Wow, it's a total 180 from the MK1 ports. It's also interesting to note how, color aside, the Genesis sprites are far more accurate to the arcade originals. It looks like they edited parts of the SNES sprites by hand for some reason -- what the fuck did they do to Baraka's face?
That just makes it all the more perplexing that they cut so many key animation frames in the Genesis version -- frames that get the most time on screen, no less. Idle animations, which are mostly only seen at the beginning of a round, are smooth as can be, and yet the most prominent frames of Kitana's fan throw, Scorpion's spear, and Johnny Cage and Baraka's win poses got the axe. That doesn't make any god damn sense.
