Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 - A Complete Speedrunning History

[@PNDKM]

Get in the MK Speedrunning Discord!: discord.gg/RxuJWQT Worth noting that the Wolfmame INP wasn't introduced because any top runners were cheating, it mostly came down to new runners coming out of the woodwork and submitting faked runs. Users that haven't submitted a INP time since it was introduced have simply just not been running the game since! I really do want to extend a huge thanks to the MK Speedrunning community for being so helpful. I was involved for a few years but there were a lot of blank spaces that needed to be filled. Couldn't have done it without them! I'll be posting the Discord link as soon as I have it. Hope you enjoy this unique piece of MK history! - Ketchup

[@KyomaGaming]

byspeed is a brazilian famous streamer (and unbeatable in snes/n64 mk's) who beat down lots of records before but people also called him cheater just because his records were much better than the actual ones, even if no one could prove it he cheated (guess why? because he didn't) I hope it's not about him you're talking about 'fake runs', because they was banned from speedrunnning just for solely being much better than his competition, i saw him playing live and anyone who thinks he's fake should just check his channel (if it's not about him you spoke about, you should check it anyway because he's so good)

[@PNDKM]

@@KyomaGaming I wasn't talking about Byspeed. The comment you've just replied to clearly states byspeed and parallax weren't the players in question. Byspeed isn't banned by any means. He's absolutely welcome to keep submitting runs using inp verification. I love the guy. We worked together on the South American portion of my Trilogy MK Meta.

[@PNDKM]

I wouldn't use cheaters on the video If it's about covering the true history. Everybody in this video is legit.

[@KyomaGaming]

@@PNDKM oh guess i misunderstood it then xd great to know! just said because he said a while ago that speedrun websites weren't accepting any submissions from him anymore, but that was a while ago, i'll try to let him know that because i'm not sure he knows he's not banned (at least from what i got, he felt like he was banned) otherwise my bad for commenting before watching the actual video x) sometimes we do stupid things in internet, im guilty Love your content, keep up the great job :)

[@PNDKM]

@@KyomaGaming he isn't banned at all! He's encouraged to resubmit runs using wolf mame inp because it's just the community standard now 😊👊

[@5371W]

Glad to see Jade's A.I. used against her. I've never had a woman take so much of my money in all my life.

[@FragmentJack]

5371W I think she met her match with my ex lol

[@Mike.325]

5371W ikr lol🤣

[@Pinzledick]

Haha, Jade has destroyed many of my SEGA joysticks

[@imshaunnurse]

Best way to best Jade is baiting or chipping. Find out which input gives a certain response then defend and combo off of that. I've been beating mk3 since the nineties on Sega as a kid.

[@rayfran06]

Haha liked your comment! Jesus, I think I formed a high heel fetish how many times Jade would run then just go vertical with a high kick to the face... So unfair! Lol

[@FaLL0uTZ0mBie]

This is gonna sound weird but i love listening to these kind of MK videos while I sleep. It’s so chill and informative ya feel me

[@rainstorrrm4337]

Bro same here

[@CrystallizedBlackSkull]

Got that Animal Planet commentary feel. So damn relaxing

[@ericsmata]

Same dude

[@brianfleming3219]

I feel ya

[@brunobuzzatti1134]

oh man i'm glad to read that, i always thought i was weird to listen to this kind of videos to be relaxed and get asleep but it looks like it's not that weird.

[@bakurasensei]

The coin door skip is technically the first instance of "pay to win" mechanics

[@monasteryfounder]

My last two braincells when I'm in the shower.

[@WestHaddnin]

Wdymean??

[@SECONDQUEST]

U sure it's not just quarters to continue playing in arcade games?

[@Call_Me_Sparda]

The Netherrealm

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

Good joke, but Double Dragon III got there first.

[@HenryLauraTeam]

no one's gonna talk about the transition in 7:01??? it looks so cool!

[@user-lg5xu6id5j]

Yeah it was pretty smooth

[@DarkTenka]

Absolutely fantastic! Many thanks from the MK speedrun community. Great job!

