Why The Capcom Console Failed!? - 1994 Rare Console History - Capcom CPS Changer
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Today Top Hat Gaming Man discusses the history of the Capcom CPS Changer and why it failed!
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A man in a top hat, with a dashing moustache or a highly distinguished beard, reviews rare video games in his massive collection. Appreciate the finer things in life! Top Hat Gaming Man travels around the globe, playing the best games for the handhelds around the world. The best games are like fine wines and only get better with age. Today, Top Hat Gaming Man discusses the history of the Capcom CPS Changer and why it failed.
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nice work, I found out about this device from TH-cam show "Game Sack" , enjoyed your take as well. I only discovered this recently and wish I found out about it sooner, problem is now I want one. but its a lot of money
5:33 The Neo Geo did not offer a near arcade experience. It was an arcade experience in the home.
And you left out the PC Engine
Joe Sylvester arguable as the arcade it self and cabinet was an experience which maybe why he says that.....but to your point it WAS the arcade game on your tv
It's amazing how slick capcom arcade games still look today.
07:22 game?
Its bc like Nintendo art style was always more important that raw realism
Probably the best and most consistently great sprite artists of their time and maybe all time.
@@inceptional It's very close between Capcom and SNK.
Most 90`s 2D Arcade games still look great, not only Capcom games.
Wow I never knew that Capcom tried to make their own console. If any company deserved to have their own console, it would be Capcom since they made so many great games in the 80s and 90s and still continue to do so.
90s only not 80s as they only created 1 great game in the 80s which is Final Fight
@@h.m.5724 pretty sure Mega Man came out in the 80s.
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If it’s not too much, may I ask what age did you started having the kind of problems you mentioned in your comment?
I always thought I knew a lot about gaming history but most weeks you put a video about a console or micro computer that I had never heard of. Keep it coming.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and witnessed the console wars but also the arcade cabinets that were still around during the time and I was always so envious that the cabinets always had such nicer looking games. When they were converted to the consoles or home computers these always felt like a lesser version, visually but sometimes gameplay as well.
So I really dreamed of a console or a home computer that could run arcade games perfectly.
Various arcade games from the 80s and 90s still have a place in my heart but when I eventually did play them I came to discover that they did not have the long term gameplay of RPGs, titles like Super Metroid, and genres on the PC such as FPS and RTS games, something that gave me much more enjoyment and satisfaction.
Not to mention that some of these arcade games were bloody hard. I don't think I would be enjoying doing the same couple of levels over and over again in order to develop the near perfect skills to finally continue.
Thanks to longplays we now know that once you have developed your skills that you can beat these games that they tend to be very short.
Neat to know that devices like this really existed but I don't feel that I have missed out on much for it not to come out in Europe. A lot of us would not have been able to afford it any way.
You can change the dificulty in arcade machines via some kind of levers.
@@GuardaOjivas yes you can change the difficulty on the arcade boards via micro switches, also you can change credits per coin, freeplay, lives per play, intro music on/off. Let's remember that the whole point to t e arcade games was to play, enjoy, remember and have fun beating the game short or longer with great satisfaction all hail the eightiez
Sir you'll need to get yourself an arcade machine with final fight arcade jamma board and see how much skill and how much value you will get from completing this fantastic game.
No one could afford the neo geo aes
This guy is the gaming version of 'that chapter' every video is entirely new topics or even if the topic of a video has been done to death by other TH-camrs he delves deeper and gives the viewer a better understanding of the background of that topic... Absolutely gifted creator, also your uncle sounds awesome!! I'm getting closer to creating a patreon account!
Thank you! My uncle was one of the greatest people in my life, he was only 12 years older than me but sadly we lost him in a Motorbike accident when he was just 33. Still though, he influenced my life in gaming more than anyone else, I am thankful for that and will always cherish the memories. Maybe one day I will do a video about his influence on this channel!
Wow! You continue to amaze me with some of these consoles. I don’t know how you come up with some of these but “game on” sir!
I consider myself someone with alot of knowledge of all gaming consoles. This one was new to me. Great VIDEO!!! Keep up the great work
So weird that he doesn’t list the eleven released games in full.
