Meanwhile MK1 on Switch: “Yeah this is unplayable, ship it at full price.”

@nmbr4lizard524

5 ай бұрын

Not true

@kdlsimondistefan47

4 ай бұрын

On one hand, yeah the port was a month short of being finished, on the other hand, the game if anything was perfectly playable, only that without invasions

@TheSixteen60

2 ай бұрын

How about Steam Deck? Any better or worse?

6:13 This is cooler than what they did on the main console version, it never made sense to fight them separately, having them in an endurance fight would've been unique

@RoyArkon

5 ай бұрын

I mean it's great that they did for the GBA games but fighting them separately was still perfectly fine too.

The real gamer competitive way of playing Mortal Kombat

@bigbangbot-SuperSqank

5 ай бұрын

For real though, it is still interesting to think about what the theoretical meta for the game could look like. Things like tier lists and such.

Another thing with DA/TE, if you connect them together, they can actually play but only with Scorpion, Shang Tsung, and Quan Chi.

@guywhoateallthepizza1031

3 ай бұрын

The tier list would go crazy

"Shujinko, can you help me?" PAWNCH

When I had a PSP handed down from a friend, I spent HOURS playing Chess Kombat in Unchained under my covers as I should've been sleeping for school the next day. Super fond memories of that game.

You should totally do Hsu Ho competitive history for April fools

When my dad traveled to the US in 2003, he brought home with him a Gameboy Advance SP, with two games, one of them was Tekken Advance and the other was Mortal Kombat Tournament Edition, nowadays people might look at games like these as cheap and outdated, but a lot of them were probably born after these games were released, so they couldn't possibly understand how impressive these games were for their time, the funny thing is, I got Tournament Edition technically before I had Deadly Alliance and Deception on the PS2, so this was my first experience with 3D MK, to this day, I find Tournament Edition to be a very fun and nostalgic experience, I think it has aged relatively well for what it is.

@JoemamaTheHybrid

5 ай бұрын

I've never played GBA Tekken but Dark Resurrection and 6 on PSP are both still solid for handheld fighters and mind blowing for the time

@vahlok1426

5 ай бұрын

Tekken Advance is stupidly impressive for the time. Its basically as close to a 1-to-1 port of Tekken 3 on strikingly inferior hardware as they could get, and limited to two face buttons and L & R. All that, and it still manages to not only look great for the system, but also feel like a legit Tekken game. A massive achievement for the team responsible IMO, for sure.

The beauty of the gba ports (from a gameplay point of view) is the juggle system; almost every character can launch the opponent with a simple jump kick or standing punch and then you can juggle with whatever you want. It's a lot of fun when you start experimenting with moves, specials and weapons, and the endurance mode is definitely a nice challenge too. Both games deserve more love tbh.

MK Trilogy for PS1, Saturn, N64 and PC came out in 96/97, so it was the first console exclusive MK. Deadly Alliance came out five years later!

Nook saibot is sub zero... so technically he's in it

@RoyArkon

5 ай бұрын

LOL yeah, one of the two brothers must be in every MK game perhaps.

Something I found very cool about MKDA and MKTE for the GBA is that the games were MEANT to be played together via the Link cable. Both games feature their own Krypts, but some Koffins in MKDA require Ruby coins, which don't exist in the game, and MKTE let's you use both Ruby and Gold Koins, but you mostly only get the former ones. So in order to unlock everything in both games you actually need to wager koins of both colors using crossplay between them.

Unchained and MK9 were my go to handheld Mortal Kombats. Such fun on road trips!

Fun fact: MK Unchained came on PSP after MK Armageddon was released on home consoles despite being an iteration of MK Deception, and with the exception of Jax, all the chars that were exclusive to MKU had their Arcade mode endings being fully canon and they explained events that happened between MKD and MKA. Oh and BTW there's one more MK handheld game, that's Ultimate MK which was a UMK3 port for the Nintendo DS.

Fun fact: Tournament Edition isn't the only MK game to be missing Sub-Zero. The other one would be MK Trilogy on the Tiger Gamecom. That version is also missing Scorpion as well strangely. Another odd version of MK for you to look up if you're ever really, really bored. Great vid my friend.

