Thanks for watching! If you're curious how I did the direct capture from an Arcade PCB, this is the product I used: www.axunworks.com/JAMMA-Extractor-p583683.html You will also need a SCART cable as well as an upscaler like the OSSC or RetroTink w/ SCART support. Thanks again for watching, and I really appreciate all your support!
Actually, it wasn't just the game speed that carried into SF2 Turbo. Some characters got new moves directly inspired by this hack: Chun-Li was given a fireball, Ken and Ryu could do a hurricane kick in the air, Blanka got a vertical rolling attack, Dhalsim can teleport, I could go on. All of these went on to become integral parts of the characters' movesets. Also, this is debatably an inspiration for Akuma having an air fireball in Super Turbo.
@@RetroRalph Ahah yep my first experience with it was in a laundromat in Sydney, Australia. It was a lot of fun but I preferred the original. Actually, in Australia, it had a sticker label calling it 'Street Fighter III'.
@@damin9913 Any version of Street Fighter II on arcade is a rare thing at a laundromat these days. The most you'll see there now is either a Marvel vs. Capcom machine (another quarter-eater), Ms. Pac-Man, or a Neo-Geo cabinet (with Puzzle Bobble being the other moneymaker)
Street Fighter 2 at a 7-11 is among some of my 1st memories of gaming. The first time I got to play it was when my babysitter held me up so I could play a match. Also when I got it on snes years later, it was the 1 and only time my whole family was playing video games together. Street Fighter 2 is so special to me
When I was a kid we had a family friend who moved and gave us a Street Fighter 2 cabinet they had. It was a highlight of my childhood, and I’ve spent years trying to figure out why I could spam fireballs and change characters on it. Thank you for this video!
Yup, capcom did not want to increase the speed of the game because they felt it would upset the balance and flow of the game. These bootlegs/rom hacks literally pressured them into making SF2 Turbo Hyper Fighting. Capcom were stubborn though and tried to slow the game back down again with Super SF2, but nobody liked it, so then finally came Super SF2 Turbo (or, X Grand Master Challenge, in Japan).
The crazy thing is that many of the ideas from the Rainbow Editions trickled down to newer versions of Street Fighter. Many EX moves or V-triggers are straight out of Rainbow Edition.
90s arcades. What a great time to be alive. No cellphones. We had to read those gamer magazines and dream, until our favorite arcade game finally made it to the home systems.
Now I definitely remember this bootleg. My first encounter with Rainbow was at this laundromat near my house in Los Angeles, in a town called Inglewood. This game was a major quarter-eater at every laundromat, liquor store, swapmeet, donut shop, burger stand and pizza joint in South Central and neighboring cities
Same here bro, first played it in a laundromat in NYC. They were popular inside Chinese restaurants too. Yes they would actually have arcade cabinets in Chinese joints and bodegas. It was a wild time.
@@Will_Bx_NYC_718 And seeing that as a little girl back then, I thought I was buggin' out like ATCQ; like how the hell was Guile throwing homing Sonic Booms one second and the next one he's doing a cross-country Dragon Punch as Ryū? Those were wild times, indeed
@@sickmanuel I even remember seeing this joint back in the day at a clothing store in Downtown Inglewood, across the street from the swapmeet over there. Like deadass, a Street Fighter II machine in a clothing store?! I was probably 10 years old back then when I noticed, but yeah you're right. Them shits was every-bleeping-where. And get this; it happened right after I saw a brotha playing the Rainbow version at the same swapmeet across from the clothing store where I saw the other SF2 machine! Man, talk about a coincidence
@@hoodmistressreloaded now a days if i see a sf2 or a mvc machine. Ill try n play it. But playing at the laundromats was tuff because if u let your guard down for 1 second your bicycle was getting jacked lol
As a kid 82-92 seemed like a life time, but really it was the short-lived golden age of the arcade. Things moved fast and developed quickly when you look back.
i grew up in taiwan right around when the rainbow edition came out. It didnt have an official name obviously so the game is known in many different names. The game is so broken that people started saying "a quarter would last about 5 secs in this game". dragon punch comes with a tsunami of fireballs, sonic boom works like a cut fastball or curve ball and all other crazy stuff. Things were fun and weird and that was the golden age of arcade fighting games. There were 5 arcades of different sizes within 3 blocks of my house so needless to say business was good.
I remember playing and seeing this at my local bowling alley back in the day. Yeah it was broken but fun to play. I remember messing with SF2 on my SNES with my brother and finding codes( w/ game genie) to do similar features as the rainbow edition, for example doing uppercuts that would extend across the screen or doing uppercuts and ken would never come down. We actually found a way how to do Guiles handcuffs with the game genie on the SNES. Enable air specials, do an air throw with Guile and follow it with a sonic boom and viola handcuffs. Times were fun back then.
Ralph, I love all your videos, but this one tugs on the heart strings, taking me back to the early 90s where I ruled my local high school arcade playing SF2. So many classes skipped and so many quarters spent, oh the memories man! And rainbow has always been my favorite hack and thanks to it, we got Hyper Fighting as you said. I Remember playing Rainbow at a local video store for the first time and being like, WTF is this!??? LOL. There's actually 3 different rainbows. Set 1, 2, 3. I play it on my SF2 Z Back mame all the time and it's always a blast. Thanks for sharing my friend!
Oh man, I was wondering what set 1, 2 and 3 where. I saw those floating out there. I will have to check out the other versions. Hopefully brining you back in time was a good thing, I love reflecting on these times. Sometimes I wish I could just go back for a little bit... it would be so interesting to experience the arcades of the 1980's / 90's all over again. Anyhow, thanks for always supporting the channel my friend!
@@RetroRalph me too Ralph! I'll share this with you. A friend of mine owns a large retro arcade by a high school and lunch hour is packed with kids that are discovering these games for the first time. The laughter, fun they are having and the very often phrase, I'm not going back to class in favor of playing these games, takes us back 30 years, where we were the ones saying the same thing to the operator! A good sign these games will continue to be loved well after we are gone.
This was the first arcade I ever played. It was at my Wal-Mart, and I would play while my mom shopped for groceries. I need to get a hold of one of these hacks to relive that game feel.
Now in my early forties, this game was my escape from reality growing up as a little kid. I spent hundreds of hours and thousands of quarters playing SF1 and SF2 all editions. I became so good at this game, later, two quarters would last me hours becuase no one could beat me in the arcade. Same goes with MK2, AND 3. Great video!
