Mortal Kombat Trilogy - Glitches
(This section contains 49 Mortal Kombat Trilogy Glitches)

PC, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, N64

PC Glitches

No Shadows

In the Kombat Temple background when you jump your shadow disappears behind the second background frame.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station, N64 and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

One Button Fatalities Glitches

Activate the one button Fatality option in before performing any of these glitches.

1. Choose MK1 Kano, MK1 Rayden, MK2 Kung Lao or MK2 Jax. After you get "Finish Him/Her" message press LK (for Fatality 2). Your character will simply uppercut the opponent.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

2. Choose MK1 Kano, MK1 Rayden, MK2 Kung Lao or MK2 Jax. If you press BL your character will do nothing. When the time is over you will see the Friendship message.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station, and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

3. Choose Classic Sub-Zero or any other classic Fighter. Press Run when you see Finish Him/Her. When the time is over you will see the Animality message.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station, and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

4. When you play as Human Smoke and entered one-button fatalities make so that your victim is in corner kill it and do his R, BL, R, R, HK fatality. Human Smoke will do the finishing move but will miss the opponent.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station, N64 and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Fatalities with Bosses

Now this is very strange glitch but is very interesting too. First enable one-button fatalities. Then choose Shang Tsung and when you get the "Finish him/her" message morph into some boss but very careful because you can do some finishing move. Now you can choose:

1. If you press HP, LK or HK boss will hit the opponent then jump teleport fireball, with one word will crazy.
2. If you press LP your boss will do original Babality.
3. If you press BL or RN boss will freeze, fatality music will play and the announcer will say "Friendship" or "Animality".
4. If you are on the Pit stage uppercut will not work. You'll only hit the opponent and then morph again into Shang Tsung.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Harder Tournament

Beat the game. From Shao Kahn's lost treasures choose to fight with Chameleon (the second box). Kill him from time and you'll immediately start another game where you will always fight first with Kano. Your opponents will be: Kano, Shokan Champions, Kano, Chameleon, Kano, Unknown... The game is very unstable during this glitch, so freezes are possible.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

One Hit Is Not Enough

When you are playing with Liu Kang, make sure you are ready to do a bicycle kick when Finish him pops up. Now do the bicycle kick, and you can still do the Fatality.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  N64, and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Invisible Animality

When you play as Chameleon and you are Noob Saibot perform his Animality. Part of anteater's body will be half transparent.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Invisible Fatality

You can perform all of Smoke's or Reptile's finishing moves while you are invisible. If you do this trick with Reptile while doing fatality you will see only his green head!

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  N64, and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

No Brutality

Try to perform Kung Lao's brutality when your opponent is in the corner of the stage. When the computer takes the control over Kung Lao's moves he will pass through his opponent and will not finish the Brutality.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  N64, and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Out Of The Arena

If you KO your opponent with a projectile, Roundhouse Kick or HK and if he is at the end of the arena, he will fall down and the half of his body will actually lie nowhere.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  N64, and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Messed Up Arenas

This is a very cool glitch. Play on an arena that has one more level above it, like Scorpion's Lair or Soul Chamber. Your opponent must have enough energy to be not KO if you Uppercut him. Leave the timer to reach 1 second and uppercut your enemy. he will be shuck between the both arenas. When the second round begins you will play on the arena you have played during the first round, but it will have the floor of the one that is above you.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Sliced Ninja

If you perform fatality that will rip off the head of a male ninja character or that will smash his head, the sprite that will be displayed will be sliced too.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Sektor's Graphic Glitch

Use any male ninja character or unmasked Sub-Zero and perform a stage Fatality to Sektor when fighting on The Pit stage. Select the stage through Sonya and perform an easy Stage Fatality (Only uppercut).

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Kabal's Spins Color Change

Fight with Kabal against Chameleon. If you perform your Spin move and Chameleon Morph when he is captured inside, the Spin will also change its color.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Mixed Old and New Characters

Sometimes, when you win the 8 player tournament with new Kano or with new Jax, and when you return to the select screen the icon you see is the one of the Classic character but when you highlight it the new character will appear.

Instant Kill Glitches

1. Draw Match

When you are performing a finishing move, instant kill your character. The Move will be finished, but the DRAW message will appear.

