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Definitely whang... people in the uk knew it as 'black belt' edition for some reason. Just to say im one of your silent watchers and don't comment much if it all. Enjoy your stuff dude. Much love From a small paranormal channel.
Whang! This was the true father of Yakima and all vs games.This was an origin point for air powermoves.Its estranged kissing is found in snk games but to me tekkens the retarded nephew,at least until presently broke out of retardation and gained good iq points.
This is why I liked id software's approach, later adopted by Valve: Put the SDK on the disk and say "Here's the tools we used to make this, go nuts." There's going to be a lot of low effort "Wouldn't it be funny if the guns shot dildos and made an inappropriate, probably annoying sound?" or "Here's the perfect canvas onto which to thickly paint my racism on" or "lol 84,000 bullsquids in a big empty room", but there will be a few that make something good with your tools. And you know what you do with those guys? You hire them, or offer to sell their product in your store. Counter Strike, Team Fortress (sorta), Black Mesa, projects like that.
Late 80's/early 90's: my dad was working for SEGA, so every week I was lucky enough to have 1 or 2 "Master System" or "Genesis" games for free. I had just the cartridges but i didnt care, i enjoyed the games and my friends were jealous as fuck. Plot twist, when I was old enough to understand, my mom told me the truth: daddy was not a SEGA employee, but a regular store employee who was stealing games from his workplace. Good old days my friends...
We called this machine and some similar hacks "Bus Station Street Fighter" collectively in Brazil, since it was guaranteed bus stations would have one.
Ive always been curious about the retro gaming scene in Brazil. When I used to work in a used game store, a Brazilian man traded in some pretty rare shit for some games we had in the uncommon case. After verifying they were legit, he said that rarities up in the states were far more common where he was from. He could have been pulling my leg, but i'd be lying if I wasn't intrigued
AirMan928 Brazilian gamers, specially hose who grew up in the 80s, tend to love playing old games. And because we didn’t get an official released console from Nintendo till the Super Nintendo, all Brazilian consoles that could run Nintendo games were well made NES copies (I had a Bit System, an unapologetic NES copy, google it). And because of our proximity to Paraguay (or Piracy’s Haven), we had access to a huge variety of games from all over the world.
@@bobbydeuce6486 yeah and I'm a pro sf2 player and I've seen that e Honda and balrog are both superior characters at what grief is trying to do because grief can't any projectile or long range character so he has a ton incredibly one sided match ups like sagat
I remember one popped up at the corner store in the hood.. We played it the day before it changed. Went to school and got off that evening, went straight to the corner store like everyday and there was this white guy tinkering in the back of it. So I asked Mr. Perkins (The owner of the store.) was the game broken. He said no, just an upgrade. The guy finished with the game and turned it on. He opened the coin slot and put like 40 credits on it. He told me to try it out. As I'm playing against E. Honda, I noticed he threw a fuckin hadoken! I'm like, WTF?? The guy starts laughing. He said, try a dragon punch with Ken. I do the move and he jumps from one side to the other! I mean clear the whole length of the stage! Blew my fuckin mind! So then he was like you can change characters right now if you want, just press start. I hit start and changed to Vega. He told me to do the move when Vega jumps off the wall and grabs you. I did the move and Vega went through the top of the screen like 8 times, ended up by E. Honda and grabbed him then fell through the screen 8 times before slamming him on to the ground! Shit was amazing!! The only bad thing was Sagat. For some reason, his tiger uppercut was a one hitter quitter! I'm talking your whole life bar gone with one uppercut! I literally beat Street Fighter in 4mins with Sagat! Lol! I miss that game!!
@@sorrytoobother hey thanks for your awesome story mate! Love hearing that and you really painted a picture! I'm 37 so loads of memories of SF2 and MK arcade myths and all. Here mate you know you can play the game easy enough on MAME which any pc can run. It's great pressing F5 to add credits instead of money! Also you can access yhe 'dip switches' which sets all kinds of things on the games. 👍 From 🇮🇪 my friend
@@sorrytoobother Yeah I get you, I also like details in stories, if your neighborhood was predominantly black it makes sense to point out that that one guy was white, it just makes sense here
Michael Chernoff one of the earliest SF myths was that Ryu’s comment regarding Sheng Long, was about Ken and Ryu’s teacher. Then a gaming magazine made an april fools article (before that kind of gag became mainstream), which led SF fans to a secret character that wasnt really in the game. After that, the SF community chalked up all unbelievable SF stories to hoaxes. Which is why a post Sheng Long world meant that you didnt believe SF info until you did it yourself.
Electronic Gaming Monthly was a games magazine, back when those things existed. One of their April Fool's pranks was *the method* to cause Sheng Long to appear. All perfects, no continued, end every match with a srk, something crazy like that. They provided a doctored screenshot as proof.
You could follow this up with Mortal Kombat being the main reason why Super Street Fighter II exists. But it is bizarre Capcom have never released the Rainbow Edition, or at least an interpretation of it on their collections, just out of novelty value. But I always remember local kids getting excited they finally pulled off the "handcuffs" move in the game.
Hmm? But Street Fighter and Street Fighter II had come out far before Mortal Kombat ever showed up. I still remember the first time I saw it, in an arcade near a theater in Montgomeryville, PA. I said to my cousin, "This game's just a ripoff of Street Fighter II with a ton of blood in it".
'ello you! Larry's talking about Super Street Fighter 2, it's the fourth edition that added T. Hawk, Cammy, Fei Long, and Dee Jay with improved graphics and sound. It came out in '93 after MK's release in 92' I'd love to hear the story as well.
This reminds me of a knock-off sped up Pac Man game that used to be at a corner store in my old neighborhood. For some reason we called it "Chinese Pac Man", and the weird thing was that the maze walls would disappear on occasion. The first couple rounds it would only be on the power-ups but after that all bets were off. The ghosts still followed their regular patterns and for some reason that made the game super hard.
I think you may be thinking of Pac Man plus. It was unofficially made by Midway. Played it a few times on one of those plug in and play television things and it was enjoyable. Also, when ghosts would turn blue they'd get green leaves on their head and some of the items would end up not being Fruit. For example, I remember cans of Coca-Cola replacing one of the fruits
yeah man! I used to hang around every time I found a arcade station since 92, and when I watched this, kinda fell like de ja vu. then I remembered it is true, once I found it in a seasonal hotel by the beach. it was summer and dad's office was having office gathering week end. I stared at that shit for quiet a time but never dared to played it, yea, wow. thank you internet and thank you whang
I miss the days when so many random local places would have arcade games in them. Laundromats, pizza places, convenient stores, and even thrift and furniture stores. The cabinet might have said Mortal Combat on the outside, but inside could have been any of a dozen different games (and props to the places that just colored the cabinets black on the outside and put inside whatever they wanted).
I remember playing Rainbow Edition when I was a kid in a Mexican Acarde. I would choose Blanka because when you did his electric attack by mashing punch and hold the sick forward he would move, but that wasn't the best part. The best part was when he moved forward like that he would fire sonic booms from his mouth at the same time so no one could touch me. Then another time I was watching two other guys play it and one guy kept air juggling his opponent up into the air so much that they would go above the stage and reappear at the bottom the the screen. He did this a couple of times then he ended it by grabbing his opponent and the characters would fall the same number of times that he air juggle the guy upward and instantly KO him. It was nuts, but so fun to watch.
Interesting fact about Street Fighter 2 in Mexico, apparently there was never an official distribution of the game, but there were over 20k known counterfeits in the country.
Balrog was the most overpowered character in that game... I remember everyone playing Balrog in that edition because his charging move forward+👊 fired fireballs and he was very hard to beat... I learned him in the first place....
Omg. I played this in a hotel at the white mountains New Hampshire. I was so young that I've since told myself this wasn't real and I dreamed it up. Here it is and I'm not crazy. Thank you for this.
