Mortal Kombat Arcade Edition v1.0a is the definitive version made by Linkuei.

With his permission, Rael G.C. made some graphical improvements:

• Improved Kano, Rayden, Liu Kang, Sub-Zero, Scorpion and Sonya at the character selection screen in order to get closer to the arcade.
• Improved Sub-Zero fatality to show the front size of the heads.
• Reduce the “greenness” of the Goro’s Lair new parallax.
• Fixed Johnny Cage skin colors.
• Improved mini avatar for Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Kano.
• Reworked Rayden stance animation and victory standing, restoring the “blue” eyes.
• Reworked Scorpion/Sub-Zero head on victory standing.
• Reworked Sub-Zero sprites on stance animation and victory standing.
• Improved The Pit cloud colors to match the arcade.
• Fixed Sub-Zero walking animation (it was broken, with disappearing arms).
• Fixed Sonya belly, hair and shoes colors.
• Fixed Liu Kang stance animation and victory standing.
• Fixed Kano victory animation (first frame was 2 pixels misplaced to the bottom).
• Restored Throne Room dragons statues.
• Removed a red line from Johnny Cage when following from the Pit bridge.
• Cleaned pink spots from Sonya ending screen #1.
• Restored red eye and red riffle scope at Kano ending screen #2.
• Fixed Sonya broken leg animation while knocked waiting for fatality
• Improved Rayden ending screen #1 (improved lightning, blue eyes and face lining)
• Small improvement to Liu Kang ending screen #2 (the blurred faces at the background)
• Removed Kano red spots from all sprites
• Removed Rayden yellow spots from all sprites
• Removed Sonya pink spots from all sprites
• Removed SubZero red spots from all sprites
• Removed J. Cage green spots from all sprites
• Removed Liu Kang red spots on this “shoes” from all sprites
• Made the Genesis soundtrack order the default option.
• Fixed the checksum

Changelog

MORTAL KOMBAT ARCADE EDITION V2.2
-BUILD DATE 03/26/25-

Improvements over V2.1:
– Fixed Sonya broken leg animation while knocked waiting for fatality
– Removed Kano red spots from all sprites
– Removed Rayden yellow spots from all sprites
– Improved Rayden ending 1 screen (improved lightning, blue eyes and face lining)
– Small improvement to Liu Kang ending 2 screen (the blurred faces at the background)
– Improved Liu Kang head rotation on J. Cage fatality (issue introduced in V1.7)
– Improved J. Cage head rotation on J. Cage fatality (issue introduced in V1.7)

MORTAL KOMBAT ARCADE EDITION V2.1
-BUILD DATE 11/13/24-

Improvements over V2.0:
– Restored Throne Room dragons statues
– Removed a red line from Johnny Cage when following from the Pit bridge
– Cleaned pink spots from Sonya ending screen #1
– Restored red eye and red riffle scope at Kano ending screen #2

MORTAL KOMBAT ARCADE EDITION V2.0
-BUILD DATE 09/12/23-

Improvements over V1.9:
– Fixed some missing SubZero sprites issues introduced in v1.9

-BUILD DATE 09/05/23-

Improvements over V1.8:
– Added the missing Sub-Zero frontal face (Sub-Zero doing fatality on Sub-Zero)
– Fixed Kano victory animation “shaking” (first frame was 2 pixels misplaced to the bottom)

MORTAL KOMBAT ARCADE EDITION V1.8
-BUILD DATE 01/30/23-

Improvements over V1.7:
– Updated Sub-Zero fatality to show the face side of the heads
– Small tweak to clouds color in the Pit stage to match the arcade

MORTAL KOMBAT ARCADE EDITION V1.7
-BUILD DATE 01/08/23-

Improvements over V1.6:
– Small tweaks to the Pit and Bottom Pit
– Bumped internal version (missed in 1.6)
– Fixed checksum

MORTAL KOMBAT ARCADE EDITION V1.6
-BUILD DATE 01/02/23-

Improvements over V1.5:
– Made the Genesis soundtrack order the default over the “Arcade” order.

MORTAL KOMBAT ARCADE EDITION V1.5
-BUILD DATE 10/11/22-

Graphical improvements over V1.4:
– Improved Liu Kang stance frames colors.
– Improved Liu Kang mini avatar.
– Improved Kano mini avatar.
– Improved Johnny Cage mini avatar.

MORTAL KOMBAT ARCADE EDITION V1.4
-BUILD DATE 10/04/22-

Graphical improvements over V1.3:
– Improved character selection screen background colors.
– Improved Rayden at character selection screen.
– Improved Sonya at character selection screen.

MORTAL KOMBAT ARCADE EDITION V1.3
-BUILD DATE 15/03/22-

Graphical improvements over V1.2:
– Improved Sonya victory stance bely colors.
– Improved Liu Kang victory bely colors.
– Improved Rayden stance animation colors.
– Fixed missing “light blue” Rayden eyes on stance and victory animation.

MORTAL KOMBAT ARCADE EDITION V1.2
-BUILD DATE 08/02/22-

Graphical improvements over V1.1:
– Fixed Sub-Zero walking animation.
– Cleaned all green spots from Johnny Cage sprites.
– Fixed Sonya hair and shoes red borders.

MORTAL KOMBAT ARCADE EDITION V1.1
-BUILD DATE 28/01/22-

Graphical improvements over V1.0:
– Fixed Johnny Cage skin colors.
– Improved Kano, Rayden, Liu Kang, Sub-Zero and Scorpion at the character selection screen in order to get closer to the arcade.
– Fixed Scorpion eyes on the mini avatar.
– Reworked Scorpion head on victory standing.
– Reworked Sub-Zero sprites on victory standing.
– Reworked Sub-Zero stance animation.
– Reduce the “greeness” of the Goro’s Lair new parallax.

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