[@RoyArkon]

DAMN these guys find so many ways to beat the game that fast, goes to show how deep UMK3 and all classic MK games are. Amazing video like always.

[@Glenno1982]

There is now a third sub-category: no major exploits (NME). It bans both the coin door skip and the high punch trick. The remaining rules are the same.

[@sabbathjackal]

I don't know about banning the high punch trick. It's always been part of the franchise. You might as well ban high punches entirely.

[@crisalidx5881]

Thanks for the info!

[@tomvitanza9187]

Finally able to watch this video after a long day at work. Such an interesting video. I loved it. These long form videos are awesome Ketchup. Keep up the amazing work!

[@sodomit777]

Watching this video at work lol

[@MattieK09]

When I saw credit to summoning salt I knew this was going to be good. Subbed

[@SauceMcGee__]

Coin Door Skip is the funniest speedrunning strat of all time from what I’ve seen

[@modest1989]

Insane I've been binging summoning salt, RWGoose, ezscape recently and here this is which is a mash up of two awesome things I love to watch. Keep it up and thanks!

[@matthewderb]

This is the content we need on 2020!!

[@PNDKM]

This is only the beginning!

[@PNDKM]

@@zubayrhassan4288 with all due respect, that is not what the majority wants. It is merely what you want. Viewership on the MK Meta vs viewership on other videos does confirm that. I respect your opinion but I like to think that our audience trusts my judgement on what videos to make and how I go about making them. I have plenty of videos in the pipeline that cover both new and old. It does come across as rude when you're essentially telling me what videos to make. Apologies if this was a fairly blunt response.

[@ArpeggioPegasus]

Nice blink-182 pfp bro

[@matthewderb]

@@ArpeggioPegasus thanks bro

[@luigi7834]

@@matthewderb 🎶say it ain't so, i will not go🎶

[@ICY-HURR]

I knew you were a fan of summoning salt as soon as I read the title of this video. Let’s get it!

[@PNDKM]

Hellyeah.

[@juice.giygas]

Hellyeah.

[@thekornreeper]

Hellyeah.

[@onehitwonders7729]

Hellyeah

[@HipHopShowRoom]

Hellyeah.

[@joeyvdm1]

Awesome bud.Love Summoning Salt and i love what you have done here with MK.Please do more,i think you've just about nailed it and would love to see what you do next.Of course MK is one of my favourite franchises and a speed running series dedicated to it would be brilliant.And any other fighting games would be great too.

[@Kinkgobernable]

Yyuhju

[@henixsm7803]

Me: 8 year old me fighting jade: What the heck!? Hacker!

[@yaerius]

Really great story. It's great to see how techniques are evolving, so that people become better and better.

[@RoyArkon]

You said it dude :)

[@LumocolorARTnr1319]

I cannot get enough of summoning salt, glad to see more content creators working on speedrun history!

[@danielhunt5007]

Shoutout to you for getting the record under your belt! Also, this was a fantastic speedrun history! Well done!!!

[@Marnos0121]

SummoningSalt's vids are top tier viewing. I enjoyed this vid. Thanks

[@emexxon8]

A disciple of SUMMONINGSALT... YES!

[@MKPaulRudd]

I love the effort you put into these videos ketchup! I’ve been enjoying the MK Meta videos, This was a great little change up from those videos but with the same format so it’s a nice little treat. Keep up the great work!

[@paularized1]

You’ve done SummoningSalt proud. This is an excellent video. Right on par with the extraordinary amount of work, effort and quality of his vids. Well done man.

[@Greciler]

I remember being even more frustrated by MK2's AI

[@Lektuerekurs]

mine on snes pal would input-read and duck my Shadow-kick perfectly and uppercut. nevermind trying to jump over the computer.

[@bryanbridges6152]

The amount of detail and information you gather for a video is top.notch. great video very interesting.

[@HonkeyKongLive]

This came up in the background and I heard "on the hardest difficulty, in less than five minutes" and I had a legit "WAIT WHAT??" moment. Great essay on the topic, love it.

