Over the Winter holiday, idiosyncratic filled each Mortal Kombat appreciators’ Christmas stockings up with thing a lil’ extra: Mortal Kombat II’s root codification connected GitHub. The lawyers astatine Warner Bros. took objection to this by issuing a swift DMCA takedown notice that Github adhered to by disabling nationalist access—but don’t fret, arsenic determination are different ways to cheque retired the contented dump.

Initially reported by Exputer, the Github station was uploaded to the net hosting work connected December 27 earlier getting reshared connected the r/MortalKombat subreddit. While MK II’s full root codification is nary longer disposable acknowledgment to that DMCA takedown, that hasn’t stopped MK fans from reuploading sprites and artwork connected societal media.

The astir notable elements of contented that the MK II root codification dump unearthed was unused animations, artwork, and moves that didn’t marque the chopped for the game’s merchandise successful ‘93. One portion of artwork was an alternate attract mode surface featuring an oiled-up Shao Khan. Although the alternate sheet of Sindel’s spurned person looks the aforesaid arsenic MK II’s last Shao Khan pull mode screen, the unused artwork has a clump of cloaked wizards connected floating platforms successful the inheritance alternatively of a roaring fire. According to Polygon, the archetypal artwork is much imposing due to the fact that it illustrates however stacked the likelihood are against Earth Realm. Honestly, yeah, a clump of platforming wizards is leagues scarier than a generic flame, particularly if you’ve had the misfortune of playing the ‘97 bushed ‘em up spin-off, Mortal Kombat Mythologies.

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The MK II leak besides showcased immoderate antecedently unused sprite animation and moves. If you don’t person clip to parse done a nearly-three-hour YouTube video of immoderate dude scrubbing done the GitHub files, here’s a detailed Twitter thread compiling each of the astir notable findings, Twitter idiosyncratic Pegasus Kid combed done the leak and uploaded a broad thread of chopped moves, signifier art, and fatalities. My favourite sprite, since everyone was wondering, is Kintaro locomotion rhythm animation due to the fact that it’s timed perfectly to the euphony successful the Metal Gear Solid but its the Dr. Livesey Meme video.

Kotaku reached retired to Warner Bros. and Nether Realm studios for comment.