@@Peaceseeker917 right on but the only 2 quarter machine was sf champion edition in my area. Now a days they got arcades called "nickel nickel" were u play w a feww nickles lol
@@sickmanuel For me those games were SF2, particularly this busted version, and Samurai Shodown 2. I could beat those games on one or two quarters if it was unmanned, and wreck just about anyone I faced with the one exception being this one older highschool kid who used to play Ken at the arcade by my school. He was the local top dog, and slightly better than me. I was pretty much the only one who ever beat that guy, but he would win like two out of every three games so it was crazy expensive to play him. I was like a 6th grader so I really didn't have the money to keep throwing at facing him over and over. I was there on like a dollar or two tops.
I went to a barcade with this version on site, I was laughing by myself, because now it's obvious that it was hacked, but if I was 10 I no one would have believe me. I think I even remember rumor of a character changing to another.
After seeing that cab on chasing nostalgia I kinda was hoping you'd do a vid on this. Used to have one in a video rental by me as a kid, absolutely crazy lol 👍
Thanks for watching bud! Funny thing is, I had Mason make the thumbnail for this video almost a year ago. Needless to say, I’m a little behind 😬. I appreciate you watching man! ✊🏼🔥
When I saw this for the first time in Australia, it was in a laundromat and it was labeled 'Street Fighter III'. But it was definitely this exact game.
Part of the point of being these characters is being super powerful... And these bootleg versions of Street Fighter 2 used to be much more awesome than the regular version. Plus, you kept getting changes / upgrades, so it kept things fresh.
I remember Mortal Kombat bringing more people to the arcades than SSF2 but it's not a contest :) I was just super happy to see the resurgence at the time. I also grew up in RI and was a teenager in the 90s and it was awesome. Thanks for the memories!
I remember when my local arcade put this on the big Big BIG BIG BIIIGGGG screen. Everyone was in awe at how crazy it was. My 1st and only time beating any arcade version of SF was this one. I spammed Guile's Sonic Boom the whole time.
@@RetroRalph we actually dug a little deeper and realized it isn’t rainbow, it’s actually the M1 version. Which is unfortunate, but we’re thinking it should be simple enough to restore it to standard CE since M1 isn’t nearly as desirable as Rainbow
Our local corner store had this version of SF2 from '92 until about 10 years ago. They always had two arcade machines, the second one changed every few years, like 1942, X-Men vs SF, and Raiden 2, but SF2 rainbow edition was a constant for 20 years. It's still the version I prefer to play
First time I've seen Rainbow editon was at Redondo Beach Arcade boardwalk. Saw a worker insert paper notes inside the machine panel behind where you insert quarters.
Awesome video! Nice to see folks recognizing the importance of rainbow edition! I think in addition to the speed they also borrowed giving some more melee characters a fireball or forward motion on attack.
Thanks bud, I know how much you're involved in the fight game community, so I appreciate you watching and your support. I'm sure you have it but the SF2 30th anniversary book is a killer resource for SF history. Thanks again for watching!
Yes! Remember having this in this Taiwanese restaurant back in LA. Before there was charge partitioning in SF3, I was already filling the screen with sonic booms.
I played this edition in a Mountain Mike's Pizza in Northern California, I was shocked and thought it was completely busted... but, it was AWESOME! I never knew how/why it was that way, thanks for the informative video. I had a SFII original cabinet in my Dad's hobby shop, and had some kids from Japan that would come play all the time. They knew all the secrets of the cab, Guile's Handcuff was one I could do, but they showed me Guile's invisible boomerang and I have never learned how they did it.
Yeah, I remember when SF2 first came out and took the world by storm. Especially before MK was released to give it some competition. What I found funny, and actually a little annoying, was that every arcade always had just ONE machine per game. I was always thinking to myself, "should I let myself spend my precious quarters now and have a little bit of fun playing Rampage, or should I wait for the next hour to get to play a single game of what I want, knowing the current champ is going to destroy me?" This made no sense to me - from the player's view all of the other games were a waste of space, basically furniture to rest your soda pop on while 80% of the people in the arcade were crowded around the SF2 machine, and from the arcades point of view, they were slowing their rate of quarters-intake.
I’m assuming I’m the same generation as you (fortysomething) but I grew up in the Philippines. I saw the hacked machines in arcades but never really got into the weird specials although the speed felt “right”. I do agree with you that they opened up a whole new world when it came to fighting games! Cheers and keep gaming!
I was in Taiwan before 1998 and in local arcades we had all different versions of SF2 on different arcade machines. for Rainbow just use Guile, jump up in the air and start spamming sonic boom, just left and right on the joystick and jab, win!@
The version I saw most frequently growing up then in Canada had similar features. Biggest difference was the fireballs weren't heat seeking. Ken and Ryu would throw dual fireballs that would go across the screen in a zig zag pattern in parallel. Every character had the ability to throw sonic booms while fighting. My game breaking trick was Chun-Li's helicopter kick. Even when blocked it would go forever and chip like half damage
@@mistermoo7602 It was either M5 or M7, but they both had Ryu and Ken throwing crisscrossing fireballs. Chun-Li would shoot Sonic Booms from her legs if you moved the joystick back while doing her Lightning Kick (but only if she's on the ground), and CPU Blanka would spaz out and chip away at your vitality with his Electric Attack (ouch 😬). I used to see that version at practically every laundromat here in LA
I didn't know the history of this version. I was never a huge Street Fighter fan and I always got a little confused by all of the variants but I am going to attempt to get into this. One of my biggest turn offs with the older versions was the slow gameplay. I may have to try this out on MAME.
I didnt know that rainbow version was a bootleg lmaooo i just found that out as a 40 year old man. That version was dope af. Have fire balls all on the screen. That was awesome. I used to play it at a Asian poolhall in Santa Ana ca. When i was 12. I miss those days.
I've probably seen one of these hacks in 40+ years of going to arcades, I wouldn't doubt it! yeah it's wild to play given the faster speed, character changing and rapid fire/aerial specials. Also I had heard the story of James Goddard going to the arcade and seeing it, then going back to Champion Edition and missing how fast Rainbow was... apparently it took some doing to convince Japan to do their own official upgrade? TURBO I do remember seeing in the arcade they even had the units attached to 50'' big screen TVs, and those were pretty epic too! Great look at this piece of Street Fighter history.
I recently saw a new arcade open up in my local mall. The first thing I looked for was the almighty street fighter. Of course it was not there. I miss those days. These days are not as good.
I actually remember playing this edition back in the day in the local mall here in Manila we always had the hacks and early releases being so close to Japan and Asia.. , crazy game play.. the damned dragon punch that travelled halfway the screen was crazy. But nothing beats the multi level spinning pile driver of zangief When you've gone to far up you keep climbing up the screen repeatedly 😂😂
Growing up in Mexico we had tons of those variants. Legend says that Capcom only sold a number of oficial cabinets in there, and the rest were home made cabinets with either pirated boards of the original or these crazy hacks. I remember playing a bunch of this variants but at that time they weren't as popular because we were already playing the neo geos, the mortal combats and the newer oficial versions of street fighter such as super street fighter.
