MKKE My Mods

[Howard_Casto]

Here is  Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.3 (Formerly Ultimate Boss Mod), which does the following:

-Adds the bosses as Playable Characters
-Uses the New Boss Portraits and New HD vs pics.
-Adds a Ladder mode ending animation for Goro, Kintaro and Shao Kahn
-Changes the "Press Space" message to "Press Start"
-Changes "Noob" to "Noob Saibot"
-Removes "BUG_ME" message when practicing Kintaro and Goro's fatalities.
-Adds The Hidden "Classic" characters to the playable Roster
-Fixes the Infamous "palette swap" glitch for the Classics
-Adds Proper portraits, ladder images and vs jpgs for all Classics
-Removes "BUG_ME" character name when selecting the Classics

-Adds endings for Goro, Kintaro and Shao Kahn (no audio due to game limitations)
-Adds alt costumes for the Classics
-Renames the Classic characters to "Klassics" to be "kool"
-Adds retro costumes for Skarlet and Rain
-Adds alt costumes for all 4 DLC characters
-Adds Retro costumes for the bosses
-Modifies the exe to add the pit bottom and challenge tower to the stages in ladder mode.
-Adds Chameleon and Khameleon to the roster
-Includes wrapper exe that allows Shang to morph into other characters based upon his x-ray meter and Chameleon/Khameleon to mimic stun (aka morph) into retro ninjas.
-Adds Boss Nekropolis to the game, allowing you to view stats and endings of the Bosses and Classics (where applicable)


 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.3 (Formerly Ultimate Boss Mod)

Boss Demo:


Boss Fatality Practice Demo:


Classic Character Demo:


Shao Kahn Retro Costume:


Goro Retro Costume:


Kintaro Retro Costume:


Chameleon Demo:


Khameleon Demo:







*edit*
Updated to list latest features and removed introduction as of 5/15/15

[Endprodukt]

Great mods! Why is the gameplay so slow in the videos?

[Howard_Casto]

Because I'm capturing video. 

[TheManuel]

This stuff looks awesome.  I can't wait to try it as soon as I get through some setup issues.

[Hunk_4TH]

Damn, these mods are sweet as hell! Thanks for making them and posting them Howard!

[Howard_Casto]

Your welcome.  I"ll probably keep working on MK for the rest of the month, or until I run out of steam, whichever comes first. 

I've got a few goals in mind and atm about half of them are met.  For whatever reason, NRS decided to give some of the ninjas a mk2 dlc costume, some a mk1 and some a mk3, even though they could have given every ninja all three. I at the very least want to figure out how to inject new move sets so we can get all the ninja's their proper costumes. 

I also want to finish up the bosses.  We can already hack up an existing ending and Kintaro and Goro already have ending text, so it would just be a matter of doing some poses in xnalara to make some art for endings.  There is some scripting preventing the bosses/classics from doing fatalities on each other and from other players finishing them we need to remove that as well. 

Also I need to add in the rest of the NPCs.  Granted most of them are lame, but maybe if we can get move sets swapped in the future, it will be possible to make them into something cool.

[Endprodukt]

You're the pro Howard.

I don't know if it's worth mentioning and how deep you can get into the program BUT... is it POSSIBLE to make this thing work in a 640x480 resolution on xp64 or win7 by any chance?
I want this game on my MK machine so badly...

Love your mods, thank you very much for doing this.

[Howard_Casto]

Yes it is entirely possible, at least the 640x480 part.  The main thing preventing the game from running at lower resolutions are the movie files believe it or not.  They are encoded via bink video at 720p.  Bink doesn't scale all that well.  Other than that, there are various ini files in the game that allow you to tweak the resolution of certain things, including the video player.  So while I can't say for certain that it will run at 640x480, yes it's possible in theory. 

That being said.... the gameplay area is going to be 16:9.... there's nothing that can be done about that.  So on a 480p monitor the game is going to look really really bad.  Maybe even unplayable bad. 

[BadMouth]

I really like this game.  It's motivated me to get back to work on the widescreen slim cab.

One thing that is annoying the crap out of me though is that in training, it shows the default xbox buttons for the moves even though I've remapped them.
I have A&B on the top row instead of the bottom like an xbox controller, so it's confusing.
Maybe they'll release a patch that will correct this, but it would be really cool if I could use the letters I have on my CP instead of LB, RT, etc.

