I've been a proud owner of a CPS Changer since 2010 when the system was a little more obtainable financially than it is today. Unfortunately I only own Street Fighter II Turbo and have never been able to find or afford another game. To call them rare is an understatement they are almost non-existent. I once about 6 years ago found a Street Fighter Zero but by the time I called the store in Japan the game had sold.
@@eastendthug A few years ago just the console sold on eBay for 5k. The games are so rare it's anyone's guess. Even if somehow you were to get the console you still couldn't find the games. Their that rare. They make the Car Marty look common.
Capcom messed up with this *CP-System Changer* by porting Street Fighter Zero on there. They were supposed to only put in the 32 CPS1 games (like Strider Hiryū) & CPS Dash games (like Cadillacs & Dinosaurs). And later make a console successor called the *SUPER CP-System Changer* where it contains all 48 CPS2 games (like Alien vs. Predator) & CPS3 games (like Street Fighter III).
Capcom is one of my favorite developers of games, didn't know they had this console. I would've gotten it in a second, had I known back in the day. Imagine playing Final Fight 3 or Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter on this?
You showed the wrong Aladdin. Capcom developed the game released on the snes. The presented image was from the game developed by Virgin Interactive and released on the genesis.
This was a great video and much better than the click bait stuff like "Can you believe this Street Fighter is complete gutter trash?!?" I respect this much more and clicked on it immediately.
I almost got a JAMMA set for my PAL CRT tv for an alien vs predator capcom arcade cp2 cartridge in 2004 which used mega drive controllers and open circuit board and loom. But my PC glitched and I lost out on a £60 ebay auction. Other jamma sets were £300 plus. So I sold my cp2 game at a loss. This was before emulation for capcom games of course.
I hope the person who created this console never worked in video games again. I am shocked to see it actually passed the higher ups. The whole point of the cps arcade machines were to reduce cost, reduce the number of chips they need manufactured. Then someone says they should do a home console that does just the opposite in spite of what everyone else is doing. I was really expecting to click into this to find capcom tried making a home console version of the X68000 computer. Similar to the AES CD console by snk, hardware rom chips would be replaced with software and the games would need to be re-engineered to load piecemeal into RAM.
That's a cool piece of history. I remember my older brother buying the Power Stick Fighter at an Electronic's Boutique along with SSFII for the SNES back in '94. The SNES port was really good, but I don't recall the stick being any good.
I do also recall some other things about these devices as well. I think that CPS-1 and CPS-2 arcade games from Capcom also had variants of these machines as a part of the overall architecture of those arcade games and that the controller ports that were for the controllers for the CPS Changer units were also in these machines, as well as the stand alone CPS Changer machines, and that said controller ports were also perfectly compatible with SNES/NSFC controllers as well, as they were identical in shape to the SNES/NSFC controller ports.
I had that power stick controller it was perfect for street fighter I didn’t know it was created for the capcom machine I used it for my snes I had to go back to the standard controller in the end as tournaments only used the standard controller nice memory though
I have two CPS Changers, only one game though. People say that for one reason or another the system failed, due to competition or cost. From my understanding though it was a test to see if Capcom could shift a back log of CPS1 boards they had in storage, clearly it didn't work. Capcom wasn't trying to compete in the console market at all, if so they would have released more than just 600 units.
Maximilian Dood has one but his is Modified from CPS 1 to CPS 2 games on it and it is very Pricey when he brought it he said during his twitch live streams it also it has HDMI port on his.
are you sure that power stick thing was japan exclusive? i had one and still have it. me n my sister couldn't figure out how to work it, but then again, we also weren't thinking fighting games only with it.
I don't know if the console you're talking about is the same as the one I'm looking up on ebay. What I'm finding is described as "arcade motherboards", which is clearly not what I'm seeing in this video. Also, the listings are hella expensive.
If they did have a console would you just like to play only capcom games or want to play every game from every publisher capcom does have a lot of great games but I wouldn’t want a capcom console to play only capcom games not worth buying that’s why I hate SNK consoles Neogeo only SNK games when you look at Sega PlayStation Nintendo Xbox Steam they get every publisher that’s what makes them worth to own
So, the console failed, because lack of video games to play on it and it is not available enough. It is interesting that Capcom even tried to enter the console market at all.
I miss old capcom before they went downhill starting 2015ish. Asuras wraith 2/remember me 2? Where are they. Just crappy 360 gummy fighter 6 and resident evils for simps
I'll have to look into an emulator for this system as it seems very interesting. If anyone has more info on this to make my research easier, please reply.
Thank you! Gd my feed today is just all politics, im sick of politics... then i saw your video and i like capcom and i like weird obscure facts. Thanks for making something that was good and interesting keep up the work!
It's extremely dumb that they would make you swap out entire boards instead of just a ROM cartridge. If they had designed the system better, it would have been way more successful.
