Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Noob Saibot Wavenet information ???

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shardian:
I don't remember seeing Noob in the arcade. There was a human smoke though, maybe some people confused that?

I do remember playing as Noob on the Sega Genesis release of UMK3. Using him was borderline cheating - his moves ROCKED!

ctozzi:
Here is the official info so people don't think I'm making it up
[edit] Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Wave Net
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Wave Net was a rare network version of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. It was tested only in the Chicago and San Francisco areas so many people outside this area were not aware of its existence during its release. One outlet that stocked it still has the T1 line used for it installed. This version included extras that were available even in local play. It ran over a T1 line that was directly connected back to Midway HQ in Chicago.

One of the reasons this version wasn't widely adopted was the rarity and cost of T1 lines at the time. The game was released before alternative broadband access was available. At the time, a T1 was the only guaranteed way to get broadband into an arcade, but the game didn't utilize the full bandwidth of the T1. Midway subsidized the cost of the line during the tests to make it more attractive to the arcade owners.

It is highly unlikely that any WAVENet test games were ever released to the public after the infrastructure was dismantled, and so there are no known dumps of the ROMs used by the games designed for it.

Turnarcades:
You really love your MK don't you?! :laugh:

I used to love these 'what if?' rumours back in the day! Some turned out true (the early rumours of a Nintendo CD - fruition in to the Playstation), some were a load of tripe (rumours of cheats to access characters/gore in censored games) but they all encouraged healthy debate and gave free advertising!

MK was one of the biggest generator of rumours as even the makers played on it ('Kano Transformations' in the MK2 arcade settings). Seeing as there was a 'Challenger Hack' of MK2, don't be surprised if there was an early/prototype/hacked version of MK3 with Noob playable.

Then again, with this 'limited locale' back story it could just be another Polybius. :dunno

shardian:
The EGM created MK1 Art Lean rumor was the best of all time. They even had a screen shot of Art doing his front flip decapitation. They even had clear cut directions on how to do the trick. Man I played for HOURS to do this, and I eventually got it down pat. What a ---smurfing--- letdown!

EDIT: It was Nimbus Terrafax. My Bad!

Turnarcades:
Not heard of this. Got any pics?

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