Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Playthrough with Cyrax. This game is way too hard, the CPU goes absolutely ballistic after the first few opponents. When the round starts, just block, usually the opponent will always run towards you at 100 miles per hour and combo you, block it then try to catch them with the net. If they get hit by the net, follow it up with a combo, then move close. Then net, combo, repeat. The CPU will always get hit by the net if done at point blank range.
As with the arcade version, Cyrax's net can sometimes glitch. If you try and uppercut a netted opponent, sometimes the uppercut will miss for no reason. Combos will sometimes not work correctly either, both things are extremely annoying due to how it can give the CPU a massive advantage. Motaro isn't too hard to beat, if he jumps in, do a neutral jump, then as you land combo him and repeat. Motaro's grab move is glitched in this port, as he can grab you whilst you're in the air.
Shao Kahn is completely over-powered in this game, just look at what happens in the second round -I was holding block the entire time, and because all of his moves cause you to stagger back even if you block, I couldn't do anything and he could just keep attacking. They did not give any of Kahn's moves anywhere near enough recovery frames in MK3. The general plan to beat him is to hit him with a net, uppercut him, then run in and do Cyrax's biggest combo, then repeat. Do not try to combo Kahn if he's in the corner -the combo never seems to connect properly.
I made a save state at 6:25 due to a glitch in the Flashback version of this game. Sometimes, when you uppercut the opponent into the above stage, the game freezes. All you can do is go back to the Flashback's menu and quit the game. See this video for more details:
youtube.com/watch?v=pQDBfR0AA_I
I had some controller issues with this game. As I've mentioned before, the wireless controllers the Flashback comes with are terrible, so I used an original Mega Drive 6 button pad instead. But I couldn't get Cyrax's stage fatality to work at all in this version, and his bomb moves appear to be glitched -I couldn't get the commands for them working, and I don't know how the one I used against Motaro happened, I didn't input the command for the move. Note how the bomb doesn't explode -it's a glitch in the Mega Drive version which happens when fighting either of the bosses.
Playthrough with Cyrax. This game is way too hard, the CPU goes absolutely ballistic after the first few opponents. When the round starts, just block, usually the opponent will always run towards you at 100 miles per hour and combo you, block it then try to catch them with the net. If they get hit by the net, follow it up with a combo, then move close. Then net, combo, repeat. The CPU will always get hit by the net if done at point blank range.
As with the arcade version, Cyrax's net can sometimes glitch. If you try and uppercut a netted opponent, sometimes the uppercut will miss for no reason. Combos will sometimes not work correctly either, both things are extremely annoying due to how it can give the CPU a massive advantage. Motaro isn't too hard to beat, if he jumps in, do a neutral jump, then as you land combo him and repeat. Motaro's grab move is glitched in this port, as he can grab you whilst you're in the air.
Shao Kahn is completely over-powered in this game, just look at what happens in the second round -I was holding block the entire time, and because all of his moves cause you to stagger back even if you block, I couldn't do anything and he could just keep attacking. They did not give any of Kahn's moves anywhere near enough recovery frames in MK3. The general plan to beat him is to hit him with a net, uppercut him, then run in and do Cyrax's biggest combo, then repeat. Do not try to combo Kahn if he's in the corner -the combo never seems to connect properly.
I made a save state at 6:25 due to a glitch in the Flashback version of this game. Sometimes, when you uppercut the opponent into the above stage, the game freezes. All you can do is go back to the Flashback's menu and quit the game. See this video for more details:
youtube.com/watch?v=pQDBfR0AA_I
I had some controller issues with this game. As I've mentioned before, the wireless controllers the Flashback comes with are terrible, so I used an original Mega Drive 6 button pad instead. But I couldn't get Cyrax's stage fatality to work at all in this version, and his bomb moves appear to be glitched -I couldn't get the commands for them working, and I don't know how the one I used against Motaro happened, I didn't input the command for the move. Note how the bomb doesn't explode -it's a glitch in the Mega Drive version which happens when fighting either of the bosses.