[@Miridia]

Man I absolutely love your content and editing. UMK3 was one of the fighting games that I put the most time into, I miss playing on XBLA with Shock and Konqrr and all of the other high level players.

[@Gamingwithgleez]

Very awesome video. The history is super insightful. I used the jump back kick method growing up playing the game in the arcades. I had to male those quarters last lol. I didn't even know they recently separated the "credit skip" and "no credit skip" categories. I now have the 7th best "no credit skip" time. I like that haha. Keep up the great work!!

[@MEJBelloz]

I love speedrunning... I love fighting games... I love Summoning Salt... perfect video!!

[@AkatsukiBK]

Stands and applauds... very well done.

[@PNDKM]

Thank you!!

[@SynysterProjects]

Eyy that Summoning Salt shout-out tho! Also been a huge fan of his "World Record Progression" videos for years!

[@nantukoavatar4821]

You might think of retitling to include world record progression as that is the common search term. I think it would make it easier for people to find this great video!

[@peanutfan22]

Excellent video! Well done sir! 😊

[@The_Chewmiester]

Excellent video. I appreciate the completeness of this video and how much time you spent making this. Amazing work. 👍

[@TheGoldielox]

Good content and a shout out to summoning salt? liked and subscribed. Keep it up man!

[@dannyc9472]

Great video! Hoping to see more of this content and MK meta series.

[@r4yzzzz]

the funny thing about this is that we actually use those technics back in 90's in arcade machines because there was no other way to beat the AI,mk1 was easy to beat,but the Ai reading become ridiculus in mk2 /mk3/umk3/mk trilogy.Many ways discovered by the people who was deticated to play those games back then and it was fun to beat those games in my youth.Glad to see that people do speedruns in this games,brings back good memories.Thank you for explaining everything in this video,great content.

[@DEATHRAGE157]

Bruh speedrun history is so interesting thing to watch.

[@PNDKM]

I agree! It's why I really wanted to make my version with a game close to my heart.

[@DEATHRAGE157]

@@PNDKM even tho i am a soul calibur guy, i really enjoyed your vídeo, thanks dude.

[@Zombot]

Cool history lesson. Great vid! Also, this is very interesting to see such a major overlap between the MK and speed running communities.

[@mjfanatic42]

this is crazy - i search a lot of MK and summoning salt stuff...how am i jsut seeing this today? well done - super informative

[@LordTactusMe]

My first thought when I saw the video was about Summoning Salt. It’s so wholesome you mentioned him.

[@huleyn135]

This might be your second best series after MK meta stuff.

[@Alesiopdv]

meanwhile it takes me two hours to finish the novice tower in genesis XP (great video)

[@STK_AKUMA209x]

great video dood, UMK3 will always be my favorite MK game

[@zodus3041]

I never knew Mk3U could be speedrun'd, I grew up with Mk2 on the Snes. When I discovered speedrunning I tried to beat SMW as fast as I can. Good video, hope you get the subscribers you deserve.

[@I.Am.L]

I never really paid too much attention to the speed running community in the decades I've been gaming, as I'm more of a completionist type of player myself.. But when I found Summoning Sault around.. I don't know maybe two years ago? My god. It's so incredible, I watched those videos almost religiously. Those skills are WAY beyond my calibur of expertise and it's just fascinating. Not only that, and MAYBE I'm wrong, but from what I've seen, the community backing this scene is legit more positive than a lot of other gaming sectors..It's more about breaking those sub limits of potential than it is about toxic trash talk, if that makes sense.. like people have come together, even the top tier players, just to trade notes at times. Of course there are gonna be bad apples and feuds but.. It just seems that this passion comes from a more positive space, to me. I love it. So yeah, definitely have a new sub from me man. Good stuff. Always a fan of cataloguing history. ❤️🤟

[@TheSuperHendo]

Thank you for your video. I am from Chicago and I have a record of 6:40 at the arcade. Speed run is so fun

[@BobsChannelYT]

THE.......Kombat King 🤘

[@bloodbathkrieg8010]

Thank you! That's all I have to say.