Is there an easy way for a dumb end-user to swap out the button images?

[Howard_Casto]

It's fairly easy. 

You need gildor's tools and one of the various dds injectors.  Run the package that contains the button images (sorry don't know which one) through extract.exe to get the unmolested files,  then run the package through umodel with the -export -dds command to get the useable images.  Edit them in the photoshop and inject the resulting dds files back. 

[mike boss]

Really cool man, awesome work.

[Brian74]

I copied everything into the correct files. But I cant get to any of the other characters. 

[Howard_Casto]

I copied everything into the correct files. But I cant get to any of the other characters. 

Well then you didn't copy everything correctly.  It's as simple as that. 

The mod needs to be extracted to the DisccontentPC folder, where your exe is.  It needs to be extracted so that it OVERWRITES your asset, config, ect folders.  If it doesn't do that then you did it wrong. 

[Xiaou2]

I dont want to poop on what you did...  but I have an Honest question...

 Do you Really like this game?

 I mean, I played the version on the xbox360, and it felt broken, slow, bad animations, and annoying in-game cutscenes.
No more fast intense action combat, and smooth flowing gameplay.

 After several hours trying to like it, I simply could not.

[Howard_Casto]

I dont want to poop on what you did...  but I have an Honest question...

 Do you Really like this game?

And yet you just did, right there. 

It's a universally loved and highly acclaimed game.  I wouldn't waste my time modding something I didn't like.

[DeLuSioNal29]

Agreed.  Everyone has their taste in games.  If you don't like it...  Move on to another topic.

Keep the mods coming Howard...   

DeLuSioNaL29

[Brian74]

I copied everything into the correct files. But I cant get to any of the other characters. 

Well then you didn't copy everything correctly.  It's as simple as that. 

The mod needs to be extracted to the DisccontentPC folder, where your exe is.  It needs to be extracted so that it OVERWRITES your asset, config, ect folders.  If it doesn't do that then you did it wrong.

I redid what I had did before. All is well now! 

[Howard_Casto]

Agreed.  Everyone has their taste in games.  If you don't like it...  Move on to another topic.

Keep the mods coming Howard...   

DeLuSioNaL29

I appreciate the support, but I'm a little too far down the rabbit hole to quit at this point even if I wanted to. 

A Necropolis for the bosses, actual ENDINGS for Goro (finished) and Kintaro (just started)  all the dlc characters and some better vs pics are all on the way.  As well as an updated wrapper that does... things.....

[TheManuel]

As well as an updated wrapper that does... things.....

Woa, woa!
I respect your desire for secrecy but please, let's at least get this one out of the way: it's not compatibility with WinXP, right?
Just to put me out of my misery...

[bigster]

good job howard.  these are awesome.

[Howard_Casto]

As well as an updated wrapper that does... things.....

Woa, woa!
I respect your desire for secrecy but please, let's at least get this one out of the way: it's not compatibility with WinXP, right?
Just to put me out of my misery...

No, it doesn't sorry. 

[TheManuel]

Thanks.
In that case, I think I know what it does.

Are you mods only reversible by backing up the original files?

[Howard_Casto]

yes

I've actually built a dlc manager program for the game, but for the boss mod it's just pointless.... it changes too much.

[TheManuel]

Wow!  Your mod is getting very elaborate.  It is like building and maintaining cab, we spend more time working on it than playing the games.  At least I do, especially on the software side of things.

[Malenko]

I dont want to poop on what you did...  but I have an Honest question...

 Do you Really like this game?

 I mean, I played the version on the xbox360, and it felt broken, slow, bad animations, and annoying in-game cutscenes.
No more fast intense action combat, and smooth flowing gameplay.

 After several hours trying to like it, I simply could not.

Why oh why do I feed the troll?

The game is far from broken, its actually quite amazingly balanced. "Bad" animation and what YOU consider "real" animations are not one in the same. If by ingame cutscenes you mean the QTEs, well I sort of agree with you there, it'd be nice to be able to disable them. The fighting is pretty fast paced when compared to other MKs and is quite smooth. It is one of those "if you dont like it, dont do it" scenarios. MK isnt for everyone and I still like MKII the best, but that doesnt mean MK9 isnt pretty great. MK9 sold over 3 million console copies, and sold well enough on PC that NetherRealms is considering porting Injustice.

[TheManuel]

MK9 sold over 3 million console copies, and sold well enough on PC that NetherRealms is considering porting Injustice.

