Talk:Mortal Kombat 4

Year of release

can somebody add the year mk4 was created, as well as other mk's ; mk1, mk2,mk3,mkt in their respective articles.

This page desperately needs some screenshots. Buzda 09:32, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Reiko Link

Shouldn't the link to Reiko lead to his character page?

Removal of "Character Bios and Endings:" section

I removed this section because it was redundent—all the character bio information can be found on the individual character articles, and it isn't necessary to include the endings for every character. In addition to this, the section looked very clumsy and messy. Jeff Silvers 07:21, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

• First of all, it wasn't clumsy and messy, the character bios were meant to serve as giving that character's storyline for the game. Also the character's pages don't tell you all that exactly what words were described, I guess felt it would be good to put them there. How would you do it, if you were the ones putting your time and effort into doing those sections?PNF 16:06, 26 February 2006 (UTC)Proud Nintendo Fan

Actually, I just wouldn't create the section. There's no need to fully transcribe every bio and ending from the game; it's unencyclopedic. Jeff Silvers 00:08, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

random things

Quan Chi was not the subboss in the arcade version. Before Goro being added to the home version there was no subboss at all.

Quan Chi, Fujin and Shinnok did not make their first appearances in a game in MKM. MK4 came out before MKM.

What is this about Kano? Jarek has Kano's moves but I have never heard anything about Kano being in MK4 at any time or having his "skin texture" turned into Jarek.

The bit about MK4 being released as a public alpha test is misleading. Revision 1, the first real nation wide release, had 12 of the 15 playable characters. The only public version to be missing about half the characters was the early stops on the road tour(9 characters) but that was only ever intended to be a preview. Also calling Noob an "obvious place holder" is inaccurate. He was changed into Reiko but was not a place holder. He was intended to be in the game until they made the switch. He had a selection screen picture, the annoucer called his name and he was playable on the road tour. Up until the development of revision 2 he was always planned to be in the game.

MK4 is sucks

STFU!! And where the f*ck did you get all this info?? Mkrox (talk) 06:10, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion?

For the image of the character select screen, when the format of EVERY article on a MK arcade game has such a shot?

The rationales are given alongside the photo. I'm deleting this advisory, and if someone has the nerve to vandalize this page by removing that image, I'll be adding it back. Try reading before saying that something has no rationale, and more importantly FOLLOW THE PROCEDURE if you're going to nominate something for deletion. Your formatting and links to any discussion for speedy deletion are bordering on reportable abuse of the system.

24.128.63.214 19:26, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't see a fair use rationale listed on that image, but maybe you are referring to something different. Leebo ^T/C 19:43, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Sigh...one would think that in 21 or so years on the planet, one would have learned to read for content. Here's some quotes, so maybe you'll read them this time. The photo is allowed by wikipedia's rules because it is:

"a limited number of web-resolution screenshots

for identification and critical commentary on the computer or video game in question [and] the copyrighted character(s) or item(s) depicted on the screenshot in question"

End of story. And yes, I copy-pasted that right from the image page. If I could find it, why can't you? Blinded eyes? 24.128.63.214 19:57, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

That's a boilerplate license template, not a fair use rationale. Read the bottom where it indicates a more detailed rationale is required. Please stop accusing me of not reading, your comments are uncivil. Leebo ^T/C 20:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Civility is overrated, and in my experience on WP, it's a final refuge of those who have otherwise lost an argument.

So, what you're saying is that in addition to having a template, which exists solely for automating the process of providing information as to why something is valid under a (fairly standard) free-use license standard, one must manually retype what is in the template in order for it to be valid? 24.128.63.214 20:09, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

The {{Non-free media rationale}} template is designed to provide a more complete rationale. The boilerplate template is simply to establish what the license is. Besides, the template you informed me I was not reading indicates in bold text to the uploader that a more detailed rationale is required. It can be manually typed, or done with another template, but it's clear that the one on there isn't satisfactory alone. Leebo ^T/C 20:12, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the delayed response. I was just confirming my previous suspicions. Indeed, while the {{game-screenshot}} template does request a more thorough rationale be given, that addendum to the template was made after the image's posting on WP, a fact you have clearly overlooked. Indeed, the template seems to have served in its role for more time without that addendum than with it.

Regardless, I have added the requested rationale, and am deleting the deletion tags. If indeed your project's goal is to make Wikipedia a better place, you'd do a better job by taking the bigger picture into account, looking at cases in question and discerning which is a careless violation of current policy, as opposed to images like this which obviously grandfather that policy. Perhaps a better approach would be to do what I did for this older image, and provide a (self-evident) rationale. It took me all of a minute to satisfy the request. Of course, this is more time than it takes to automatically flag images en masse for deletion, and this will probably result in a less boast-worthy number in the future (if one wishes an adminship, for example), but it will result in a better WP, and not one barren of useful images. A better WP should be your goal. 24.128.63.214 20:56, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

The Date of the N64 version of Mortal Kombat 4 is wrong!

The date is wrong! Mortal Kombat 4 on the N64 didn't came out in 2000 it actually came out on June 23,1998 in the US and on Europe on September 15,1998.Shadowsega75 (talk) 14:34, 25 April 2008 (UTC)Shadowsega75

Yea you're right Brodonka (talk) 14:55, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

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Orphaned references in Mortal Kombat 4

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Mortal Kombat 4's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "NG":

• From Street Fighter EX: "Finals". Next Generation. No. 35. Imagine Media. November 1997. p. 196.
• From Sega Saturn: "Namco". Next Generation. Vol. 1, no. 1. January 1995. pp. 70–73.
• From Injustice: Gods Among Us: "Injustice: Gods Among Us Review". NowGamer. 2013-04-22. Retrieved 2015-05-19.

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