Highlight the "Continue" selection on the options screen. Hold [Low Kick] + [Block] until the cheat option appears and the word "Outstanding" is spoken. The cheat options include "Endings", "Fatalities 1", "Fatalities 2", and "Level Fatalities". The "Level Fatalities" option will allow the spike fatality to be executed on any level.
Go to the practice menu. Highlight the "Difficulty" selection and hold [Low Kick] + [Block] until the cheat menu appears. Note: You can only choose one option ("Endings", "Fatalities 1", or "Fatalities 2"). Selecting them simultaneously has no effect.
Alternate costumes:
Press [Start] + any button to rotate the select screen pictures two times to
enable each character's second costume, except for Sonya and Tanya. The select screen
pictures must be rotated three times for those characters.
Fight as Meat:
Enter "Group Mode" and successfully complete the game with all sixteen
characters. After this has been accomplished, select any character and begin a match. Your
character will playing as Meat with all the moves of the character that was selected.
Fight as Goro:
Successfully complete the game with Shinnok. Change Shinnok's costume, then select the
invisible icon at the bottom of the character selection screen. Press [Up] [Up] [Up]
[Left] to highlight Shinnok's icon, then press [Run] + [Block].
Fight as Noob Saibot:
Successfully complete the game with Reiko. Enter the 012 012 Kombat code in
versus mode. Exit this match and enter the character selection screen. Select the
invisible icon at the bottom of the character selection screen. Press [Up] [Up] [Left]
to highlight Reiko's icon, then press [Run] + [Block].
View biographies:
Enter "Kombat Theatre" mode, highlight the desired character, and press [Block].
Kombat Kodes:
Enter one of the following codes to activate the corresponding effect.
| Effect | Kombat Kode |
| Free weapon | 111-111 |
| Throwing disabled | 100-100 |
| Start with weapons drawn | 444-444 |
| No background music | 666-666 |
| Last hit causes loser to explode | 050-050 |
| Random weapons | 222-222 |
| Start with energy slightly above "Danger" level | 123-123 |
| Weapons drop all over the stage | 555-555 |
| No rain on the Wind World stage | 060-060 |
| Both players never drop weapons | 002-002 |
| Rains blood at the "Wind World" stage | 020-020 |
| No maximum damage limit for combos | 010-010 |
| No throws and maximum damage combo limit | 110-110 |
| Play at "Goro's Lair" stage | 011-011 |
| Play at "The Well" stage | 022-022 |
| Play at "The Elder Gods" stage | 033-033 |
| Play at "The Tomb" stage | 044-044 |
| Play at "Wind World" stage | 055-055 |
| Play at "Reptile's Lair" stage | 066-066 |
| Play at "Shaolin Temple" stage | 101-101 |
| Play at "Living Forest" stage | 202-202 |
| Play at "The Prison" stage | 303-303 |
| Unlimited Run meter | 001-001 |
| Play at "Ice Pit" stage | 313-313 |
| Big head mode | 321-321 |