Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (UMK3)

[EWAShock]

Does anyone else experience some static-like audio when running umk3 in mame32 64? It runs fine, but at times the audio gets so static its almost unbearable… Any help would be greatly appreciated. Im using a pair of headphones plugged into a X-fi sound card (which works flawlessly with everything else)

It’s because of the emulation refresh rate not matching the monitor frequency or something to that effect, as they emulated it too perfectly I guess. The newer MAME’s don’t have this problem, you won’t be able to do anything about 32k64

[Tomatous]

I see… now I won’t stress over it. Thank you

[ninjagrinder]

Heyo, with the current mk9 hype and my recent registration to the site, I want to share my experiences with the mk series.

Midway was based out of Chicago. That’s where I grew up. From 92-97 I visited the arcades frequently. I grew up in Rogers Park, a part of the city of Chicago. “Diversions” was the closest, and by far, the largest arcade establishment in the local vicinity. My brother, and about 3 closest buddies walked or biked to Diversions almost daily during the warm months. I was 11 at the time. Occasionally we brought along a few bucks, but usually we went there penniless. Not the best of the Chicago areas; our apartment was broken into twice, and we caught a random fucker at our third event…, but I digress.

Eventually MK3 was released. Ahh good memories. I remember huge mobs of people around the MK3 cabinet on its opening release. I remember myself: a little 12 year old chap dropping my golden token on the cabinet’s TV screen and watching and hearing it quickly slide down the glass. The token would then join an assembly line of at least 10 other tokens, a lengthy queue of a line. Eventually I would get my turn and play with the teen big boys lol, although the players were of diverse ages.

UMK3 and Wavenet followed. Wavenet cabinets were connected by T1 lines throughout participating arcades in the Chicago area. I am not sure whether other states had Wavenet machines. Apparently rumors circulate that the elusive Rain was included in that version. (The SNES port had Rain, maybe Genesis too, but I am discounting those shitty ports).

From my personal experience of actually playing a real Wavenet machine back in t day, I can say that Rain WAS NOT PLAYABLE in that version. You simply chucked down your quarters/tokens hit Start, used to joystick to pick your name, and then you were connected to a live person playing somewhere else in Chicago. I remember picking robo-hobo Smoke and destroying people and getting like 10 wins in a row because a lot of the players did not know how to execute the simple throw prevention inputs (simply hold back/ back+block / down+back / down+back+block for standing/crouching evasion/block. If only they knew they were losing to a Smoke/Kabal/Nightwolf-using 12 year old kid lol.

I apologize for the lengthy post, hope it was informative and possibly cleared up any unanswered questions. One thing to note is that MK was always known to include easter eggs/codes. Perhaps there was some secret code. If there was, I haven’t seen it. I doubt it, however, since the game attracted such massive crowds, at least someone would’ve known. And initially all game info, was shared by word of mouth, which spread faster than information obtained from a gaming magazine. Although, I do remember writing down fatalities and combos from AOL files back in the day and sharing those with 20 yr old dudes lol.

This was a nice post. I want some more back-in-the-day mk stories as well. Like Ghaleon said “BTW any more OG stories about MK you guys have, please share so people know more about the history of the game.”

[Shoryu_Reppa]

Wait so the button setup on a 6 button layout is

[hp] [rn] [hk]
[lp ] [bl] [lk]

right?

[ninjagrinder]

I’ve played like this:

[hp] [bl] [hk]
[lp ] [rn] [lk]

since 1996, but also the original lay out. It’s just the original cabinets got extincted. Back in the day I could play on both lay outs. Even on some other bizarre ones lol, like

[bl] [hp] [hk]
[rn] [lp] [lk]

[lp] [bl] [lk]
[lhp] [rn] [hk]

wtf?? ajajajaja

But nowadays I just can play like on my 1st example.

[Shoryu_Reppa]

good shit, thanks

[Helter_Skelter]

On the 360 version of the game is there anyway to save the Kombat Kode unlocks?
I hate having to do all that shit to get Mileena up.

[Tim_Static]

On the 360 version of the game is there anyway to save the Kombat Kode unlocks?
I hate having to do all that shit to get Mileena up.

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[RoGE9]

Double again lol

[Shoryu_Reppa]

that’s fucking crazy.

i hope they re-port UMK3 with a button config and a legit save system >_<

But they probably won’t just like Capcom probably won’t port Third Strike until they REALLY have to.

[Tim_Static]

why the hell is everything i post a double post?

[Shoryu_Reppa]

why the hell is everything i post a double post?

The only real way to avoid that shit (that I know of) is to just always “Go Advanced” when you post something. Really annoying extra step, but it beats going back and deleting the double post.

It doesn’t really happen much anymore to most people, but I think what might be going on is that since you’re a mod, you don’t get the whole “You cannot post another comment yet-- wait 15 more seconds” thing that everyone else gets. That might be how they got around it for us “regular people”.

I could be straight up wrong tho. That’s just an idea.

But yeah, “going advanced” might solve the issue.

[graveyard]

The only real way to avoid that shit (that I know of) is to just always “Go Advanced” when you post something. Really annoying extra step, but it beats going back and deleting the double post.

It doesn’t really happen much anymore to most people, but I think what might be going on is that since you’re a mod, you don’t get the whole “You cannot post another comment yet-- wait 15 more seconds” thing that everyone else gets. That might be how they got around it for us “regular people”.

Ha! Ive been wondering about that!

[Tim_Static]

The only real way to avoid that shit (that I know of) is to just always “Go Advanced” when you post something. Really annoying extra step, but it beats going back and deleting the double post.

It doesn’t really happen much anymore to most people, but I think what might be going on is that since you’re a mod, you don’t get the whole “You cannot post another comment yet-- wait 15 more seconds” thing that everyone else gets. That might be how they got around it for us “regular people”.

I could be straight up wrong tho. That’s just an idea.

But yeah, “going advanced” might solve the issue.

Thanks homie!

[Shoryu_Reppa]

Thanks homie!

No prob. :tup:

Oh and I talked to Shock. We just gotta set a time and date and we can get this shit ROLLIN :rock:

[Tim_Static]

yea i told him to check his PMs lol

[LuckyDay]

snip.

Not at all related to your post, but I think I played you last night on XBL and you kicked my ass.

I’m sort of relieved to hear that you’re actually a long time player and not just some random. I have only been playing UMK for 5 days and I thought I was getting better and that was pretty demoralizing, lol.

ggs.

[zafo999]

I’m trying to look more into competitive UMK3. I haven’t touched the game in a decade but I’m getting more and more interested in it all the time and I love seeing it on streams. From what I understand, there are significant differences between all the different ports and versions and stuff. Which version is considered the tournament standard today? Like, if I wanted to get into playing it seriously, am I firing up MAME or XBLA or what?

[Blaise]

Check the first couple of pages, not sure how you could miss it. MAME UMK3 rev 1.2. Or play on the arcade cabinet :nunchuck:

[Dracula_X]

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