Where did you see that?  That would be a great addition to my cab.

[Malenko]

I cant remember which video game site it was, but it was in an interview with Boon about the fact PC numbers were much better than expected on the port of MK9.

[TheManuel]

Apparently it was a tweet from Ed Boon.  However, there was also this obscure amazon posting that sent some waves around the web but it might just be an error.

[Howard_Casto]

I cant remember which video game site it was, but it was in an interview with Boon about the fact PC numbers were much better than expected on the port of MK9.

Considering the "publicity" this port got it's a damn near miracle that it sold a single copy on the pc.  I'm the biggest MK fan outside of you on this forum and I didn't know about the release until it was right on top of us.  That is a testament to just how popular the game is. 

Mr. Boon unfortunately has also been quite harsh on the modding community.  They haven't done anything to remove our mods, but I believe there was a tweet from him explaining how unlocking the bosses and ect effected the balance of the game.  To which I say "duh!"  It's not like the bosses in MKT were taken seriously either.  It's just fun to be able to play with them.

Also I know I shouldn't... but.... since you started... If you want to see "realism" in your fighting games perhaps you shouldn't pick one that features a human/demon mutant hybrid, a thunder god, an undead Spector, a shape shifting sorcerer and a Wraith.  The fun about MK, from the fighting, to the characters to the storyline is how UNreal everything is. 

[Howard_Casto]

I thought this thread was due for an update.  I'm knee deep in it at this point.  We are discovering new things daily and I recently figured out how to cleanly modify the DLC and Boss characters so that we can make alt costumes for them.  There are several other findings in this area we are working on as well. 

I've already released a non-homosexual variant of Rain (not that there's anything wrong with that) as a proof of concept, and a few other people are working on some very professional-looking skins for the others.   

More tricks to add to the wrapper as well. 

[TheManuel]

Hey, Howard.
Did you continue your work on this?
I'm curious to know how far you took it.

[mike boss]

Howard your work is AMAZING and I thank you for all the effort you put forward.
I enjoy this game (as I do most fighters) and despite the fact that I stink at it.
Your work has made me want to pick up a new *(used) PC for a cabinet just to play this (and Injustice).
Keep it up and again many thanks.

Off to find a KVM switch and PC so I can run both PC's in my cabinet..................................

[Howard_Casto]

Hey, Howard.
Did you continue your work on this?
I'm curious to know how far you took it.

Yes, that's why you don't see me around much anymore... I'm still working on MKKE.  A few of the guys tested my tools the other day on Injustice and they all work, so there's that as well. Perhaps we can make MK vs DC 2:  Non-Sucking Edition?

Recent things I've figured out is how to manipulate colors and materials of the characters as well as figuring out MK's oddball normal map format, allowing for transparency and other effects, how to add costume-specific vs images and most recently how to add additional files to the XXX archives.  UBM 3.0, which will probably be renamed Ultimate Mortal Kombat, should be out before Christmas time with tons of surprises. 

Oh here is an example of my most recent hacking efforts... note that regular Jade's images are used for the primary costume and new images are used for the NPC_ClassicJade costume, which as been altered to be an alternate costume of Jade:

 

[mike boss]

  BLOWN AWAY!

[TheManuel]

Impressive.  Thanks for sharing that update.
The "MK vs. DC 2" idea is very intriguing.  Was the first one bad?  I've never played it.

Do you think there is a way I can have two working copies of the game, one modded and the other not?
I currently have a standard purchased Steam installation.

As an aside, from your video it looks like you too have the slowdown issue that hampers the game in my machine.  I was never able to solve it, other than using the modded frame-skipping config files floating around on the web.  The lack of optimization in this port leaves a lot to be desired.

Edit:  Er, never mind.  You already mentioned that capturing the video causes the slowdown.

[Howard_Casto]

I would say it would be good if you considered it a prequel to Injustice, horrible if you considered it a MK game. 

Tetzrep, the Elder God of MK hacking, outlined the header differences between the two games several months ago (I didn't know this when I posted) although it would be a considerable amount of work, it IS theoretically possible to convert an Injustice character to a MK character. 
Although  it still might not work because when he did this research we didn't know how to rename characters and clone them.

It should be possible to have multiple copies of the game if you understand that they'll have to share the same game save file.  You'll have to ahem "acquire" a copy of the non-steam version though.  Actually I think the non-steam version keeps the game save in another location, so that might work as well. 