Played this game back in like 94 or 95 when I was like 14 in the laundromat down the block from My crib and I always wondered who made this type of stuff but it was life changing needless to say it was only there for like a month than they removed it and put in a samurai showdown cabinet. P.s thanks for including at the end of the video where we can play this gem nowadays you've got my sub.🙏🏽
I share your love for SF2. I first played this on MAME but didn't know the history and things like changing characters on the fly. I appreciate all the work that went into the making of the video
@retroralph Street Fighter 2 is the best game of all time, it just is! its impact is hard to describe to those from another era. I think it lost its way after CE but the later games were needed to keep the series alive I guess. I wish there were more videos of the arcades at that time to re-live and reflect on. I remember the Arcades being very busy and alive when SF2 came out. NBA Jam was another that was super hot for a period, not sure if you have done any vids on that game but that has quite the story.
I know exactly what you mean. I wish I had filmed in the arcades back then, but I was too caught up with everything. I had a hard time finding tournament footage from back then. Luckily there is a bit of it out there but not much. Anyhow, Thanks so much for watching and supporting the channel, it means a lot.
I was actually a huge fan of rainbow edition. And despite what anyone says, it was MASSIVE in the arcades, I remember being a kid and seeing WAVES of people of all ages wanting their turn on rainbow edition. My only question is this. WHY DID THEY ONLY MODIFY SF2 CHAMPION EDITION. Imagine how cool it would have been if they modified SUPER SF2.. With T hawk, Fei Long etc with new moves!!! Or SF3???? Maybe lawsuits, but it still hasn't technically been done to this day.
We used to play with Zangief. Hiting the 3 punches in the air, jumping after that and repeating the process. After you cross the screen for 6 or 7 times, you do a 360º and hit punch near the oponent. Zangief will do his thing and will cross back down the screen fast as hell. Is not easy to explain, but is really fun.
@@RetroRalph lol In other words, do that 3 punches movement, jump after that and repeat. We the time is about to end, align yourself with the oponent and do that 360º grab of Zangief. Its worth the try.
I remember a hack similar to this being out front and center on a big screen at the mall near here. All the vertical checks were removed, but the fireballs were not seeking. Zangief was absurdly strong if you used his lariat to get up in the air and then do the screwdriver when your opponent got close. I also remember the game genie codes to get the SNES version of Street Fighter to behave similarly. Lots of fun.
That’s the version I remember. Basically any throw would connect when you were offscreen, so you would just need to gauge distance using your shadow - then hit them with zangiefs unblockable command throw.
I'm glad to see Rainbow getting some love these days. But what some people may not quite understand as there's different rainbows hacks upon hacks. The World Warrior hacks were known as Quicken. Sometimes spelled a little differently and all it did was speed up World Warrior and gave it a few cool tricks. But they were different versions of that as well. I distinctly remember speaking with an operator back when this came out he got the Quicken because he didn't want to spend the money to buy a champion or later a hyper fighting. It gave the game a little life for a while but eventually everyone moved over to Champion and Hyper fighting
Remember seeing this pop up. Lots of kids at school where talking about it and where to find a machine running it. Thought it was cool but did not like playing against another player, because someone picked Ken or Ryu you where done. But it changed the game for sure. Also think this is where Chung Li's fireball came from before SSFII. After playing a rainbow cabinet you really did not want to play basic World Warrior anymore. For real. It was too damm slow. Also there where a ton of different hacked versions of the game. It was getting to the point you had trouble finding a machine that was not hacked.
I have probably played almost every hacked version of Champion Edition on arcade machines during the early to mid 90s here in Australia with locations ranging from arcade parlours, fish and chip take away shops, kebab shops, milk bars, video rental stores, corner shops, convenience stores and the list goes on. Brings back so many memories where heaps of teens would gather together to play, watch, challenge and socialise at all the venues listed above thanks to arcade machines and Street Fighter II. Good times. Would love to go back and relive the thrills of racing to the nearest corner shop all over again.
I played rainbow and a edition where ryu and ken were super buff!!! Im not certain where i found the super buff version but it was really cool looking back in the day! I remember putting codes in my game genie to do all kinds of things in street fighter. Air moves were so amazing to me. Great video
Rainbow was at the Sunset Grill (now gone) in North Myrtle Beach. It was a small arcade on the beach and really the only one around in the mid to late 90s. Like 99% of 12 year olds I was a huge SF2 fan and I remember this version melting my mind. I actually feel a sense of relief to know this is real, because literally no one believed at the time.
I was playing this game in arcade in Taiwan where there were so many revisions of it before you can build the muscle memory the next one is out. It was eye catching in the beginning but soon it went nuts. Some were great but most of them are unplayable. Speed can also be adjusted in dev mode and there were also versions that speeds up gradually as you beat the stage. Obviously that inspired Capcom to introduce Turbo. The end game was crazy at about 300% speed. And because the fireballs were so deadly and stackable the PVP game quickly became fireball fights all over the place nobody's play other characters balance was thrown away. I knew the owner the arcade so well he told me for as little as $30 those hackers will show up at your door with a solder iron and install the mod for you
This version of the game felt more like a Debug mode for Dev's to have fun with then trying to be a real rip off game. But yes it is good it helped give ideas to Capcom which they put into Hyper Fighting.
Great video man. I tried to make a SF2 video and talk about how amazing/impactful SF2 was but mine only has 3 views hahaha I love talking about this game cuz these young bucks don't realize just how insanely popular this fighting game was!
The version of Rainbow that existed in my bowling alley was different from this one. Character swaps: Yes Extra speed: Unsure, probably was, but I didn't notice at the time. No wait time to charge: Yes Homing projectiles: No, in our version, we shot single projectiles that zigzagged up and down, and at the same speed as they normally travelled. I know there's some Rainbow videos that shoot two at a time like that, but ours only shot one as normal. Air specials: Unsure, I don't recall seeing them. Standard moves that can shoot fireballs: No Random teleports: No Overall not much happening in mine, but still wild to watch 30 years ago when I was first discovering the game.
My first experience of SF2 Rainbow Edition was at a smokey pool hall (good old 90's). The cabinet had cigarette burns where people would place their cigs on the edge of the control deck so they can play and attached to its side was a bottle opener. Me and the boys would go get some beers and play it all night.
Dang, I just watched.a video on it, that looks crazy!! Thanks for letting me know.
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Here in Brazil we use to call it Street Fighter Maluco (Crazy Street Fighter) and at some point, people were playing this version more than the regular one.
Yeah, it's pretty fun, I mean it's a hack, so it's completely unbalanced and broken but fun to play. It's usually on Pandora's boxes if you ever want to check it out. Thanks so much for watching!
This bootleg hacked edition is well known for putting a smile on your face when you first stumbled upon it but will send you into a rage after a short while.