I've had several similar instances like this in my lifetime. Early childhood is interesting. You see, hear and interact with things that are cool when you're 4, or 5 that you don't know how to describe or remember well enough to find them again only to rediscover them by accident 20 years later.
Dude.....same hotel. We played hockey up there/ stayed overnight and it had to have been same one. Laconia area near funspot??? Let's go...im driving...you get pizza money from mom. LET'S GO
One time I was walking down a shady street, whereupon I was approached by a strange man in a trench coat. He said, "Pssst, kid, you wanna buy some authentic Capcom games?". He then opened up his jacket to reveal a bunch of strange looking Street Fighter II Rainbow Edition arcade machines.
I remember watching someone play this edition at a local food mart back in 97. Blew my mind when I seen Ryu perform a mid-air Hadouken. Went years trying that on various machines not knowing it was a certain version with no success! Nostalgia!
That sort of word of mouth mythology really defined arcade games for me and so many my age. Shenlong and Ermac being the most classic examples for me. Its surreal looking back on how gritty and weird arcade culture really WAS. I also loved that aspect you are talking about: "No one believed me." And then it took like 15 years of forgetting and the validation from online forums reminding you that you weren't crazy.
we used to call that version of the game here in brazil of Bus stop streefighter. because most bars close to bus stops (for some reason) had that version
yeah! there was also a KOF 2002 machine called "magic plus" that was pretty common arround here if i remember very well it was popular because it would give infinite special moves and some weird stuff like changing the sprite size i always been a purist with my games so, didnt gave a lot of attention
@@obananagato Yup, with Magic Plus bootlegs you could also play as Rugal, Geese Howard, Goenitz or Evil Iori. In Mexico, if you played with your friends using one of those characters it was like an act of disgrace haha
Always interesting to hear a story about how some rando Taiwanese hacker-men ended up inspiring Street Fighter II Turbo and the "turbo" feature of subsequent releases, particularly Super Turbo (probably the single most popular "tournament scene" SF of all time).
I have the strange distinction of being about to say "MY uncle works for nintendo/microsfoft/insert game company" For those interested it was Konami and he was a lighting director but still. Got my brownie points in school.
If laundromats still had arcade cabinets in them, instead of just lame candy vending machines (you know the ones), I'd stop dropping my laundry off and do it myself again.
Where I live in CA there are still some Laundromats with old school arcade cabinets in them, but most of them are in really shitty shape with likely no plans for repairs. I found a Samurai Showdown machine near my moms less than a year ago, my nostalgia gauge went nuts.
Destructive Criticism I had a laundromat with Street Fighter 1, and I ended up never playing street fighter until years later because it was just shit.
I have soft spot for OG Street Fighter. I have an OpenBOR collection of rebuilt versions of SF1 that fix the special move input problems, add all of Ryu & Ken's opponents as playable characters and it has a Beat Em Up version. The games are hard af, but I love it because SF1 always hits me right in the nostalgia. The BGMs man, them shits are bangers.
"They said it would change Street Fighter from a game of reacting to your opponent's choices to try to predict what they're gonna to do ahead of time" Sounds like a fun and different alternative version of the game.
Kind of odd story about sf 2 hacked cabinets. Friends mom owned a hobby store, she purchased an SF II arcade cabinet at a discount from a friend who runs a stand at a flea mall for 1500. Plugs it in and its an "Street fighter: Champion edition UT" cabinet. (a taiwanese clone of the turbo version) Nothing that special. We play it, time passes. The cabinet sits in the corner of the place for a year. A man comes in specifically wanting to buy the cabinet my friends mom had never seen him, we had never seen him. (this is like 96' I remember because I remember being so scared of resident evil, used to watch our older friends play it, so realistic), He peeked a light into the back. Offered my buddys mom 10 grand for it, cash money. She obviously didn't turn it down. He had a very thick new jersey accent is all i remember of him. He came back 30 minutes later with a bank check for 10 grand and dolly'd the machine to his van and we never saw or heard from it or him again....I don't know what was so special about it. You could have bought 2 or 3 brand spanking new arcade cabinets for that price. (thank you strange NJ man, I still miss the house of the dead cabinet we got after)
@@MrRemo1313 oh yeah man it was the big one, with the cage style like time splitter. It was bad ass. Tragically it was flooded in a bad hurricane in 2003.
@whang! I remember reading a magazine about Street Fighter 2 where E Honda could jump into his bathtub in the background and recharge his health. It also showed Zangief with his fists flying all over the map when he did his famous spin move. Pretty wild. I also used to hear about how there was a secret code where you could get the 4 Championship Edition characters playable on the original Super Nintendo version of Street Fighter 2 but no one ever knew it.
You have just vindicated one of my childhood memories. I always was thinking it was some sort of false memory or dream. Well out of all places I encountered this machine in Tijuana when when I was a little kid. I remember I picked Vega got paired against Ryu then all I remember is the CPU spamming hadukens in the air and getting my ass kicked, hard and fast. All this time I would tell my friends and they would look at me funny like, "that's not Street Fighter" and saying "you can't do that in Street Fighter." Well I guess it took more than 20 years but I don't feel wierd about having that memory anymore. Thanks for making that memory a real thing.
I was 12 back in 1992 when Rainbow edition came to a laundry room in the city of Cudahy, where I was living at the time with all the craziness that was unheard of in fighting games at the time. My cousins and I were blown away. Are addiction to Street Fighter at the time became that much stronger. But after a month it disappeared.
Me too... Arcades started closing here in Pakistan in the beginning of the new mellinium and by 2008 all of them were gone... Other than some in big cities there are hardly any left now... Reminds me how changing times can be so cruel... Arcades are not the best places to be around for kids though
@@nayyarrashid4661 man I remember playing on arcade machines both in Britain and Pakistan....are there no more places to play on classic arcade machines?!?!😭😭
Today on May 6, 2023. I saw my first authentic arcade machine that had STREET FIGHTER II: RAINBOW EDITION. That was the day I thought I was dreaming, never knowing that I would actually see a real rainbow edition machine.
Thanks for digging this story out. It brought back lots of memories for me too. I played Rainbow Editon in a fish and chip store in the UK. Crazy to think it actually ended up improving the franchise!
There were a fairly good amount of these around in the area of L.A. I grew up in, all around the arcade boom. Played it regularly at a local burger joint down the street from my pad, I remember Guile being unstoppable due to being able to output Sonic Booms faster back-to-back than Hadoukens. The screen filling up with them, jumping up and firing projectiles on invisible floors, Spinning Pile Driving people through what seemed like a portal as you "fall" down all the levels of the stage you jumped up. Good times. We all just kinda figured they were some shady ass hacked cabinets the owners got cheap, since they were always in places just jumping on the craze and not in our local arcades. Still, brings back some funny memories!
Right? I was in LA County, far eastern (Pomona/Diamond Bar etc) and these machines were in every other liquor store for a brief moment then disappeared right when Turbo came out
@@ChromeTecNina Oh yeah man, I was living in Bell County I believe the first time I came across one. From Lynwood to Freaking Compton these machines were crammed into liquor stores and shit. Never in the bowling alleys, though. Then yup, they just vanished. They were so broken that it was hilariously bad.
Exactly they were at the liquor store they had a big screen one at Redondo Beach Pier where everyone used to line up to play it and there was one at the liquor store by my grandparents house in Midtown was there all the time
I remember seeing these machines around L.A. too back in the day. There was this laundromat in nearby Inglewood, within walking distance from my place, that had this bootleg version in the 90s. I was amazed at first, but amazement became disgust when I noticed everyone and their cousin had homing projectiles (I was more shocked at Guile doing a sonic boom trap). The Rainbow version messed up my experience of playing it on arcade, but never stopped me from enjoying the SNES version.
@@hoodmistressreloaded Yeah, they were just projectile spam fests. It was a cool novelty to see but nothing more than an oddity. Didn't sour me on the other iterations of the games, though. Still, weird game that left a lasting impression on anyone who played it!
