CPS-1

CPS-1 ( Capcom Play System ) is a format of Carte of arcade developed by Capcom, launched in 1988 with the play Forgotten Worlds . Street Fighter II , one of the most popular plays of combat of all times, functions on this chart.

Technical specifications

Processor: Motorola 68000 with 10 MHz
sound Processor: Zilog Z80 to 4 MHz (6 MHz for the Q-Sound)
sound Chips: Yamaha YM2151 to 3.57958 MHz + OKI6295 with 7.576 Khz or Q-Sound to 4 MHz
Many simultaneous colors: 4096
Resolution of screen: 384 X 224

Plays CPS-1

1941 - Counter Attack (1990)
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs/Cadillacs Kyouryuu Shin Seiki (1993)
Capcom World 2 - Adventure Quiz (1989)
Captain Commando (1991)
Carrier Air Wing/U.S. Navy (1990)
Dynasty Wars/Tenchi Wo Kurau (1989)
Final Fight (1989)
Forgotten Worlds (1988)
Ghouls “N Ghosts/Dai Makai Walled (1988) off
The King Dragons (1991)
Knights off the Round (1991)
Magic Sword - Heroic Fantasy (1990)
Mega Man - The Power Battle/Rockman - The Power Battle (1995)
Mega Twins/Chiki Chiki Boys (1990)
Mercs/Senjou No Ookami II (1990)
Nemo (1990)
Pang! 3 (1995)
Pnickies (1994)
The Punisher (1993)
Quiz & Dragons - Capcom Quiz Range (1992)
Quiz Tonosama No Yabou 2 - Zenkoku-round of applause (1995)
Saturday Night Slam Masters/Muscle To bend (1993)
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991)
Street Fighter II” - Champion Edition (1992)
Street Fighter II' - Hyper Fighting (1992)
Strider/Strider Hiryu (1989)
Three Wonders/Wonder 3 (1991)
U.N. Squadron/Area 88 (1989)
Varth - Operation Thunderstorm (1992)
Warriors off Fate/Sangokushi II/Tenchi Wo Kurau II (1992)
Willow (1989)

Protection of plays CPS-1

In their great majority, the charts jamma CPS-1 do not have protections except for the following plays:

Three Wonders
King off Dragons
Knights off the Round
Captain Commando
Quiz and Dragons
Capcom World 2
Varth (Japanese version only)
Warriors off Fate*
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs*
Punisher*
Saturday Night Slam Masters*
Muscle Bomber*
Muscle To bend Duo*

* Plays with Q-Sound System

The latter use a system of " battery suicide" i.e. that once the pile died, play too. However even if this system were re-used in the CPS-2 and CPS-3, it was here about a rather rudimentary protection, indeed by modifying the roms programs (which is not encrypted contrary to the successors of the CPS-1) one could easily play with the original play but without battery. For that it was enough to program eeprom with the code of the roms of modified programs but or rather " hacké" and if required to make a small physical modification on the chart of the play, like making a bridge with a wire between two points of the chart.

All this has well-sure license the arrival in mass of bootlegs (pirate plays) in the rooms of arcades, thing that forever known (during their period of exploitation in room) systems CPS-2 and CPS-3.

Years later, Nicola Salmoria with contributed to help people who had bought plays CPS-1 protected whose battery had returned the heart and this, by modifying the code from the roms from programs and by giving technical information. That with license with many owners of plays of arcade CPS-1 (mainly of the fans of arcades) of rejouer to their plays without being obliged to have to make a rather technical handling (for whoever used a soldering iron forever) to change the battery before she dies and this, every about 5 years (intermediate duration of a " pile" or battery CPS-1). See excel it site: The Dead Battery Society, for more information.

See too

Capcom Play System 2
Capcom Play System 3

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