And that he doesn't even mention what the console was called or even consisted of until halfway through the video.
and that he always does that creepy "yeeeaaaaaaaaah" after the video intro
Dan - this is the kind of stuff he is messing way too much, unacceptable sir
Phoenix Vanguard “CPS Changer” - he says it dozens of times.
@@SavageMontreal it's literaly in the tittle
Back when I was on usenet in ALT.GAMES.SF2, I was friends with a Capcom PR person who was monitoring the newsgroup. We talked quite a bit, and when I saw this in an article in Electronic Gaming Monthly, he very strongly suggested that I didn't pick one up. While he said he was impressed with the arcade quality of the games, he mentioned that Capcom USA didn't think there was going to be any market for the system in the US, and that it was going to just fade away rather quickly, I got a Playstation instead. :)
CPS is really a nice rare console, i have a hundreds of rare systems like entex adventurevision, supervision 8000, apf imagination machine and so on.....95% cib, but i do not have a cps changer :(
Can we get a video of all these hundreds you own?
I second that. Would love to see the mentioned systems too.
@@Gunh3d1 check the link i posted earlier, also posted my real name so you can find me on the internet. i also had an exhibition at gamescom 2016 (the history of handhelds with interchanable modules) over 100 handhelds in 4 showcases. check it out you also find videos on youtube (gamescom 2016 retro)
@@EDGar-wi6np all links above
Great episode! Very informative and well presented, keep up the good work sir!
Fun video like always you are one of my favorite TH-camrs :)
You have really great collection of game consoles.
Very interesting video! I had no idea this was something Capcom did!
I loved the Capcom fighting stick
Does the stick have micro switches?
.... another breath taking thumbnail, thank you, man
What? I would have bought Capcom’s console!
Ditto
Same here! Why didn't Capcom release this bad boy in the States? I'd have begged my parents to buy me one for Street Fighter and uncensored Final Fight.
@@DarDarBinks1986 Already said in the video, no distributor for the system. Capcom was already having trouble selling direct to consumer in Japan, and that's in their home country that's geographically smaller and denser than the United States.
And paid 160 bucks per game?
So pay at least $150 for every cps1 arcade game? The price makes this ridiculous
Great video sir. Fascinating video!
Niche-tastic!
A long time ago... My mom flew in from N.Y. with a copy of SF2... My Life was changed forever. Love my Moms always!!
How many moms do you have?
This story is better than the content of this video.
The 6-button MegaDrive controllers probably would have been more appropriate for this system, especially since its 8-way D-pad was closer to Capcom's 8-way arcade sticks.
Probably so they could push stock of those Capcom fightsticks, seen here. They already had them made for the SNES. I never tried one, but heard that they weren't very good.
Not just Genesis 6-button controllers. The ones for the 3DO, too. They both have the same 9-pin connector.
The Mega Drive wasn't popular in Japan, sadly.
@@DarDarBinks1986 The 3DO had a 6 button controller? The only ones I've seen have been 3 buttons with 2 shoulder buttons.
They would have been, but the Mega Drive was not at all successful in Japan. SOJ couldn't wait to move on to the next generation. It's because of Sega of America and Europe that the Genesis/Mega Drive lasted as long as it did. Having said that, there were 6-button controllers for the more successful PC Engine that they could have used.
I love the titles of your videos. "why this console you have never heard about or even knew you existed failed totally".
I knew about the system already but I did not know so much about it! I bought 2 Power Stick Fighters and wondered for years what else they were intended for. I would love to have bought the CPS Changer back then but I would not have been able to afford it. That being said I think the price with SF2 included was quite decent. I love the game and Capcom, they have done great things.
i saw something like this in a video game shop in 1992 they called it "alma" it had the original street fighter 2, Final fight, Ghost and goblins, commando. they were renting it for $125 for 3 days.
Music track down, voiceover up!
Especially if the "background" music is that annoying.
yeah the high pitched very loud music at the 6 minute mark is unbearable. Literally hurt my ears.
It looks similar to the Super Gun converter I had in the 90s. I also had a copy of Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting. It was basically a black box with
two controller ports, a JAMMA adapter and a red button you could press for tricking the system into thinking you had put coins in it for a credit.
I'd be really interested in a video about the PC-FX and why it failed. I loved the PC Engine and Super CD and always wondered what went wrong for Hudson and NEC?
