Alright, Alright, Alright... I just fought (and beat) Jade (Finally) and I have developed what I hope to be a semi-idiot proof way of unlocking the Jade fight...
After trying all day to get the damn fight to unlock, here's what I did...
I saw on TRMK a link where someone reported the way to fight her was to perform a fatality on everyone before Shang Tsung... and to double flawless Shang and perform a fatality, while not losing a single fight/round. That knowledge in hand... I played a little bit of trickery on the game...
Basically, if you win a match, but then pause it and go back to the character select screen... it doesn't count as a loss. In other words: If you quit back to the character select screen before the words "finish him" it does count as a loss. If you do it after "Finish Him!" but before the fight truly ends, it's not counted against you, and you can repeat the fight...
That said... any fight before Shang where I f'ed up the fatality... I immediately paused it and quit back to the character select screen. Repicked. Refought. Did it again until I got the fatality off...
Then ON Shang... same basic thing. Any time he got a hit off on me, I'd continue the fight and win... but after the words "Finish Him" popped, I'd pause it, quit back to the character select, and start over...
This way, I was able to perform a fatality on everyone, as well as double flawless & fatality Shang... without having any lost rounds or fights counted against me. (Incase that matters, and I suspect it does.)
And happy day, using this method, I did eventually double flawless Shang, performed a fatality on him, and happy day... the Jade fight unlocked.
I'll note, just for any curious parties... if you unlock the Jade fight, after Shang the game will IMMEDIATELY go to a load screen for Goro's lair. It will NOT go back to the ladder and show it moving up to Goro/Kintaro. It goes straight to the load screen. (This is similar to the way the Reptile fight goes immediately to the Pit Bottom load screen)
Just for the sake of misc info... Kintaro was the sub boss on this particular ladder. I did NOT flawless every round before Shang Tsung (though did happen to flawless a few). I DID win every round. I performed a normal fatality on every character (No stage fatalities or bablities), and as stated, if at any point I screwed up, I reset the fight using the method described above. I switched characters several times (quitting back to character select allowed me to do so, apparently without penalty) Used mostly Cyrax and Scorpion, spamming their 4-hit x button combos on Shang to get the flawless. I was on Beginner difficulty for easy wins. And finally, here were my final stats after completing arcade mode...
Total time: 27:39
Difficulty: Beginner
Fastesst Match: 25 Seconds
Matches lost: 0
Rounds lost: 0
Flawless Victories: 23
Total Damage Recieved: 1603%
Longest Kombo: 6 hits
Total Koins Awarded: 32395
Fatalities Performed: 8
I'll note that when I GOT to Shang Tsung, only about 7 minutes had elapsed... the other 20 came from me restarting the fight in an effort to flawless him. Same goes for all those extra flawless victories and koins. Those came from fighting and refighting Shang several times. (I would occasionally flawless him the first round, but fail the second round.)
Also final note: Having now beaten all 4 secret bosses... I can confirm that it unlocked absolutely nothing. My xbox gamertag is also Gillbob316 if you'd care to look my achievements up and verify that I'm not lying. :P
Oh, furthermore, I beat them all on the first try. Noob was the hardest. I had to use that cheap block/uppercut method you may have seen in some of the videos to kill him. The other three I just fought the same as I would any other fighter without problems. They're just a bit faster and more aggressive.
Beat Jade and Noob with Cyrax. Smoke with Scorpion. Reptile with Sheeva.
And THAT... is every last bit of information I have on this damn subject... lol...
Happy Jade hunting folks. Hope this method works out for the rest of ya'll...