In Santa Monica, CA, there is a place called 3rd St. Promenade. There was a skate shop behind a clothes store that had NBA Jam with Shaq and Jordan, who famously weren't in the original because they cost too much to license.
I dunno how I stumbled across this channel but I've been glued to it for a fucking week. Amazing content. Growing up on Staten Island I had a similar experience with Rainbow Edition. Some kid who was mopping up SFII champ edition at the bowling alley was talking about being able to do "air fireballs" in "the new SFII" at some comic book shop. The comic book shop was 2 neighborhoods away, and to me and my buddies, being 11 at the time, that was a big deal. We rarely left our hood beyond the unspoken boundary lines.Taking the bus was unthinkable. We had our bikes and some sort of idea where the comic book store MIGHT be. It was like going on a quest to find this mysterious legend. Good ol' days. Its a shame kids now will never experience that thrill, both of the arcades and exploring and discovering through common interests outside of social media.
I had one of these stories. When I was a kid, there was another kid in the neighborhood who claimed that his uncle got the new Super Mario Bros 4 from Japan before it was supposed to come out. He said "It's Mario as a baby and he tunnels around through cakes, eating them and you fight a pig monster at the end of every level." We thought he was full of shit. Turns out years later, I discovered that what he was talking about all this time was a chinese bootleg of the Famicom only Konami game "Bio Miracle Baby Upa" which the bootleg had it's name changed to "Mario Baby".
Thank you for sharing! I too was an addict of SF2 and remember playing a Rainbow Edition version and being blown away. It was so crazy! Of all the machines in my area there was only one I ever found with he Rainbow Edition mod. It was at a local pizza place called Mountain Mikes. Good times, good memories!
August Greig dude , at one stage I had 3 time zones and a cinema in walking distance , they couldn’t make cabinets big enough to hold the coins lined up for challenges . The smell still haunts me to this day .
Yeah, when corporations say that illegal distribution hurts the industry, they just mean it hurts their R&D. They're entitled to believe that. It makes sense they believe that. But it's just one area of the industry. Emergent gameplay is another aspect of the industry and it is most certainly improved by illegal distribution.
Literally any sales Sony ever made in South Africa is owed to the fact that every NES system and game sold in South Africa before its release was counterfeit. It made games cheap enough for our country, and these pirated games sold in major chain stores. It created gaming culture. Nintendo didn't capatilise on what they saw as a lost market, so Sega genesis came put as a mixed market, legit and pirated stuff sold side by side. And then when PS came out there was a thriving gaming community built out of cheap accessible games and Sony could profit.
In this particular case the Arcade industry in NY was getting hit hard. The distributors for sure got fucked because they were being undercut and profit timelines suddenly became extensive as hacked cabinets were taking all the quarters. That said Capcom probably didn't give two fucks if PinballPete was losing cash he just cashed he wasn't buying or leasing more cabinets. So your point still stands but with an asterisk.
The video rental store in my home town in Idaho had this SFII machine. That was the only place I had ever seen it, and I never met anyone else who knew about it.
Happened to live in Asis during that time period and those rom hack arcades were everywhere. At one point they were so popular that it was so hard to find a legit cabinet of "normal" SF2. Never knew it had anything to do with the idea of the turbo edition, because in the next year or two, the place was filled with cracked/pirate MVS cabinets, running all the SNK games like Fatal Fury, Metal Slug, KOF 95... etc.
I remember seeing this version at a pizza joint that was attached a bowling alley. they built onto the building and rented out the surrounding sections to a pizza joint, a sub shop and eventually had a full blown arcade gaming center when then expanded to include a laser tag place you could rent for matches. place was the shit as a preteen to teenager. though the best thing to happen was they got a SF2 machine that had this hack rom on it. it was one of the ways I actually managed to see character endings because of how easy you could whoop the AI because they couldnt get over walls of sonic booms and fireballs. this place was also where I left a small kid in shock and awe as I handcuffed him with Guile and soft reset the machine before walking away like a total boss.
Dude, I played that game circa 1993 in Périgord ( France) which is the most medieval place in Europe. If I could play it there, I’m sure that the game was easily available to anyone.
That was one of his main points in this video. This version tended to be in the shittiest or most obscure places because they were cheaply acquired by shop owners who knew nothing about the game other than this machine was being sold to them cheap!
Yeah, I'm from Vitoria (Spain), we had at least one place with the machine and it was very popular but it was replaced very quickly, legal issues maybe?
I'm so glad you posted this video. I remember a SF2:CE arcade hack that I ran across in Wal-Mart, here in Mobile, AL. It had crazy fireball angles, & even super slow fireballs. You could also do mid-air moves & didn't have charge most moves (like Guile's Sonic Boom). After it left the store, I never saw anything like it. It turns out it was the Street Fighter 2: Accelerator. I found the rom after I watched this video. Thank You.
My cousin did that at his laundromat too. If it was totally dead towards closing time he would let kids play the games (naturally he made an exception for me and my brother) but when it got busy (and his was in the city so it did pretty well) he would get complaints from customers and it did make sense. He bought those machines so his customers had something to do while they waited for their laundry, and this was the 90s so it's not like everyone could just play on their phones or listen to their iPods. People did their laundry there because they wanted to play the games while they waited, and it was annoying when the neighborhood kids hogged them. Gotta keep the customers happy, and the adults doing their laundry there brought in a lot more quarters than the kids did.
I remember there being one where it was possible to freeze the character mid-fight, making them invincible. It was a great way to cheese your way through the tougher fighters like Sagat.
It's even crazier that Street Fighter 2 is the reason for the face of fighting games changing not once but twice. The first time was combos which were actually a bug that was left in as a hidden feature because it's fun and they thought they were too difficult to be useful.
Stories like this one are proof that the Rom making and video game modding communities are important and necessary evils that needs to exist in the end. Sure pirating of officially licensed games that can then be downloaded for free online is a problem, but game developers are still making massive profits in the industry which is only growing year after year despite this. The gaming industry has definitely benefited as well from the very concepts and unique ideas generated by these communities. One example Muta always likes to point out on his channel is Nintendo who will literally DMCA and legally attack its own fan base of people who will take their intellectual property like the concept of Pokémon and create unique spin off fan made games of their own, then after legally striking down the fan made games they'll go ahead and steal the idea and make an official Nintendo licensed release of that same concept so they can profit off ideas generated by their own modding fan base. Pretty scummy but you really can't blame a business from squeezing out every penny they can from their properties, even when it means pissing off their own fan base and blatantly stealing their good ideas whenever they can. In the end though it just proves yet again that these sometimes "illegal" modding and rom making communities do have good and popular ideas for alterations to existing franchises, and without them creating their own spin off games and modded versions of popular games and franchises that we all love we wouldn't have half the cool things and features that we enjoy in games these days. This is a perfect example of a style of fighting game that a large conglomerate corporation like Capcom refused to even entertain at the time, yet luckily people created these illegal modded roms with faster action and single handedly ended up opening up everyone's eyes to how much better fighting games could be just by simply speeding everything up a bit.
Great video! I was about 8 years old when I came across the Rainbow Edition at my local Kroger.. I feel lucky to be one of the few to have played it. I also need that black Street Fighter shirt in the background at 9:21.. had that when I was a kid.. ahhh the memories.
I remember the crazy rainbow edition, back in 93 i played the first time SF2 in Turkey, then in 96 i was again in turkey, but 50% from all SF2 Machines (some arcades got just SF2 Machines, and no other game) were crazy rainbow editions.
Yeah, turkey is to 90% in asia, so copyright was not from interest :D Nobody there controlled arcade machine owners (and if the police came, a package Marlboro and a bottle of Raki cleaned the situation xD ) When SF2 popped up, arcades were everywhere, it was crazy, any regular guy was able to rent a room, and buy counterfeit machines for cheap and throw them in xD
Dude, ur seriously opening up my mind to things I never knew. i always wondered why so many versions of Street fighter 2 existed. This answers the questions for at least 2 of them (Turbo & Super SF2 Turbo). I honestly wouldve never known bout this had u not made a vid bout it. Thank you.