I had the chance to actually played with this in one of the convention here in macau but ...I never notice that SNES controller was compatible with that...🙌🙌🙌
Wow... good stuff man... good stuff...🙌
12:11 Is there anything left that you haven't covered!? Okay, here's one for you. How about the Dendy(Russian version of the NES)?
NFKRZ did an excellent video on the Dendy.
The only time I heard this console back in the day was because I bought a game magazine which advertised that Capcom Arcade Stick at 150 US, it said that it was compatible with the SNES and the CPS1 home console, I immediately purchased the Stick to play the SNES SF2 Turbo with it...
Wow. You make great, in-depth videos. Please keep up the good work. I don't know how you do it. I'll try and help of you ever run out of topics to cover just do that you can make more entertaining videos
I remember hearing of the CPS changer! funny story in the late 90s/early 00s there was that 'Callus' CPS emulator? apparently some had hacked a romset of Megaman: The Power Battle to allow people to play the ROM of the CPS Changer port of Street Fighter Zero in the emulator! Didn't know Tsujimoto was in the SF movie though, wow!
I Played Callus on a Pentium 100 Mhz, I Remember that I couldnt run Street Fighter II via Windows only via DOS as I had not enough memory, Thanks for the memories, I had forgot completely about it
Callus was released in 1998 by Sardu. He also made Nesticle (NES) and Genecyst (Mega Drive). Way ahead of its time. I still remember Zophar's Domain and JoseQ's Emucamp. 21 years ago...
Have not thought of exed exes for decades, it popped into my head this morning and then it popped up on this video when I watched it this evening..weird!
what on earth, today i learned this was even a thing. great video.
5:35 'Near'? They were the same ROMs! Ports of that generation literally couldn't be more perfect, tbh.
Well, you are missing all the noise of the arcade, as well as the smell of closely-packed sweaty bodies.
And cigarette burns along with tokens aligned along the arcade cabinet. Lol
I mean, you only had 4 credits on an AES game. So it wasn't exactly the same as an mvs where you can just keep playing as long as you have a quarter
@@androidrulez444 true, but that can be said of most ports of the era.
@@androidrulez444 game play and graphics wise it was 100% the same
The CPS Changer is a bargain compared to buying a Sharp X68000 for the sole purpose of playing the best home version of Street Fighter II', and the CPS Changer version actually is arcade perfect.
07:48???
Wow! Never heard about the Capcom console.
Great video, could you do a video about the Neo Geo AES/MVS please?
Wow, i never realized this existed. Capcom Arcade games almost always looked wonderful and most of the sprite work is still amazing today.
😄👍
So interesting. I have never heard of this - those games are huge! Just when I thought I’d pretty much heard of every system...amazing! Obscure hardware is the best!
I wish I have one personally that would be so cool. Since I can talk about the cps changer and have it on display personally and play it personally. Best regards Nikita.K
The only "experience" I had with this obscure system back in the day was seeing a Capcom Fighter Stick in a game store and just having to have it. It made playing Street Fighter 2 Turbo on my SNES a joy.
Until a few years ago I always thought the CFS was just a peripheral for the SNES. I was completely unaware that it was part of a Capcom home console package based upon the CPS arcade board. It now made sense why I saw CPS Changer games listed in MAME and other arcade emulators.
I never knew this existed, and I loved capcom in the early years (still do a bit)
What's the last soundtrack of the video it sounds so familier and great video had to subscribe
Never even heard of this bugger before so was a great video very interesting
Capcom pulled an SNK back in the early '90s by releasing an arcade board as a console!? Mind = blown. Well, the CPS Changer is definitely on my hypothetical, retro-gaming shopping list whenever I hit the lottery. Great find, Top Hat. Great find. In my humble opinion, honestly, Capcom could have kept this console going for the arcade purists and die-hard collectors in Japan well into the discontinuation of the CPS2 hardware. I strongly believe that if Street Fighter Zero/Alpha 3 was released on the CPS Changer, it would have been truly identical to the arcade version due to being, well, identical hardware. A part of me also thinks this thing could have been updated with a CPS3 add-on peripheral of some sort as well.
