First, a weird text message:



I like how it calls itself an arcade revision. "Jerrod" was sindel's husband, but other then that I know dick about him. As for the devil chonka, wtf?



Chameleon is listed in UMK3, but he/she (forgot which is which) never appeared. Ignore the chatacter name "mist" i was hacking it at the time.

Considering the proximity of that message to the name of the game, I'd guess it was an inside joke that got carried through to the final product.

Jerrod is just story fodder afaik, never knew about the Chonka shit though

Probably the male one, as he shows up in the Saturn/PS1/PC version of Mortal Kombat Trilogy (which came out after UMK3). The female one is actually called Khameleon and didn't show up until the N64 version of Mortal Kombat Trilogy came out.

Actually, I think I can shed some light on this Chameleon situation with the help of a PAR code.

7E36D019
7E52C819

Using this code, it sets the character to play as what is essentially Scorpion, but with Rain's name bar instead. He has Motaro's portrait when you use him in single-player mode. He has no special moves or fatalities, but I believe he does have Scorpion's combos, at least (I've never been all that great at combos in this game, so I can't say for certain whose is whose).

He's not exactly that exciting a character to play as, nor have I tested the character out that much, but I believe that this is the Chameleon you are looking for.

I find it strange that even though this is the Chameleon body, the name still remains unused regardless.

I couldn't get those codes working. What version of UMk3 are you working with?

Here's something else I found interesting:

KANO WINS.SONYA WINS.JAX WINS.NIGHTWOLF WINS.SUB-ZERO WINS.STRYKER WINS.SINDEL WINS.SEKTOR WINS.CYRAX WINS.KUNG LAO WINS.KABAL WINS.SHEEVA WINS.SHANG TSUNG WINS.LIU KANG WINS.SMOKE WINS.KITANA WINS.JADE WINS.MILEENA WINS.SCORPION WINS.REPTILE WINS.ERMAC WINS.NOOB SAIBOT WINS.RAIN WINS.CHAMELEON WINS.MOTARO WINS.SHAO KAHN WINS.DRAW.FLAWLESS VICTORY.DOUBLE FLAWLESS

Sheeva was removed from the 16-bit versions of the game in order to create room. I dunno why they had to remove her, she was actually a fun character. Especially with lameass characters like fucking Stryker.

HAW. Pointers are fun to hack. This isn't a text hack, I just redirected what loaded for Rain.

OK, I was using the American version (The (U) ROM) when I put in the cheats.

I realize now that you were possibly playing the Genesis edition? I was using the SNES version for those codes, so if that's the nature of the error, excuse the mix-up.

I also made a highly uninteresting video of me playing as him. Maybe I'll stick it on YouTube later as well. I already made a little music video thing on "using" Sheeva that's on YouTube. I kinda regret putting in some music to it, but maybe I'll make a new one later.

PACHUKA's Mortal Kombat Hacking notes: Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for the Sega Genesis
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000524 - blockout screen TEXT (Used if game software is run on a foreign system)
00D480 - Pointer for "SELECT YOUR FIGHTER" text
00DE9C - art selection FOR THE CHRACTER SELECT SCREEN, hopefully
00DF68 - where to display the cursor when a character is selected.
00DFC8 - Chracter to display/choose
00 - KANO
01 - SONYA
02 - JAX
03 - NIGHTWOLF
04 - SUB-ZERO
05 - STRYKER
06 - SINDEL
07 - SEKTOR
08 - CYRAX
09 - KUNG LAO
0A - KABAL
0B - SHEEVA
0C - SHANG TSUNG
0D - LIU KANG
0E - SMOKE
0F - KITANA
10 - JADE
11 - MILEENA
12 - SCORPION
13 - REPTILE
14 - ERMAC
15 - classic sub
16 - human smoke
17 - noob
18 - rain?
19 - scorpion
1A - shao kahn
1c - again