I saw the Rainbow version in a Putt-Putt years later but before that there was a regular version in a ice cream shop named Kreamie Kream where the game was glitched with the ability to throw specials in the air long before it was implemented in Street Fighter games. Bison corkscrewing or Ryu hurricane kick were my favorite. It wasn't hacked by it never got reprogrammed because back then small stores like that didn't think arcades were worth spending alot of money on.
From memory, you can go off the top of the screen and keep going higher and higher until you come out of the bottom of the screen. Then when you stop jumping, you will fall through the floor and all the way down again. It was fun and cool to play with.
I remember when I was teenager that there was one arcade like this near my junior high school in my home island in Tahiti , French Polynesia.the special move were so crazy that if you weren’t there to play it, you’ll never believe it.
For some reason over here in the UK we called it Black Belt Edition, not sure why, well thats what our local comunity called it in the local arcade? Great Video
I played this version way back in Mexico 🇲🇽 city in a liquor store I thought it was broken then I was like this isn’t that bad. I can see where it transitioned into marvel v capcom
I remember coming home and telling my brother about this game... and he convinced me it was just a glitched unit... until I got older and found out this was an actual thing.... crazy.
I have heard similar stories, think about it though, with no real internet at that time, it was all a mystery…. Kinda cool. Thanks for sharing and I appreciate you watching!
@Retro Ralph yes those were simple but great times... And you have great content my man, love the videos... still one of my favorite vids was the stress eating about the TMNT 1up cabinet hahaha! I felt your pain. 😆💯
I remember playing a version like this in the arcade in Uruguay that it was called Magic Street fighter and you can do a hadouken move that produced 2 fireballs ( one on top of the other) and you can have 6 or 8 hadouken balls in the screen. And playing with Zangief you can jump and do the spinning arm thing jump again and do the spinning arm again and again and again and climb multiple screens and then you do a super pile driver that goes down multiple screens and the opponent can't touch you, you just have to have your Shadow right next to his shadow. I never seen that version ever again
Never played Rainbow edition, however, we had two local theaters that had one called Lightning Edition and one called Thunder edition. Basically different flavors of Rainbow as far as I can tell from your video. My favorite one though was labelled as XLR8 Pt. II. It was at a gas station across from my high school. I had many wars and spent tons of quarters on that hacked SFII:CE.
We had this cabinet here in the city where i live in Spain back in the day, i was mind blown when we saw that you could spam hadokens and change your character on the fly with a button.
There were so many rainbow editions in my town. The same 3 roms that change champion edition to turbo can be changed to rainbow. I change my champion edition to turbo or rainbow every now and again for fun.
Easiest character to use was Zangief... just jump up and do lariat. And keep going up and up and up. Then when 10 sec is about left. Just do the 360 piledriver. He will grab and come flying down like 20+ times. Cam nail perfects each time.
Yep -- we had some of these in the LA's South Bay (Torrance and Redondo Beach). Blew my damn mind, back in either late 92' or early 93', given that SF2 was in just about every damn gas station, liquor store, grocery store, or neighborhood arcade at the time. If memory serves me right, the first one I encountered was at the comic store off Van Ness Avenue. This one takes me back, bud. Thanks for the reminding me of this special time (yes, also a 40-year-old, at this point).
I'm also from LA, and I saw SF2 everywhere. Not necessarily at the gas stations, but I saw these at the laundromats, liquor stores, indoor swapmeets, and donut shops. My first encounter with Rainbow was when I was 9 years old; I spotted it (along with The World Warrior) at this rinkydink laundromat on Hyde Park & West in Inglewood, a few blocks away from my home in South Central Los Angeles
Ralph, I need to get a hold of you in regards to a Midway game I'm picking up which you have and need to pick your brain for parts as it's been converted to a Mame. Thanks pal!
Thanks for watching! If you're curious how I did the direct capture from an Arcade PCB, this is the product I used: www.axunworks.com/JAMMA-Extractor-p583683.html
You will also need a SCART cable as well as an upscaler like the OSSC or RetroTink w/ SCART support.
Thanks again for watching, and I really appreciate all your support!
Actually, it wasn't just the game speed that carried into SF2 Turbo. Some characters got new moves directly inspired by this hack: Chun-Li was given a fireball, Ken and Ryu could do a hurricane kick in the air, Blanka got a vertical rolling attack, Dhalsim can teleport, I could go on. All of these went on to become integral parts of the characters' movesets. Also, this is debatably an inspiration for Akuma having an air fireball in Super Turbo.
This version of this game was a popular in laundromats. I can across it once and I thought it was broken lol. Very informative
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@@RetroRalph Ahah yep my first experience with it was in a laundromat in Sydney, Australia. It was a lot of fun but I preferred the original. Actually, in Australia, it had a sticker label calling it 'Street Fighter III'.
@@damin9913 Any version of Street Fighter II on arcade is a rare thing at a laundromat these days. The most you'll see there now is either a Marvel vs. Capcom machine (another quarter-eater), Ms. Pac-Man, or a Neo-Geo cabinet (with Puzzle Bobble being the other moneymaker)
Yoooo!!! Lmaoo why is it always laundromat! 💀 😭 😂
@@900cc Because...kids. They gotta have something to play while Momma's washing clothes at the laundromat 😉
Street Fighter 2 at a 7-11 is among some of my 1st memories of gaming. The first time I got to play it was when my babysitter held me up so I could play a match. Also when I got it on snes years later, it was the 1 and only time my whole family was playing video games together. Street Fighter 2 is so special to me
When I was a kid we had a family friend who moved and gave us a Street Fighter 2 cabinet they had. It was a highlight of my childhood, and I’ve spent years trying to figure out why I could spam fireballs and change characters on it. Thank you for this video!
Thanks for this fun fact video.
Did not know about what Rainbow had an impact for the original game 😅
Yup, capcom did not want to increase the speed of the game because they felt it would upset the balance and flow of the game. These bootlegs/rom hacks literally pressured them into making SF2 Turbo Hyper Fighting. Capcom were stubborn though and tried to slow the game back down again with Super SF2, but nobody liked it, so then finally came Super SF2 Turbo (or, X Grand Master Challenge, in Japan).
The crazy thing is that many of the ideas from the Rainbow Editions trickled down to newer versions of Street Fighter. Many EX moves or V-triggers are straight out of Rainbow Edition.
90s arcades. What a great time to be alive. No cellphones. We had to read those gamer magazines and dream, until our favorite arcade game finally made it to the home systems.
