Mortal Kombat II (Arcade)

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Mortal Kombat 2
Developer: Midway Publisher: Midway Platform: Arcade (Midway T-Unit) Released in US: November 1, 1993 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden development-related text.

The second incarnation of everyone's favorite slasher/soap opera. More characters! More gore! More -alities!

Red Herrings

Audits

In the test menu there is an audit screen that lists several statistics that the game keeps track of. Some of these don't actually do anything and never go up, being there simply to stir shit up among the game's fanbase and stir up rumors and hype.

• Shawn Attacks: Who knows? Doesn't seem to be any Shawns listed in the credits.
• Kano Transformations: Kano is present in the game, but solely as a background element. Either this was a scrapped hidden character, a scrapped hidden Shang Tsung fatality (ala the Kintaro one), or it was added solely to mess with people.

Win Text

The following win text is located on ROM chips ug12/uj12 (interleaved) starting at 0x04832. They were most likely put in as a joke.

KANO WINS
SONYA WINS
TANYA WINS
ERMAC WINS
ED BOON WINS
JOHN TOBIAS WINS
MARK TURMELL WINS
SAL DIVITA WINS

Unused Audits & Debug Text

Text for an inaccessble debug menu begins at 0x480F6:

REVISION 3.1
MORTAL KOMBAT 2 
EJB MENU
HELLO
ENTER INITIALS

CHARACTER ENDINGS
KUNG LAO
LIU KANG
CAGE
BARAKA
KITANA
MILEENA
SHANG TSUNG
RAIDEN
SUB-ZERO
REPTILE
SCORPION
JAX

There are a number of unused audits in the game. Audit text starts at 0x491FC:

SEC CHIP FAILURE
SYSTEM LOCKUPS
ILLEGAL OPCODES
   S TAKEN
DOOR SLAMS

Greetings

A list of greetings to various people can be found at 0x481BE

HELLO TO....

MOM
FRANK
SONIA
MIKE
EIDIE
TANIA
MILAGROS
FIFA
SEAN
JASON
RAMON
CLARA
ALEX

MICHELLE
DAVE
NIGEL
MARTHA
MARY
KENT
CHRIS
MATTHEW
AMY
ALLISON
BRIAN
EMILY
ED

ODILE
NENE
DANIEL
ERIC
ALAN
ODETTE
OLGA
BUELLE
GEORGE
AMANDA

Oddities

Forgotten Logo

Johnny Cage was filmed wearing Otomix brand athletic pants with a very visible logo. Most of the sprites had this edited out, but when doing Shang Tsung's soul steal fatality, it can still be seen briefly before his corpse withers away. Obviously they just forgot to edit this out, as the sprite is only seen in that one specific fatality.