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I don't think you fully understand the magnitude of the sadity at hand here. It's sad that people still whole heartedly believe in a rumor that Ed Boon himself didn't know about until a guy made the claim. I have made a lot of attempts with very good evidence, and the only evidence that was around that was supposed to back up Ermac's presence in MK1 turned out to help my point. I'll explain later. The Reiko=Kahn storyline possibility is the apple to Ermac's orange, there is NO comparison to a character that just isn't in the game. EVEN if the guy managed to experience a million to 1 glitch to make Scorpion red, he's still Scorpion with the wrong pallet, not Ermac.
Shingo, your reasoning would make sense if Ermac's disputed existence was over MK2, but I understand where you're coming from on that.
Sponge-Zer0, learn to read. When people say dumb things, I have the right to make them understand it. My arguement has been beyond that of the combined effort of *3* people who believe in an MK1 Ermac because they all say the same thing, and I'm going to get that again later.
KillerMiller, you are right. It is stupid, but after the first post where I explained much of it, the general reaction should have been, "Ah I see." Not, "No Ed Boon said he exists." Because he did not any such thing.
blade-tsung, you're sort of right, but again it's based on speculation that the picture Tony Casey sent into EGM is real.
Sakura, I'm glad to see more back up on this thanks.
outworld222, on that you are kind of right, but the more people who try increases the probability of find it, even though it's not the odds, it still helps out the situation. If there were a certain pixel range the character would have land in infront of their statue, the more people who try, the more chances of that specific condition being right, but, if the whole thing is based on the state of the machine's parameters, there's no possible way for a person to repeat it, and the only way would be to alter the existing code and make it happen again, but that didn't happen, and they didn't put it in the game intentionally, so there is no Ermac "character" in MK1, but there is a system of error correction called ERMAC, that I nver denied the existence of, ERMAC is not like some God that holds control of the tournament and makes sure that nothing goes wrong, but hey that sounds like a cool storyline to me actually, and the alleged red Scorpion is just one of MANY different types of ERMACS, ergo, no way of reproducing this specific, and alleged, error in any progressive manner. Guessing numbers is different than playing, if you write down every number you pick, you will eventually guess the number, with the game, there are countless variables included, in your guessing game, you would have to include a mathematical equation to randomly select a new number after every guess. In the lottery, the more tickets you buy, with different numbers, increases your odds of winning. This is completely not the lottery. yeah, thats pretty much it, a glitch that never happens, and yes he is non other than scorpion.
Note:cool thing about the glitch though. On the bar it would say Ermac."-ENTIRELY UNTRUE
But you just admitted that what is in the EGM magazine is a glitch that is a red Scorpion, not Ermac. So if I give the EGM trick of the month the benefit of the doubt and say that he did under some cosmic level coincidence, see a red Scorpion, then that is it. He was playing against a red Scorpion. I really want to see the picture again lol.
The 1 in a Million theory is just an excuse to not have to prove it, you'd be thrown in jail for that in court.
OK here's a run down:
1. Ed Boon said, and I QUOTE.
Ed Boon: "I can't tell you if it's in MKII. It's not necessarily a thing that you can get to this or that. It's associated with a...I can't say it's a bug, but it's an event that happens in the game that shouldn't happen. I called it Ermac, my program code, which stands for "Error Macro." When something happens that shouldn't happen, it'll fix itself."
There is no place in that paragraph where Ed Boon says that Ermac is in MK1, he only talks about the error prevention system, and that the glitch the guy found is related to it, and he calls that system Ermac, he never once said that it's a hidden character they put in the game. I guess depending on how you want to interperate it, it could defend either point, it can defend the existence of Ermac if you think that Boon is flat out saying that a character named Ermac is in the game, and it could defend him not being in there if you think he's saying it was an error that shouldn't have happened, personally I think it leans towards the latter because he actually does say "when something happens that shouldn't happen."
2. Only one person in millions has claimed to have seen this happen, and Ed Boon himself did not claim to ever see it, and Ed Boon himself seems very unsure how to explain it. One in millions is not enough to prove it because pictures are easily falsified, I could have even faked the ERMAC DOES NOT EXIST picture from MK2 if I wanted, but you can beat them game for yourself to see that, which brings me to 3.
3. In MK2 when you beat the game you have secret clues and phrases that appear, one of them is ERMAC DOES NOT EXIST, that in itself is enough to make anyone with the least bit of common sense say, "OK fine." It does not mean he doesn't exist in MK2, because he was around for MK1, and UMK3, he was around in MK2. ERMAC DOES NOT EXIST means Ermac does not exist, there's no other way of explaining it, any other explaination is sick, twisted, and convoluted.
4. People have gone as far as to create imaginary methods of obtaining Ermac, and none of them work.
5. Ermac's storyline in UMK3 is based upon the rumor of his existence, and then in MKT, he was given a completely different storyline.
6. In 1999 Ed Boon said in a transcript that no one has found Ermac yet in MK1 completely discrediting what he said in 1993 if in fact what he said means that Ermac was there, and it's purely speculation.
So there you have 6 pieces of evidence, only one of them has the chance to support Ermac's existence in MK1, AND, it can also disprove it.
So it's 5.5 - .5 in favor of Ermac not being there, if anyone has more inf on this, or more proof that he is there, please add it until it matches or exceeds the points I have brought up.
Anyone who says that the EGM pic, or the Gamepro interview are enough proof of his existence is an obtuse piece of flotsam. Also, I am waiting on the evidence of another game magazine where Boon supposedly says it isn't true to begin with.
Matt
