In Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, you can also use the menu to view a quick fatality demonstration and play a punishing, hidden Galaga-style shoot-'em-up.īoon has said in the past that there were still undiscovered secrets in early Mortal Kombat games, and this discovery proves that he wasn't just blowing Smoke. The options in the menus themselves are mainly devoted to diagnostic testing and internal management for arcade owners, but you can also use the menus to jump directly to the endings for specific characters, cheat your initials into the high score screen, and view some secret thank-you messages from Boon himself. (The codes also work on MAME, where they can be simplified with some XML hacking.) Advertisement
The menus are getting widespread attention now, thanks to a long-winded video demonstrating the unlock method on real arcade hardware, which involves quickly tapping both players' block buttons in a precise sequences. They weren't known to the public at large until last October, when the code-crawlers at the invaluable Cutting Room Floor website revealed their existence. Boon) have been sitting unknown and unloved in the first three Mortal Kombat arcade cabinets since their release in the early '90s. The "EJB menus" (named for series co-creator Ed J. It's a secret that was just recently revealed after over 20 years of secrecy. There's at least one Mortal Kombat secret that never made the pages of those magazines, however. Gamers of a certain age probably remember paging through dog-eared copies of GamePro and other monthly magazines to discover the numerous hidden characters and secrets embedded in the highly popular Mortal Kombat games.
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