2. Use MKII Jax as an enemy in an endurance match and perform his projectile in the air and immediately use instant kill. Jax will freeze in the air. The only way to get him out of this condition is to use Throw in Air.

Kobra Fighter

This is one of the coolest glitches we have ever seen. Choose Shang Tsung and Reptile in a 2 Player game. When the round begins morph into Motaro. Each of Shang Tsung's morphs is 16 seconds long. So, when there is only one second left do Reptiles Reverse Elbow move (B, F, LK). He will hit Motaro and in the air Shang Tsung will try to morph back to normal. But first he will morph in to a Kobra (His Animality), then he will morph to purple Shang Tsung and in the end to normal. It is very very cool to see it.

If this is your last attack, meaning you KO Shang the Kobra will stuck in the air and Reptile will take his winning pose.

Try to use a fast ForceBall against the Kobra and see what happens.

Note: This glitch also works on  Play Station,  and Sega Saturn versions of the game but the only thing you will see is the purple Shang.

There a a couple of ways to expand the Kobra fighter glitch. Below are two of them:

1. Attack Kobra (acid split or forceball will do the job) and quickly morph into Nightwolf. Shang Tsung will get an interesting electric body.

2. Attack Kobra (acid split or forceball will do the job) and quickly morph into Cyrax! (BL BL BL). The result will be the sprite from Human Smoke's fatality.

Lie Dead

Play a 2 on 2 game and use any character that can use throw in air as Scorpion or Human Smoke. Kill your first opponent in air and right after that throw him. He will lie dead on the ground untill the end of the round.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Smoke's Glitch

Try perform some of Smoke's finishing moves while he is invisible.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Cyrax' Glitch

Just throw a grenade with Cyrax while performing mercy and see what happens.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Sektor's Fatality Glitches

1. Throw rocket with Sektor and at last moment perform his dead press fatality. The victim will move away from the crush hit by the rocket, and crush will smash him without touch him.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

2. Play Sektor vs Sektor in 2 player games, and while before you win, let the other Sektor throw a regular missile. Then kill him and while the rocket is flying over perform crash fatality. The screen goes black but you'll be hit by the rocket and you can still do moves or stage fatalities.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station,  and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Run Through Me

Choose Liu Kang as your opponent. Sweep him and immediately run. You will be able to run through his body.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station, and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Wrong Damage

Performed during "Finish Him/Her" Jax's or Shang Tsung's fireballs result in really high damage. Jax's fireballs sometimes will take up to 74%.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station, Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Backside Sweep

Sometimes when your opponent jumps over you, you will still be able to sweep him, no matter that you will do the sweep facing the wrong direction.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station, Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Stage Fatality Bugs

1. Spin with Kabal the opponent when it says "Finish Him/Her" and perform Stage Fatality while the opponent is still spinning. This will count as a Fatality but you will just uppercut the victim.

2. On the "The Pit III" stage, play with Shang Tsung. As it says "Finish Him/Her" do Ground Eruption and quickly perform the Stage Fatality.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station, Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Mercy Bugs

1. Just throw a grenade with Cyrax while performing mercy and see what happens.

2. Release a regular missile when playing as Sektor and perform Mercy.

3. Perform Mercy after you throw slow forceball with Reptile.

4. Hold Low Kick, if you play with Liu Kang, Jax or Kano, while doing Mercy and release it.

5. Do the same with Mileena, but this time hold High Punch.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station, Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Reptile Fatality Bugs

Do a Slow Forceball and perform some of Reptile's Fatalities. His head will move while you do the Fatality.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station, Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Kitana's Buggy Babality

Throw Air Fan from the other side of the screen and quickly perform Babality.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station, Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

Jade's Returning Boomerang Glitch

Play a two players game with Jade and someone else. If Jade performs her returning Boomerang special move (B, B, F, LP) and her opponent is quick enough to kill her and perform a finishing move before the returning boomerang hits him, he will be able to move after that and even perform another finishing move. For example if you perform a Babality, after that you may be able to kill the baby.

