This game is great despite having flaws. With the blood code the original arcade fatalities are replicated in some form. The gameplay is good with a six button controller. Although most of the music is new it is great. The title screen theme from the arcade game is present and the composition really pumps you up for the game. The graphics are servable though not as true to the arcade as the SNES version. All the moves and secrets from the arcade seem to be here. Overall a good port of the arcade game.

Mortal Kombat Arcade Edition v1.0a is the definitive version made by Linkuei.

With his permission, Rael G.C. made some graphical improvements:

- Improved Kano, Rayden, Liu Kang, Sub-Zero, Scorpion and Sonya at the character selection screen in order to get closer to the arcade.
- Improved Sub-Zero fatality to show the front size of the heads.
- Reduce the "greenness" of the Goro's Lair new parallax.
- Fixed Johnny Cage skin colors.
- Improved mini avatar for Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Kano.
- Reworked Rayden stance animation and victory standing, restoring the "blue" eyes.
- Reworked Scorpion/Sub-Zero head on victory standing.
- Reworked Sub-Zero sprites on stance animation and victory standing.
- Improved The Pit cloud colors to match the arcade.
- Fixed Sub-Zero walking animation (it was broken, with disappearing arms).
- Fixed Sonya belly, hair and shoes colors.
- Fixed Liu Kang stance animation and victory standing.
- Fixed Kano victory animation (first frame was 2 pixels misplaced to the bottom)
- Made the Genesis soundtrack order the default option.
- Fixed the checksum

There is a detailed description of the changes in the character selection screen here: https://www.romhacking.net/news/2660/

Database match: Mortal Kombat (USA, Europe) (Rev A) (Beta)
Database: No-Intro: Genesis (v. 20210226-213851)
File/ROM SHA-1: 2C4A0618CC93EF7BE8329A82CA6D2D16F49B23E0
File/ROM CRC32: 33F19AB6

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