00E014 - construction for selection menu
00E018 - where to place the cursor when pressing right
00E030 - where to place the cursor when pressing LEFT
00E048 - where to place the cursor when pressing UP
00E060 - where to place the cursor when pressing down
00E0EC - UNKNOWN POINTERS
052466 - POINTERS FOR NAME DISPLAYED ON HEALTH BAR
0524D6 - start area for name bar
054F80 - POINTERS FOR NAME DISPLAYED IN VICTORY
054FF0 - start name list for victory
057174 - GAME VICTORY TEXT
0577FE - UNKNOWN POINTERS
057804 - UNKNOWN POINTERS
057876 - UNKNOWN POINTERS
0578AA - MENU SELECTIION?
057E12 - POINTERS FOR KOMBAT ZONE
057E62 - KOMBAT ZONE MENU
05915A - CHARACTER BIOS HEADERS
0592D8 - CHARACTER BIOS
059CAC - CHARACTER ENDINGS
05c3e4 - choose your destiny text
05CC3C - LEGAL DISCLAIMER
05ce5c - midway presents text
05CE78 - THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE THAT IS NOT POWER TEXT
05D6EA - MAIN MENU text
05D834 - debug menu text? - code ADALARCUL
(NEVER SEEN THIS CODE OR THIS TEXT, COULD POSSIBLY BE FROM A DEBUG MENU?)
05DEAE - OPTIONS TEXT
05E9BE - BUTTON CONFIG TEXT
060e84 - pointer to prizes TEXT
061D98 - PRIZE MENU TEXT
06654c - GALAGA TEXT
067E86 - WEIRD MESSAGE (DON'T UNDERSTAND THUS AT ALL, BUT IT REFERS TO KITANA'S FATHER)
06842A - storyline
068534 - STORYLINE 2
068A07 - SONYA\JAX\KANO STORY
068B0B - SUBZERO STORY
068BBF - LIU KANG STORY
068CF1 - GAME OVER TEXT

PALLETTE (Each palette, is 16 bytes down (Add 2 to the 'tens' digit. 00000x0))
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16E540 - Nightwolf
16E560 - Nightwolf 2P
16E580 - Nightwolf - Sub Zero Frozen
16E5A0 - Nightwolf - Shang Tsung Possessed
16E5C0 - Nightwolf 2P - Shang Tsung Possessed
16E700 - POINTER FOR NIGHTWOLF PALLETTE
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MISSING PALLETTE INFO
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3469E8 - SCORPIONS PALLETTE
346A08 - Scorpion 2P
346A28 - Reptile
346A48 - Reptile 2P
346A68 - Ermac
346A88 - Ermac 2P
346AA8 - Sub-Zero
346AC8 - Sub-Zero 2P
346AE8 - HUMAN Smoke
346B08 - HUMAN Smoke 2P
346B28 - Raine
346B48 - Raine 2P
346B68 - Noob Saibot - (Blank Character)
346B88 - (Ninjas) - Sub Zero Frozen
346BA8 - Scorpion - Shang Tsung Possessed
346BC8 - Scorpion 2P - Shang Tsung Possessed
346BE8 - Reptile - Shang Tsung Possessed
346C08 - Reptile 2P - Shang Tsung Possessed
346C28 - (Ninjas 2) - Sub Zero Frozen
346C48 - Ermac - Shang Tsung Possessed
346C68 - Ermac 2P - Shang Tsung Possessed
346C88 - Greens
346CA8 - reds
346CC8 - Sub Zero - Shang Tsung Possessed
346CE8 - HUMAN Smoke - Shang Tsung Possessed
346D08 - Noob Saibot - Shang Tsung Possessed
346D28 - Rain - Shang Tsung Possessed
346D48 - green
346D68 - red
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END PALLETTES

Digging through the data for UMK3, it is possible to reactivate what little there is of Chameleon. He has no special moves at all, no combos or fatalities.


This screenshot shows Chameleon on the selection screen. Shao Kahn's spot was replaced by Chameleon.


Battle Screen. Chameleon's colors are obviously not in order.


Chameleon uses Scorpion's colors, until....


He's dead. Then he turns into Rain.


Menus. You can't access Chameleon normally, but using the following PAR codes, you can select him in the cheat menus:
FF0225:0019
FF0224:0019


Bio screen, and Ending screen.

I saw somebody o youtube put in a bunch of game genie codes and in-game cheat codes to play as him, intresting isn't it?

Ah, good! So you were able to dig him up on the Genesis version too! Very, very awesome!

Also, as far as his slot goes, My guess is, at least for the Super Nintendo version, that he was going to be rotated along with Motaro and Shao Khan in the same slot, kinda like how Smoke did in the SNES version. I got nothing to back it other than "Smoke did it", but it makes a bit of sense.