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- Mortal Kombat 2 for the IBM-PC FAQ.
- FAQ revision 1
- Filename: mk2pc.v01
-
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- Intro:
-
- First off. What right to I have in writing a FAQ? None! But nobody else
- has, I wrote one! I have no inside information on the final version. If
- somebody else has solid infomation about when the final verison will be
- done and details like that, either mail me and I'll put it here, or make a
- FAQ! Please! Everyone wants to know!
-
-
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- Q: What does "detail" affect?
-
- Speed!
-
- Actually, Frames per second. It will not look different at all, except the
- animation will simply skip frames if you have it set to a lower detail.
-
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- Q: How do I configure everything?
-
- - After running the game, hit F10 to get into the setup screen.
- The game has to be in attract mode.
- - at the options screen type DIP in capitol letters. Tell me if you figure
- out what any of those do.
-
-
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- Q: What are all the controls?
- - alt-q to QUIT the game. hitting this AT ANYTIME will quit.
- - alt-p to PAUSE at anytime during the game.
- - F1 is player 1 start
- - F2 is player 2 start
-
-
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- Q: What kind of hardware do I need?
-
- The minimum is:
- - 4MB of memory
- - 386
- - DOS 5.0
- - VGA (won't use more than mode 320 X 200 X 256 anyway..)
- - A sound card if you want sound (duh!)
-
- I would recommend:
- - 8MB of memory
-
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- Q: When is the real version coming out?
-
- I have heard that the CD version will be out on 3/16/95 and the
- disk version will be out on 3/17/95.
- I will restate this in a more confident way when I can confirm this.
-
-
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- Q: How do I do XXX special move?
-
- Read the normal MK2 FAQ. It has all the moves and fatalites.
-
-
-
- **************************************************************************
- THIS SECTION IS ONLY FOR THE DEMO VERSION
- **************************************************************************
-
- Q: Where can I get the Mortal Kombat demo for the IBM-PC?
-
- site: ftp.mv.com
- directory: /pub/users/rat/mk/mk2demo.zip
-
- ( Just unzip and install )
-
- or where I got it (hopefully it will still be there):
-
- site: wuarchive.wustl.edu
- directory: /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/games/MK2DEMO
-
- ( if you unarj this version, it makes one big zipfile )
- ( This site if very busy. good luck getting in )
-
- or try:
-
- site: ftp.uwp.edu
- directory: /pub/incoming/demos
-
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- Q: I saw "goro.gra"! Is Goro really in this game??
-
- Of course not you gullible twit!
- Look in the FX/ directory. See all the sound files? Listen to these ones:
-
- gorattk.u8
- gorgwl1.u8
- gorgwl2.u8
- gorofoot.u8
- gororoar.u8
- goroung1.u8
- goroung2.u8
-
- They are all sound like Kintaro, eh? That's because it IS Kintaro!
- But common sense should tell you that Goro is not in MKII.
-
-
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- Q: It keeps crashing! What am I doing wrong?
-
- Nothing. I don't know how to fix any of these. Anyone else know? I just
- reboot, and play again. It doesn't mess up anything permanently when it
- crashes as far as I know.
-
- There are so many bugs, I won't go into them all, but here are the common
- ones.
-
- - divide overflow. crashes the game. When does it happen? Depends on
- who you ask. Some people say it's when you uppercut, other say it's
- when you are in the air.
- - can't find XXXXXXXX.GRA (where XXXXXXXX is the name of a graphic)
- This only occurs if it tries to do something that's not in the demo.
- - Sounds play too fast sometimes. Sounds like chipmunks.
-
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- Q: How do I install it?
-
- 1. Make a directory.
- 2. unzip the files into it. Don't forget pkunzip -d
- 3. run the install program in it.
-
-
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- Q: What can I do with the DEMO version?
-
- - You can't pick your character at the select screen, so you can only
- really play as Lui Kang or Reptile.
- - You can random select and play as Sub-Zero or Scorpion, but if you do
- their fatalities, it will crash. Note that you can do Scorpion's neck
- slasher fatality no problem.
- - Fatalities for Lui Kang, Reptile, and Scorpion's neck slash only.
- - No friendships
- - No babalities
- - Only stage is the Wasteland.
- - Sound sounds like it was just copied right from the game.
-
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- Q: I noticed that the sounds all have a .u8 extension, what's that?
-
- I don't know!
- If you want to convert them, here's what you will need to know:
-
- - 8 bit
- - 22kHz or 11kHz (it varies from sound to sound)
- - signed values
-
-
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- Q: Does the demo contain sounds that are only actually used in the demo?
-
- Nope, all the sounds are there. Even the ones that can't possibly be used
- in the demo, like announcer saying "Friendship". ALL OF THEM.
-
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- Q: Is there a place I can download all the sounds from the MK2 demo?
-
- Yes! At my ftp site: (I bet you felt that one coming)
-
- site: ftp.mv.com
- directory: /pub/users/rat/mk/sounds/mk2sounds/
-
-
- ================================== END ===================================
- rat@rat.mv.com
- (please send corrections if I was wrong about anything)
-