We could re- release some of the titles with our fastest character in sneakers "sonic* for speed runs. #irm #nintendo #Sega #SonicTails Speed Runs #capco m Pahlavi''... #pilotwings
@@TopHatGamingManChannel ahh gotcha , makes sense I guess lol just strange , the word has meant the same thing and has been around for centuries 😂. Strange days those were
Wholly Crap! Imagine spending almost $400 on ONE Video Game. No "Live Service", no online, no extra content or dlc, nothing but one really good fighting game. It's nuts, it'd be even more if you account for inflation the damn thing would cost like $800 now which means the console itself would have been way more expensive than PS5 or XBox Series X.🤦♂️
I never understood the mentality of these people in the companies such as Nintendo, Capcom, Konami etc. They be like hey this thing is failing on a market lets make even worse outdated trash and upcharge it 10 times and the games especially ... Or when PS1 came around they continued to be even worse idi-ts ... Nintendo alone is lucky to be still around considering they were always generations behind, outdated, most games are awfully produced, both consoles and games overpriced and the list goes on, it barely sold around the world, basically mostly sells in some selected neesh markets in the west and nowhere else, yet it's still around making c-ap, so yeah quite a miracle. Tons of others failed back in 90s, SEGA shut down since it realized they can't compete anymore against Sony who was holding the majority of electronics market. So they pulled out. Nintendo was the worst of them all yet it lives ...
I've been a proud owner of a CPS Changer since 2010 when the system was a little more obtainable financially than it is today. Unfortunately I only own Street Fighter II Turbo and have never been able to find or afford another game. To call them rare is an understatement they are almost non-existent. I once about 6 years ago found a Street Fighter Zero but by the time I called the store in Japan the game had sold.
How much do the games and console sell for these days?
@@eastendthug A few years ago just the console sold on eBay for 5k. The games are so rare it's anyone's guess. Even if somehow you were to get the console you still couldn't find the games. Their that rare. They make the Car Marty look common.
This comment sums up the entire video
I do appreciate that you’ve speeded up your delivery in at least the back half of the videos Richard.
Capcom messed up with this *CP-System Changer* by porting Street Fighter Zero on there.
They were supposed to only put in the 32 CPS1 games (like Strider Hiryū) & CPS Dash games (like Cadillacs & Dinosaurs).
And later make a console successor called the *SUPER CP-System Changer* where it contains all 48 CPS2 games (like Alien vs. Predator) & CPS3 games (like Street Fighter III).
Capcom is one of my favorite developers of games, didn't know they had this console. I would've gotten it in a second, had I known back in the day. Imagine playing Final Fight 3 or Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter on this?
I remember seeing this advertised (1) time in a magazine back in the day.
I wish Capcom made one of these for CPS2 and 3. I was going to add Naomi but we have that it's called the dreamcast
You showed the wrong Aladdin. Capcom developed the game released on the snes. The presented image was from the game developed by Virgin Interactive and released on the genesis.
Maybe my editor was trolling everyone.
Yeah, I’ll buy another one tomorrow. These are sooo rare now. And so expensive.
It’s essentially a cps with an output and a pad/controller.
This was a great video and much better than the click bait stuff like "Can you believe this Street Fighter is complete gutter trash?!?" I respect this much more and clicked on it immediately.
I almost got a JAMMA set for my PAL CRT tv for an alien vs predator capcom arcade cp2 cartridge in 2004 which used mega drive controllers and open circuit board and loom. But my PC glitched and I lost out on a £60 ebay auction. Other jamma sets were £300 plus. So I sold my cp2 game at a loss. This was before emulation for capcom games of course.
I hope the person who created this console never worked in video games again. I am shocked to see it actually passed the higher ups. The whole point of the cps arcade machines were to reduce cost, reduce the number of chips they need manufactured. Then someone says they should do a home console that does just the opposite in spite of what everyone else is doing.
I was really expecting to click into this to find capcom tried making a home console version of the X68000 computer. Similar to the AES CD console by snk, hardware rom chips would be replaced with software and the games would need to be re-engineered to load piecemeal into RAM.
I’d see that Power Stick Fighter and Capcom Pad Soldier at secondhand shops in Japan more often than anticipated.
That's a cool piece of history.
I remember my older brother buying the Power Stick Fighter at an Electronic's Boutique along with SSFII for the SNES back in '94. The SNES port was really good, but I don't recall the stick being any good.
I had the control nifty thing about that is that you could easily use a cord that would let you use the controller to the snes
Always fascinating Mr. Top Hat !
I do also recall some other things about these devices as well. I think that CPS-1 and CPS-2 arcade games from Capcom also had variants of these machines as a part of the overall architecture of those arcade games and that the controller ports that were for the controllers for the CPS Changer units were also in these machines, as well as the stand alone CPS Changer machines, and that said controller ports were also perfectly compatible with SNES/NSFC controllers as well, as they were identical in shape to the SNES/NSFC controller ports.
