SuperMarioBro Wrote: MK2KungBroken Wrote: GusLan Wrote: gensis also had better music it was the same of the arcdade When was the last time you had your hearing checked? Neither SNES or Genesis had EXACT translations of the music, but SNES had more channels, better quality midi instruments, and higher quality sound altogether. Genesis's musics could be reproduced on a PC speaker with some programming skill. Matt Factually yes it is better, but some people can have an opinion on which they think is better. You post great facts but sometimes shoot down opinions.

*claps* Bout time someone else realized this.

I'm not a huge fan of the 32X MK II. It isn't all that different from Genesis and doesn't even touch SNES. It still looks, sounds and plays terribly...just not quite as bad as Genesis. Bones still disapear, hit detection for juggles is still messed up, backgrounds still look bad, still no proper ending pictures, win poses still cut, Kahn's taunts still missing....like the only thing it has over SNES is the intro pictures.


As far as MK1 goes I give the nod to Genesis, mostly for the gameplay. In a way I actually prefer it's gameplay feel over arcade, which is extremely stiff and slow. The music is not like arcade, but I like it better than the music on SNES. It also has better extras, like the ending pictures, the cast of characters in the ending and of course the blood.

I liked MK1 for SNES because it seemed most like the arcade. However, I hated the delay in the controls. The fact that you didn't have to hold block to hit up, up meant there was way too much delay. Really, I didn't enjoy MK a whole lot until MK2.

The 32X version of MK2 was interesting, but it was too lacking in certain respects. It had the superior colors to SNES (32 thousand colors on screen simultaneously) but they needed to upgrade the resolution from the 320x224 that the Genesis ran at. Also, Sega wasn't ready for a 32 bit cartridge system. I don't believe any of the cartridge games exceeded 32 megs, which was way too small to effectively use the 32k colors they had. They just couldn't fit that much on there, so the graphics stayed lacking. The only games that could fit on 32Mb and use the 32K colors were 3D games, and a few of them were very impressive (like Star Wars). But, Mk2 sadly was just not up to par.

^ Roger that.

I just had to play MK2 for 32X again to remember exactly what was bad about it.

The musics are identical to Genesis, which = bad. The low quality midi instruments, lack of channels and the low bit rate quality.

The sounds are still garbled for the most part, just like Genesis. I'm glad they added sounds they didn't already have, but even still, the quality is less than SNES.

The graphics are still lower quality, lower details, and fewer colors than SNES. It's like they took a hybrid of SNES and Genesis and called it 32X, this increases the existing Genesis version's quality, but reduces SNES. The energy bars are an exact fusion of both systems'. Neither was exactly like the arcade, but this is closest, however still grainy and bad looking. The large dragon symbols under the bars for vicroties is good as neither SNES nor Genesis had that. The intro pics from the arcade Liu Kang, Shao Kahn, Shang Tsung etc are cool to have as well.

The gameplay is exactly the same as Genesis which isn't terribly bad, but there is still frame hacking that wasn't even on SNES.

The bones disappearing is still a mystery to me.

In any event, the 32X version of MK2 has more of some things SNES didn't have, but a lot less in areas SNES did have. The backgrounds are still bad. They are just not as vibrant/colorful as they should have been.

The SNES version is still the best overall version, even if the gameplay isn't identical to the arcade, neither is either of Sega's, closer yes, but not identical. I will try and stick some pics from SNES and Genesis into a morphing program and see what happens lol.

Matt

Guess it's all a matter of which you prefer to have better quality of.

Graphics/Sound or Controls.

Snes has the better graphics and sounds while Genesis/32X has the better controls.

So it all comes down to which you prefer and are willing to look beyond.

The fact that so many people argue that MK2 is the best MK purely because of look and sound (the movie aspect I call it), and don't care at all about gameplay itself since they don't even play other people in it, would have to make them lean towards the SNES version, and from what I've seen, it seems to be mostly just that.

Matt

I dunno about that being all that true but it's still a matter of what you prefer more.

I know I am late on this topic but I wanted to post my thoughts. I have both the Genesis and SNES versions of the original MK and usually I wouldn't have touched the SNES version with a barge pole. Lately though I have been showing love to the SNES version and I must admit the graphics and sound are excellent, and it is a good port despite the lack of blood. That being said though, the Genesis version, although the mechanics of the gameplay are somewhat light, like someone else on here said, it is still the better port because it really DOES have much better controls than the SNES version. The gameplay is smoother overall too. It of course has the blood code in it too.

So, yeah I would recommend the Genesis version over the SNES.

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