Note: This glitch also works on the Play Station, Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

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PlayStation Glitches

Note: The PC Glitches: No Shadows, One Button Fatalities Glitches, Fatalities with Bosses, Harder Tournament, One Hit Is Not Enough, Invisible Animality, Invisible Fatality, No Brutality, Out Of The Arena, Messed Up Arenas, Sliced Ninja, Sektor's Graphic Glitch, Kabal's Spins Color Change, Kobra Fighter (with no Kobra), Smoke's Glitch, Cyrax' Glitch, Sektor's Fatality Glitches 1 and 2, Run Through Me, Wrong Damage, Backside Sweep, Stage Fatality Bugs, Mercy Bugs, Reptile Fatality Bugs, Kitana's Buggy Babality, Lie Dead and Jade's Returning Boomerang Glitch work for PlayStation too.

No Toasty, no Frosty

Play as Sub-Zero and when your opponent reach the danger zone, freeze him. Dan Forden will pop out, but he will say nothing.

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Sega Saturn Glitches

Note: The PC Glitches: No Shadows, One Button Fatalities Glitches, Fatalities with Bosses, Harder Tournament, One Hit Is Not Enough, Invisible Animality, Invisible Fatality, No Brutality, Out Of The Arena, Messed Up Arenas, Sliced Ninja, Sektor's Graphic Glitch, Kabal's Spins Color Change, Kobra fighter (without Kobra), Smoke's Glitch, Cyrax' Glitch, Sektor's Fatality Glitches 1 and 2, Run Through Me, Wrong Damage, Backside Sweep, Stage Fatality Bugs, Mercy Bugs, Reptile Fatality Bugs, Kitana's Buggy Babality, Lie Dead and Jade's Returning Boomerang Glitch work for Sega Saturn too.

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N64 Glitches

Note: The PC Glitches: No Shadows, One Button Fatalities Glitches N4, One Hit Is Not Enough, Invisible Fatality, No Brutality, Wrong Damage, Backside Sweep, Stage Fatality Bugs, Mercy Bugs, Reptile Fatality Bugs, Kitana's Buggy Babality,  Out Of The Arena and and Jade's Returning Boomerang Glitch work for Nintendo64 too.

Walk on the spikes

On The Pit arena when it says "Finish Him",do the uppercut for the pit fatality, and when your opponent is in the air, do a flying projectile attack. If you time it just right, your opponent will hit the projectile and continue to fall into the pit, but when he hits the spikes, he will getup again and stand on them. You still get the fatality credit. What's really cool with this is if you use Sub-zero, Scorpon, or Smoke and you freeze or harpoon your opponent, you can hit him again, and he still will go into the pit.

Swim In The Wall

On the Dead Pool arena perform the stage Fatality in the right corner. The skeleton will swim in the wrong direction and it will swim through the wall.

None Stage Fatality

Choose Noob Saibot. On any arena, where you can perform a Stage Fatality, do the clone throw (full screen), and before the opponent hits the ground do Noob Saibot's Stage Fatality. Noob Saibot will not be able to uppercut his opponent.

Nightwolf Fatality Glitch

Perform Nightwolf Light fatality on Cyrax, Smoke or Sektor, when in the corner and see what will left oft from the cyber ninja.

Khameleon in an Endurance Match

Play a two on two match on the Star Bridge. Keep fighting until Dan Forden pops out, and do the Khameleon code. You will be transported to the Living Forest, and you will see Khameleon, only it says Endurance/2 on 2 Match, and the other guy from your Endurance Match is still there. But you will only have to defeat Khameleon.

Shang Tsung Freeze Glitch

Fight as Shang Tsung. When the Finish Him/Her message appears, morph into Kitana or Sonya and perform their projectiles (Kitana's fans or Sonya's rings). Shang will morph back and the game will freeze with the projectile in the opponents body.

No Hat

Perform Kung Lao's Hat Throw Fatality when you are very close to opponent (better use Hold BL, F, F, B, D, release BL, HP). Kung Lao will throw his hat but it will never return.

Sonya's Friendship Glitch

Perform Sonya's Friendship on The Rooftop arena and there will be no flowers.

Hidden Shao Kahn Animation

When you are playing as Shao Kahn, if he gets knocked down by a jump kick, immediately press block. The computer will usually attack you after that, but if you block, the computer will not attack you. Shao Kahn will wave his arms in the air in victory.

Abbreviation - Move

B - Back
F - Forward
D - Down
Up - Up
LP - Low Punch
HP - High Punch
LK - Low Kick
HK - High Kick
BL - Block
R - Run

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