Mortal Kombat’s legal representatives closed down interesting leakage of MK2 source code

Image: NetherRealm Studios/ WB Games

The source code for 1993’s Mortal Kombat 2 was released to GitHub over the vacations, allegedly disclosing brand-new art work as well asan alternative storyline Now Warner Bros.’ legal representatives have actually obtained entailed, submitting a DMCA takedown need that GitHub has actually recognized. Naturally, all this has drawn renewed attention to the leakage.

The code arrived on GitHub in aDec 27 blog post, as well as with it, photos of an alternating, attract-mode screen establishing the battling game’s story. The tale is still the exact same; Shang Tsung, advocating his life, is provided a respite fromShao Khan Shang Tsung after that entices the Earthrealm kombatants to combat a competition in the Outworld “where they will meet certain death by Shao Kahn himself.”

Image: NetherRealm Studios using tehdrewsus_MK on Twitter

The alternative display has the exact same photo of Shao Kahn flexing, yet places it over a history revealing a dimensional site with shadowy wicked wizards behind-the-scenes. It does not actually alter Mortal Kombat 2‘s tale, yet it does go a little more to market the concept that nonplayable managers Kintaro as well as Shao Kahn have a residence area benefit in the Outworld.

On Friday, somebody fromWarner Bros Discovery (the company moms and dad of NetherRealm Studios as well as as a result Mortal Kombat’s copyright owner) sent a DMCA request to GitHub, which after that cleaned the archive of product from the website. It had actually been posted by the user historicalsource, that has actually uploaded source code for various other old video clip games in the past.

The source code dump additionally revealed other animations, combos, and fighter moves that weren’t utilized in the gallerygame Mortal Kombat followers have already combed through everything, locating a junked Shao Kahn death (his clenched fist comes with a website over his target’s head, squashing them level) along with Reptile doing a mid-air Acid Spit, to name a few points.

Polygon has actually connected to WB Games as well as NetherRealm Studios for talk about the dripped code as well as cutting-room flooring computer animations.

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Source: Polygon

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