In Brazil we used to call this broken cursed hack the Bus Station Street Fighter because that's where you were sure to find it
Now I definitely remember this bootleg. My first encounter with Rainbow was at this laundromat near my house in Los Angeles, in a town called Inglewood. This game was a major quarter-eater at every laundromat, liquor store, swapmeet, donut shop, burger stand and pizza joint in South Central and neighboring cities
Same here bro, first played it in a laundromat in NYC. They were popular inside Chinese restaurants too. Yes they would actually have arcade cabinets in Chinese joints and bodegas. It was a wild time.
@@Will_Bx_NYC_718 And seeing that as a little girl back then, I thought I was buggin' out like ATCQ; like how the hell was Guile throwing homing Sonic Booms one second and the next one he's doing a cross-country Dragon Punch as Ryū? Those were wild times, indeed
These shits were everywhere. I live next door to a poolhall in santa ana. This version was crackin
@@sickmanuel I even remember seeing this joint back in the day at a clothing store in Downtown Inglewood, across the street from the swapmeet over there. Like deadass, a Street Fighter II machine in a clothing store?! I was probably 10 years old back then when I noticed, but yeah you're right. Them shits was every-bleeping-where. And get this; it happened right after I saw a brotha playing the Rainbow version at the same swapmeet across from the clothing store where I saw the other SF2 machine! Man, talk about a coincidence
@@hoodmistressreloaded now a days if i see a sf2 or a mvc machine. Ill try n play it. But playing at the laundromats was tuff because if u let your guard down for 1 second your bicycle was getting jacked lol
It's ironic how a hack build the 'Speed' of Street Fighter 2 in future SF2 games. Glad I played this while I lived in Taiwan during my childhood.
As a kid 82-92 seemed like a life time, but really it was the short-lived golden age of the arcade. Things moved fast and developed quickly when you look back.
i grew up in taiwan right around when the rainbow edition came out. It didnt have an official name obviously so the game is known in many different names. The game is so broken that people started saying "a quarter would last about 5 secs in this game". dragon punch comes with a tsunami of fireballs, sonic boom works like a cut fastball or curve ball and all other crazy stuff. Things were fun and weird and that was the golden age of arcade fighting games. There were 5 arcades of different sizes within 3 blocks of my house so needless to say business was good.
I remember playing and seeing this at my local bowling alley back in the day. Yeah it was broken but fun to play. I remember messing with SF2 on my SNES with my brother and finding codes( w/ game genie) to do similar features as the rainbow edition, for example doing uppercuts that would extend across the screen or doing uppercuts and ken would never come down. We actually found a way how to do Guiles handcuffs with the game genie on the SNES. Enable air specials, do an air throw with Guile and follow it with a sonic boom and viola handcuffs. Times were fun back then.
Oh man, that's super cool. Thanks for watching! I didn't know you could do that via game genie... that's awesome!
I remember that in my local bowling alley too. You're not irish by any chance?
@@smokey4082 no, I’m Italian but grew up in Rhode Island so I have a lot of Irish ☘️ friends.
@@RetroRalph cool.it was in my local bowling alley so thought it was the same
@@joe123452 no crumlin
It's called "Bus Station Street Fighter" in Brazil, a place to find good price and always a machine after school. Cool to remember, great video!
Ralph, I love all your videos, but this one tugs on the heart strings, taking me back to the early 90s where I ruled my local high school arcade playing SF2. So many classes skipped and so many quarters spent, oh the memories man! And rainbow has always been my favorite hack and thanks to it, we got Hyper Fighting as you said. I Remember playing Rainbow at a local video store for the first time and being like, WTF is this!??? LOL. There's actually 3 different rainbows. Set 1, 2, 3. I play it on my SF2 Z Back mame all the time and it's always a blast. Thanks for sharing my friend!
Oh man, I was wondering what set 1, 2 and 3 where. I saw those floating out there. I will have to check out the other versions. Hopefully brining you back in time was a good thing, I love reflecting on these times. Sometimes I wish I could just go back for a little bit... it would be so interesting to experience the arcades of the 1980's / 90's all over again. Anyhow, thanks for always supporting the channel my friend!
@@RetroRalph me too Ralph! I'll share this with you. A friend of mine owns a large retro arcade by a high school and lunch hour is packed with kids that are discovering these games for the first time. The laughter, fun they are having and the very often phrase, I'm not going back to class in favor of playing these games, takes us back 30 years, where we were the ones saying the same thing to the operator! A good sign these games will continue to be loved well after we are gone.
This was the first arcade I ever played. It was at my Wal-Mart, and I would play while my mom shopped for groceries. I need to get a hold of one of these hacks to relive that game feel.
Now in my early forties, this game was my escape from reality growing up as a little kid. I spent hundreds of hours and thousands of quarters playing SF1 and SF2 all editions. I became so good at this game, later, two quarters would last me hours becuase no one could beat me in the arcade. Same goes with MK2, AND 3. Great video!
To this day this is the only game i can truly say i dominate with one quarter lmao. No lie
@@sickmanuel SF1 was one quarter, but the SF2 and up were all 2 quarters. We need to play one good. RYU all the way.
@@Peaceseeker917 right on but the only 2 quarter machine was sf champion edition in my area. Now a days they got arcades called "nickel nickel" were u play w a feww nickles lol
@@sickmanuel For me those games were SF2, particularly this busted version, and Samurai Shodown 2. I could beat those games on one or two quarters if it was unmanned, and wreck just about anyone I faced with the one exception being this one older highschool kid who used to play Ken at the arcade by my school. He was the local top dog, and slightly better than me. I was pretty much the only one who ever beat that guy, but he would win like two out of every three games so it was crazy expensive to play him. I was like a 6th grader so I really didn't have the money to keep throwing at facing him over and over. I was there on like a dollar or two tops.
Champion Edition was peak SFII to me. No Rainbow. No Turbo. Consider me a purist. One day we gotta square off Ralph, Hadoookan!
Let’s do this ✊🏼🔥. Thanks for watching man!
I went to a barcade with this version on site, I was laughing by myself, because now it's obvious that it was hacked, but if I was 10 I no one would have believe me. I think I even remember rumor of a character changing to another.
_"Whatever it is you remember, it's memorable"_ - Retro Ralph, this video, 0:11
Sonic Boom... still amazing all these years later. Thanks so much for watching!
After seeing that cab on chasing nostalgia I kinda was hoping you'd do a vid on this. Used to have one in a video rental by me as a kid, absolutely crazy lol 👍
Thanks for watching bud! Funny thing is, I had Mason make the thumbnail for this video almost a year ago. Needless to say, I’m a little behind 😬. I appreciate you watching man! ✊🏼🔥
@@RetroRalph lol, I actually thought you'd bought it from the captains auction at first
@@RetroRalph im playing the version 3.3 cab on my channel check it out they throw 100 fireballs 😆
When I saw this for the first time in Australia, it was in a laundromat and it was labeled 'Street Fighter III'. But it was definitely this exact game.