I remember this small locale arcade that had Street Fighter 2 in it (pretty sure not even Champions), where one day this game was there. People thought it was glitching out, fireballs were everywhere, characters looked like they could climb the stages and (maybe I'm remembering this badly) shoot diagonal fireballs. One kid walks up and says "The owner put more chips in and now it's like this." Never realized that it wasn't that far from the truth. Great video, really took me back.
I remember telling my friends about this it was like 94’ in a place called ac indoor mall in Oakland ca I played this and everyone thought I was bullshitting the cabinet they had was called hyper fighting
Excellent video demystifying all the questions I had about this version of SFII. Like all the other people said earlier in the comments, I too, thought it was a dream. I saw it one day at a Shoppette on base and the next time gone as if it never existed.
I always remembered playing this version of the Street Fighter machine at a Pizza place here in Flushing Queens when I was a kid and thought it was the only one in the world lol.
Great video! I remember seeing Rainbow Edition at my local Video Rental store in Pawling, NY as a kid. It was so weird and obscure that many years later I thought my memory was playing tricks on me and that it didn't actually exist.
New sub. Brother what a monumental story, you’ve transported me to my days at the laundromat. pockets full of quarters . I really enjoyed this arcade report. Who needs cable anymore 🤙.
I played one of these in a game shop/arcade in Worcester UK called 'Contozania' around 1992. I was about 8 years old so was starting to think i had imagined it. A detail of gameplay on this version, that didn't come up in this vid (but is implied) is that all the moves that require a 2 second directional charge had their charge time removed, so you could pull out a Sonic Boom as quickly as you could press L,R, Punch and then immediately do it again like 8 times. Thanks Whang, now i know i didnt just dream this
Yesssss!!! I remember older kids flooding the screen with Sonic Booms, and Zangief’s Corckscrew Piledriver not only having a vacuum effect but being done with a juggle effect... over & over until it would lapse from the top of the screen to the bottom. I remember, distinctly, my eyes bugging when some guy hit a looping piledriver that dropped for 3 full screens.
Hey Justin it's cool to see someone from the neighborhood blowing up on UA-cam. I saw this video in my recommended list and recognized you right away. You probably don't remember me but when we were very young kids I used to come over and play video games at your house because our moms were friends. You got yourself another subscriber, man. Best of luck!
In Brazil we called these hacked roms as in "Bus Stop Edition" or "Bus Station Edition". They were hilarious. Fully bootlegged... -Zangief could grab you regardless of where he was in the screen; -Infinite jumping; -Slow Hadoukens could fill the screen and you could force the AI to jump back into them...
I ran into a cabinet while on a camping holiday as a kid. We stayed at a campsite that had a kind of entertainment room building with bunch of older machines in it. I saw SFII and dismissed it as it had been out a while and I even had the Snes new challengers version at home by then. But when I looked closer I saw what was actually happening on screen it blew my mind as those ingrained unspoken rules of SF were being broken. It must have been out a while, I had just never encountered it at home. I think it was really the start of me liking the speed, the crazy over the top bullshit and balance that something like MvC leans towards. Like you I also rediscovered its actual name much later in life and found it it wasn't just some weird thing the guy that ran that campsite hacked together.
I am from India, I can relate to your story, the way you discovered the game initially then finding it again after a decade on MAME, same thing happened with me. I am talking about year 1996-97, here in India we had lots of arcade shops but we never had dedicated Game specific machine (CAPCOM Street Fighter Machine) We had a custom Wooden White or Black Box with TV in slanted position custom fitted where Street Fighter versions kept on changing after a month or two. Back then we used to play a single game for 15 minutes by paying 1 Rupee, equivalent to 0.014 USD (in 1998 it 0.028 USD or 3 cents). It was damn cheap. I loved the Rainbow edition but i could never find it in PC era. I took me 20-30 different ROM experimentation to get hold of it again in 2009-10.
I never saw this in arcades but do you remember that pang game?' that was hella sick, I spent so much time on that lol. think it was called buster bros in the US
Played that a lot with my brother on PC though it was not in arcades here in Pakistan... Never saw one... I have played both versions but I will remember it as PANG
I forgot all about Rainbow Edition until seeing this video. A local West Coast Video near where I grew up in New Jersey had one of these. I just assumed it was some sort of programming error or the damn thing fell off the truck or something.
it is so freakin good to finally understand the history of these machines! A little mom and pop market up the road from my house always had a SF2 machine then one day they got a SF2CE put in right next to the old one. Only this machine was different... so glorious, so crazy, so much fun (I had no idea this wasn't the real version of the game)... Years later a friend and I started getting really into fighting games (around marvel 2 time) and I was talking about how weird CE is... he had no idea what I was talking about and thought i was making up stories for no reason! it took years before we found out that Rainbow Edition existed and I wasn't just a crazy person!
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Definitely whang... people in the uk knew it as 'black belt' edition for some reason. Just to say im one of your silent watchers and don't comment much if it all. Enjoy your stuff dude. Much love From a small paranormal channel.
Whang! This was the true father of Yakima and all vs games.This was an origin point for air powermoves.Its estranged kissing is found in snk games but to me tekkens the retarded nephew,at least until presently broke out of retardation and gained good iq points.
Hey Low Whang
This channel makes me happi
Capcom: "counterfeiting hurts research and development"
also Capcom: *uses counterfeited/modified game for research and development*
O_O
Capcom don't take down the fan-games at least!
The market at work!
This is why I liked id software's approach, later adopted by Valve: Put the SDK on the disk and say "Here's the tools we used to make this, go nuts." There's going to be a lot of low effort "Wouldn't it be funny if the guns shot dildos and made an inappropriate, probably annoying sound?" or "Here's the perfect canvas onto which to thickly paint my racism on" or "lol 84,000 bullsquids in a big empty room", but there will be a few that make something good with your tools. And you know what you do with those guys? You hire them, or offer to sell their product in your store. Counter Strike, Team Fortress (sorta), Black Mesa, projects like that.
@@thegardenofeatin5965 video games would be in a much better place *cough*bethesda*cough* if studio's offered jobs to their nodding scenes
Late 80's/early 90's: my dad was working for SEGA, so every week I was lucky enough to have 1 or 2 "Master System" or "Genesis" games for free. I had just the cartridges but i didnt care, i enjoyed the games and my friends were jealous as fuck.
Plot twist, when I was old enough to understand, my mom told me the truth: daddy was not a SEGA employee, but a regular store employee who was stealing games from his workplace. Good old days my friends...
That's like La Vita es Bella
Was polybius real?
proof?
you had a good dad
Awesome story
We called this machine and some similar hacks "Bus Station Street Fighter" collectively in Brazil, since it was guaranteed bus stations would have one.
Street Fighter de Rodoviária... A classic older than time
I remember playing this game in the 90's here in Chile too
Vim aqui pra comentar isso.
Ive always been curious about the retro gaming scene in Brazil. When I used to work in a used game store, a Brazilian man traded in some pretty rare shit for some games we had in the uncommon case. After verifying they were legit, he said that rarities up in the states were far more common where he was from. He could have been pulling my leg, but i'd be lying if I wasn't intrigued
AirMan928 Brazilian gamers, specially hose who grew up in the 80s, tend to love playing old games. And because we didn’t get an official released console from Nintendo till the Super Nintendo, all Brazilian consoles that could run Nintendo games were well made NES copies (I had a Bit System, an unapologetic NES copy, google it). And because of our proximity to Paraguay (or Piracy’s Haven), we had access to a huge variety of games from all over the world.
Fun Fact : All Street Fighter II arcade machines in Mexico were not from Capcom, all were pirated cabinets.
