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Dans Pocket Fighter, on va parler de jeux de combat... mais sur consoles portables | Aussi sur www.youtube.com/@PocketFighterFR | Nerdy account by @jibe.bsky.social
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La sortie de Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection est l’occasion de reposter ma vidéo sur Mortal Kombat Game Boy et Game Gear ! Parce que oui, dans Pocket Fighter on parle de jeux de combat, mais sur console portable : youtu.be/rTABadR0NsQ?...
POCKET FIGHTER - 02 - Mortal Kombat [Game Boy - Game Gear]
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November 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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jibe.bsky.social
I also have a similar interview with Cameron Sheppard who programmed Mortal Kombat II on Game Boy. If you want me to share it too, let me know! 3/3
19. Thank you for adding Goro as a secret character. It’s the only version of the original Mortal Kombat that allow to play as him so far and it was so much fun! I wonder how that happened: was it your idea? How did you come up with it? It was my idea, Goro was quite limited, but he was powerful. Since all the characters were stored in a certain format, it was easy to make Goro controllable. I was just Easter egg in the game. It took an age for people to find it though, I believe that the text in the ROM gave it away ‘the Goro lives in you’ line 20. Talking about Goro, there is this special move (Down + A + B) that makes him disappear completely, making the game running much faster in the process. I always found this move peculiar: was it an oversight or was it intentional? Its was a defence move if I remember correctly, it was written in the last few days of development, it could be buggy too 22. Given that Goro was made playable, why not Shang Tsung, the final boss? You have limited memory and time, which character is cooler Shang Tsung or Goro? Goro wins! 23. About secret characters using already available assets, did you consider including Reptile, the third green ninja who is a mix between Scorpion and Subzero? Was it a memory issue? Reptile wasnt really in mk1, and he was green, the gb has 3 colours, yellow is high contrast, blue is dark, theres no in between on the gb. Also reptile was essentially a free character that cost no memory on the arcade, the programmer just changed the palette for that character, this wasn't possible on gb 24. As a franchise, Mortal Kombat is now well known for its many secrets and Easter eggs. Is there something you hid in the game that is still yet to be discovered? Nope, just bugs. Although my wife is credited in the game. 25. As a gamer, what is your top 5 best games of all time? What's your story as a gamer? I’m not a gamer, but my favourites are games by Rockstar, RDR 1/2, GTA 4/5/6 (but 6 isn’t released yet, (or is it)) 26. What is the game you programmed or managed you're the proudest of? I’m proud of all of them, but was extra fond of I’m proud of all of them, but was extra fond of SimCity for Amstrad and Spectrum (there was a GB version that was never complete, the licensing fell though) 27. What are your current plans and project? Do you still work in the gaming industry? What is Antony Hartley doing nowadays? I moved to Sweden in 1994, but I did do one more game Asteroids Gameboy for Atari/Activision/Syrox in 1999. In 2000 I was an owner partner at Digital Illusion CE AB, since they bought my company Synergenix. Since then I’ve been a Tech Entrepreneur and have started several successful companies, and I still do that. My last few projects have been AI related, and I’m currently working on a product that does brand identity / brand books and Brand DNA. 28. Final question: If you had to develop MK GB again, what would you change? What would you not change? Are you asked a lot about MK nowadays? What would you say to all MK fans out there? A lot of effort went into making the game as fast/optimized as possible, but I wish I could have been quicker, of course while keeping the big sprites. I guess if it were ported to the GBC it would be twice as fast.