[@dakzillablaze]

I like the way you gave props to summoning salt. That makes me happy. I binge both your channels 😁

[@Shawnkelly7]

I subbed just because you gave respect to summoning salt and an open honest youtuber deserves subs. Nice work on the video as well!

[@Yomamura29]

He is a Great guy Summoning Salt and so is you! Been speedrunning l4d2 for quite a year but retired eventually. Btw new sub!

[@PNDKM]

Thank you!!

[@speedy9124]

Great video summoning salt is my favorite youtuber huge fan thank you for making this :)

[@tristanphifer3457]

Thought I clicked a Summoning Salt video. Was not disappointed.

[@PNDKM]

I will absolutely take that as a compliment 👊

[@ViktorKruger99]

I am a simple man: I see UMK3 content > I like :D

[@ViktorKruger99]

sick edit also 7:00

[@yelnickmcwawa5858]

So simple you can't even form your own thoughts and talk like memes

[@EdenElectorate]

My favorite things your channel and speedrunning!

[@rudyh3546]

I love videos about the history of speed runs for some reason

[@ltvusarmymiarngartilleryma697]

Man, you can be proud of your accomplishments. It’s not arrogant just saying “I was on top” it’s pretty incredible

[@YourMKArcadeSource]

A bit late to the party here but you can still totally do the coin door skip with machines on Free Play. It still registers the coin input as normal. It's about the coin signal being input, not necessarily the setting of the machine. The game will still register the coin input, even if it's on Free Play.

[@s3nbon5akura]

39 minute K&M video 😍

[@Wuropl]

Really interesting to see a speedrun history made by an actual runner!

[@PNDKM]

If taken a long break away thanks to the MKX Pro League and my commentary career. Coming back to it, I didn't know so much tech had been found. It was eye opening.

[@clearlypellucid]

I really like the idea of you recreating an old run we no longer have access to. I hope Summoning Salt adopts the idea someday!

[@rockdeworld]

Super sweet to see a video where the narrator says “where are we now?” And says a date actually from this month.

[@ratatack906]

Nice shoutout to summoning salt. He’s great.

[@sw3arjar]

Dude your videos are great fun to watch and your kontent is clearly so well researched, respect!

[@djnosleeves85]

30:30 omg that HP kick trick is hilarious

[@PNDKM]

It took me about an hour to start doing proper runs with the spear endurance trick because I laughed so hard and messed my timing up.

[@OldNerdPlayingOldPCGames]

Big like from Old Nerd 👍

[@truindividual]

No dislikes? Ppl of culture here

[@zanmaru139]

If you think these speedruns are crazy, you should see the Mortal Kombat Advance TAS runs, particularly the one AKheon put out a few years ago. The most broken version of MK3, these runs are... interesting to say the least.

[@PNDKM]

Mortal Kombat on handheld is always a wild ride. Unless you played the DS port of UMK3 which was remarkably good honestly.

[@yukm0uth]

When you talk about the arcade system and the middle button old arcade layout I remember in 94 to 97 in my corner shop none stop owning. 50p would get me hours of fun.

[@Phillyjoe2]

Great video. I had UMK3 for SNES and in PAL version as I'm from Coventry. I loved that game and really enjoyed learning everyone's brutalitys. Back in 1996 the way to do that was via a games magazine, not the Internet! God I feel old typing that! Anyway I'm a big fan of speedrunning too so thank you for the great content. Subscribed!

[@MajinStrach]

Oi oi cov city!!

[@dag-king9897]

Thank you - I love speedrunners

[@yongyea4147]

You are the summoning salt of our generation.

[@Seththebot]

You can easily map a coin door button to a seperate button on your arcade panel. I have done this for my street fighter 2 cab. That was you dont have to monkey around with the coin door 🧐

[@ASMRBass]

4:39 is insane. Absolute sick house.

[@The_Peter_Channel]

I love this kind of content! Will you do a similar videó about the speedruns of MKIi and MK9?