Charlie Mejia say what! very racist😲
How's that racist?
That's glorious
I remember some crazy ones being called Street Fighter Alpha...way before Capcom came up with that name! Lol
@@MisterXtreme8798 When was it racist to be so cool?
I love how Capcoms argument about speeding the game up was just. "You just want to make Zangief OP"
I’ve seen people do things with him that already makes me think he’s OP. A faster Zangief would be an absolute nightmare.
@@bobbydeuce6486zangief is one of the worst characters in sf2
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Yeah and I’ve seen people wreck house with him more decisively than other characters.
@@bobbydeuce6486 yeah and I'm a pro sf2 player and I've seen that e Honda and balrog are both superior characters at what grief is trying to do because grief can't any projectile or long range character so he has a ton incredibly one sided match ups like sagat
Sagat being one of his abysmal matche ups not saying sagat has bad match ups
I remember one popped up at the corner store in the hood.. We played it the day before it changed. Went to school and got off that evening, went straight to the corner store like everyday and there was this white guy tinkering in the back of it. So I asked Mr. Perkins (The owner of the store.) was the game broken. He said no, just an upgrade. The guy finished with the game and turned it on. He opened the coin slot and put like 40 credits on it. He told me to try it out. As I'm playing against E. Honda, I noticed he threw a fuckin hadoken! I'm like, WTF?? The guy starts laughing. He said, try a dragon punch with Ken. I do the move and he jumps from one side to the other! I mean clear the whole length of the stage! Blew my fuckin mind! So then he was like you can change characters right now if you want, just press start. I hit start and changed to Vega. He told me to do the move when Vega jumps off the wall and grabs you. I did the move and Vega went through the top of the screen like 8 times, ended up by E. Honda and grabbed him then fell through the screen 8 times before slamming him on to the ground! Shit was amazing!! The only bad thing was Sagat. For some reason, his tiger uppercut was a one hitter quitter! I'm talking your whole life bar gone with one uppercut! I literally beat Street Fighter in 4mins with Sagat! Lol! I miss that game!!
Lol what on earth is the significance of the cabinet guy being white?
@@woweezowee5826 Because it was the fuckin hood and we ain't know shit about programming! Plus I like to detail my stories..
@@sorrytoobother hey thanks for your awesome story mate! Love hearing that and you really painted a picture! I'm 37 so loads of memories of SF2 and MK arcade myths and all. Here mate you know you can play the game easy enough on MAME which any pc can run. It's great pressing F5 to add credits instead of money! Also you can access yhe 'dip switches' which sets all kinds of things on the games. 👍 From 🇮🇪 my friend
@@sorrytoobother Yeah I get you, I also like details in stories, if your neighborhood was predominantly black it makes sense to point out that that one guy was white, it just makes sense here
@@woweezowee5826 Same significance as the person being a guy.
The term "post sheng-long world" is so oddly specific, but could not make any more sense.
What does this word mean? I was surprised by it.
Michael Chernoff one of the earliest SF myths was that Ryu’s comment regarding Sheng Long, was about Ken and Ryu’s teacher. Then a gaming magazine made an april fools article (before that kind of gag became mainstream), which led SF fans to a secret character that wasnt really in the game. After that, the SF community chalked up all unbelievable SF stories to hoaxes. Which is why a post Sheng Long world meant that you didnt believe SF info until you did it yourself.
@@TrapsetJiuJitsu It's quite amazing how one badly translated victory quote changed the whole genre in a such a profound way.
Electronic Gaming Monthly was a games magazine, back when those things existed. One of their April Fool's pranks was *the method* to cause Sheng Long to appear. All perfects, no continued, end every match with a srk, something crazy like that. They provided a doctored screenshot as proof.
Yup. I remember reading that exact Game Pro article. Or was it EGM?
I can't remember.
The label on our local machine was "Hyper Street Fighter 2" and was later replaced by a crappy Champion Edition. RIP S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-Sonic BOOM!
yesssss, Hyper Street Firghter 2, thats what it was called!!!!!
The label on the ones I played around Houston at the time were "Thunder Edition"
This Guy The corner store had this edition,Guile Sonic booms was ridicules lol.. Still fun times in my teens!!
You could follow this up with Mortal Kombat being the main reason why Super Street Fighter II exists. But it is bizarre Capcom have never released the Rainbow Edition, or at least an interpretation of it on their collections, just out of novelty value.
But I always remember local kids getting excited they finally pulled off the "handcuffs" move in the game.
I didn't know about that
Does Nintendo release versions of Wand of Gamelon? No? That's probably why there's no official Rainbow Edition.
Hmm? But Street Fighter and Street Fighter II had come out far before Mortal Kombat ever showed up. I still remember the first time I saw it, in an arcade near a theater in Montgomeryville, PA. I said to my cousin, "This game's just a ripoff of Street Fighter II with a ton of blood in it".
'ello you! Larry's talking about Super Street Fighter 2, it's the fourth edition that added T. Hawk, Cammy, Fei Long, and Dee Jay with improved graphics and sound. It came out in '93 after MK's release in 92'
I'd love to hear the story as well.
rainbow edition isn’t an official capcom release. it was a taiwan rom hack. but it threatened the main series and forced capcom to release turbo
This reminds me of a knock-off sped up Pac Man game that used to be at a corner store in my old neighborhood. For some reason we called it "Chinese Pac Man", and the weird thing was that the maze walls would disappear on occasion. The first couple rounds it would only be on the power-ups but after that all bets were off. The ghosts still followed their regular patterns and for some reason that made the game super hard.
I think you may be thinking of Pac Man plus. It was unofficially made by Midway. Played it a few times on one of those plug in and play television things and it was enjoyable. Also, when ghosts would turn blue they'd get green leaves on their head and some of the items would end up not being Fruit. For example, I remember cans of Coca-Cola replacing one of the fruits
.....I legit thought I hallucinated this game. Thank you for this.
Dude me too! Wtf lol.weird slot in time for us.
@@r.a.h989 ikr, I remember spraying fireballs but since I had also discovered drugs around then, I really was convinced it was just turbo.
Like that creepypasta about the kids show that didnt exist? Lmfao
yeah man! I used to hang around every time I found a arcade station since 92, and when I watched this, kinda fell like de ja vu. then I remembered it is true, once I found it in a seasonal hotel by the beach. it was summer and dad's office was having office gathering week end. I stared at that shit for quiet a time but never dared to played it, yea, wow. thank you internet and thank you whang
Yeah drugs in the 90's were fun. Lol
I miss the days when so many random local places would have arcade games in them. Laundromats, pizza places, convenient stores, and even thrift and furniture stores. The cabinet might have said Mortal Combat on the outside, but inside could have been any of a dozen different games (and props to the places that just colored the cabinets black on the outside and put inside whatever they wanted).
I remember playing Rainbow Edition when I was a kid in a Mexican Acarde. I would choose Blanka because when you did his electric attack by mashing punch and hold the sick forward he would move, but that wasn't the best part. The best part was when he moved forward like that he would fire sonic booms from his mouth at the same time so no one could touch me. Then another time I was watching two other guys play it and one guy kept air juggling his opponent up into the air so much that they would go above the stage and reappear at the bottom the the screen. He did this a couple of times then he ended it by grabbing his opponent and the characters would fall the same number of times that he air juggle the guy upward and instantly KO him. It was nuts, but so fun to watch.
Interesting fact about Street Fighter 2 in Mexico, apparently there was never an official distribution of the game, but there were over 20k known counterfeits in the country.
That was fun just to read
I can testify sf2 was in every corner store in mexico, and about 1/3 were rainbow edition
Balrog was the most overpowered character in that game... I remember everyone playing Balrog in that edition because his charging move forward+👊 fired fireballs and he was very hard to beat... I learned him in the first place....