@PNDKM

5 ай бұрын

I made a video on Trilogy ports, so you can find that vid already :D

I grew up with the portable games on GBA. It was my intro to the series, and I used to love playing them periodically throughout the summer at a friend's house. Another really cool 3D fighter that was put on the GBA was Tekken, and THAT game is incredible. Highly recommend anyone to check it out

I was literally just playing deadly alliance gba, weird seeing this now lol

Yo I just wanted to thank you guys for being a blessing to this community. An almost 20 minute video essay on such a niche thing like gameboy 3d mk is the type of hardcore deep cut content that I love in communities. Like I can tell you really care about the community, more than most. You guys are goated, thank you :D

I somehow missed the end part, oops! Oooo, I can't wait to see if/when a MK9 Vita video drops!

when I was a kid, I picked up tournament edition used for real cheap thinking "MK on the GBA? I wonder which classic game they ported?" only to see that it was a deadly alliance port. I only knew it was deadly alliance because my cousin had it for ps2. I found it surprisingly enjoyable all the same. Of course as a kid I never broke the game in a competitive aspect, I would just look for a character's best combos or button and spam it.

My first introduction to mortal kombat

Great video. It's also worth mentioning that there's a version of UMK3 on ds which I think would be interesting for you to cover on here as I feel it gets overlooked and I remember being really bad at it as a kid

@waverazor

5 ай бұрын

Umk3 ds is a direct port of umk3

@TheGamingGeezer

5 ай бұрын

@@waverazor Yeah but it does include the puzzle combat

First time I played MKDA and MKTE I was absolutely impressed.

There is also UMK3 on the Nintendo DS that has Puzzle Kombat as an addition, the main feature is the top screen as a sort of cheat sheet, having all of the special moves and finishers for the character you're playing. Although I don't know how different the game is from other versions, it just seems like UMK3 and Puzzle Kombat on the go

@goldskarr

5 ай бұрын

UMK3 has no difficulty select aside from the towers, if you count that. And puzzle kombat has you unlock characters the old fashioned way, since there's no Krypt. That's about all I can think of right now. Yes. AI Jade is still a fucking nightmare.

15:56-15:58 Shujunko: "Ok. Bye....."

I remember playing deadly alliance gba good times. I remember playing it in 2016 I think I found a Scorpion infinite using hellfire relaunch into spear into another launcher rinse and repeat.

Great video, now I wanna hear your thoughts on Vita's MK9, I personally loved it

I remember getting DA on the GBA and being BLOWN AWAY with the visuals. Yes, it looks muddy AF, but the animation is nuts! Great video as always, dudes.

A few days ago I was introduced to character mods for MK1, and that was all I needed to confidently know that the folks behind it understand system design and good coding patterns.

I’m kinda surprised that he didn’t talk about umk3 on the DS

@XxXAntiJoshXxX

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I was waiting for it. It was the main way I played UMK3 for a long time.

@PNDKM

5 ай бұрын

The video is called "Portable 3D MK"

Just a week ago I watched your video on mk4 on gameboy

I remember as a kid I played mk9 on the ps vita. At least from memory I remember it running very and basically was direct port. Although that was many many years ago.

i dont want to go back to the past and remember the "good old days". nrs need to take what works and THINGS WE LOVE AND make the BEST NEXT GEN GAME for the future PLZ!

Mk1 on sega game gear was my very first time playing MK

I still play mk unchained to this day. Bought it for my psp then downloaded the digital version for my vita. My second favorite portable mk game with mk9 for the vita being my number one.

Had this as a kid. Got it from Heathrow airport. 😅

Massively underrated game Tournament Edition is. Gave us really cool skins, I'll never forget Reaper Scorpion

omg the deadly alliance on gba was eliteeee

So Unchained is the last patched version of deception. Did it fix the broken mechanics from the console version? I think its interesting to test

When i learned there was a psp section on the vita store. First thing i looked for was... Def Jam. There was anpsp version but it wasnt on the store sadly. Second thing i looked for was Unchained and it was like ten bucks. For such a massive title both literally and for my younger days, thats an absolute steal. So fucking good.

I played MK Unchained for the first time in 2023 and it is an awesome port!

Thank goodness I watched this. I didn't know unchained was a port but i have it on my modded vita. Perfect along with mk9

@completelymuted5976

5 ай бұрын

Lol and as a person who only had the vita port of mk9 until I finally got it on ps3 like 2 months ago. It completely works. Ik It might had bad graphics but it held together perfectly imo.