[TheManuel]

Thanks for the tips.

[Howard_Casto]

[AmericanDemon]

This looks fantastic!  I just snagged this off the steam sale. I'd love to check out your current build if it's available.

[Hunk_4TH]

Very cool man. Keep up the great work on this! 

[BadMouth]

I haven't tried the mods yet.  I'm waiting until I've played through everything else in the game before adding more.

Had some time yesterday to play part way through the story mode.
I'm blown away by how good this game is all the way around.  I've never had the story mode of a fighting game suck me in before.
I usually skip everything to get to the next fight because the story seems like a throwaway afterthought anyway.
It's awesome how they worked the different versions of the characters into the story.

I have SFIV, SFIVAE, and SFxTekken on my cab and haven't really been able to get into them beyond playing a few matches and stopping.

Not sure why the price of MKK dropped so fast and it doesn't get more hype.
Hats off to Netherrealm and WB. 
I'm actually going to crack open my wallet and buy Injustice now instead of waiting for the price to hit $20.

On another note, I was doing some Christmas shopping at Target yesterday and stumbled across the Prima guide on clearance for $6.
Sure all the info is available for free online, but I haven't bought a video game guide in over a decade and it was $6, so I got it for ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- and giggles.
Instead of having FP, FK, BL, etc, it has a chart in the front that assigns the xbox360 and PS3 buttons numbers.  BK is 1, FK is 2, etc.
So the rest of the book uses those numbers which kinda sucks.  Having FP, BP, etc would have been better.
It has a really nice looking section in the front with the history of the MK series, but I haven't read that part yet.

[Howard_Casto]

It doesn't get much hype because it's Mortal Kombat.  For some reason MK games get a lot of hate from the "hardcore" fighting fans.... I guess it's because while they are memorizing combos and trying to beat some 10 year old Korean kid online we are actually having fun playing a game. 

I was done with fighters before this was released in 2011, even Mortal Kombat fighters.  (Armageddon sucked and MK vs DC was so bad I didn't even attempt to play it.). 

[BadMouth]

I won't go into detail in this thread, but the controls for Injustice are not cab friendly.   
I don't recommend it to anyone without xbox360 controllers.

I'm working on it.  Seems it requires newer x360 drivers than what is in the SSFIV keyboard thread.
If I get it sorted, I'll post the x360kb.ini and dll files.

[Connorsdad]

I won't go into detail in this thread, but the controls for Injustice are not cab friendly.   
I don't recommend it to anyone without xbox360 controllers.

I'm working on it.  Seems it requires newer x360 drivers than what is in the SSFIV keyboard thread.
If I get it sorted, I'll post the x360kb.ini and dll files.

Definitely watching this one Badmouth, I can't find a way to get 2 players working with this and an ipac either.

Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

[Howard_Casto]

I'm still finishing up the UBM, but if this game is anything like MKKE (and thus far it has been) it won't be terribly hard to crack.  So worst case scenario I could write a wrapper to bypass the input system, BUT this isn't particularly a good idea on a fighting game, which needs quick response time. 

[BadMouth]

I'm still finishing up the UBM, but if this game is anything like MKKE (and thus far it has been) it won't be terribly hard to crack.  So worst case scenario I could write a wrapper to bypass the input system, BUT this isn't particularly a good idea on a fighting game, which needs quick response time.

Hacking menu navigation keys might be enough.
The game allows you to remap all the keys related to fighting, but keeps the default navigation keys.
That wouldn't be a big deal if they didn't conflict so much with the standard MAME controls.
Example: the G key is required to select a menu item.  This also happens to be P2 joystick right on most people's setups.
While I'm fiddling with it tonight, I'll make a list of all the menu navigation keys that can't be remapped.

If we could change those and swap in the xbox360 button icons, the game would be performing exactly as I wish.
(providing that the mapped controls all work fine for both players when fighting....will test that tonight)

[Howard_Casto]

The 360 icons are easy to swap... you run the package through u-model and extract the textures and then use one of the many texture injectors to put it back once you are done.  Somebody already did a ps3 set, for example.

I'll look into it on MKKE tonight.... injustice uses the exact same engine, so it should be similar. 

Honestly though at this point I'm about done with keyboard encoders.  Joysticks are so widely supported now, even on emulators that it isn't as important as it used to be.

