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Pocket Fighter
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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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Et enchaînons avec la vidéo sur les suites sur Game Boy et Game Gear, pour avoir une vue d’ensemble sur le sujet : youtu.be/M-eMjFxa57Y?...
POCKET FIGHTER - 03 - Mortal Kombat II [Game Boy - Game Gear]
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November 8, 2025 at 7:59 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
pocketfighter.bsky.social
En tout cas j'ai hâte de me taper en ligne sur MKII Game Boy :3
June 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
pocketfighter.bsky.social
On peut faire confiance à Digital Eclipse pour inclure un maximum de versions dans leurs compilations, y compris des jeux Game Boy, comme sur les compils Aladdin/Roi Lion ou Jurassic Park. C'est pas parce qu'elles sont "moins bien" que ces versions sont vouées à l'oubli.
June 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
pocketfighter.bsky.social
Et je suis content que les devs en ait conscience. Je me rappelle avoir été déçu par la compil des 30 ans de Street Fighter, qui n'avait que les versions arcade. Tous mes copains et moi jouions sur SNES et rien d'autre, c'était celle-là notre version, avec son identité propre.
June 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
pocketfighter.bsky.social
Avec le temps (et l'émulation surtout), on a pu se familiariser avec les versions originales. Pourtant, en ce qui me concerne, les versions arcade ne sont pas "mes" jeux. Ceux pour lesquels j'ai de la nostalgie sont ceux avec lesquels j'ai joué des heures entières dans ma chambre.
June 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
pocketfighter.bsky.social
Et je trouve son avis très intéressant et pertinent. Tout le monde n'a pas forcément eu la chance ou les moyens financiers de se forger des souvenirs sur les versions arcade de tout un tas de jeux. On devait se contenter de portage plus ou moins réussis, y compris sur portable.
June 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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April 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
pocketfighter.bsky.social
La première partie est disponible ici : youtu.be/iHqDRbZ6Kl4?...
SUPER POCKET FIGHTER MINIMIX - 03 - SNK vs Capcom: The Match of the Millennium - Team SNK (NGPC)
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December 2, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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C’est pas super grave parce que de toute façon j’en ferais jamais une chaîne mainstream, mais j’ai l’impression d’avoir été puni pour avoir pensé à réalimenter la chaîne, et je trouve ça un peu contreproductif.
December 1, 2024 at 10:43 PM