Part of the point of being these characters is being super powerful... And these bootleg versions of Street Fighter 2 used to be much more awesome than the regular version.
Plus, you kept getting changes / upgrades, so it kept things fresh.
I remember Mortal Kombat bringing more people to the arcades than SSF2 but it's not a contest :) I was just super happy to see the resurgence at the time. I also grew up in RI and was a teenager in the 90s and it was awesome. Thanks for the memories!
I remember when my local arcade put this on the big Big BIG BIG BIIIGGGG screen. Everyone was in awe at how crazy it was. My 1st and only time beating any arcade version of SF was this one. I spammed Guile's Sonic Boom the whole time.
Just fixed up an SFII cab and in gameplay we found out it's a Rainbow edition lmao, this video was very informative
Oh wow, are you going to make it CE?
@@RetroRalph we actually dug a little deeper and realized it isn’t rainbow, it’s actually the M1 version. Which is unfortunate, but we’re thinking it should be simple enough to restore it to standard CE since M1 isn’t nearly as desirable as Rainbow
This blew my mind when I saw it once at a Pizza Hut. I thought I imagined it until now.
Our local corner store had this version of SF2 from '92 until about 10 years ago. They always had two arcade machines, the second one changed every few years, like 1942, X-Men vs SF, and Raiden 2, but SF2 rainbow edition was a constant for 20 years. It's still the version I prefer to play
First time I've seen Rainbow editon was at Redondo Beach Arcade boardwalk. Saw a worker insert paper notes inside the machine panel behind where you insert quarters.
Awesome video! Nice to see folks recognizing the importance of rainbow edition! I think in addition to the speed they also borrowed giving some more melee characters a fireball or forward motion on attack.
Thanks bud, I know how much you're involved in the fight game community, so I appreciate you watching and your support. I'm sure you have it but the SF2 30th anniversary book is a killer resource for SF history. Thanks again for watching!
Yes! Remember having this in this Taiwanese restaurant back in LA. Before there was charge partitioning in SF3, I was already filling the screen with sonic booms.
I played this edition in a Mountain Mike's Pizza in Northern California, I was shocked and thought it was completely busted... but, it was AWESOME!
I never knew how/why it was that way, thanks for the informative video. I had a SFII original cabinet in my Dad's hobby shop, and had some kids from Japan that would come play all the time. They knew all the secrets of the cab, Guile's Handcuff was one I could do, but they showed me Guile's invisible boomerang and I have never learned how they did it.
Thanks for sharing, it seems like Rainbow was everywhere in California... crazy!
Where in Northern California
@@benzbenz496 Sonoma County
Yeah, I remember when SF2 first came out and took the world by storm. Especially before MK was released to give it some competition. What I found funny, and actually a little annoying, was that every arcade always had just ONE machine per game. I was always thinking to myself, "should I let myself spend my precious quarters now and have a little bit of fun playing Rampage, or should I wait for the next hour to get to play a single game of what I want, knowing the current champ is going to destroy me?"
This made no sense to me - from the player's view all of the other games were a waste of space, basically furniture to rest your soda pop on while 80% of the people in the arcade were crowded around the SF2 machine, and from the arcades point of view, they were slowing their rate of quarters-intake.
Arcades is a Japan and USA culture.. most countries didn’t have that culture
I sold my Rainbow edition to someone in New Zealand. It was fun but it froze after having 60 Hadokens flying all over the place. Fun as hell .
I’m assuming I’m the same generation as you (fortysomething) but I grew up in the Philippines. I saw the hacked machines in arcades but never really got into the weird specials although the speed felt “right”. I do agree with you that they opened up a whole new world when it came to fighting games! Cheers and keep gaming!
I was in Taiwan before 1998 and in local arcades we had all different versions of SF2 on different arcade machines. for Rainbow just use Guile, jump up in the air and start spamming sonic boom, just left and right on the joystick and jab, win!@
The version I saw most frequently growing up then in Canada had similar features. Biggest difference was the fireballs weren't heat seeking. Ken and Ryu would throw dual fireballs that would go across the screen in a zig zag pattern in parallel. Every character had the ability to throw sonic booms while fighting. My game breaking trick was Chun-Li's helicopter kick. Even when blocked it would go forever and chip like half damage
I've played this version for sure, with the rotating double fireball. Chun Li had a super broken crossup move if you hit fierce kick near the opponet.
I played this version at some rich kid's party . He had a few arcade cabinets.
Hope somebody comments the name of this hack.
@@mistermoo7602 It was either M5 or M7, but they both had Ryu and Ken throwing crisscrossing fireballs. Chun-Li would shoot Sonic Booms from her legs if you moved the joystick back while doing her Lightning Kick (but only if she's on the ground), and CPU Blanka would spaz out and chip away at your vitality with his Electric Attack (ouch 😬). I used to see that version at practically every laundromat here in LA
Official: We only add speed and extra characters.
Unofficial: Lets F*CK Sh!t up !
I didn't know the history of this version. I was never a huge Street Fighter fan and I always got a little confused by all of the variants but I am going to attempt to get into this. One of my biggest turn offs with the older versions was the slow gameplay. I may have to try this out on MAME.
Give it a shot man, I think you will dig it. Then after, play hyper fighting. Thanks for watching bud!
I didnt know that rainbow version was a bootleg lmaooo i just found that out as a 40 year old man. That version was dope af. Have fire balls all on the screen. That was awesome. I used to play it at a Asian poolhall in Santa Ana ca. When i was 12. I miss those days.
I've probably seen one of these hacks in 40+ years of going to arcades, I wouldn't doubt it! yeah it's wild to play given the faster speed, character changing and rapid fire/aerial specials. Also I had heard the story of James Goddard going to the arcade and seeing it, then going back to Champion Edition and missing how fast Rainbow was... apparently it took some doing to convince Japan to do their own official upgrade? TURBO I do remember seeing in the arcade they even had the units attached to 50'' big screen TVs, and those were pretty epic too! Great look at this piece of Street Fighter history.
im playing the version 3.3 cab on my channel check it out they throw 100 fireballs 😆
I recently saw a new arcade open up in my local mall.
The first thing I looked for was the almighty street fighter.
Of course it was not there.
I miss those days.
These days are not as good.
I played this rainbow version once and didn't like it . Then turbo came out and loved it . Didn't know this was the history of it thanks Ralph!
thanks for the look at the rainbow edition!
It’s crazy how influential of a hack this was. A hack!
I actually remember playing this edition back in the day in the local mall here in Manila we always had the hacks and early releases being so close to Japan and Asia.. , crazy game play.. the damned dragon punch that travelled halfway the screen was crazy. But nothing beats the multi level spinning pile driver of zangief When you've gone to far up you keep climbing up the screen repeatedly 😂😂
Growing up in Mexico we had tons of those variants. Legend says that Capcom only sold a number of oficial cabinets in there, and the rest were home made cabinets with either pirated boards of the original or these crazy hacks. I remember playing a bunch of this variants but at that time they weren't as popular because we were already playing the neo geos, the mortal combats and the newer oficial versions of street fighter such as super street fighter.
