Game-compatibility: Mortal Kombat: Deception [MW-025] [1.05]

[PatrickvL]

_From @gandalfthewhite19890404 on December 25, 2016 14:33_

Mortal Kombat crashing with exception in Cxbx-Reloaded b7f4b23(24 Dec 2016).
Part of log:
EmuMain (0x990): Recieved Exception (Code := 0xC0000005)
EIP := 0x10047E56 EFL := 0x00010212
EAX := 0x00000000 EBX := 0x00000000 ECX := 0x0000002E EDX := 0x0000002D
ESI := 0x089DF250 EDI := 0x00000000 ESP := 0x089DDD10 EBP := 0x089DF23C
CR2 := 0x00000000
EmuMain (0x990): Aborting Emulation

Why I think that is issue - at 791f885 (23 Dec 2016) MK boots until start menu (without graphics but with sound). Second run - error with trying dashboard loading. Cleaning of folder "AppData/Cxbx-Reloaded" will fix it, next try will also lead to start menu, next - boot dashboard,etc.

_Copied from original issue: Cxbx-Reloaded/Cxbx-Reloaded#63_

[PatrickvL]

Thanks for reporting this. Yet another title that has the potential to get further with some work.

[PatrickvL]

_From @gandalfthewhite19890404 on January 5, 2017 7:15_

At 2016-01-04 e5954a7 CXBX has strange behavior with MK Deception.
After first attemt it crashed sometimes. Then i tryied some other games (WWE RAW2, Shenmue II).
After it I tryied MK again- it boots with black screen until title screen or menu i guess.

Also note - if you clean AppData-CxbxReloaded folder then after boot you get error somelike "* The xbe rebooted to Dashboard and xboxdash.xbe could not be found (I don't have dash so it wont't boot either)". If you try after it boot MK agein it will boot like I described. At log repeately this:
EmuWarn (0x1304): Not setting palette
EmuWarn (0x1304): Not setting palette
!!!Found an old stream, 2.02
!!!Removing stream
!!!Found an old stream, 2.02
!!!Removing stream

Sometimes it just closing without error, i don't have log after it.

[PatrickvL]

_From @cybertronicgames on August 5, 2017 3:41_

[Title ID 4D570019] Mortal Kombat: Deception is getting sound but, no video.
CxbxDebug.txt
KrnlDebug.txt
1.05: Xbe.txt

[PatrickvL]

Potential duplicate : #81

[Brat81]

Here's the dump from Mortal Kombat Deception Kollectors Edition Xbe.txt
Upon loading all FMV's run super quick, I turned on force vsync and videos were normal
Audio is perfect
I can only seem to play Classic

Menu Works but only in B&W

Colours fine once in game

[gandalfthewhite19890404]

I guess - Kollectors Edition is only MK1 with some videos.

[gandalfthewhite19890404]

MK Deception regressed on this commit e4be8e8765a74c3b0866c24f2add1e1f7ee0e878 - crash XID_fCloseDevice+0x3cd7cad.
KrnlDebug e4be8e87.txt

On previous commit 33182af1473a3c5123d05e8b0a660536adf50bdd it boots with sound (until Start screen I guess) at least.
KrnlDebug 33182af1.txt

[gandalfthewhite19890404]

Mortal Kombat Deception regressed - no more FMVs, press Start menu.
Tested on latest master, 1e61144b.
I'll find regressed build in few hours.
Update:
It cause by this - Merge pull request #1186 from LukeUsher/minor-tweaks - 26901e6173cd4a861ba315cd1411ef61d237d555.
Previous 8b71d404efc8567337d50c9c43614bc017d51499 -good.
Next 26901e6173cd4a861ba315cd1411ef61d237d555 - bad.
Update 2:
On latest master 55b6b318 is much worse then before - game crashes without any errors during first FMV (nothing renders, only looping sound).
This is last lines in log:
[0x0C04] WARN: RenderState_Simple(0x00040AC4, 0x00000000) is unsupported!
Org:"d:\moviexbox\LOGON.SFD"
New:"$XbePath\moviexbox\LOGON.SFD"
[0x0C04] WARN: KRNL: Waiting for Xbox proxy thread to start...
[0x0C04] WARN: KRNL: Created Xbox proxy thread. Handle : 0xA20, ThreadId : [0x0330]
[0x0C04] WARN: KRNL: Waiting for Xbox proxy thread to start...
[0x0C04] WARN: KRNL: Created Xbox proxy thread. Handle : 0xA2C, ThreadId : [0x13C4]
[0x0C04] WARN: KRNL: Waiting for Xbox proxy thread to start...
[0x0C04] WARN: KRNL: Created Xbox proxy thread. Handle : 0xA38, ThreadId : [0x16F8]
[0x0C04] WARN: KRNL: Waiting for Xbox proxy thread to start...
[0x0C04] WARN: KRNL: Created Xbox proxy thread. Handle : 0xA44, ThreadId : [0x0C94]

[gandalfthewhite19890404]

Menus, HUD is missing, but now game renders models, you can even try to complete a game but without of health indicator its slightly difficult.
I gonna look into missing HUD and menus, it could be result of previous commits, not HLSL.

[DarkPrincess01]

Menus, HUD is missing, but now game renders models, you can even try to complete a game but without of health indicator its slightly difficult.
I gonna look into missing HUD and menus, it could be result of previous commits, not HLSL.

same problem with armaggeddon & deception

[vorotnique]

Menus, HUD is missing, but now game renders models, you can even try to complete a game but without of health indicator its slightly difficult.
I gonna look into missing HUD and menus, it could be result of previous commits, not HLSL.

Also, in 3rd or 4th battle in a row, left half of screen fills black and FPS drops to half-speed. Same problem with MK Armageddon.
Also MK Deception crashes if you try to create profile or to enter moves list.
Some sounds are present. No music though.

1.02: KrnlDebug.txt (dumped with an attempt to get to "Create Profile" menu)

[ObiKKa]

A comment, dated November 18, 2020, under a recent PR 2033, that was opened two weeks ago on November 16, 2020 (And then merged later on Nov 21), showed that all of the UI-related element in _Mortal Kombat: Deception_ and _Mortal Kombat: Armageddon_ should already be rendered. The PR, which is about improving viewport calculations, fixed the scaling of the menu on-screen.

Please retest this game.

[vorotnique]

A comment, dated November 18, 2020, under a recent PR 2033, that was opened two weeks ago on November 16, 2020 (And then merged later on Nov 21), showed that all of the UI-related element in _Mortal Kombat: Deception_ and _Mortal Kombat: Armageddon_ should already be rendered. The PR, which is about improving viewport calculations, fixed the scaling of the menu on-screen.

Please retest this game.

HUD: fixed. Now the game looks almost perfect, except the textures missing on some arenas on the floor.

Create Profile crash: fixed. Now we can enter Konquest mode, and it works perfectly.
Music and some audio are still missing.
Black square and slowing down after three-four matches: fixed. Seems like the game is finally beatable.
New issue: fighter models flicker in the battles (looks like some random body parts are dissapear for 1 FPS and reappear), and some active arena elements flicker as well (for instance, palms on Yin-Yang Island).