Mortal Kombat 1+2+3

Still a nice bash-em-up, spent way, way to many afternoons on this as a teenager at the arcade. Graphics - Then: Great Now: Poor Sound - Then: Great Now: Average Gameplay Difficulty- Then: DarkSouls Now: StarWars Jedi Fallen Order Using a joystick. Hmmph. I have an Xbox controller. I read and tried what others have said about changing joystick settings. Nothing worked, total drift fest. Then I searched Dosbox's own site and found this nugget:cycles. By default your cycles will be set to either auto or max. Both produce drift. You can ignore the joystick settings in the config. Change the cycles and it works. First, find the dosboxMortalKombat.conf in the Mortal Kombat directory. Open it with Notepad. Scroll down or set find to cpu. At the end of the section you'll see: core=auto cputype=auto cycles=auto cycleup=1000 cycledown=1000 Change it. Here's mine: core=auto cputype=auto cycles=fixed 18000 cycleup=1000 cycledown=1000 The lower the cycles figure, the slower the game will run. Obviously you'll need to experiment to find the best for your PC. And..that's it. MK I with working Xbox controller. P.S. My cpu is a Ryzen 5 2400, if that helps. Also, most powers are dabbing the controller toward bottom left or right depending on direction faced, and hitting punch.

I miss the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection on the PS3 like you wouldn’t believe. PROS: It’s still technically Mortal Kombat CONS: Only has the vanilla MK3 and not Ultimate MK3, no online play, setting up the controller is annoying, I could only ever get the thumbstick to work and not the D-pad, screen was all stretched out on mine (maybe there is a fix), the character select screen for MK3 only gives you what feels like a millisecond to select a character. THE CONTROLLER ISSUE: I am extremely new to PC gaming and even I was able to figure out how to get a controller working, just follow that guy in the reviews tutorial. I set my layout how I had it for the MK Arcade Kollection on the PS3. Controller used: 8BitDo SN30 pro+ W = Up Thumbstick S = Down Thumbstick A = Left Thumbstick D = Right Thumbstick G = Square (HP) F = Triangle (HK) Q = R1 (BLOCK) E = Cross (LP) R = Circle (LK) T = L1 (Run) F1 = Start F10 = Select

Now that these ports are part of the GOG preservation - they run a lot better! Sadly, the 4 stars is you cannot plug a controller, & play outright. Other than that, I sure hope GOG can fix this in the future or maybe we'll get the remastered versions later this year.

I've played all three Mortal Kombat games in this bundle and I'll say that they're good offerings. They're based on the DOS versions of Mortal Kombat that came out back in the 90s so if you have memories of that, you're definitely in the right place. There are specific commands that you should seek out for these DOS versions in order to know what the default key assignments are and how to get into the game's menu for things like dip switches, unlimited credits, etc. (at least a few reviews on this site point the way as to what those keys are). You're also able to map keyboard keys in DOSBox to a controller that you have plugged into your computer so there's that. Now, once you have the controls setup to your liking, you're playing Mortal Kombat! MK1 plays responsively and is... as you might remember it, with all of its fun and quirks. MK 2 is much the same story and I've even been told that its one of the more forgiving home ports of the game. MK3 plays like a dream and is close to the arcade having CD quality soundtrack instead of MIDI this time. Overall a good bargain but just keeping in mind that key binding or rebinding in DOSBox is recommended.

In MK1 and MK2 you can set up the keys on your controller and play if you follow instructions on gog support page, but in UMK3 the character keeps jumping backwards all the time, keys don't respond to what you push and it seems like someone else is pushing the buttons simultaneously when you're doing it. I bought this release mainly for UMK3 so I give 2 stars because of that