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Yes this was a legitimate way to create characters back in the early 90s. So this isn't laziness on my part, it's a statement about the process of video game design in a bygone era. LOL :D My ladies Kitana and Jade in MK2 garb.

edit: :iconkoui: pointed out to me that they did this because of memory limitations on those dinosaur cartridges. Kind of like how in RPGs they had like 8 palette swaps of the same enemy--that red hellhound you encounter at level 80? Waaay harder than the identical blue hellhound you trounced at level 10 lol.

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~Koui May 27, 2012   General Artist
also due to the limited amount of information 90's games could hold this was a way to preserve memory for other things such as graphics

the fact that Jade was a secrete character you could fight was enough of a motivation, however I only remember running into Smoke
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:iconoperatingthetan:
Yeah I never got to Jade because as I recall it was super hard to find her. Maybe since they used photos of actors for sprites instead of hand drawing them it required more memory. That's a valid point, but not something you think of when you're a kid and there's like 7 palette swapped ninjas lol.
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~Koui May 27, 2012   General Artist
yeah she was supposed to be the hardest next to Noob Salibot

true not even the fact that all the male ninjas [except Reptile and Subzero] were different versions of Scorpion made a difference...then again you can never have enough scorpion =]
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Very classic. I always did prefer dark skinned Jade.

Do you plan on doing one for Noob Saibot?
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:iconoperatingthetan:
Thanks. After doing the females I was gonna do all the male ninjas so yes, eventually :D.
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~flawless31490 May 14, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
This is beautiful man! So amazing like crazy and I love the other works you did too! Keep it up!
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:iconoperatingthetan:
Thanks! :D Glad you like it, I'm trying to get all the costumes up soon!
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~flawless31490 Oct 21, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I'll stay posted man!
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