Whang! classic mexico, we would just have a single arcade with an emu (probably MAME) and most CPS-1,2 and Neo Geo games on it
Crazy, I remember playing this in UK it was called Rude Boy Edition over here
We knew it as black belt edition
Omg. I played this in a hotel at the white mountains New Hampshire. I was so young that I've since told myself this wasn't real and I dreamed it up. Here it is and I'm not crazy. Thank you for this.
I've had several similar instances like this in my lifetime. Early childhood is interesting. You see, hear and interact with things that are cool when you're 4, or 5 that you don't know how to describe or remember well enough to find them again only to rediscover them by accident 20 years later.
Dude.....same hotel. We played hockey up there/ stayed overnight and it had to have been same one. Laconia area near funspot??? Let's go...im driving...you get pizza money from mom. LET'S GO
In Houston, Texas, this hack was not called Rainbow Edition, it was called Lightning Edition, I guess in Texas we don't care for rainbows.
Rainbow is too gay for Texas.
Yooo im from Houston Texas
In a laundromat in greenspoint, houston, we called it rainbow because the logo color
There were other editions that did the same (or similar) shit that were called different things so it wasnt uncommon to see different names
We had this in Houston? Is it still around somewhere?
One time I was walking down a shady street, whereupon I was approached by a strange man in a trench coat. He said, "Pssst, kid, you wanna buy some authentic Capcom games?". He then opened up his jacket to reveal a bunch of strange looking Street Fighter II Rainbow Edition arcade machines.
1st
What are ya buyin' stranger
@@sadmeat8937 that's the GUY!
@@sadmeat8937 Whattaya sellin'?
Always did wonder how that guy kept even a single arcade cabinet under his jacket, let alone several.
I remember watching someone play this edition at a local food mart back in 97. Blew my mind when I seen Ryu perform a mid-air Hadouken. Went years trying that on various machines not knowing it was a certain version with no success! Nostalgia!
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You need a version of this vid with a 25% speed increase
Dude you can speed increase like every single UA-cam video
FunWithFirearms Nope, it still feels like underwater.
What are you people talking about? The video is fine. Underwater? Are you all on crystal meth?
@Zeus y'know he's talking about underwater levels and how slow they're all
I thought everyone knew you can speed up and slow down YT...
The buttons up there ^
That sort of word of mouth mythology really defined arcade games for me and so many my age. Shenlong and Ermac being the most classic examples for me. Its surreal looking back on how gritty and weird arcade culture really WAS. I also loved that aspect you are talking about: "No one believed me." And then it took like 15 years of forgetting and the validation from online forums reminding you that you weren't crazy.
I blew so many quarters on random people's tall tales
was one of them Mortal Kombat's Sonya Blade's 'Nudeality' ?
Around my school there
was a rumour that O.J. Simpson was a playable character in MK II.
This was just after he was "accused" of murder.
@@randyvoid155 LOL, I remember hearing about that.
Oh yah it was. And then when I first heard the tales of "Babeality" I thought the nudeality rumors were true. Needless to say I was a wee bit bummed
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Did he say _Moral Kombat?_
Moral is like the exact opposite of how I would describe Mortal Kombat
Morally bankrupt kombat
Oh just stop it...
we used to call that version of the game here in brazil of Bus stop streefighter. because most bars close to bus stops (for some reason) had that version
Another Brazilian commenter said the same thing. Must have been pretty widespread
yeah!
there was also a KOF 2002 machine called "magic plus" that was pretty common arround here
if i remember very well it was popular because it would give infinite special moves and some weird stuff like changing the sprite size
i always been a purist with my games so, didnt gave a lot of attention
@@obananagato Yup, with Magic Plus bootlegs you could also play as Rugal, Geese Howard, Goenitz or Evil Iori. In Mexico, if you played with your friends using one of those characters it was like an act of disgrace haha
Binged about 2 hours of yer videos, bud. And now subbed.
Love this channel.
I'm glad to see its blown up alot in the last few months.
Thanks!
Hell yeah man. You're my favorite channel these days.
I played that version of SFII in Venice, Italy (arcade on the Lido)
That's a bomb ass memory.
damn bro, playing SFII:RE in Venice, mustve felt great
@@emaa_m it would be, however I only played it about twice - I think I spent most of my time playing OutRun or something
Always interesting to hear a story about how some rando Taiwanese hacker-men ended up inspiring Street Fighter II Turbo and the "turbo" feature of subsequent releases, particularly Super Turbo (probably the single most popular "tournament scene" SF of all time).
Well, it's more like they inspired someone else who was inspired by them. But yeah.
I have the strange distinction of being about to say "MY uncle works for nintendo/microsfoft/insert game company" For those interested it was Konami and he was a lighting director but still. Got my brownie points in school.
When I was a kid growing up in Southern California, we labeled theses Rainbow Edition Machines "Hyper Edition".
Here in Brazil too. To this day i legit thought Hyper Street Fighter II was official game. Lol. Played so much as a kid, never dreamed it was pirate.
In the UK the game was called "Black Belt Edition"
If laundromats still had arcade cabinets in them, instead of just lame candy vending machines (you know the ones), I'd stop dropping my laundry off and do it myself again.
A lot of them have Ms Pacman, but for some reason, it's always the really slow version that I hate.
Where I live in CA there are still some Laundromats with old school arcade cabinets in them, but most of them are in really shitty shape with likely no plans for repairs. I found a Samurai Showdown machine near my moms less than a year ago, my nostalgia gauge went nuts.
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I had a laundromat with Street Fighter 1, and I ended up never playing street fighter until years later because it was just shit.
Xuanathan yeah street fighter was straight ass .
My local video store had final fight and wonder boy in monster world .
I have soft spot for OG Street Fighter.
I have an OpenBOR collection of rebuilt versions of SF1 that fix the special move input problems, add all of Ryu & Ken's opponents as playable characters and it has a Beat Em Up version.
The games are hard af, but I love it because SF1 always hits me right in the nostalgia.
The BGMs man, them shits are bangers.
"They said it would change Street Fighter from a game of reacting to your opponent's choices to try to predict what they're gonna to do ahead of time"
Sounds like a fun and different alternative version of the game.
And you’re right, it basically spurred along the evolution of 2D fighters.
Kind of odd story about sf 2 hacked cabinets. Friends mom owned a hobby store, she purchased an SF II arcade cabinet at a discount from a friend who runs a stand at a flea mall for 1500. Plugs it in and its an "Street fighter: Champion edition UT" cabinet. (a taiwanese clone of the turbo version) Nothing that special. We play it, time passes. The cabinet sits in the corner of the place for a year. A man comes in specifically wanting to buy the cabinet my friends mom had never seen him, we had never seen him. (this is like 96' I remember because I remember being so scared of resident evil, used to watch our older friends play it, so realistic), He peeked a light into the back. Offered my buddys mom 10 grand for it, cash money. She obviously didn't turn it down. He had a very thick new jersey accent is all i remember of him. He came back 30 minutes later with a bank check for 10 grand and dolly'd the machine to his van and we never saw or heard from it or him again....I don't know what was so special about it. You could have bought 2 or 3 brand spanking new arcade cabinets for that price. (thank you strange NJ man, I still miss the house of the dead cabinet we got after)
Cool story, and this was the House of the Dead game with the pedal and the gun ? Man i was crazy about this game (like the Time Crisis one)
@@MrRemo1313 oh yeah man it was the big one, with the cage style like time splitter. It was bad ass. Tragically it was flooded in a bad hurricane in 2003.
@@LutherMasonVitaminL My god i remember this perfectly ! What a game ! And that's sick for the hurricane :(
@whang! I remember reading a magazine about Street Fighter 2 where E Honda could jump into his bathtub in the background and recharge his health. It also showed Zangief with his fists flying all over the map when he did his famous spin move. Pretty wild. I also used to hear about how there was a secret code where you could get the 4 Championship Edition characters playable on the original Super Nintendo version of Street Fighter 2 but no one ever knew it.
