Mortal Kombat - Arcade Edition (Genesis) Romhack

Main features of this project:

A Lot of hacking to add new GFX details, Polishments, Timing improvements, Sound samples, New features… Master Linkuei did all this stuff with the help from Billytime!Games.

Master Linkuei remade all the bio and ending screen using the arcade gfx as base. Including the 2 absent ending screens from Kano.

Every graphic made by PROBE Software was completely changed or improved by Master Linkuei, Chev Chelios and Danilo Dias to look more accurate.

New animations for the Courtyard (monks and tsung), Palace Gates (Flame), Warrior’s Shrine (Flame during Ermac fight) and Throne Room (Shang Tsung head + Shang Tsung clap).

Added +80 sound samples from the Arcade!

BillyTime!Games added a whole new SRAM system to save the Winning Streak name list.

Improved gameplay removing delays and improving the whole timing.

Option to change between original Music order or a more accurate one.

And MUCH more…

V.1-0c adds compatibility for third party six button controllers. Tested with Hyperkin and 8BitDo controllers. Special Thanks to IEqualShane for his help!

v.1-0d fixes up some SRAM code and now boots properly in Picodrive. Thanks to SPKLeader for his help!

Hashes:

Filename: Mortal Kombat (USA, Europe) (Rev A) (Beta).md
CRC-32: 33f19ab6
SHA-1: 2c4a0618cc93ef7be8329a82ca6d2d16f49b23e0

Staff/Credits:

Master Linkuei - Hacking, New Sounds, New Graphics & Testing
Chev Chelios - GFX adaptations, Pixel art & Testing.
Danilo Dais - Pixel art & Testing.
TiagoSC - Custom Tilemap Tool
Billytime! Games - SRAM save feature and help with the code

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File download:

Help about patching:

Most of the files you're about to download need to be applied to your game. Here is a list of utilities that allow you to do this:

Online Patcher: Marc Roblero's online patcher. Works with many different file types.
Floating IPS: NWell-known patcher for applying IPS and BPS files.
Delta Patcher: Used to apply xDelta files.
More Patchers

On most files, you can also press “Patch It”, to apply the patch without downloading the file.

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Reviews:

Mk Arcade edition But not quite

Written by: 2SpaZ-4-U - January 21, 2026

The Arcade edition have had numerous updates and improvements, however for some reason the work of the Rael G.C. Enhanced edition is always left out in this version, wich i think is sad i as a lot of graphical touchup is missing here.

Crosss flashing seems to work just fine, but if this process overwrites the updates of v1.0d im not sure.

This is still an amazing hack, but i personally feel the MKA ED v2.2 is the more defined and polished version of the two..