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filouk
Posted on 06-24-07 12:53 AM, in need help with hacking Mortal Kombat Trilogy N64 (rev. 3 of 06-24-07 04:13 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 48971

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Yes, it does work. I personally have been looking for this code for ages. And now we finally got it. I am the one who sent the e-mail to ddp72984, and I'm happy that it eventually led to Proto K's unexpected unveiling of the code. Although it doesn't do anything new or useful, I take as a great satisfaction that we finally know everything about this game :

1. The 78 kombat kodes, 5 of which had never been documented until I discovered them in a hex editor and sent them to some web sites (345-987 WILLY WEST KOMBAT ; 543-345 KOMBAT ZONE: LIVING FOREST ; 137-246 KOMBAT ZONE: THE PIT BOTTOM ;
524-425 PREPARE FOR MORTAL KOMBAT IV ; 246-975 RAINS COUNTERPART IS SNOW)

2. Baraka's morph for Shang Tsung, which has remained undocumented for quite a long time : R, R, LP, BL.

3. The Ultimate Kombat Kode.

4. The messages spoken by Khameleon, Smoke, Motaro and Shao Kahn, when they randomly appear at the beginning of a battle : 10 messages for each character. All messages are written in the .z64 rom when you open it with a hex editor.

KHAMELEON :

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I AM CALLED KHAMELEON
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TREES AND SHRUBS ARE PLACES TO MEET
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YOU CAN NOT DEFEAT ME
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MORE THEN TWO WILL KEEP ME AWAY
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ONE IS NOT ENOUGH
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I WILL BE HARD TO SEE
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START ON THE BRIDGE OF STARS
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I AM THE MASTER OF DISGUISE
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WAIT FOR TOASTY
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ARE YOU A WORTHY CHALLENGER?



SMOKE :

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START WITH SMOKE
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PROVE YOURSELF
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THE KEYS TO FINDING ME
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RELEASE THE INNER SOUL
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I WAS ONCE HUMAN
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START BEFORE THE FIGHT
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FROSTY
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AWAY WE GO
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RUN AND BLOCK
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HI PUNCH AND HI KICK



MOTARO :

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I AM AT YOUR CONTROL
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AWAY YOU WILL SEE
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SEARCH FOR ME IN THE WASTELAND
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BRING ON GORO
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BRING ON KINTARO
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I LIKE JADES DESERT
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BEFORE ONE FIGHTS IS THE TIME
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KICKS ARE THE KEY
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I WILL CRUSH ALL
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THE TOWER IS A FAVORITE



SHAO KAHN :

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I AM AT YOUR CONTROL
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FIND ME ON THE ROOFTOP
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PUNCHES ?
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BEFORE FIGHT BUTTONS PUSHED
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ARE YOU WORTHY?
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MY KAVE IS A GOOD SPOT
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FROSTY
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DONT FORGET TO DUCK DOWN
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TRY THE PIT III
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I CANNOT BE DEFEATED

filouk
Posted on 06-29-07 01:15 AM, in need help with hacking Mortal Kombat Trilogy N64 Link | Quote | ID: 50524

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Does anyone understand what "UNIKORIV REFERRI" mean ? The message appears when you enter the kombat kode 044-440 (the players begin with almost no energy). It's "UNIKORIV REFERRI: SANS POWER". "Sans power" means "without power" ("SANS" is a french word), but I can't figure out what the first part mean. "REFERRI" is latin, it's the passive infinitive of "refero", "to refer", but I really don't see what it means here. I thought of an anagram, but couldn't find any anagram with that. Did anyone ever wonder what it means ?

filouk
Posted on 06-29-07 03:19 PM, in need help with hacking Mortal Kombat Trilogy N64 (rev. 7 of 06-30-07 03:28 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 50681

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Thanks for your guess. The latin word would be "unicoLOris", which is plural dative/ablative of unicolorus. It doesn't really make sense. And this doesn't explain the final -v. Those MK programmers are really strange guys


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I got it guys ! UNIKOR is a company which sells batteries. Cf www.unikor.com

IV must mean 4, it might be the reference of a particular model. MK programmers must have had some misadventure with that company : they must have bought a battery and then discovered that there was no power inside. The word "referri" would mean "to be brought back" (since refero means "to bring back"). So the translation would be : "Unikor 4 to be brought back (= must be brought back to the retailer) : no power." Clever, huh ?



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Apparently, UNIKORIV and REFERRI are anagrams for Vinikour and Ferrier : Mike Vinikour and Eddie Ferrier both are MK testers.

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