UMK3 TAG for Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

Release details and change log

Parent: Clean Arcade Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 rev 1.2 (umk3.zip, Midway Wolf Unit). Write-up: /blog/umk3-two-on-two-tag-teams.

Release checks and file hashes

What changed in v0.4-preview

• Rain's Lightning (Down+Back+HP) and Mind Control Orb (Down+Forward+LP) draw Midway's own sprites now: the bolt from Nightwolf's fatality, and Reptile's forceball recolored as water. In v0.3 they drew nothing. The sprites are already in the stock graphics ROMs, so no graphics ROM bytes change.
• Rain has both Trilogy fatalities on Down+Forward+HP at FINISH HIM: the Deadly Uppercut up close (he uppercuts the opponent off the top of the screen and they come back down in pieces) and the lightning fatality from about half a screen (six strikes of the same bolt, a last bolt, then the explosion). v0.3 ran the brutality.
• The Mind Control Orb steers: hold a direction while the opponent floats and you move them, as in Trilogy and the 16-bit UMK3.
• Babality for the hidden fighters (Ermac, Classic Sub-Zero, Human Smoke, Noob Saibot, Rain, Chameleon, Khameleon): Down+Back+LK at FINISH HIM runs the stock Babality routine.
• Tournament rules (Block+Up on the VS screen) add a kombo limit: no hit connects once one fighter has taken 12 hits without recovering. Aimed at the known infinites; not yet replayed against each one.
• Training mode is gone. Block+Down on the VS screen does nothing now.
• The unused RAIN WINS line at program offset 0x33E2A ($FF99F150) prints when Rain wins. Chameleon and Khameleon get their own win lines.
• Round intro: names, colors and the four team bars are right before FIGHT, so the secret ninjas no longer flash as SCORPION or REPTILE.
• Forward Kameo Sub-Zero drops the Ice Shower on the opponent (forward and back were swapped), Kung Lao's Kameo forward throw uses his Teleport, and the brutality reads 11 HITS.
• The team HUD is only drawn while fighting and during the round intro, so KO and Mercy keep their native timing: 1 to 2 frames per round transition and 1 frame on Mercy against v0.3.