MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Anyone try the Mortal Kombat bundle for the PC?

> If You can have MAME for free, I can see no reason for buying this game.
> 1. No HD
> 2. No any improvements
> Even in MAME You can play on-line. They throw us(PC gamers) bones, instead they
> should port/make Mortal Kombat 9 to PC !
> M0th€r Fu¢k€r$ !

Generally, PC versions of arcade/console games take a back seat so that consoles retain their selling point, it's also believed that consoles are generally faster than the PC of the same era (e.g. the PS2 from 2000 vs a PC from 2000, it's obviously not going to be a Core 2 Duo, more like a 833MHz-1GHz Pentium III), so either the game would have to be fully reworked to run on the slower system, or give it a year or two and PCs will catch up (or, if the PC was already fast enough upon the game's release, it probably costed somewhere in the 4-digit range, unlike the console of the same era, so after a year or two the prices of PC components drop dramatically).

The Grand Theft Auto series is a good example (starting with GTA3, since GTA1 and 2 were designed for the PC), and the PC versions are always enhanced over their Sony counterparts (e.g. selectable video resolutions instead of 640x480i/512i on the PS2, ability to have longer draw distance, anti-aliasing, keyboard+mouse controls, custom MP3 files for music instead of the built-in 'radio' stations, just to name a few in GTA San Andreas). Of course, with all these enhancements comes a lot of bugs as well, since the PC kiddies are nagging the game developers to release it as early as possible. Once released they then complain that it runs way too slow on their archaic P3 with a Geforce 2... game developers can't win!