On the arcade version the screen is simply black, it's not faded or anything so gamma correction wouldn't make anything visible that is lurking behind there. Both PSX versions of MKT the screen turns solid black, SNES and Genesis turn solid black, and so does N64. I do remember there being one version of Ultimate or MKT where the screen turns blue and the energy bars stay on the screen. The only version I never did that fatality on or have it to check is Saturn, it very well could be that one version.

Matt

Basically if you want to brighten the screen for UMK3 on the head rip, you get a whole lot of NOTHING.

That's probably because they didn't do anything but the sound effects and because one person decided to try to make a lot of us look like fools.

anyone have the video

Video of a black screen?

yea that video

The worst fatalities? This is pretty difficult to pick one from each game, since there were so many that could be called bad fatalities, or sucky fatalities that could have been better. Here are my picks.

MK1
None. They were all original. I even like Liu Kang's non violent fatality.

MKII
None again. They were getting interesting here with some fighters having more than two Fatalities.

MK3/UMK3/MKt
1)Jax's Stomp
2)Liu Kang's MK Drop
3)Stryker's Tazer
4)Sheeva's Hammerhead
5)Nightwolf's Lightning Axe
6)Ermac's/Human Smoke's/Cage's Uppercut Decap.
7)Cage's N64 Shadow Kick One
8)Classic Sub-Zero's Blackout
9)Scorpion's Hellraiser
10)Scorpion's Skeleton Hand From Trilogy

MK4
Kai's Dodgeball Decapitation

MKDA
1)Bo Rai Cho's Squash
2)Li Mei's Kick
3)Jax's Head Crush
4)Sonya's Head Crush
5)Drahmin's Head Crush
6)Kung Lao's Hat Impale
7)Scorpion's Spear
8)Mavado's Kick Thing
9)Blaze (Has None!)
10)Mokap (Has None!)

One thing I do get tired of seeing is the Head Crushes, and Uppercut Decapatations. Too many fighters have them, and it is like seeing the same one, over, and over again.

6)Kung Lao's Hat Impale 7)Scorpion's Spear

How can you say those two are bad when you don't even include the atrocious Quan Chi neck stretch?

At least the Kung Lao one was stylish. And the Scorpion one is a Fatality the fans have been dreaming of for years.

I agreed with most of the rest of your list.

Things really took a turn for the worse in MK3-MK4.