[Howard_Casto]

More Klassic Boss madness:

[Howard_Casto]

Goro LIVES!

[Generic Eric]

Gotta share discount code for greenmangaming.  At steam, this game is currently $14.99.  At greenmangaming, $7.49.  With code GMG20-ZB5D1-93X49. It is $6 at greenmangaming.


Get over there!

[Howard_Casto]

Sorry guys, I've been having medical problems. 

I've been back at work on this for a month or so now... I wanted to get UBM 3.0 out before MKX was released but that ship has sailed.

Here is a preview of Chameleon that we hacked for UBM 3.0

[Howard_Casto]

[Resident Evil 2 Akuma]

Impressive, you added Chameleon and Khameleon on the same MK!

I dont know what impresses me the most, the fact that the community is making MK9 better or the fact that Netherealms didnt put the 3 bosses in the roster as playable characters, that dont make any sense, Goro is playable in the Chalenge Tower, i think they have planed to do DLC but droped because they are way OP and because if they did it the game would kind of become Pay to Win with the online full of scrubs using Shao Kahn.

I have one question, if you dont mind, it is possible to port Kratos from the PS3 version? I have read something about someone porting Kratos but dont remenber who was doing that, is you?

[Howard_Casto]

Well technically it's possible, but we've kind of deemed it not worth the tremendous effort.  As you may or may not know, each character package contains hundreds of files.  On the ps3, the endian of the bytes in the files are reversed.  To switch them back, we'd need to know the exact file structure of every single solitary file in the package as well as the package itself.  Currently we've only mastered textures, materials and a bit of scripting.  On top of that models on the ps3 version are compressed and we don't have any way of extracting them. 

Kahn and the gang could have been modified to be official playable characters easily.  There is scripting to control their move strength and turn some of those moves into unblockables.  All they would have had to do is change the script to make their power more reasonable... it would have took 5 minutes.

If you think not including the bosses in MK9 was a strange decision you should try MKX.  No Shang Tsung, no Kahn, no Noob Saibot..... frikkin Shinnok is the final boss and again they've made several fully playable characters non-playable.   They brought several of the characters back to life that nobody cared about and expanded the uninteresting "special forces" earthlings with children, but most of the ninjas and outworlders are nowhere to be found.  Oh but they have Jason and Predator as DLC so I guess that makes it ok. 

[Resident Evil 2 Akuma]

I kind already knew that porting Kratos would be too much trouble, and i dont even have interest in playing him, my interest was to see if you guys could fix him, like, have you seen how bad Kratos looks receiving some of the Fatalities? And that is  supposed to be intentional, if Sony was not Ok with him receiving a Fatality why put him in the game anyway?

Of course, some balancing should have be made if a release of some sort of DLC like that was made.

Let me ask you other thing i want to know, is there any leftover Motaro assets on MK9? It was so stupid that they made a model of him just for one cutcene!

MKX did not impressed me too much to be honest, the roster is too weak imo, the History mode looks good but i dont play a Fighting Game for that, Jason and Predador are a really nice bonus but for me they dont makeup for a lackluster roster, why Rain, Baraka and Sindel are playable if you change files around? Why didnt they finished those Characters? Why not let the Casie Gang be playable on the Campaing and then have charged they as DLC? That way we could have the Characters that matter and less roster space would be wasted, you can bet that Rain, Baraka and Sindel will be DLC, Shinnok sucks as final boss, why not use him for sub boss and Onaga or Blaze for final boss? I dont know you but i think MK9 still better than MKX!

[Howard_Casto]

The only thing left of Motraro is in one of the ini files.  There is an ini that defines the bones of all the major model types.... there's male, female, shaokan male, shaokan female, and centaur.  The centaur section is completely blank. 

Interestingly enough, there's a bunch of kratos stuff left over.  There are sections in the exe specifically made to block him, and his necropolis picture as well as all of his text is still in the game. 

There is even a mention of khameleon in the exe.

[Resident Evil 2 Akuma]

Those ini files are for the X-Ray animations, right? I remember that i read something about Motaro not being in the game because of that, they could just have made him X-Ray and Fatality invencible! Have you looked into the vanilla disc release of the Xbox360 version? Or that version is also cryptographed?

Interesting stuff, maybe Khameleon was the Xbox360 exclusive character, or maybe not because Khameleon has only appeared in Nintendo ports ... wait a minute, just especulation, but, do you think that a version of MK9 for Wii was in the plans at some point?