Despite the console never seeing the light of day outside of Japan, I do think that Capcom should revisit an idea like this. They should jump on the retro-gaming bandwagon like Nintendo, Sega, SNK Playmore, and Atari have by releasing a "Capcom Arcade Mini" which would allow you to play their best arcade hits from the CPS1, CPS2, and CPS3 hardware in the privacy of your own home on an SDTV or HDTV, with the option to play the games in HD upscaled as high as 1080p and 4K resolution. The money would literally print itself.
Excellent video
The Power Stick Fighter is my FAVORITE arcade stick ever released. I have the SEGA Genesis version that I got for a steal at $10US coupled with a $20US Mayflash Genesis to USB adapter from Amazon. Just no better arcade stick outside of the kits found online. I can see why Capcom used it for their failed system, though.
Another good one Man
a great piece of hardware!
friend of mine owns one. would like to lay my hands on one too but they rare and quite expensive..
OOHOOH Thanks top hat man for showing me something new. Question. If you get one without a game, is it still a console having no CPU?
I would have definitely got one of these back in the day I had the capcom joystick for the SNES it was great but no good for tournaments as they were all with controllers so ended up going back to controllers .
That Vulgus cabinet was pictured at the Galloping Ghost Arcade in Illinois. I would know that setup anywhere.
Excellent video content, but the audio quality and levels are all over the place. Maybe try using some compression on the master track to level all volumes etc.
Nice video my friend!
Street Fighter 2 World Warrior was the first used game I bought. I loved it in the arcade, and will still pop the original in my SNES
The Power Stick was also compatible with NES/AV Famicom. The North American version included both cables (maybe Japan too?).
Porting Street Fighter Zero to the CPS Changer was where Capcom messed up.
They were supposed to port all 32 CPS1 & CPS Dash games on the system.
And later create a SUPER CPS Changer to port all 48 CPS2 & CPS3 games on there.
The concept of putting the main processor and all that in the game, and the console being little more than a port interface is a concept similar to the Hanimex (Grandstand) SD070, which had all the main hardware in the cartridge itself, and the actual console acting more as a controller and TV interface, and selection buttons.
I did not know that capcom made a console i never heard about it this is my first time hearing all about it
Maybe The Last Gamer has this system.Seeing as he has a few Capcom contacts..I would killed to have this system.
I've never knew such a great arcade an gaming history like this was ever made
What is that console that you're holding at 0:06? And do you have a video about that one? I've tried looking through your videos but haven't found that one yet. Please help!
It is the Bandai Supervision 8000 and it is still in my backlog of 100+ obscure consoles I plan to make videos on!
@@TopHatGamingManChannel waiting to see that one! It looks intriguing; it has what looks like Intellivision controllers and I know Mattel and Bandai were co-operating at some point, so I want to see if there are any similarities or shared technology!
Never heard of this one ,but no suprise if Japan only.great video with lots of interesting info
As someone who read pretty much every video game magazine he could get his hands on from 1989 to 1995, how did I never hear about this?
Well, bloody obvious why it failed.
Hmm, so its basically it was an Neo Geo AES knockoff/OEM SuperGun(for the CPS 1), but less, yet the final game cost more but delivered less. Ideally, this console could have done better.....,possibly using a cut down more cartridge like format, like the AES did. In addition the format could have had a removable CPU among other common parts used in the Arcade boards leaving only the ROM and 'helper' chips in the cart. The Console itself would contain all common parts and only need those bespoke chips/ROM chips. Which it like most other home consoles. Only this might have worked.
We are getting closer to a top hat/dj slopps crossover
DJ who??
@@samkinison2375 The guy who does the kickscammer videos
I still want one thou ☹️ awesome video thank you
I guess you weren't able to procure an example to test.
Good story!
Honsetly i forgot that this guy told me to subscribe to him on TH-cam like 3 years back
This Street Fighter fan loves the BGMs.
3:48 arcade was very much alive, I would say that the shifting from arcade to home happened in the mid 90s not at the beginning.
dude's cleaned up his accent/delivery since I last watched this station a year ago
I still have my Capcom fight still. It was clickity and felt janky, but it never broke. I was finally able to hadoken and shoryuken on the Super Nintendo. It set me back about $70.00.
