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Mortal Kombat 3

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Mortal Kombat 3
Mortal Kombat 3 cover
Developers
Midway Games
Publishers
Retail GT Interactive
Digital Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Release dates
DOS 1995
Windows September 1996
Windows (DOSBox) February 12, 2015[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) February 12, 2015[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Side view
Controls Direct control
Genres Fighting
Series Mortal Kombat
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Mortal Kombat 3 is a singleplayer and multiplayer side view fighting game in the Mortal Kombat series.

The DOS and Windows version are not the same. The Windows version is a direct port from the PlayStation version, it has loading between fights and it has loading times every time Shang Tsung morphs.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
DOS or Windows. Use DOSBox for DOS version.
DOS
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II. DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>
Windows <path-to-game>\mk3[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>
Windows <path-to-game>\mk3[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

The options menu can be accessed by pressing Esc in-game.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
320x240 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
2D perspective.
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
70 FPS max.[3]
120+ FPS

Input

Keybinding options.
Keybinding options.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music (CD) and SFX (sound) can be enabled/disabled individually.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Networking settings.
Networking settings.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Versus
Shared-screen.
LAN play
2 Versus
Online play
For DOSBox use DOSBox IPX/modem emulation.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Release: Mortal Kombat 1+2+3 ● GOG.com (retrieved)
  2. List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  3. Verified by User:Cptmold on 2020-03-15
    Tested with RivaTuner Statistics Server in DOSBox.