Is there a way to get more kredits in MK 2?

The AI is just ridiculous sometimes and I need more than 4 credits to complete the ladder.

Is there a way to get more or unlimited kredits?

MK2 also has a freeplay cheat, but it is much harder to do. As soon as the copyright screen appears when the game boots up, type "AICULEDSSUL" VERY quickly. You'll hear a special sound effect if you did it right (it may take a few tries, as you have to be extremely quick); at this point hit F9 and you'll be taken to a cheat menu where you can enable freeplay. And unfortunately, this has to be re-enabled every time you boot the game up. But yeah. If you can handle the specific circumstances of these ports, they're fantastic once you get them working the way you want.

Pro tip: I paused the game with alt + p(don't need to press + it is just what you need to press together) first and reduced the cycles with control + F11 until it was slow enough to actually be capable of writing the above cheat unpaused it wrote the cheat and increased the cycles back to normal with control + F12.
I do feel kinda annoyed doing this so i only played as Scorpion by now and beat it.
And btw the worst boss before teh final boss kintaro or what he is called needed really long to beat him but the most silly and easy way to defeat him with Scorpion was just going close to him and pressing HP he keept blocking and i keept punching him so long until he fell.

Do this.

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Open MK2.EXE with any HEX editor, and search for the following string (which corresponds to AICULEDSSUL):

1E 17 2E 16 26 12 20 1F 1F 16 26

Let’s assume you want to set it up so that a single F9 keypress activates the cheat menu. Then replace the above with:

43 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Now when I start game I just pound on F9 quickly and the cheat menu comes right up.

I tried you Hex Editor trick, got in the cheat menu, enabled Freeplay with F9 but I still get a credit countdown if I lose.

Any ideas?

Well, I just tested it and it works. In case it is still not working by some cosmic reason for you, there are 3 options:

1. Using hex editor you can easily change the values of the continues. Monitor the change by default and once enabling free play from the cheat menu. Then you will know which one you need to change;

2. Press F2 for player 2 to entering the tournament before the continue screen. Beat player 2 and continue your game;

3. Use trainer. I still need to test the ones I got, as i do not know if they work with this version.

I was able to get into the Cheat menu with the HEX editor trick, but I can't seem to figure out how to leave the cheat menu and then play the game with cheats enabled.

when the game is starting when you see the copyright screen you must type incredibly fast "aiculedssul" and then press f9, however this is almost impossible to do before that screen ends so i have a SOLUTION that is super easy.
STEPS:
1)what i did was to install an app called autohotkey, and before you give up, dont worry it is super easy to install and its free as well as totally safe. besides when i did this i was new using this app as well (chat gpt or youtube tutorials taught me everything i had to know about it)

2)after i installed it i asked chat gpt to teach me how to create an autohotkey file and how to do a code that allows my computer to detect "aiculedssul" by only pressing ctrl and m at the same time (ctrl m) so gpt gave me that code (which i am about to give you) and saved the file

3)after creating that file what you must do is open it and it would seem that nothing is happening however in the hidden icon bar of your computer there will be the autohotkey logo, which means the key you created (ctrl m) is running.

4)if you want to know if its working go to google or somewhere you could type, after that press your code and you will see how aiculedssul appears rapidly. if you want to make it stop because it interfers with other things you do appart from playing mk 2 just pres exit from the hidden icon bar. and whwnever you want it just open it again

IMPORTANT:
So you created your code and is working what you must do is enter mk 2 and in the copyryght screen you rapidly press your code (ctrl m)after that you will hear a sound. After hearing this, press f9 and read carefully you have to activate 2 things
CHEAT MODE and FREEPLAY . if you only activate freeplay or cheat mode it WONT work you have to activate both of them, after you did this just press escape until the game runs normally. then play a few game and you will see that you have 5 credits but these wont decrease when you lose they will remain as 5 forever (well until you close the game)

THINGS TO HAVE IN MIND:
you will have to put the code everytime you open the game since it resets, so DONT erase the autohotkey you created.
just open it everytime you enter mk 2.

the code does not have to be the same as mine you can do whichever code you want wether it is ctrl m, ctrl n shift t, etc. but it has to write aiculedssul when you press it thats the only thing to have in mind.
OPTIONAL:
this is the code chat gpt gave me in case someone wants it , ( copy and paste it in the autohotkey file youre creating) :


^m:: ; Esto indica que el script responde a la combinación Ctrl + M
Send, aiculedssul ; Enviar el texto "aiculedssul" cuando se presiona Ctrl + M
return ; Fin del script



So..thats it i know it is a lot of words but i wanted to make everything clear so everyone could enjoy the game. now go and kick ass.