It literally already did, genius. The SNES will never fully replicate it, but it comes pretty damn close already. I never said replicate, I said near perfect arcade port. The main issue is resolution, as graphically, the animations and sprites look as close to arcade as possible on SNES. As I said, the gameplay is easily fixed, which wasn't a hardware limitation, and the blood could also be added, as that was an issue with Nintendo censorship. Graphically, the SNES port is something the Genesis could never hope to achieve.
@@HumorousLOL put the Snes version next to the Arcade and then honestly say it's "pretty damn close", closer than the Mega Drive in many respects, but still a long way off as a matter of fact, and the amount of stuff that's missing from the Snes port is incredible too. For instance, the Mega Drive has 22 digitised pictures that the Snes doesn't have, how many frames of animation or sound effects might that have cost?
The recent hack of the Mega Drive version using a 32meg cart is now basically the full arcade experience in 16 bit form, even better than the Mega Cd port.
Genesis version still outsold it 2 to 1
MK1 on Genesis has a different soundtrack.
Sega of course.
I admit the SNES version is graphically superior, but the Genesis version has the blood, easier controls, and better music.
Super Nintendo
All Sega gensesis games feels stiff
SNES looks better. Sega it’s too grainy.
No contest. SNES wins hands _down_
I personally like the mega drive version
I owned both versions and the blood code was awesome and the sega was a good port! But the snes version was the winner everything felt better hell the controller felt better! Just my opinion anyways
Nope snes was a input laggy mess
@@Nobunaga1983 Also your not the first person that I seen that didn't like the input, but it never affected me or maybe didn't bother me! I personally enjoyed it more for the controller layout it was a shame they censored the first on snes! The genesis version I enjoyed also the six button controller plus blood code made the feeling closer to the arcade port helped!
Genesis version was so disappointing
В графике в мк1 лучше был сне но в м2 мк3 умк3 генесис был во всем лучше
Classic we as kids whens complaining about pixel count we just want a good port on a Sega Genesis what the Genesis have blood and a super Nintendo didn't but it's super Nintendo have better graphics than Sega Genesis all yall kids. Don't know
Good example of why graphics don't matter that much.