Taste the rainbow, fight the rainbow!!
Fireball the rainbow!!!
I remember playing one of these. We called it "weird Street Fighter II."
We call it SF on crack
We called it Retard Fighter in my hood.
You have just vindicated one of my childhood memories. I always was thinking it was some sort of false memory or dream. Well out of all places I encountered this machine in Tijuana when when I was a little kid. I remember I picked Vega got paired against Ryu then all I remember is the CPU spamming hadukens in the air and getting my ass kicked, hard and fast. All this time I would tell my friends and they would look at me funny like, "that's not Street Fighter" and saying "you can't do that in Street Fighter." Well I guess it took more than 20 years but I don't feel wierd about having that memory anymore. Thanks for making that memory a real thing.
You can now go and shove this video in the faces of your childhood friends and be smug about it :D
I was 12 back in 1992 when Rainbow edition came to a laundry room in the city of Cudahy, where I was living at the time with all the craziness that was unheard of in fighting games at the time. My cousins and I were blown away. Are addiction to Street Fighter at the time became that much stronger. But after a month it disappeared.
That mullet was so fantastic I had to subscribe
If you were a kid in the 90s and walked into a 7-11 and saw SF or MK in the back corner it was more exciting than Christmas morning.
I have been recently marathoning your content and you are quickly becoming one of my favourites on this platform. Some truly great videos on here!
Holy crap big daddy top hat!!!
"The arcade scene"
And I'm sad now.
Me too... Arcades started closing here in Pakistan in the beginning of the new mellinium and by 2008 all of them were gone... Other than some in big cities there are hardly any left now... Reminds me how changing times can be so cruel... Arcades are not the best places to be around for kids though
@@nayyarrashid4661 man I remember playing on arcade machines both in Britain and Pakistan....are there no more places to play on classic arcade machines?!?!😭😭
@@kingmuizz708 no there aren't... Arcade is pretty much dead... I always dreamed about owning an arcade but i guess it will never come to fruition....
Arcades was the dopest
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Today on May 6, 2023. I saw my first authentic arcade machine that had STREET FIGHTER II: RAINBOW EDITION. That was the day I thought I was dreaming, never knowing that I would actually see a real rainbow edition machine.
Not only was this the inspiration for SF Turbo. But even further it was inspo for Street Fighter Alpha
Thanks for digging this story out. It brought back lots of memories for me too. I played Rainbow Editon in a fish and chip store in the UK. Crazy to think it actually ended up improving the franchise!
There were a fairly good amount of these around in the area of L.A. I grew up in, all around the arcade boom. Played it regularly at a local burger joint down the street from my pad, I remember Guile being unstoppable due to being able to output Sonic Booms faster back-to-back than Hadoukens. The screen filling up with them, jumping up and firing projectiles on invisible floors, Spinning Pile Driving people through what seemed like a portal as you "fall" down all the levels of the stage you jumped up. Good times.
We all just kinda figured they were some shady ass hacked cabinets the owners got cheap, since they were always in places just jumping on the craze and not in our local arcades. Still, brings back some funny memories!
Right? I was in LA County, far eastern (Pomona/Diamond Bar etc) and these machines were in every other liquor store for a brief moment then disappeared right when Turbo came out
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Oh yeah man, I was living in Bell County I believe the first time I came across one. From Lynwood to Freaking Compton these machines were crammed into liquor stores and shit. Never in the bowling alleys, though. Then yup, they just vanished. They were so broken that it was hilariously bad.
Exactly they were at the liquor store they had a big screen one at Redondo Beach Pier where everyone used to line up to play it and there was one at the liquor store by my grandparents house in Midtown was there all the time
I remember seeing these machines around L.A. too back in the day. There was this laundromat in nearby Inglewood, within walking distance from my place, that had this bootleg version in the 90s. I was amazed at first, but amazement became disgust when I noticed everyone and their cousin had homing projectiles (I was more shocked at Guile doing a sonic boom trap). The Rainbow version messed up my experience of playing it on arcade, but never stopped me from enjoying the SNES version.
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Yeah, they were just projectile spam fests. It was a cool novelty to see but nothing more than an oddity. Didn't sour me on the other iterations of the games, though. Still, weird game that left a lasting impression on anyone who played it!
In Santa Monica, CA, there is a place called 3rd St. Promenade. There was a skate shop behind a clothes store that had NBA Jam with Shaq and Jordan, who famously weren't in the original because they cost too much to license.
I actually played Street Fighter Rainbow at the Minnesota State Fair. It was really weird! Fun too.
I dunno how I stumbled across this channel but I've been glued to it for a fucking week. Amazing content. Growing up on Staten Island I had a similar experience with Rainbow Edition. Some kid who was mopping up SFII champ edition at the bowling alley was talking about being able to do "air fireballs" in "the new SFII" at some comic book shop. The comic book shop was 2 neighborhoods away, and to me and my buddies, being 11 at the time, that was a big deal. We rarely left our hood beyond the unspoken boundary lines.Taking the bus was unthinkable. We had our bikes and some sort of idea where the comic book store MIGHT be. It was like going on a quest to find this mysterious legend. Good ol' days. Its a shame kids now will never experience that thrill, both of the arcades and exploring and discovering through common interests outside of social media.
“My uncle works at Nintendo stories” lmao I remember those days, now there’s just kids saying “my dad works for Sony I can get you banned”
I had one of these stories. When I was a kid, there was another kid in the neighborhood who claimed that his uncle got the new Super Mario Bros 4 from Japan before it was supposed to come out. He said "It's Mario as a baby and he tunnels around through cakes, eating them and you fight a pig monster at the end of every level." We thought he was full of shit. Turns out years later, I discovered that what he was talking about all this time was a chinese bootleg of the Famicom only Konami game "Bio Miracle Baby Upa" which the bootleg had it's name changed to "Mario Baby".
ᵗʰᵉNight★Star that’s absolutely ridiculous, I wouldn’t have believed it either lol, well technically he wasn’t lying 😂
He could have had godlike status if only he had shown you this.
Thank you for sharing! I too was an addict of SF2 and remember playing a Rainbow Edition version and being blown away. It was so crazy! Of all the machines in my area there was only one I ever found with he Rainbow Edition mod. It was at a local pizza place called Mountain Mikes. Good times, good memories!
*I always wanted to play an arcade game but the ones at the pizza place and laundromat near my house were too old and were just used as decoration.*
Pizza places didn't usually have great machines, but the two that I can think of were the only places with Bust a Move or Samurai Showdown by me
You didn’t really miss anything , busted controls , busted screens and a constant stream of slime coming out of the buttons.
Plink Lastnamerson You obviously never lived near an Asian and black community with an arcade.
August Greig dude , at one stage I had 3 time zones and a cinema in walking distance , they couldn’t make cabinets big enough to hold the coins lined up for challenges .
The smell still haunts me to this day .
Plink Lastnamerson Then I'd say he missed out on a lot.
I'm pretty sure the gameplay was also a big influence in the MArvel vs Capcom
Yeah, when corporations say that illegal distribution hurts the industry, they just mean it hurts their R&D. They're entitled to believe that. It makes sense they believe that. But it's just one area of the industry. Emergent gameplay is another aspect of the industry and it is most certainly improved by illegal distribution.
Literally any sales Sony ever made in South Africa is owed to the fact that every NES system and game sold in South Africa before its release was counterfeit. It made games cheap enough for our country, and these pirated games sold in major chain stores. It created gaming culture. Nintendo didn't capatilise on what they saw as a lost market, so Sega genesis came put as a mixed market, legit and pirated stuff sold side by side. And then when PS came out there was a thriving gaming community built out of cheap accessible games and Sony could profit.