[Howard_Casto]

Ok guys, the Ultimate Boss Mod 3.0, now known as Ultimate Mortal Kombat is out:


Features:
Playable Bosses
Playable Klassics
Retro Costumes for the Bosses
Alt Costumes for the Klassics
Alt Costumes for the 4 DLC characters
UMK3 Costumes for Skarlet and Rain

Fully animated endings for the Bosses (no audio, so enable subtitles)
Enhanced Shang Tsung morphing ability. 
Playable Chameleon and Khameleon with proper morphing ability and an alt costume a piece.
A "Boss" necropolis allowing you to view stats and endings of all the new characters (where applicable).
Bios and ect for all the new characters. 
"Press Space" changed to "Press Start"
Noob  changed to Noob Saibot.

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.0

Please follow install instructions carefully and understand that this is for version 1.05 ONLY.  At least for now. 

**EDIT**

I found a minor bug that prevented Freddy from getting installed... until the new version is released, please put this new installer.ini in the DATA folder before installing:

Fixed installer.ini

[SegaOutrun]

welcome back. ima gonna give it a try, although I think I have version 1.0. ill see it i can find the 1.05 patch somewhere

[Howard_Casto]

Thanks. 

If you have the pc version of the game and haven't updated it in a while, you most likely have 1.05.

I've been looking into it and I will eventually support 1.06, the latest version of the game.  It's just every time they changed the frikkin exe the memory addresses were different for the wrapper and the boss blocking patch. 

[SegaOutrun]

when i installed it said i "dont appear to have the right version" but it seems to install just fine. i dont know where u can see what version you have but im pretty sure its 1.0 since i downloaded ages ago and its not a kosher version so it would have not update on its own. this is the only thing that appear in the error log.

Backup Error:  G:\Games\Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition\DiscContentPC\localization\coalesced.fra not found!
Backup Error:  G:\Games\Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition\DiscContentPC\localization\coalesced.por not found!
Backup Error:  G:\Games\Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition\DiscContentPC\localization\coalesced.spa not found

I was able to play as goro and chameleon just fine. anything u want to test?

[Howard_Casto]

Those "errors" aren't particularly threatening.  Those are the foreign language files and some versions of the game don't include them. 

Well most of the mods work across all versions.  The exe is patched to keep the bosses from showing up during regular ladder matches, so that might have goofed up the exe.
The umkke.exe wrapper allows chameleon and shang to morph into other characters, it doesn't work on all exe versions.  Everything else should work fine though.

That's the beauty of diff files. 

[Howard_Casto]

I found a goof in the installer.... see above.

[Howard_Casto]

Ok guys, the Ultimate Boss Mod 3.1, now known as Ultimate Mortal Kombat is out:


Features:
Playable Bosses
Playable Klassics
Retro Costumes for the Bosses
Alt Costumes for the Klassics
Alt Costumes for the 4 DLC characters
UMK3 Costumes for Skarlet and Rain

Fully animated endings for the Bosses (no audio, so enable subtitles)
Enhanced Shang Tsung morphing ability. 
Playable Chameleon and Khameleon with proper morphing ability and an alt costume a piece.
A "Boss" necropolis allowing you to view stats and endings of all the new characters (where applicable).
Bios and ect for all the new characters. 
"Press Space" changed to "Press Start"
Noob  changed to Noob Saibot.

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.1

*EDIT*
  3.1 is out, which adds support for v1.05 AND v1.06   This is just a bugfix release so if you are running 1.05 and the mod worked for you, there is no need to download.

[konp]

Dude, this is awesome, nice work.

One question - any possibility of you being able to add the "psvita exclusive" klassic costumes to the PC version? There's a lineup of them at the bottom of this page. Most of them are the UMK3 costumes for the male ninjas and a handful of other ones.

Considering that most of them are a palette swap (more or less) I can't imagine it'd be too hard for someone of your modding expertise to add - and it'd make at least one MK player extremely happy.

[Howard_Casto]

Actually it would.  First off the vita and vita games can't be hacked.  We've got to be able to get into the files to extract the models.  Secondly even if we could do that they are vita models... that means they are low quality, the endian is reversed, and the models are most likely compressed.  It's the same reasons why Kratos hasn't been ported to the pc basically. 

