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 […]
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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. Source: https://twitter.com/WydD/status/1129124288462819328