Original product and other systems to improve on the game of a great game back in the day

Looking forward to MK9 on Vita! Although capturing that, unless it's PSTV, is gonna be tricky

Glad MK and Tekken were able to improve on the smaller consoles.

FYI there do exist GBA emulators that let you play link cable multiplayer locally- it just brings up two emulation sessions side by side

You have inspired me to get a PsP so I can play MK Unchained

no one mentions the mk3u ds port

Not really from a handheld console but I wonder if the old UMK3 for old iphones and ipod touch is floating around on the internet somewhere. It had a bit of jank to it and was entirely redone with 3d models, that and it was kinda tough controlling on a touch screen.

@TheGamingGeezer

5 ай бұрын

There was also a umk3 version on ds

I bought a PSP for 2 games; Megaman Maverick Hunter X & Mortal Kombat Unchained

I often think Deception could have worked on DS using similar techniques to DA and TE. I feel it would have benefitted from the DS' capability to render 3D environments much better than a GBA

These games were low key fun.

I picked up Tournament Edition as a kid expecting MK Advance and was initially disappointed because I wanted 2d MK but I ended up loving TE; looking back I'm VERY happy I made this mistake, I clearly ended up with the much better game 😂

I was hoping you'd mention tournament edition is the only mk port to not have subby in it. ❤❤ I bought both gba mk5 ports a few years ago. I've played them via emulators before, but it's nice to have actual copies. I bought my friends psp because she had unchained. I lived in a very very rural area with no car so I'm like, dude money talks. 😅 The models of unchained were so silly sometimes.

i love content about the old school portable consoles (especially the psp and ps vita for me personally), and in particular the most fascinating thing is demakes of main console games such as max payne or the famously shite medal of honor gba game. great informative video and it reminded me of one of the other great retro game you tube coverers which is minimme who has a bunch of really interesting video's about gRapHiCAllY imPreSsiVe gba games and polygonal sprites and the like

I thought the GBA games were technically impressive but not fun to actually play, but Unchained was something I actually preferred on the go. At home, I found 3D MK to be super jank next to VF and Tekken but on the go, to be playing a fully fledged Deception Plus on a handheld was an amazing feat. I know PSP relied too heavily on "home game but it's portable" but some of it was genuinely impressive to have around

If you link the GBA Deadly Alliance and Tournament Edition, I believe the characters cross fames for Multiplayer

This is why DA is the GOAT.

NRS really missed the opportunity to just have an original spinoff handheld series called Portable Kombat

Kinda wish we'd gotten a 3d MK Game on the DS, even if it was another port of the ps2/GC games. Also if you go by a massive technicallity sub-zero is still in tournament edition, just not as the current holder of the title

The first console exclusive was deadly alliance? Wouldn't it be Trilogy?

the only mortal kombat games i ever played were these two expect mk unchained.

you gotta also talk about MK1 portable lol (switch)

I swear MK9 was on the PSP too, am I just making that up? Anyone else remember that?

I wonder if there's any chance the GBA games can link up against each other to play with "the whole roster" more or less

Just food for thought, you can get GBA multiplayer working on emulator by opening said emulator multiple times and have the apps run the same game.

❤😍Unchained my beloved😍❤

@doomdoomerson6524

4 ай бұрын

That's how I feel about the 2 GBA Games

TBH I think MKDA on GBA is one of the best achievements on the system. It's very solid and shockingly playable. Guilty Gear X, SFZ3 and Tekken Advance are all games that really show what the GBA can do.

Why nobody made a DA hackrom Where they include all the characters in a single game, including the Tournament edition extras?

Could you do a video on the RIDICULOUSLY buggy versions of Mortal Kombat 3 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on the 16-bit Mega Drive and SNES?

The roster from Deadly Alliance is way better than Tournament Edition imo. I wanted it so bad back when I was a kid. Maybe I'll get it now that I got my own money 😂

in other words frost was the meta

WASSUP ✌🏾

what happened to "competitive history " of characters? Those videos were so interesting...

I think GBA emulators support link cable over the Internet now

Can't wait for the video on the switch ports of MK11 and MK1.

Based

How do these have more content than MK1

@RoyArkon

5 ай бұрын

False, MK1 has more content than any of these.

10:25 *Laughs in Russian*

Another great video but dayum that background music was awful and distracting 😅

Nah that test you sight was rigged lol

5:16 Wow, Kung Lao said trans rights

3 comments already? you bet I'm gonna say First anyway