I grew up in Juarez and the aracade places were massive in the early to mid 90's
Played this game back in like 94 or 95 when I was like 14 in the laundromat down the block from My crib and I always wondered who made this type of stuff but it was life changing needless to say it was only there for like a month than they removed it and put in a samurai showdown cabinet.
P.s thanks for including at the end of the video where we can play this gem nowadays you've got my sub.🙏🏽
Nothing can beat the 90's! Street Fighter 2, MK 3 and Tekken 3 are the best fighting games ever!
Ok grandpa.
@@Offensive_Username no problem and oh sorry if I didn't include WWE in there, I know how you touchy you kids can get ☺
I share your love for SF2. I first played this on MAME but didn't know the history and things like changing characters on the fly. I appreciate all the work that went into the making of the video
Omg I played this in Australia as a kid and I have never known where this came from. Thanks!
Thanks for watching, I’m glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🏼
@retroralph Street Fighter 2 is the best game of all time, it just is! its impact is hard to describe to those from another era. I think it lost its way after CE but the later games were needed to keep the series alive I guess. I wish there were more videos of the arcades at that time to re-live and reflect on. I remember the Arcades being very busy and alive when SF2 came out. NBA Jam was another that was super hot for a period, not sure if you have done any vids on that game but that has quite the story.
I know exactly what you mean. I wish I had filmed in the arcades back then, but I was too caught up with everything. I had a hard time finding tournament footage from back then. Luckily there is a bit of it out there but not much. Anyhow, Thanks so much for watching and supporting the channel, it means a lot.
I was actually a huge fan of rainbow edition. And despite what anyone says, it was MASSIVE in the arcades, I remember being a kid and seeing WAVES of people of all ages wanting their turn on rainbow edition. My only question is this. WHY DID THEY ONLY MODIFY SF2 CHAMPION EDITION. Imagine how cool it would have been if they modified SUPER SF2.. With T hawk, Fei Long etc with new moves!!! Or SF3???? Maybe lawsuits, but it still hasn't technically been done to this day.
We used to play with Zangief. Hiting the 3 punches in the air, jumping after that and repeating the process.
After you cross the screen for 6 or 7 times, you do a 360º and hit punch near the oponent.
Zangief will do his thing and will cross back down the screen fast as hell.
Is not easy to explain, but is really fun.
That sounds awesome, I'm not sure I 100% follow but it sounds cool... haha. Thanks so much for watching!
@@RetroRalph lol In other words, do that 3 punches movement, jump after that and repeat. We the time is about to end, align yourself with the oponent and do that 360º grab of Zangief. Its worth the try.
I remember a hack similar to this being out front and center on a big screen at the mall near here. All the vertical checks were removed, but the fireballs were not seeking. Zangief was absurdly strong if you used his lariat to get up in the air and then do the screwdriver when your opponent got close. I also remember the game genie codes to get the SNES version of Street Fighter to behave similarly. Lots of fun.
That’s the version I remember. Basically any throw would connect when you were offscreen, so you would just need to gauge distance using your shadow - then hit them with zangiefs unblockable command throw.
I'm glad to see Rainbow getting some love these days. But what some people may not quite understand as there's different rainbows hacks upon hacks. The World Warrior hacks were known as Quicken. Sometimes spelled a little differently and all it did was speed up World Warrior and gave it a few cool tricks. But they were different versions of that as well. I distinctly remember speaking with an operator back when this came out he got the Quicken because he didn't want to spend the money to buy a champion or later a hyper fighting. It gave the game a little life for a while but eventually everyone moved over to Champion and Hyper fighting
Remember seeing this pop up.
Lots of kids at school where talking about it and where to find a machine running it.
Thought it was cool but did not like playing against another player, because someone picked Ken or Ryu you where done. But it changed the game for sure. Also think this is where Chung Li's fireball came from before SSFII. After playing a rainbow cabinet you really did not want to play basic World Warrior anymore. For real. It was too damm slow.
Also there where a ton of different hacked versions of the game. It was getting to the point you had trouble finding a machine that was not hacked.
I have probably played almost every hacked version of Champion Edition on arcade machines during the early to mid 90s here in Australia with locations ranging from arcade parlours, fish and chip take away shops, kebab shops, milk bars, video rental stores, corner shops, convenience stores and the list goes on. Brings back so many memories where heaps of teens would gather together to play, watch, challenge and socialise at all the venues listed above thanks to arcade machines and Street Fighter II. Good times. Would love to go back and relive the thrills of racing to the nearest corner shop all over again.
Clockwork Orange, huh ok
Too fun Ralph! I just noticed you're past 50k subs. If that's a new thing, congrats!
I played rainbow and a edition where ryu and ken were super buff!!! Im not certain where i found the super buff version but it was really cool looking back in the day! I remember putting codes in my game genie to do all kinds of things in street fighter. Air moves were so amazing to me. Great video
Rainbow was at the Sunset Grill (now gone) in North Myrtle Beach. It was a small arcade on the beach and really the only one around in the mid to late 90s. Like 99% of 12 year olds I was a huge SF2 fan and I remember this version melting my mind. I actually feel a sense of relief to know this is real, because literally no one believed at the time.
I was playing this game in arcade in Taiwan where there were so many revisions of it before you can build the muscle memory the next one is out. It was eye catching in the beginning but soon it went nuts. Some were great but most of them are unplayable. Speed can also be adjusted in dev mode and there were also versions that speeds up gradually as you beat the stage. Obviously that inspired Capcom to introduce Turbo. The end game was crazy at about 300% speed. And because the fireballs were so deadly and stackable the PVP game quickly became fireball fights all over the place nobody's play other characters balance was thrown away. I knew the owner the arcade so well he told me for as little as $30 those hackers will show up at your door with a solder iron and install the mod for you
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo arcade AI is near impossible to beat even on easiest setting. That’s broken and it doesn’t even have any hacks.
This version of the game felt more like a Debug mode for Dev's to have fun with then trying to be a real rip off game. But yes it is good it helped give ideas to Capcom which they put into Hyper Fighting.
Great video man. I tried to make a SF2 video and talk about how amazing/impactful SF2 was but mine only has 3 views hahaha I love talking about this game cuz these young bucks don't realize just how insanely popular this fighting game was!
There was no one Rainbow Edition. There were MANY Hacks of CE like this that had many names. I knew people making these boards in LA back then.
I remember rainbow edition! That used to be the fun version and it was always packed at our local arcade
The version of Rainbow that existed in my bowling alley was different from this one.
