Mortal Kombat II [Genesis] - play as Kintaro
35This is a playthrough of single player mode using Kintaro in the Genesis/Mega Drive version of Mortal Kombat II. Read on below for more information...
Kintaro is the penultimate boss in the game, and he is an unplayable character.
===== ABOUT GENESIS MK2 KINTARO =====
Kintaro is an unplayable/non-selectable boss character in all official versions of MKII. Even if you used external methods (Action Replay, Game Genie, etc.) to select him and the player tried controlling him, it would cause loads of glitches and crashes, making it somewhat pointless unless you did it for curiosity and/or experimental purposes. Literally anything you did with him caused the game to crash, and this applies especially to the Arcade and SNES versions of him.
The Genesis/Mega Drive MK2 Kintaro however, is a bit different because under human control, he is far more "lenient" than the Arcade and SNES versions of him. This means you can actually do a lot of things with him without the game freezing. The best thing is that he actually has "moves" that damage the opponent (which can be repeated), so that combined with the control "leniency", makes it possible to actually beat the game with him in single-player mode, as long as you're careful and avoid doing the things which can crash the game!
Another thing that helps greatly is that Kintaro has a bit of CPU-control embedded in the character, in which he momentarily automatically performs proper moves to hurt the opponent if activated. This is explained in more detail in the Additional Information section below.
===== ADDITIONAL INFORMATION =====
---- As mentioned earlier, he has a little bit of CPU-control embedded within him. You can activate the CPU for a temporary moment with certain moves from the opponent, such as having him block the opponent's rapid LPs, which will cause Kintaro to automatically throw the opponent. Sometimes, you even get the roar Taunt afterwards as well. You can see examples of this happening at 04:07 and 06:50.
---- His sprites do not seem to be able to appear on the character select screen.
---- When playing as him as a registered character, he is locked to the Kahn's Arena stage in fights. The only way to get him on another stage (as a registered character) is if his opponent is one of the hidden characters on the blue Portal stage.
---- His icon on the "battle plan" screen is his proper own icon (as normally seen on the battle plan above Shang Tsung's icon).
---- He does not have an alternative colour palette.
---- Sometimes one of his attacks inflicts almost a whole lifebar of damage!
---- As mentioned earlier, he actually has glitched moves that can damage the opponent. And you can repeat them without the game freezing. These damage hits are the same ones as when CPU Kintaro hits you; the only problem is that the animation sprites for the move are all wrong.
---- Obviously, you cannot perform any of Kintaro's moves correctly. This also applies to his two special moves (the Fireball and Teleport Stomp). Only a CPU-controlled Kintaro can do these.
---- Under human control, he cannot even turn around properly nor get up properly after being knocked down.
---- When against the CPU, the CPU opponents have the ability to "force throw", meaning that it makes them technically able to throw the bosses. If this happens against Kahn, it will freeze the game. The same goes for Kintaro's throw.
---- In this version of the game, when fighting against CPU Kahn, the announcer still says "Fight!" and has the Fight text animation.
---- If you manage to beat the game with him, he "jumps" down onto the screen, and his "ending" will show a lot of scrolling glitched text. As the glitched text gets more severe, the game will crash. You can see this starting around 12:06 in the video.
---- In a Kintaro mirror match, it can cause some graphical flickering.
===== CHAPTERS =====
00:00 - Intro, Title, Menu, Character Select, Battle Plan
00:47 - Regular fights
09:18 - vs. Shang Tsung
10:04 - vs. Kintaro
10:59 - vs. Shao Kahn
11:49 - Shao Kahn defeated scene and congratulations
12:06 - "Ending" (glitched text and then crashes)
12:30 - Message
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