Mortal Kombat Trilogy (PlayStation)

The goriest soap-opera in the world does a best-of for the 32- and 64-bit era! Pity it was so broken gameplay-wise.

Unused Sprites


Alternate sprites of Goro punching.



A sprite which seems to show that Goro's fireball was gonna have at least one more animation.



Goro kneeling. Possibly meant to be used when defeated. Or perhaps it was copied from the first Mortal Kombat which had a unused kneeling animation.



Looks like there were plans to make the bosses finishable. This is a sprite of a baby Goro. Unlike other baby sprites that were used in-game this one is standing.



This is a sprite of a baby Kintaro. Unlike other baby sprites that were used in-game this one is standing.



A drill that seems to come out of the ground. Probably meant for Shao Kahn either as a special move or a finisher. There are also unused drill sprites (which don't have coming out of the ground sprites) in Mortal Kombat 3.



This is a sprite of a baby Shao Kahn. Unlike other baby sprites that were used in-game this one is standing.

Aqua
There exists a sound clip on the UK version of the game saying Aqua Wins.



A screenshot of a character named Aqua was found on the old videogames.com website, the website was later incorperated into GameSpot. Also a magazine scan from the Official UK PlayStation Magazine 1999 Beat 'em Up Special was found which talks about the character and shows a screenshot. In the article it describes him as being comical and a user of many projectiles. The sprites for the character seems to be a modified version of the ninja sprites from the original Mortal Kombat.

A ending exists online that gives the full name of "Aquilluxborg Hydroxybot" instead of just Aqua. But this ending is suspect as most characters have 3 screens of text and this one has four.

This is not the only time that Midway has snuck joke characters in games. Note the later character Mokap, a character in a motion capture suit.

As the sound file is found in the UK version of the game, and the magazine scan comes from the UK, it is likely the character was meant for UK only.

Unused Text
There are several unused text strings in the game EXE.


 * JOHNNY CAGE LOSES BIG TIME !!: Red herring left over from Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.
 * TOBIAS WINS: Presumably some sort of developer in-joke.
 * BOON WINS: Same as above. A development video may exist showing this.
 * JOHHNY CAGE TRANSFORMATION ACTIVATED: A red herring left over from Mortal Kombat 3.
 * HYPER FATALITY: Another UMK3 red herring.

Music
The music was recorded at 48 KHz, but is played back at 44.1 KHz. This makes the music sound very sluggish, and is a glaring error to anyone this game was aimed at. This error is still present in the later 1.1 revision.