Midway has released a second fix for the recently released
Midway Arcade Treasures: Deluxe Edition for the PC. In the
latest knowledge base update, the developers have addressed the start button mapping bug that prevented the enabling of the hidden
Smoke Battle and the random select feature in
Mortal Kombat 2.
This patch follows the
first update which added the background tracks back to every game in
Midway Arcade Treasures 2.
The following patch has been developed to enable the Dan Forden "Toasty!" - Smoke Fight encounter in Mortal Kombat 2, on the Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition for the PC.
Download the Patch to your PC and then double click the patch file (Mat2mkPatch.exe). The patch will make the updates to your installed game that will enable both the Smoke Fight Easter Egg, as well as the random select feature from the character select screen.
In our previous
mini review of
MAT: Deluxe Edition, we documented the lack of addressing the start button mapping issue that plagued the initial console release of
Midway Arcade Treasures 2 and the missing background tracks from every game in
MAT 2. It was this same start button mapping issue that was rumored to be the sole reason why the PAL versions of
Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks was missing the unlockable
Mortal Kombat II bonus, due to
Sony Europe's QA department rejection.
Now that these two major issues have been fixed, there still lingers the smaller issues of the flickering and missing player shadows and a minor sound problem with
Kitana's fan attack when blocked by an opponent. Given that
Midway and
Digital Eclipse seem to be conscious of the issues that keep
Mortal Kombat II from being arcade perfect, perhaps we could see these issues addressed in a future patch as well.
We have to applaud
Midway for taking the time to address these issues in
Midway Arcade Treasures: Deluxe Edition. With the erradication of these two major bugs, we start to tip towards the side of actually recommending a purchase of this title for the die-hard classic
Mortal Kombat arcade fan, especially if you already have some decent PC gamepads.
Thanks to
Kurgan from the
GameFAQs Message Boards.