O código-fonte de Mortal Kombat II vazou online, o que rapidamente levou a comunidade a descobrir muitos arquivos contendo animações cortadas e sprites do desenvolvimento do jogo.
O usuário do Twitter, Pegasus Kid, começou a documentar essas descobertas e compartilhá-las com um contexto adicional sobre como os materiais não utilizados provavelmente seriam usados.
Enterrado entre os arquivos, há um sprite Fatality não utilizado para Shao Kahn que é apenas um punho gigante descendo dos céus. Este aparentemente foi encontrado no jogo base, embora não com tantos detalhes.
Quanto a outros ataques, há um combo incompleto para Kung Lao, algum tipo de giro para Kitana, uma animação chamada “Short Zap” para Raiden e muito mais. Há até mesmo um Acid Spit no ar para Reptile e um sprite de Scorpion com pele azul com um propósito atualmente desconhecido.
The MK1 Knee! I wonder why this one wasn't used, in the original MK2 he just did one kick, however strangely enough Baraka had a feature for a double kick mini-kombo, I wonder if he was meant to have something like that as well… pic.twitter.com/qH8RsN8XJ3
— Pegasus Kid (@annoyingdog322) December 27, 2022
And another interesting thing to note here, is that these sprites actually still have the "Otomix" logo! I wonder if these could be used to restore the original Cage look in maybe… MK2+?
— Pegasus Kid (@annoyingdog322) December 27, 2022
And the mysterious Terracotta Soldiers from The Tower in their source quality! Not a single recreation of them got right the detail that their eyes were supposed to be glowing green, hehehe… pic.twitter.com/cnJGgE6fNo
— Pegasus Kid (@annoyingdog322) December 27, 2022
And as a bonus round… Shao Kahn's big hand from a scrapped fatality where he would put his hand in a portal and it would come out of the top of the screen, crushing P2! This one was messed up in the original sprite rips for the game, now not anymore! pic.twitter.com/HA8tf7Avzc
— Pegasus Kid (@annoyingdog322) December 27, 2022
#3 – A scrapped kombo sequence for Kung Lao, doesn't make much sense, probably missing some frames? pic.twitter.com/Kme2H9RPnI
— Pegasus Kid (@annoyingdog322) December 27, 2022
#5 An incredibly weird blue-skinned palette for Scorpion is in the ninjas' files, idk what they meant by this… pic.twitter.com/u3HbXICBcP
— Pegasus Kid (@annoyingdog322) December 27, 2022
Extra frame for Reptile's Forceball, for the end of the animation. pic.twitter.com/OTFoinEJcz
— Pegasus Kid (@annoyingdog322) December 27, 2022
#8 A beast-like walk for Kintaro was found! Thanks to @ermaccer for his awesome extracting tool! pic.twitter.com/GWw0ahjVeH
— Pegasus Kid (@annoyingdog322) December 27, 2022
There's also a double knee animation for Liu in the files! pic.twitter.com/bDUzgdgREu
— Pegasus Kid (@annoyingdog322) December 27, 2022
#11 Kitana's Spin found! I think this one was meant for her fatality or possibly a scrapped fan-spin special move? pic.twitter.com/VvipPwPrML
— Pegasus Kid (@annoyingdog322) December 27, 2022
#13 Shang Tsung's Roundpunch found! Another kombo string probably? pic.twitter.com/xtQFSVgWGf
— Pegasus Kid (@annoyingdog322) December 27, 2022
You can find all the sprites in here for download:https://t.co/nsa9YXoMDV
Have fun everyone, if anyone knows how I could give these to one of the Cutting Room Floor admins or another place for beta stuff, please tell me!
— Pegasus Kid (@annoyingdog322) December 27, 2022