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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jibe.bsky.social
I haven’t bought the Kollection yet, so I don’t know if there is extra content or behind the scene content about the Game Boy games, but I think it would be cool to share this with everyone. This was done for an upcoming book I’m writing about fighting games on Game Boy called Pocket Fighter. 2/3
11. You have developed the very first modern fighting game on Game Boy, a system that would receive a surprisingly high amount of fighting games during its long life span. Have you played any other game of this kind on Game Boy later on (MKII and 3, Street Fighter II, Killer Instinct, King of Fighters, etc)? If so, what did you think of it? Not really, I’m not really a game player, I kind to had enough of that. I did write an engine for the GB version of MK II, which I was paid to write, but I don’t think Cameron used it. That was in September 1993. 12. The Game Boy version of Mortal Kombat had 6 playable characters instead of the original 7 in the arcade version: How was made the decision of cutting out Johnny Cage? We just didn’t have enough memory for poor Johnny. 13. Do you remember why it was Johnny Cage that was cut from the game and not an other character? I remember it was Kano who was axed from the Game Gear version so I guess there wasn’t any specific instruction about it? I think cage had more animations, but it wasn't really my call, i made recommendations. 14. I remember seeing previews in magazine that showed early versions of the game, specifically with mostly empty backgrounds and some weird floor tiles (https://www.mksecrets.net/images/mk1/mk1-development09.jpg). There were faces on those graphics, and I’m curious if those graphics came from another game? What is the story behind those faces? Yes, those block ls were place holder graphics, some of them were from Rygar. The faces were pull out of some other graphics in the arcade machine. That was a very early screen shot, probable half way through development. 15. Special move’s inputs were very peculiar, as the player is supposed to input them pretty slowly for them to come out: What was the technical side of it? The game is slower because of the size of the character graphics. About a quarter of every frame is redrawn for every frame, I think it was about 10 FPS. 16. Some of the special move’s inputs were changed from the original version, such as Sub Zero’s ice ball. What was the reason behind this? That was acclaims call, the controller configuration was different, also people felt that it would be good if play had to learn new secrets. That was acclaims call, the controller configuration was different, also people felt that it would be good if play had to learn new secrets. 17. About the finishing moves: They were heavily censured and watered-down on Nintendo systems, because of the firm’s strict policy. Was it you who came up with these new altered versions or were you given specific instructions about it? Just memory limitations. We really didn’t have space in the game for more frames. I don’t really remember altered versions. 18. The Game Gear version of Mortal Kombat was programmed by another team. Did you know this other development team, and did you share your knowledge between each other? It was all done simultaneously, I could only do one at a time, otherwise I would have done the Game Gear version too. Yes, I talked to Keith (the team) about it, yes Keith and Cameron are all old friends. Back in those days, the programmer was the team, the artist would do all their stuff in just a month or so, the music was normally done by a someone in the last few months, we work in separate places most of the time.
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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jibe.bsky.social
Since Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection is out, I shall share an interview I did last year with Antony Hartley, programmer of the infamous and often overlooked Game Boy version of the very first Mortal Kombat (wink @digitaleclipse.bsky.social @noobde.bsky.social @kohler.bsky.social) 1/3
1. Hello Mr Hartley! Can you introduce yourself? I’m a self-taught (an autodidact) who began programming in assembly language when I was just 11 years old. By the time he turned 14, I had my first games published, at the age of 16, I was already a full-time software engineer. I wrote 26 released game SKU’s in a 12 year period. 