Character swaps: Yes
Extra speed: Unsure, probably was, but I didn't notice at the time.
No wait time to charge: Yes
Homing projectiles: No, in our version, we shot single projectiles that zigzagged up and down, and at the same speed as they normally travelled. I know there's some Rainbow videos that shoot two at a time like that, but ours only shot one as normal.
Air specials: Unsure, I don't recall seeing them.
Standard moves that can shoot fireballs: No
Random teleports: No
Overall not much happening in mine, but still wild to watch 30 years ago when I was first discovering the game.
Very interesting, but I'd think Ryu's correct name pronunciation would be known by now.
Best version. Only the OGs know all the moves.
My first experience of SF2 Rainbow Edition was at a smokey pool hall (good old 90's). The cabinet had cigarette burns where people would place their cigs on the edge of the control deck so they can play and attached to its side was a bottle opener. Me and the boys would go get some beers and play it all night.
My old local corner store had a MK 1 version similar to this. You could juggle an op and do specials in the air. Was fun
I have every version or SF2 on my arcade machine , yet find myself playing OG champion edition the most
You should check out the “koryu” hack as well, it’s completely broken but they really went over the top with it.
Dang, I just watched.a video on it, that looks crazy!! Thanks for letting me know.
Here in Brazil we use to call it Street Fighter Maluco (Crazy Street Fighter) and at some point, people were playing this version more than the regular one.
Can't believe I never heard of this version before. Wish it would be available for home consoles.
Yeah, it's pretty fun, I mean it's a hack, so it's completely unbalanced and broken but fun to play. It's usually on Pandora's boxes if you ever want to check it out. Thanks so much for watching!
This bootleg hacked edition is well known for putting a smile on your face when you first stumbled upon it but will send you into a rage after a short while.
I saw the Rainbow version in a Putt-Putt years later but before that there was a regular version in a ice cream shop named Kreamie Kream where the game was glitched with the ability to throw specials in the air long before it was implemented in Street Fighter games. Bison corkscrewing or Ryu hurricane kick were my favorite. It wasn't hacked by it never got reprogrammed because back then small stores like that didn't think arcades were worth spending alot of money on.
From memory, you can go off the top of the screen and keep going higher and higher until you come out of the bottom of the screen. Then when you stop jumping, you will fall through the floor and all the way down again. It was fun and cool to play with.
I remember when I was teenager that there was one arcade like this near my junior high school in my home island in Tahiti , French Polynesia.the special move were so crazy that if you weren’t there to play it, you’ll never believe it.
Playing with Zangief you can go offscreen and after reaching the “second floor”, you can perform the “Spinning Piledriver”, defenceless…
For some reason over here in the UK we called it Black Belt Edition, not sure why, well thats what our local comunity called it in the local arcade? Great Video
If convenient stores began having these arcade cabinets again would people play them?
I played this version way back in Mexico 🇲🇽 city in a liquor store I thought it was broken then I was like this isn’t that bad. I can see where it transitioned into marvel v capcom
In Canada it was called SF2 Prime. I even saw a tweaked version where you can go through the top of the screen and come out the bottom
SF2 Prime is a cooler name IMO.. thanks so much for watching!
I remember coming home and telling my brother about this game... and he convinced me it was just a glitched unit... until I got older and found out this was an actual thing.... crazy.
I have heard similar stories, think about it though, with no real internet at that time, it was all a mystery…. Kinda cool. Thanks for sharing and I appreciate you watching!
@Retro Ralph yes those were simple but great times... And you have great content my man, love the videos... still one of my favorite vids was the stress eating about the TMNT 1up cabinet hahaha! I felt your pain. 😆💯
Had this version on a Pandoras Box 5s I bought a while back. Was so good to finally find this edition I'd played back in the 90s
I remember playing a version like this in the arcade in Uruguay that it was called Magic Street fighter and you can do a hadouken move that produced 2 fireballs ( one on top of the other) and you can have 6 or 8 hadouken balls in the screen. And playing with Zangief you can jump and do the spinning arm thing jump again and do the spinning arm again and again and again and climb multiple screens and then you do a super pile driver that goes down multiple screens and the opponent can't touch you, you just have to have your Shadow right next to his shadow. I never seen that version ever again
Never played Rainbow edition, however, we had two local theaters that had one called Lightning Edition and one called Thunder edition. Basically different flavors of Rainbow as far as I can tell from your video. My favorite one though was labelled as XLR8 Pt. II. It was at a gas station across from my high school. I had many wars and spent tons of quarters on that hacked SFII:CE.
It think we had the thunder version in Australia. It wasn't called rainbow but, had the colours.
Lighting was the turbo edition
Was waiting for this video when you mentioned it previously. Very interesting hack.
We had this cabinet here in the city where i live in Spain back in the day, i was mind blown when we saw that you could spam hadokens and change your character on the fly with a button.
One day I hope to challenge you to a game! One day…that being said, Turbo is my favorite version.
I hope all is well my friend! I meant to call you this week. Everything going well? 🙏🏼
There were so many rainbow editions in my town. The same 3 roms that change champion edition to turbo can be changed to rainbow. I change my champion edition to turbo or rainbow every now and again for fun.
im playing the version 3.3 cab on my channel check it out they throw 100 fireballs 😆
How do you do it
I remember riding my bike with a neon green fanny pack full of quarters to the arcade. My friends and I would be there all day.
0:54 I'm in my late 30s. My sub-generation got into SF because of YOUR sub-generation.
Easiest character to use was Zangief... just jump up and do lariat. And keep going up and up and up. Then when 10 sec is about left. Just do the 360 piledriver. He will grab and come flying down like 20+ times. Cam nail perfects each time.
Thanks for the tip, I will have to try that out! Thanks so much for watching!
Yep -- we had some of these in the LA's South Bay (Torrance and Redondo Beach). Blew my damn mind, back in either late 92' or early 93', given that SF2 was in just about every damn gas station, liquor store, grocery store, or neighborhood arcade at the time.
If memory serves me right, the first one I encountered was at the comic store off Van Ness Avenue.
This one takes me back, bud. Thanks for the reminding me of this special time (yes, also a 40-year-old, at this point).
I'm also from LA, and I saw SF2 everywhere. Not necessarily at the gas stations, but I saw these at the laundromats, liquor stores, indoor swapmeets, and donut shops. My first encounter with Rainbow was when I was 9 years old; I spotted it (along with The World Warrior) at this rinkydink laundromat on Hyde Park & West in Inglewood, a few blocks away from my home in South Central Los Angeles
We're getting old man... haha! Thanks for sharing, that's awesome!
Ralph, I need to get a hold of you in regards to a Midway game I'm picking up which you have and need to pick your brain for parts as it's been converted to a Mame. Thanks pal!
This takes me back to my childhood