Exactly

I know that the Ermac glitch happened because I've seen it before.
iIf the machine had a problem then when you fight Reptile in the pit it will come up ERMAC wich stands for error macro. But I'm not sure about skarlet.I don't think she is real

I know that it didn't happen because you are lying.

I'm not lying.All he is in the mk1 game is a mix of scorpion and sub zero.I thought that he was the actual person until I saw other things about the glitch.if you look at the mk wharehouse they have sprites of him.

And those sprites are fake ;

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The spites only take one goddamn command in Paint to be recolored. MK warehouse houses alot of sprites that are recolored and remade. Also, the probability of Error Macro is 0%. MK is written in either Delphi or TurboPas-cal (for a start). Use the spacebar between sentences too.

No macro's can possibly interact with the graphics. Therefore it is a comp-lete PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY to have Ermac as a glitch, or any other kind of graphical disorder appear at random array loads. This means that, there
never was, and never were and never be any graphical glitches called Er-mac or Scarlett in MK.

Also, any kind of mixture of Scorpion and Sub-Zero MUST be done on PUR-POSE, else the bytes won't load. There is no mathemathical chance of that happening. What you stated simply CAN'T BE TRUE as an Error Macro.

You argument holds absolutely no ground. The glitched Sonya in the Genesis MK1 (which we ALL know exists) isn't in the code anywhere, but it DOES exist. That very glitch is a complete rebuttal to ALL of your logic.

I am not saying Ermac exists. I don't know if he does or doesn't, just like the rest of you, you guys don't know if he exists or doesn't either just like me. Saying that he is definitely a joke holds no ground. Prove it. I can't prove that the glitch exists, so I won't say that it does. At the same rate, you can't prove the glitch doesn't exist so you can't say it doesn't exist. However, if a glitched Sonya can appear in the Genesis MK1, why is it so hard to believe that a red glitch instead of a green glitch exists in the Arcade? Who knows. I don't know. It might or it might not.

And besides, talking about lying, someone here said something about "tearing through the game in delphi". That's a complete BS lie. you CANNOT tear through it in Delphi unless the developers give you the code. When you compile a program, or game or whatever, its compiled into machine code, therefore tearing through it in delphi has NO FREAKING EFFECT. Please don't claim to be a programmer because this logic is false and is a lie to support something you know nothing about.

Thank you for your time.

The sonya glitch is easily explainable. Its not random at all. You go through the steps to fight Reptile, you get Reptile. You do it again, it loads up the next character in the ladder the same way it loads reptile, you get Retarded green sonya, or someone else.

Personally I think those were intentionally done just for fun anyway, but even if they weren't, they are cases where there is a fairly obvious explanation.

And lets not forget that people have seen the Sonya glitch, photographed it, its extremely common. Just like the Glitched goro that used Raidens pallet. They all make perfect sense. But, Ermac makes no sense. If there was a glitch that made a ninja that had sub and scorps moves and was one of their colors or his colors were messed because they used another characters pallet that would make some sense. But red, no. Ermac displayed on screen, no.

Also, I don't think any of the 2D MKs games were written in a high level language like Delphi or Turbo Pascal. It was most likely written in assembly. If you look at the making of MK3 video you will see a clip of a screen that is displaying the assembly code for the game.

It does.

The Sonya glitch-thing is only found on Genesis, if thats correct. Explain then why is it specific only on genesis? Very simple. Genesis has that error very well, it uses a different layer format to be compatible with the hardware and therefore it can be considered an error. OK nothing wrong with thast, but thats not an error macro. It's just a overlooked error in software. I never experienced anything like that on the PC version and on emulated hardwares. So it can't be a rebuttal of my logic in semantic meaning. Or any other if you think about it.

Error macro as stated on the pictures and news CANNOT exists as pos-sible, becouse the fake picture clearly showed it written out with an in-ga-me format. If an error would occure, most possibly it will appear as a terminal promt overriding the graphics. It is not, so it's clear it has been done on purpose. That way it cannot exist as a glitch.

I never claimed to be a programmer, please don't put any accusations or false statements into my mouth and pay attention to context. I am not yet a programer, but I have degree in linguistic semantics, so please don't argu-e over your own misderivated words (-put it simple: you had no idea what you just wrote becouse it had flawed deduction in the first place). And when did I suggegst that "I" tore throuh it via Delphi? Thank you.

Ermac does not exist.

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How many decades have to pass before we can finally be done with this? We can't say it's fake because there's no proof it doesn't exist? If we had to go through that with every topic we'd get no where.

Not arguing for Ermac or anything, but there would be no "terminal" style prompt because there is no terminal style interface to the game. Also there is nothing explicitly saying error macros can't have some kind of graphical result. Some games have error macros that cause in game graphics to change or appear. There was a game famous for its error macro (forget the name) where triggering it brought you to a special playable section of game.

This doesn;t change the fact that Ermac is not in the game. A red ninja is as likely as a neon purple raiden.

Thank you.

OK, I shall correct the vague lines of mine. The macro as itself has no-thing to do with graphics. can partake in graphics realted runs however. BUT, as error macro stated on that picture CAN'T exist.