2. How have you started your career as a game developer? My Grandad was an electronic designer at Decca Navigator, he designed Concordes navigation computer, and he built me my first computer, so I learned to program 6502 code using hex with just 256 bytes of ram. I phone up some local software companies and told them what I had written, they asked me if I could write games for them, so I did. 3. How did you happened to work on Mortal Kombat? What was your role in this development team? I was an independent subcontractor, I had done a lot of work with Probe Software, I was paid about 2000 pounds a week and I had a small royalty in my contract (25p per unit). I was the team mostly, there was a producer “Gary Liddon” who helped me schedule stuff, he also wrote a C program that extracted the original graphics from the arcade machine source code, we all got the full source machine source code, we all got the full source code from Ed Boon at Williams, we had all the assets from the arcade machine, including all the original digital camera images of the martial artist/dancers. I wrote a piece of software that took the original images and converted them, this was an editor / converter that automatically converted all the graphics, it also processed and compressed everything into a number of ROM bank images. Allister Brimble (allisterbrimble.com) did the music using a music engine that was started by Jerone Tel and updated and finished by me. Eric Bailey did some character backgrounds for gameplay and menus like attract mode/start screen/plater select screens/etc, he tidied up and optimized the originals. (Eric was a super cool guy) 4. Did you know about the Mortal Kombat franchise before working on it? It was just released in the arcade, we pretty much got the cabinet when it was released. it was controversial, but only a month old. 5. Did you had any specific instructions for developing this game? Not really, although I would chat with Gary about stuff, although Ed and John had final approval of the finished game. 6. Have you developed a Game Boy game prior to Mortal Kombat? No, it was my first GB game, BTW, I built my own development system for the GB, because I didn’t want to spend 5000 pounds on the Nintendo system. I had worked on Sega Master System and Game gear though. 7. Because of its limitations, did you have any concern about developing a fighting game on Game Boy? Was there any challenge? Many, The game was completely rewritten in GB80, which has no relation to the TMS32010 processor of the original, Ed’s version was massive, my version was ~64x smaller. I wanted to keep the players large, so I used some tricks to do that, the game ended up a little slower, but I felt that it looked better and still played well. I don’t like fighting games with tiny characters, it looks silly. I had to rewrite the whole thing to make it fit. The AI was pretty difficult to do, it was a redesign, but I used some of Ed’s ideas. 8. How much time did you spend on developing the GB version, from beginning to end? Started about November 1992 and was finished in mid-June 1993. 9. The graphics are one of the highlights of Mortal Kombat on Game Boy, especially the big detailed characters sprites. How did you managed to achieve that? It wasn’t possible, the Gameboy doesn’t have big sprites, but I broke the laws of physics. No, I used GB hardware sprites at the edges of the characters and background characters in the middle of the sprites, I cheated, but it costs some processor power to redraw backgrounds. 10. Did the members of the original team (Tobias, Boon, Vogel, Forden) had a look at the game, did approved things or were involved in any way ? What was their feedback? I never heard of Vogel & Forden, perhaps they did sound and other stuff. Ed & John had approval, they said can you make it faster, so I explained, you can have tiny characters or it can run a little slower. They wanted big! 11. You have developed the very first modern fighting game on Game Boy, a system that would receive a surprisingly high amount of fighting games during its long life span. Have you played any other game of this kind on Game Boy later on (MKII and 3, Street Fighter II, Killer Instinct, King of
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
pocketfighter.bsky.social
Quoi de mieux ce week-end qu’une petite vidéo combo exhibition de SNK Vs Capcom Match of the Millenium sur NGPC ? Pas grand chose, on est bien d’accord. youtu.be/FuIgJXG6iNE?...
All Character Combo Exhibition 2025 Capcom Side | SNK vs Capcom Match of the Millennium
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October 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Il y a quelques semaines, la compilation "Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection" a été annoncée, et elle regroupe non seulement les versions arcade mais aussi les adaptations console de salon ET portable. Stephen Frost de Digital Eclipse parle de ce choix youtu.be/CVVeU9xRRRQ?...
Interview With Stephen Frost Of Digital Eclipse, Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection | FATE Chat
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June 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
pocketfighter.bsky.social
Annoncé à l'instant : Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection, avec les MK classiques du 1 au 4 dans leur version arcade, mais aussi console de salon et... consoles portables :) Ca passe pour MKII, le reste cependant... Mais c'est cool.
