Frequently Asked Questions:
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Please note these FAQs are out-of-date. I'm working on redoing this page.
Why start a site just about glitches?
Because I like them, silly. There's an abundance of them in the MK game series, and some of them are quite interesting (not to mention elusive). I've wanted to start an MK site for a while now, but I only decided to follow through with it after MKDA was released and my interest in the series was revived. To my knowledge, this is the biggest (and unless I'm seriously overlooking something, the only) archive of MK glitches on the net.How did MKS come about?
It crossed my mind to do a site like after my brother and I stumbled across a way to play as the boss/hidden characters in MK2 for the Genesis. I slammed out a site design, cobbled together a list of MK1 and MK2 codes, and then lost interest in the project and forgot about it. When I was brainstorming ideas for an MK site recently (there's more than enough general purpose MK news sites out there- I wasn't feeling thrilled about adding one more to the mix), it occured to me that now would be as good a time as any to release Mortal Kombat Shin.Shin? Huh?
Japanese for 'new', or 'true'.Your site design is plain and boring. Die now.
:'( I could've made a fancy-shmancy design for MKS, but that would've taken away from the fact that this is supposed to be a reference site of sorts. It's interesting to note that this design is a revamped version of the first MKS design from a few years back, and I believe that makes it one of the first site designs I ever did. The minimalistic design keeps the focus right on the site content, where it belongs. If the default design scheme doesn't do anything for you, there's two more to choose from. Simply click on one of those small colorful boxes next to the gray and blue W3C icons. If MKS gets popular enough, I'll add some more skins to it (and perhaps impliment a means for users to customize the design).When I try to change the skin, nothing happens!
You probably have cookies switched off. You have to have cookies enabled to switch skins on the site. However, if you're using Mozilla or Netscape Navigator 6.0, you can choose from the different skins by picking them as alternate stylesheets for the site (which I've included).Why not think up some more creative names besides "blue", "red", and "green" for the skins?
I was planning on doing this back when I started updating the site design (blue was Frost, red was Blaz, and green was Reptile). After I was finished with the skins script and the stylesheets, however, I remembered that TRMK (one of the best MK sites on the net, by the way) had a similar angle for their site theme personalizer. I don't want anyone thinking that I was trying to rip them off, so I'm probably just going to stick with colors for a while.
How do I submit glitches?
First (and probably the most effective) would be to submit your glitch to the unsorted glitches section of the site. You can do so automatically. There, people can see it among a list of other unsorted glitches until I get a chance to see it, test it, and send it to the appropriate section. You can also e-mail me the glitch, but I'd much rather you send it through the unsorted section so I don't confuse your glitch with the multitude of spam I get and delete it.OMFG I FOUND OUT HOW TO DO STAGE FATALITIES (WELL AT LEAST I THINK IT'LL WORK, LET'S TRY IT!!!)
Nooooooooo. No no no. I'm not interested in sifting through fake glitches, and I'm sure no one else is either. Don't bother submitting a code unless you're sure it's going to work. Pretty please.man fuck u n00b im going 2 fuck up ur unsorted page faget
K. Just bear in mind I have banning capabilities set up on the unsorted page, as well as provisions to keep users from flooding the list.I submited a glitch and you didn't give me credit when you put it up.
Sorry. The script I have automatically transfers accepted glitches to their appropriate section. If you see a glitch up that you submited and you don't have credit, it was probably already in the section before you submited it.I came up with such and such glitch first. Take it off your site immediately.
Um, no. You don't own the glitch, and you don't have any real way of knowing that you truly discovered the glitch first.
One of the glitches doesn't work.
Do me a favor and let me know about it so I can fix the problem.You used an emulator to take those screenshots.
Yes. I also own all of the MK games that I have ROMs of. I don't support videogame piracy on this site, but for documentating the glitches, the screenshots that you can snag with an emulator are indespensable.It says that using this code will crash my game. Is that dangerous?
It shouldn't be. If you use the glitch and the game crashes, just restart your console or emulator.How does the "sort by relevancy" option work? Who decides what's relevant and what isn't?
Me. It's more subjective than I'd like, but it'll work for the moment. When I add glitches to their appropriate section, I assign them a value of 1-10 (1 being least relevant and 10 being most relevant). When you choose the sort by relevancy option, it queries the database that the glitches are in and sorts them by the relevancy values in descending order. If MKS gets popular enough, I'll update it into a voting system where everyone gets input on the relevancy of the glitches.I notice that you don't have a picture for such and such glitch. Can I send one in?
Yes. Ideally, every glitch on MKS would have a screenshot (providing the glitch affects the graphics and not something like the sound or controls, in which case a screenshot would be useless. I'll give you credit for the screenshot, of course.I wrote up a detailed account of a glitch on my website. Would you link to it in the appropriate glitch section?
Love to. Providing it's not just rehashing the information found here, of course.
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