Every game must have terminal readouts if it crashes (the black stripe with the readout concerning the break. If not the/a stripe, than the whole picture. )

Smash TV.

Wasn't it revealed that Error Macro was put in the audits because of Smash TV? Like some of the other audit jokes in later MK games? Also my and DreemerNJ's friend The Prophet said to me a couple years ago he remembers there was a later EGM that stated the Ermac glitch was a hoax.

Don't forget about the elaborate effort that was put forth even before this for Sheng Long in SFII as an April Fool's joke.

It is completely boggles my mind how people can care and still ask questions, it seems as if the people who are instigating aren't even as old as the rumor.

Boon and Roger Sharpe brought up Smash TV in Gamepro when talking about Ermac. Boon said it was something he put in the game where the game corrects itself if there is a fatal error. He said nothing at all about a ninja, red or any color, or fighting a character named Ermac.

I doubt it was a joke. At that point the whole mystique about MK being mysterious wasn't around so there would be no reason to try to fool the fans and it was in there before they had added the real hidden character Reptile. I am not a programmer but I am guessing it's either something VERY simple like a program that just reboots the game or something that was removed before the game actually shipped.

It's easy to see why this has such legendary status. People simply want to believe. It's a very cool myth. The idea of this ultra rare secret character or glitch is a perfect fit for MK's beloved "mysterious and cryptic" image. There is such an obsession and uproar over secrets in this series that fans are conditioned to expect tons and tons of hidden crap in each game. Just look at the "Super Unlockables" debable. Fans want there to be hidden stuff to look for and will do what it takes to make it happen even if there isn't much to show for it in actual game content.

Plus there's so much misinformation thrown around the MK community. How many times have we seen someone claim Ed Boon said it was real? In fact the very interview I just brought up from Gamepro is often cited as proof it's real....even tough he did NOT say that. There's countless versions of this story and I can see how someone new would have trouble knowing what to believe. So many people have their own story about Ermac it probably all just blends together. For every person pointing out that there's no basis for this there's 20 going "omg yeah my friend once saw a red scorpion that said error macro. its true I swear".

There is a glitch in mk3 (and umk3?) when you are playing as sheeva and do a few specific things (I forget what, too many glitches recently) and it causes the background to freakout and the game to reset. That could be an error macro. A fatal error occurs because of a known issue in the game and the game freaks out for a second and then resets. That's all an error macro would really need to do. Do a few commands to clear out any memory that needs clearing and then trigger a restart. It takes no time to do and has no weirdly romanticized outcomes.

How come everyone thinks Ermac is in MK1 but out of the millions and millions of players over the last 13 years no one has EVER found him.
People find secrets VERY fast. Boon and Tobias thought Smoke,Jade,Noob, and Reptile would take 2-3 months to find and it took the fans 3 weeks(They mentioned this in the Malibu MK comic of the 90s)
And STILL 13 years later NO ONE has found him, no one has proof except for badly done photoshop pictures. No one has proof for Skarlett,Torch( we know him as Blaze now, because 'Torch' belonged to Marvel comics.)Watchdog,Hornbuckle,Keebler Elves or the other random MK2 garbage so lets get this straight.ERMAC DOES NOT EXIST IN MK1

Hey Chrome, I may have agreed about Smoke being a supierior MK bot, but the Ermac thing? I believe it. If he never appered in the game, where the hell did they get the idea for him to be a playable character in UMK3?

Eb Boon where are you when we need ya man?
LOL

The idea of a red ninja named ermac has been around since people made it up back in the days of MK1. It was a rumor that circulated amongst enough gamers to make it worth while for them to act on it and create a bit more hype about the game. Plus, the whole Ermac thing had been a joke and they were in a joking mood by this point (Thus the birth of Rain).

LOL I love these Ermac threads. They are always a good read. Very VERY entertaining.

The glitch with Sheeva you might be thinking of was in one of the videos we made, but it can be done with anyone, Scorpion's Pack Fatality done on the Subway, the game resets when the Subway light flashes in the background, so you can actually time it to crash at different times, very small times, but still different.

IF IT DIDN'T HAPPEN, THEN WHY THE FUCK WOULD SOMEONE MAKE THAT UP?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

What proof do u guys have Ermacs NOT in MK1?

-that error macro's have nothing to do with graphics.

-the magazine(?) or rather the doubtful original of the Ermac screenshot was clearly edited. It has a color layer that is suspicious...otherwise it is not in MK.

-people have been coming up with fictional methods of finding him. Therefore, if he was found, than the way would be already known for us.

-the Scorpion recoloring can perhaps happen, but it is not an error macro, and it doesn't appear as a character name on screen.

-MIDWAY CONFIRMED there is no ERMAC in MK1! -best of my knowledge it seems.

-noone found him over 10 years, therefore it is safe to KNOW he isn't there. Probability mechanisms in math. No sane person would now assume he is real.

-He doesn't exist as a character, as an unlockable and as a glitch showed in the magazine or on that very picture. There are no keebler elves too. Also we have no life.