yes,i has seen the shadows,but i couldnt pull off Reptile to fight him because i doesnt made double flawless in the pit....but it's true,the shadows are rarely seen...

Reptile is fightable in the PS2, and X-Box MK1 discs. The shadows are there, and yes they rarely appear, just like in T-Unit 5 of the MK1 arcade since that is apparentlly the version they used in this game. Getting to Reptile is the same. Be on a 1 Player Game, be on the Pit, get a Double Flawless Victory Without using Block, and do your Fatality (not the Pit) without holding, or using Block at all except for Sonya. That does still get you to Reptile, however, the shadows must be flying over the moon too. To get them to appear you must cylcle through all the levels eight times to get them to appear once. One way I did it was starting a 2 Player Game, and go through all arenas each seven times, and then defeat my opponent and start a 1 Player game, and that time I would cycle through the levels the eighth time, and be able to fight Reptile. He seems to be easier than before, and he is a different color green than before too. But that's how you do it. Or you can just play until you see the shadows too, but they do appear on the 8th cycle.

He's in there. The pic on my sig is taken from my Xbox.(ALL of the screen shots are from my X-BOX)

We have done it also on my brother-inlaws PS2. He's in both.

does the life bar say scorpion on the arcade versions also?

Yes it does :)

Cool pictures

Anyone noticed that the fighters looks like they are floating? See Johnny Cage's foot, it is on the base of the column. I never noticed that before, maybe because when we are in this stage it isn't to see nothing, but to fight. Reptile was hard.

Yeah it was that way on the arcade also.