I had that power stick controller it was perfect for street fighter I didn’t know it was created for the capcom machine I used it for my snes I had to go back to the standard controller in the end as tournaments only used the standard controller nice memory though
Interesting
i only vaguely remember seeing this control stick and thats it.
I have two CPS Changers, only one game though. People say that for one reason or another the system failed, due to competition or cost. From my understanding though it was a test to see if Capcom could shift a back log of CPS1 boards they had in storage, clearly it didn't work. Capcom wasn't trying to compete in the console market at all, if so they would have released more than just 600 units.
Maximilian Dood has one but his is Modified from CPS 1 to CPS 2 games on it and it is very Pricey when he brought it he said during his twitch live streams it also it has HDMI port on his.
Always wanted one of these
I'd kill for that console with a copy of CAPTAIN COMMANDO.
Jolly Good Show TopHat
are you sure that power stick thing was japan exclusive? i had one and still have it. me n my sister couldn't figure out how to work it, but then again, we also weren't thinking fighting games only with it.
Yeah I have one also but the stick is terrible
Interesting story about Capcom's forgotten console. Now how about doing a piece about another forgotten console, but made by Taito? 🤔
I don't know if the console you're talking about is the same as the one I'm looking up on ebay. What I'm finding is described as "arcade motherboards", which is clearly not what I'm seeing in this video. Also, the listings are hella expensive.
Capcom and Bandai-Namco should join forces and create their own console.
Perhaps Capcom and Bandai-Namco should venture into vonsole business again.
If they did have a console would you just like to play only capcom games or want to play every game from every publisher capcom does have a lot of great games but I wouldn’t want a capcom console to play only capcom games not worth buying that’s why I hate SNK consoles Neogeo only SNK games when you look at Sega PlayStation Nintendo Xbox Steam they get every publisher that’s what makes them worth to own
So, the console failed, because lack of video games to play on it and it is not available enough. It is interesting that Capcom even tried to enter the console market at all.
I miss old capcom before they went downhill starting 2015ish. Asuras wraith 2/remember me 2? Where are they. Just crappy 360 gummy fighter 6 and resident evils for simps
Ahhh カプコン. They made the ロックマン games. 趣味はカプコンのゲームをすることです。Capcom got me interested in learning Japanese.
I'll have to look into an emulator for this system as it seems very interesting. If anyone has more info on this to make my research easier, please reply.
I forgot Europe called TMNT Teenage Hero Ninja Turtles and not Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
In the UK yes
Thank you! Gd my feed today is just all politics, im sick of politics... then i saw your video and i like capcom and i like weird obscure facts. Thanks for making something that was good and interesting keep up the work!
It's extremely dumb that they would make you swap out entire boards instead of just a ROM cartridge. If they had designed the system better, it would have been way more successful.
1st comment yeeeep
i never saw this console
We could re- release some of the titles with our fastest character in sneakers "sonic* for speed runs. #irm #nintendo #Sega #SonicTails Speed Runs #capco m Pahlavi''... #pilotwings
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Now I gotta track this down
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lol took me a min but they are Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles not hero turtles, i couldn't figure out what sounded off for a min 😂 😂
Not in the UK during the nineties. Ninja was a word associated with Japanese violence so it was censored.
@@TopHatGamingManChannel ahh gotcha , makes sense I guess lol just strange , the word has meant the same thing and has been around for centuries 😂. Strange days those were
1:01 Is it a comment trap? 😄
If so, well done.
If not it's the Virgin Aladdin, not the Capcom one.
Wholly Crap! Imagine spending almost $400 on ONE Video Game. No "Live Service", no online, no extra content or dlc, nothing but one really good fighting game. It's nuts, it'd be even more if you account for inflation the damn thing would cost like $800 now which means the console itself would have been way more expensive than PS5 or XBox Series X.🤦♂️
Neo geo home carts were $269.00
@@samhain1914 they said Street Fighter Alpha 2 was $390, that's the game I was referring to.
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"Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles"?
Never heard it called THAT b4...
Then you’re not from Europe.
nope, American.@@darinherrick9224
First rate content brother
I never understood the mentality of these people in the companies such as Nintendo, Capcom, Konami etc.
They be like hey this thing is failing on a market lets make even worse outdated trash and upcharge it 10 times and the games especially ...
Or when PS1 came around they continued to be even worse idi-ts ...
Nintendo alone is lucky to be still around considering they were always generations behind, outdated, most games are awfully produced, both consoles and games overpriced and the list goes on, it barely sold around the world, basically mostly sells in some selected neesh markets in the west and nowhere else, yet it's still around making c-ap, so yeah quite a miracle.
Tons of others failed back in 90s, SEGA shut down since it realized they can't compete anymore against Sony who was holding the majority of electronics market. So they pulled out. Nintendo was the worst of them all yet it lives ...
What has John Cena and Steve Martin got to do with the subject of this video?
Mega Drive 's Aladdin
You showed the wrong Aladdin, Capcom has nothing to do with the Genesis version