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · Jun 4
Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection (Digital Eclipse), out 2025

Rollback netkode, arcade/console/handheld versions
June 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
pocketfighter.bsky.social
Woaw! DEAD HEAT FIGHTERS COLLECTION announced for Nintendo Switch, PS5 & Xbox Series @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social @thorgisarcade.bsky.social @jwonggg.bsky.social @maximiliandood.bsky.social youtu.be/-0d1H5xHR3I
Nintendo Switch: DEAD HEAT FIGHTERS COLLECTION | Trailer
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April 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Une rétrospective complète sur la série des Samurai Shodown. Très bien fichue meme si, comme d’habitude, les épisodes portables sont traités sommairement et sévèrement.
mattmcmuscles.bsky.social Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · Feb 21
Did you miss the longest retrospective I've ever made? Then check out me checking out the history of the Samurai Shodown franchise!
WATCH - youtu.be/1yQoCrZBfIo
February 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Le bonbon de début d’année (poke @tmdjc.bsky.social )
brandon.insertcredit.com Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · Jan 1
For SNK vs Capcom Match of the Millennium's 25th anniversary, Rockman Pocket has done a 17 minute video showcasing broken combos, but also the depth of the system in general. Worth a look for fighting game enthusiasts.
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SNK vs Capcom: The Match of the Millennium | 25th Anniversary Broken Combo Festival | 頂上決戦コンボ祭り
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January 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Rappel que ce soir à 18h c’est le dernier podcast de BGP en live sur twitch.tv/basgrospoing !
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Articles streams et podcasts sur le jeu de bagarre depuis 2009. On aime les sticks et les blagues bêtes.
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December 15, 2024 at 10:19 AM
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Le podcast historique des jeux de baston en France cesse malheureusement ses activités en fin d'année. Merci à eux pour toutes ces émissions, le site et tout le reste !
basgrospoing.fr Bas Gros Poing @basgrospoing.fr · Dec 3
Hello !

Le 24 décembre ça fera 15 ans que le premier podcast de BGP a été publié ! Pour fêter ça, on fera une émission spéciale, qu'on enregistrera en live sur Twitch le 15 décembre 2024 vers 19h.

Et enfin, le 25 décembre 2024, ce sera la fin de Bas Gros Poing. 👋 1/3
December 3, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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Suite et fin de notre podcast fleuve avec @tmdjc.bsky.social à propos de SNK vs Capcom sur Neo Geo Pocket Color www.youtube.com/watch?v=af2h... 3h30 supplémentaires pour parler de l'un des meilleurs jeu de combat sur console portable !
SUPER POCKET FIGHTER MINIMIX - 04 - SNK vs Capcom: The Match of the Millennium - Team Capcom (NGPC)
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December 2, 2024 at 9:58 AM
pocketfighter.bsky.social
Suite et fin de notre podcast fleuve avec @tmdjc.bsky.social à propos de SNK vs Capcom sur Neo Geo Pocket Color www.youtube.com/watch?v=af2h... 3h30 supplémentaires pour parler de l'un des meilleurs jeu de combat sur console portable !
SUPER POCKET FIGHTER MINIMIX - 04 - SNK vs Capcom: The Match of the Millennium - Team Capcom (NGPC)
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December 2, 2024 at 9:58 AM
pocketfighter.bsky.social
Y’a de quoi aimer YouTube. J’uploade une vidéo vendredi dernier pour la première fois depuis trois ans sur la chaîne et ce soir je reçois ça :
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December 1, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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Killer Instinct - two-page Game Boy ad (1995).
November 20, 2024 at 7:38 PM
pocketfighter.bsky.social
Chose promise, chose due, y'a du neuf sur la chaine YouTube ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHqD... (poke @tmdjc.bsky.social )
SUPER POCKET FIGHTER MINIMIX - 03 - SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium - Team SNK (NGPC)
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November 29, 2024 at 6:33 PM
pocketfighter.bsky.social
Ici, on va parler de jeux de combat, mais sur consoles portables. Restez connectés, bientôt un upload sur la chaine YouTube : www.youtube.com/@PocketFight... !
Pocket Fighter
Dans Pocket Fighter, on va parler de jeux de combat... Mais sur consoles portables.
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November 28, 2024 at 6:50 PM