We still can't swap out models btw, so if you were thinking "just take smokes mkii skin and clone it for the other ninjas" that won't work, unfortunately.  Some of the mods you see on youtube are extremely misleading due to edits.... I think this is by design.  If you see a model doing another character's moves, what they've done is edited the ini file to load the model of another character and made that character their tag partner in a tag team match.  Because both characters are loaded, the game doesn't crash.  Obviously this isn't a proper mod because if some unsuspecting sap selects this costume in a single player game, it'll crash. 

[Howard_Casto]

3.2 is out, you can download here:

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.2

It just adds the non-English language files, so if that doesn't apply to you there isn't any reason to download. 

If it DOES apply to you and you've downloaded 3.1 here are just the files you need:

UMK 3.2 Localization files

[konp]

Awww...

Oh well. I've always loved playing the ninjas in their UMK3 garbs, it's upsetting that I have to resort to my Vita to get that costume goodness.

Eh, maybe one day.

[TheManuel]

Hi, Howard!

First off I sincerely hope the medical issues you were dealing have been resolved or are not serious at this point.  I've seen your name and others on this forum for so many years now that you all feel like old friends.


Terrific job with that mod.  It's fun to have the extra functionality of being able to use the bosses. 

However, I did notice that this doesn't work fully with the current Steam version of MKKE.  The installer complains about my exe version whether I go the 1.05 or 1.06 route.  I still proceeded with the installation and the bosses are available but I had to replace your modded MKKE.exe with the original steam MKKE.exe because it would not launch.

Is this what I'm missing by using the original exe instead of the modded one?:

Well most of the mods work across all versions.  The exe is patched to keep the bosses from showing up during regular ladder matches, so that might have goofed up the exe.
The umkke.exe wrapper allows chameleon and shang to morph into other characters, it doesn't work on all exe versions.  Everything else should work fine though.

Best regards.

[Howard_Casto]

There is a 1.07 version that has been discovered.  A new version will be released soon. 

[TheManuel]

Great!  I look forward to it.  I don't believe NR will be releasing any further versions or patches at this point.

[Malenko]

There is a 1.07 version that has been discovered.  A new version will be released soon.

I have the steam version, I can be your guinea pig 

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah I do now as well, unfortunately.  1.06/1.07 give me stuttering issues on my machine, but I'm sick of people insisting of installing it on their steam builds even though a big giant "hey you have the wrong game version and you probably shouldn't install this" message box pops up and then complaining of "bugs". 

I want to test a few things out before releasing but 1.07 is working.  It should work for 1.05,1.06 and 1.07.... if you don't have one of those versions then you need to upgrade anyway as you don't have all the free DLC content.

[magus90]

Just wanted to drop in and say this is truly impressive.

Hell of a job on this and thank you. I don't have MK running on my PC yet but when i do i will be sure to download this.

[TheManuel]

Yeah I do now as well, unfortunately.  1.06/1.07 give me stuttering issues on my machine, but I'm sick of people insisting of installing it on their steam builds even though a big giant "hey you have the wrong game version and you probably shouldn't install this" message box pops up and then complaining of "bugs". 

I want to test a few things out before releasing but 1.07 is working.  It should work for 1.05,1.06 and 1.07.... if you don't have one of those versions then you need to upgrade anyway as you don't have all the free DLC content.

I didn't meant to complain.  I assumed 1.06 would be the latest and greatest but did not find a way to verify what version my steam build is.
How do you verify the version number?

[Howard_Casto]

I'm not talking about you man.  I've got at least 2 dozen complaints, on MK-related forums, where people are intimately familiar with the game and should know better.

[TheManuel]

Sorry about that...

[Howard_Casto]

You didn't do anything man.   

[Howard_Casto]

Ok 3.3 is done

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.3

Fixes all interim bugs and will auto detect 1.05, 1.06 or 1.07(latest steam) versions.  All other versions are NOT SUPPORTED due to the fact that you are running an old, busted version that doesn't even have all the dlc skins if it's older than 1.05 and you need to upgrade.

I apologize about the poor state of the first page... I'll fix it and post some nice vids when I get time. 

[TheManuel]

Thanks, Howard!
I just noticed this.  I'll definitely give it a try when I get home.

[Howard_Casto]

Ok I updated the first page so people can get an idea of what the mod actually does at this point. 

Man.... youtube has changed their player again and it's super-bitchy about embedding.