I’ve been intending to discuss CCPS here on Retro RGB for some time, but I hesitated until I gained some hands-on experience. CCPS is an SDK created by Fabien Sanglard for the renowned Capcom CPS arcade platform—the one featuring games like Final Fight, Ghouls’n Ghosts, Strider, and, of course, Street Fighter II, among others. Fabien […]
Jasen Hicks is opening up one last pre-order for his CPS3 metal enclosure! After a successful last run of his CPS2 enclosure, Jasen’s back at it one last time for CPS3 owners. Priced at $149.95 and $20.00 world-wide shipping costs. (More images available below) Again, JasensCustoms.com isn’t reopening but has opened up a pre-order for the […]
The man, the myth, the legend Jasen Hicks is opening up a one time pre-order for his coveted CPS2 metal enclosure. No, JasensCustoms.com isn’t reopening but he’s seen a demand from the arcade community and decided to open up a pre-order for the CPS2 metal enclosure sold in the past from JasensCustoms. Below is a […]
In addition to impressing us with his highly objective and accurate controller and game engine input lag measurements, Loïc Petit has been working hard on a years-long project to fully reverse engineer the Capcom Play System 2, or “CPS2” arcade system. This arcade hardware is responsible for some all time classic titles in series such […]
Phil Nolan has released an excellent documentary covering the modern Street Fighter III: Third Strike arcade scene and fighting tournament organizers Jazzy Circuit. Jazzy NYC ’19 captures the excitement of live matches and guides viewers through the state of the scene from New York City to Japan. It’s a really great watch and will warm […]
Jotego has been releasing beta versions of his MiSTer & MiST Capcom CPS-1 Arcade FPGA cores to his patrons, allowing fans to dive into the largely unported CPS-1 library. Each week he has brought a few new games to the core, and he intends to support the entire CPS-1 library. The core is currently private, […]
Loïc Petit has expanded his CPS-2 board traces into a fully fledged backwards engineering project with the goal of creating complete CPS-2 schematics for repair and FPGA use. The project aims to describe the circuits of both the PCB and its custom chips. More details: https://gitlab.com/loic.petit/cps2-reverse
After announcing it back in February 2019, Undamned just showed the InfiniKey de-suicide board for Capcom’s CPS hardware. While the CPS2 version of the InfiniKey revives all known B-boards (Capcom implemented the “Suicide battery” into the entire CPS2 catalog), its CPS1 counterpart will only resurrect the following 7 troublesome games (the remaining library is basically […]
Loïc *WydD* Petit undertook the massive job of writing a complete PCB trace-out for the Capcom CPS-2 Arcade B-Boards (game boards). There were around 850 traces in total, and he has shared his work in a Google doc. Hopefully this will be archived and preserved for posterity. I considered this as my holiday puzzle. When […]
Capcom has just announced an “emulator in a stick”: A “dual arcade stick” shaped like the Capcom logo featuring 15 original arcade games and Sanwa buttons & sticks. It will be released on October 25th of this year for around $300: http://www.capcomhomearcade.com The list of included games are as follows (trailer below): 1944 Alien vs Predator […]
