I kick myself because I have accidentally gotten rid of so much software that I wanted to keep. I used to have this (and made a few of my own skins with it). I'd be interested in grabbing it again just to mess around with.

It was released as a freeware, so here you go:

MK4 Strip

Sweet thanks dude.
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New Character: Original:
Rain Kai
Raiden (mk1) Raiden
Shang Tsung Shinnok
Liu Kang (mk1) Liu Kang
Reptile (mksm) Reptile
Scorpion (mksm) Scorpion
Jax (mk2) Jax
Shao Kahn Reiko
Cage (mk1) Cage
Kano (mk3) Jarek
Kitana (mksm) Tanya
Smoke (cyborg) Fujin
Sub-Zero (mksm) Sub-Zero
Ermac Quan Chi
Sonya (mk1) Sonya
Noob Saibot (mkd) Noob Saibot
Kintaro Goro
Oni Meat
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I will be sure to change textures and other things to ensure similarities between characters and moves that weren't in the original MK4. I will post the game mod in the fan submission section if I can get my hands on MK4 strip. I am not implying that I am under the impression that Reiko is Shao Kahn with the character change I plan.
Storyline: Shang Tsung has taken control of Shao Kahn's army and has thought to have killed him, Ermac is now at his control and Kintaro aswell.
With his new found power he plans to merge not only Outworld and Earthrealm but also that of Edenia and the netherealm for his own sick and twisted use to make others pay by living in this hellish land. Shao Kahn is forced to take sides with his former enemies to stop Shang Tsung's hellish plot.
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New Level: Original:
The Throne Room The well
The portal Wind World
Slaughterhouse The Prison
Reptile's Lair (redesigned) Reptile's Lair
Lin Kuei HQ Ice Pit
Kombat Tomb Goro's Lair
The Tower Elder Gods
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The tower is a new level all together, the elder god's faces are replaced by images of the current blending of landscape. From the cities of Earthrealm to the ruins of outworld, the falls of edenia that are now blood filled and the netherealm and its hellish lands.
I have thought up alot about this project and I hope to have it done soon.

what exactly is MK4 Strip

It is a small program that will let you view the inside of the MK4 and alter game's overall image by changing graphics and sounds.

Looks interesting, can't wait to see what you come up with

Lets see if you can make it first...

Dude I'm already like 1/4 the way done with the Rain mod....although he is already a purple tone lol. I still need to make his skin lighter and rid of those cursed white streaks.....I'll be sure to post pics soon.

Can someone please explain to me what this is and how to use it?

Mk4 strip is a program that breaks down each file out of MK4 on pc then allows you to change the textures and skins and if your into it enough change models,fatalities with programs like 3d studio max. I'm going to require some help if I want to change around model files but I probably won't so meh.First activate the MK4 strip program and it breaks down MK4 bit by bit to images and sounds (doesnt effect gameplay so no worries) then you can get in and change around whatever you want to.

Can you test your results? Can you play with your modifications?

Yes....., just look at the read me on it >

I made quite a few skins for MK4 a while ago (including an MKD Ermac), but I lost them all when I formatted.

Mortalman, is this version the last one they did? I tried to run mk4s.exe after I did the Sub-Zero skin and it said read the read me for details. I followed it word by word and still nothing. *the bmp2gfx isnt working it will a appear for a millisec and then dissappear*

As far as I know 1.0 was the last version that guy named Sorcerer made. And to be honest, it's far from perfect. So unfortunately, you shouldn't expect everything in it to work just fine. As for 'bmp2gfx' all I know is that it supports only 256x256 16bit BMPs, but you most probably already know that.

Use bmp2gfx froma a command line, it's easier to work with, and you can see what the errors are if there is a problem.

I looked....I dont understand what the problem is dude.

Well Mortalman do you think you could give me that version, I looked at the differences and modified them and nothing happened.

The link I posted was already to that version (1.0). It's stated in the readme. And I'm afraid this is the one and only version.

Oh.....crap this sucks. Is anyone here good with data? Thanks anyways Mortalman for trying to help I'm going to try to get a friend to help me out.

It supports 256x256 24 bit BMPs according to the readme (Truecolor BMP = 24-32 but 32bit is a rare thing so I assume they just mean 24).

Gijoker, are you double clicking the bmp2gfx file? You can try dragging and dropping the bitmap file on top of the bmp2gfx bat file. If that doesn't work you need to go Start Menu to Run and type in cmd and click OK and then use DOS style commands to navigate to the directory with mk4s.exe in it (it's easier if you put the BMPs there too) and run "mk4s bmp2gfx filename.bmp" but replace filename with the name of your file. Then, write that over the file you want to replace in the folders that MK4strip created when it decompiled all the MK4 files and run the Compile bat to compile a new filesys.dat.

I have a friend helping me out. When he is done MK4's resources and commands will be fixed he even said that they were broken. So pretty soon we'll have a new MK4S :D. My friend also wants to kill the dude who made mk4s for being so idiotic and hard to customize. Well hope to see this thing done soon he already has the exe decompiled now he has to deal with a buttload of ASM files.

It never seemed idiotic to me. But obviously not finished. It unpacks the graphics, switches them into an edittable form, you edit the BMP files, run BMP2GFX on any you editted, and then recompile the filesys.dat. Not for n00bs but considering the power of this utility I'd say its pretty cool.

I have to agree with dreamernj. For what it's supposed to do it works fine, it might not be that intuitive, but a read of the readme.txt and a little bit of trial and error you can pick it up quite quickly.

If your friend can recompile it and make it easier to use, and maybe add a few new features, that would be great.