Cammy theme is so good. Sad that the Capcom console failed even more than the neo Geo consoles
Never even knew this existed!
They should have revived this instead of that "CAPCOM HOME ARCADE" they went with.
what a surprise ! didn't know Capcom tried to launch a console
It’s weird Capcom went to the trouble of porting Street Fighter Alpha to CPS-1 hardware and charge extra for the game when the actual “console” part was basically a Supergun so could have easily been connected to a CPS-2 board without trouble. Maybe it was a good way for Capcom to burn off excess stock of CPS-1 parts?
It’s also weird they didn’t try and separate the CPS-1 hardware so that you only had to buy the B board with the ROMs and have the A and C boards part of the console. I know there were some CPS-1 revisions over the years but I believe most CPS-1 games have been hacked to be compatible with the various C boards, so it can’t have been a major issue. Maybe Capcom thought if the Changer was successful they would also offer CPS-2 boards and therefore didn’t want any specific hardware included.
I would have got this back in the day. It ya never heard of it until now.
In what way was the CPS1 version of Alpha a cut back from the CPS2 version? From what I read it was just different music. Did I miss something else?
Less animation frames from what I have read up.
I wonder if you could connect other Jamma Boards to the Connector with an adapter? As far as i understood, this is actually a Supergun.
I woulda known about it i woulda had one . Still woulda saved me tons of money as i spent alot of time at the arcades .But cant beat the friends and community we had back then in the cades
I' got a Super Nintendo controler exactaly like this one. It's from Capcom made to play Street Fighter II. It's from Playtronic, a company from Gradiente here in Brazil.
It's a real shame that consolized/home-friendly arcade boards didn't catch on. Hooking up arcade boards, even with the advent of superguns, requires quite a bit of technical knowledge and skill, and that's if they use the JAMMA standard. If they don't, well...better have a substantial background in electronics/DIY projects.
Capcom could had modeled their home system like SNK's AES Neo Geo system and controllers. They should try it again now.
Zeebo? Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.
What's the racing game on the neogeo shown in 5:35? It's very similar to neo drift out
Could you make a video on what games were available for the system?✌
Wow, that was amazing, talk about short sighted company, Capcom could of crushed the competition if they had got on making cheaper boards, and none arcade titles for this, and of course marketed it a little better,
but what I wanted to comment was I almost got something like this back in the early 90s, and add in Games master or some other Mag like C&VG had a console like this, as I recall it was beige metal, and was going with two 6 button Joysticks and SF2 for £150, although I didnt get it, as I used my 150 quid on driving lessons... and never got back to that offer..
Wow, best review by far. Thank you for the upload👍
Curving the joystick at a 45 degree is a bad idea. I tried a similar joystick and ended up pressing diagonally up instead of right most of the time.
Greetings! Please can you tell me the name of the last song playing?
It's worth mentioning that as expensive as the system sounds, remember that it was explicitly trying to compete with the Neo-Geo AES. When *that* first debuted, it was $650 -- in early 90s dollars! -- for a console, arcade stick, and a single game. So $330 to play an arcade-perfect Street Fighter 2 at home was actually pretty reasonable! Likewise, the cost of new games was competitive with the AES as well. (With the exception of SF Alpha.)
It's kind of a shame, really. Assuming Capcom was managing to profit off the hardware, they actually could have been a competitor at the "luxury" level of gaming hardware. I think the big difference, aside from NeoGeo having better marketing/distribution, is that SNK was willing to fully commit to the original hardware for the long-term. Capcom, OTOH, released the CPS2 (and then CPS3) and thus instantly antiquated their own system.
I’ve read edge magazine since the beginning, so remember some of the failed consoles over the years, but have no recollection of this one.
They should have made the thing compatible with CPS1 carts. That would have added much more appeal and flexibility to the device.
I wonder why the last handful of CPS1 games didn’t use the enhancements of the CPS1.5.
and 6 months later the PS1 came out along side the Saturn. Which had more to do with it flopping than anything else.
You have to move 2-3 normal sized consoles just to setup that big ass game cart. "What was they thinking?"
If it was console size and had all the capcom games and some other ports it would have been awesome
I saw this joystick before and thought it was a licensed SNES stick !!!