[@modest1989]

Do people speed run all the mk games? I didn't have internet at one point and probably played through mk9 ladder 1000 times but never thought hey exactly how fast can I do it. I played cyrax so 100% combos all day hah

[@adamkahn8645]

i dont even play MK anymore, but i love coming here and vegging out on videos of you playing :D

[@Mike.325]

Awesome vid👍🏾

[@andrealves3104]

Oh boy, I remeber those BySpeed speedruns during livestreams with 1k+ ppl watching. Dude nailed MKI, MKII, MK3 and UMK3 back in the day. Dunno if he still holds the WR, but gotta show some respect to the immense ammount of work. A true MK warrior.

[@bes03c]

Awesome video!

[@mickael486]

Robot Smoke's jump kick and throw always worked the quickest for me many years ago.

[@GamingManual]

A master class in my favorite MK game of all time; excellent work! I remember trying my hand at speedrunning the game with some of these strats. There was this awesome "golden era" on Xbox live for quite some time. We're hoping to do an UMK3 arcade video at Funspot soon (we're local)!

[@LK.Cynric]

Really cool video. Had no idea a fighting game would have such a interesting history of speedruning.

[@killbotjames22]

Wow I didn’t know I using the strat at the time. Motaro was a hit or miss situation if he didn’t keep teleporting. On Shao khan I’d block low I noticed he would use his upward charge then uppercut him if he kept doing it. I played on the mame emulator as well.

[@pjero2005]

Subscribed only because you gave proper credit to summoning salt.

[@michaelflatt4663]

Very well done.

[@carlosserrano221]

Loved the video. Seem some one do what summoning salts does brings joy to my eyes

[@respectfulremastersbymetal8336]

Did you all see the new 4min 16sec record from August 2021? Crazy stuff.

[@aceldamia9114]

It's funny seeing them treat the idea of opening up the cabinet to do manual credits as if it's some groundbreaking discovery. It's not a discovery; it's just how it has been designed. Anyone who has an arcade cabinet knows of this, since you don't want to have to input quarters in your own house.

[@KevTheGalaxybender]

Badass. I watch summoning salt too. His Mario 4-2 episode is my favorite

[@jojoversus1100]

This is a really awesome video! Loved it!

[@MrCrowhouse]

Parallax a national treasure from Chile

[@joemilner7710]

Love your content! Liked and subbed! Cheers!

[@keyboardmaniac8563]

buen reportaje... y méritos a Parallax y a Tenka que siempre buscan cosas nuevas en contra de la IA

[@galaxyjoa1855]

Brings back memories. I hope to see MK Trilogy

[@edgelord8337]

Great video!

[@SHINBAXTER]

AMAZINGLY PUT TOGETHER VIDEO DUDE. LUV SPEEDRUN BREAKDOWNS. =)

[@mikeratkiewicz6720]

First of all, respect for giving the shout out to Summoning Salt. That's classy. Galloping Ghost is right outside DT Chicago in Lagrange. If you ever get the chance to go, they don't take quarters. It's $15 to play as many games as you want for as long as you want that day. It smells a little weird and they are constantly fixing games, but it is a good time and easy to get lost for a whole day in there.

[@PNDKM]

Ive been to GGA a few times! I commentate at Combo Breaker every year so I make sure to get the trip to GGA in there too. One of the clips in this video is taken from a run I did at the arcade two years ago.

[@mikeratkiewicz6720]

@@PNDKM That's awesome! This is the first video of yours I have seen and just wanted to say well done on the content! Very much looking forward to checking out the rest of your channel.

[@PNDKM]

@@mikeratkiewicz6720 I had the Aurcade World Record for a little while with a record I set at GGA in 2018! was a good time. Enjoy your stay my friend. I make various vids varying from twitch clips, high level player exhibitions and my bread and butter which is long video essays, but they take a while to make.

[@mikeratkiewicz6720]

@@PNDKM Heck yeah! That MK3 video essay was dope, I'll for sure be watching more. Cheers and thanks for taking the time to respond!

[@smiks23]

That robot smoke trick I used to do that in arcade machines back in 1997 to complete the game with one credit.It works for sector as well.

[@ApolloStratis]

Dude when you mentioned Funspot I actually gasped. had no idea it was know outside of New England