In this particular case the Arcade industry in NY was getting hit hard. The distributors for sure got fucked because they were being undercut and profit timelines suddenly became extensive as hacked cabinets were taking all the quarters. That said Capcom probably didn't give two fucks if PinballPete was losing cash he just cashed he wasn't buying or leasing more cabinets. So your point still stands but with an asterisk.
The video rental store in my home town in Idaho had this SFII machine. That was the only place I had ever seen it, and I never met anyone else who knew about it.
You look like a Mortal Kombat character
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Shang Tsung or something
Whang Tsung
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Happened to live in Asis during that time period and those rom hack arcades were everywhere. At one point they were so popular that it was so hard to find a legit cabinet of "normal" SF2. Never knew it had anything to do with the idea of the turbo edition, because in the next year or two, the place was filled with cracked/pirate MVS cabinets, running all the SNK games like Fatal Fury, Metal Slug, KOF 95... etc.
I just discovered your channel recently, but you are already on my Mt. Rushmore of UA-camrs. Thanks for the great vids!
I remember seeing this version at a pizza joint that was attached a bowling alley. they built onto the building and rented out the surrounding sections to a pizza joint, a sub shop and eventually had a full blown arcade gaming center when then expanded to include a laser tag place you could rent for matches. place was the shit as a preteen to teenager. though the best thing to happen was they got a SF2 machine that had this hack rom on it. it was one of the ways I actually managed to see character endings because of how easy you could whoop the AI because they couldnt get over walls of sonic booms and fireballs. this place was also where I left a small kid in shock and awe as I handcuffed him with Guile and soft reset the machine before walking away like a total boss.
Dude, I played that game circa 1993 in Périgord ( France) which is the most medieval place in Europe. If I could play it there, I’m sure that the game was easily available to anyone.
That was one of his main points in this video. This version tended to be in the shittiest or most obscure places because they were cheaply acquired by shop owners who knew nothing about the game other than this machine was being sold to them cheap!
Yeah, I'm from Vitoria (Spain), we had at least one place with the machine and it was very popular but it was replaced very quickly, legal issues maybe?
I'm so glad you posted this video. I remember a SF2:CE arcade hack that I ran across in Wal-Mart, here in Mobile, AL. It had crazy fireball angles, & even super slow fireballs. You could also do mid-air moves & didn't have charge most moves (like Guile's Sonic Boom). After it left the store, I never saw anything like it. It turns out it was the Street Fighter 2: Accelerator. I found the rom after I watched this video. Thank You.
My cousin did that at his laundromat too. If it was totally dead towards closing time he would let kids play the games (naturally he made an exception for me and my brother) but when it got busy (and his was in the city so it did pretty well) he would get complaints from customers and it did make sense. He bought those machines so his customers had something to do while they waited for their laundry, and this was the 90s so it's not like everyone could just play on their phones or listen to their iPods. People did their laundry there because they wanted to play the games while they waited, and it was annoying when the neighborhood kids hogged them. Gotta keep the customers happy, and the adults doing their laundry there brought in a lot more quarters than the kids did.
People couldn't listen to their ipods but they could to their walkmans. ^_^
I never saw this at the time but I did read about these machines in EGM. God those early SFII days were awesome!
How many versions of this game exist lol
Tons. There were also similar hacks like "Blackbelt Edition"
I want the XXX edition.
Keith Maniac it probably already exists
Strip Fighter II (It's an actual game)
Over 9000 I think.
I remember there being one where it was possible to freeze the character mid-fight, making them invincible. It was a great way to cheese your way through the tougher fighters like Sagat.
Oh man I’m stoked I subscribed awhile back. This episode was hellllla good. It’s crazy a ROM hack changed the face of fighting games.
It's even crazier that Street Fighter 2 is the reason for the face of fighting games changing not once but twice. The first time was combos which were actually a bug that was left in as a hidden feature because it's fun and they thought they were too difficult to be useful.
Stories like this one are proof that the Rom making and video game modding communities are important and necessary evils that needs to exist in the end. Sure pirating of officially licensed games that can then be downloaded for free online is a problem, but game developers are still making massive profits in the industry which is only growing year after year despite this. The gaming industry has definitely benefited as well from the very concepts and unique ideas generated by these communities. One example Muta always likes to point out on his channel is Nintendo who will literally DMCA and legally attack its own fan base of people who will take their intellectual property like the concept of Pokémon and create unique spin off fan made games of their own, then after legally striking down the fan made games they'll go ahead and steal the idea and make an official Nintendo licensed release of that same concept so they can profit off ideas generated by their own modding fan base. Pretty scummy but you really can't blame a business from squeezing out every penny they can from their properties, even when it means pissing off their own fan base and blatantly stealing their good ideas whenever they can. In the end though it just proves yet again that these sometimes "illegal" modding and rom making communities do have good and popular ideas for alterations to existing franchises, and without them creating their own spin off games and modded versions of popular games and franchises that we all love we wouldn't have half the cool things and features that we enjoy in games these days. This is a perfect example of a style of fighting game that a large conglomerate corporation like Capcom refused to even entertain at the time, yet luckily people created these illegal modded roms with faster action and single handedly ended up opening up everyone's eyes to how much better fighting games could be just by simply speeding everything up a bit.
There was also a build that was made for The World Warrior, that does most of the things in Rainbow edition as well. Its known as the Quicken Hack.
Great video! I was about 8 years old when I came across the Rainbow Edition at my local Kroger.. I feel lucky to be one of the few to have played it. I also need that black Street Fighter shirt in the background at 9:21.. had that when I was a kid.. ahhh the memories.
God damn I enjoy talking to you on Instagram about stuff but it makes me happy to see new videos.
Omg I'm from South Africa and thought this game was just a messed up version, the line to that machine was always longer than the original X-D
I remember the crazy rainbow edition, back in 93 i played the first time SF2 in Turkey, then in 96 i was again in turkey, but 50% from all SF2 Machines (some arcades got just SF2 Machines, and no other game) were crazy rainbow editions.
It seems like these versions were much more common outside of the US and Japan.
Yeah, turkey is to 90% in asia, so copyright was not from interest :D
Nobody there controlled arcade machine owners (and if the police came, a package Marlboro and a bottle of Raki cleaned the situation xD ) When SF2 popped up, arcades were everywhere, it was crazy, any regular guy was able to rent a room, and buy counterfeit machines for cheap and throw them in xD
Dude, ur seriously opening up my mind to things I never knew. i always wondered why so many versions of Street fighter 2 existed. This answers the questions for at least 2 of them (Turbo & Super SF2 Turbo). I honestly wouldve never known bout this had u not made a vid bout it. Thank you.
The famous Rainbow edition! one of many illegal upgrades to the champion board.. great video, 90’s flashback in effect..
I remember this small locale arcade that had Street Fighter 2 in it (pretty sure not even Champions), where one day this game was there. People thought it was glitching out, fireballs were everywhere, characters looked like they could climb the stages and (maybe I'm remembering this badly) shoot diagonal fireballs. One kid walks up and says "The owner put more chips in and now it's like this." Never realized that it wasn't that far from the truth.
Great video, really took me back.
I remember telling my friends about this it was like 94’ in a place called ac indoor mall in Oakland ca I played this and everyone thought I was bullshitting the cabinet they had was called hyper fighting
Excellent video demystifying all the questions I had about this version of SFII. Like all the other people said earlier in the comments, I too, thought it was a dream. I saw it one day at a Shoppette on base and the next time gone as if it never existed.
I always remembered playing this version of the Street Fighter machine at a Pizza place here in Flushing Queens when I was a kid and thought it was the only one in the world lol.
I had only saw one of them ever...
Which pizza place ? I only heard about the Flushing location but never went to it. Just Roosevelt and Sunnyside.
Was this pizza place near Flushing Hospital by any chance?
Great video! I remember seeing Rainbow Edition at my local Video Rental store in Pawling, NY as a kid. It was so weird and obscure that many years later I thought my memory was playing tricks on me and that it didn't actually exist.
New sub. Brother what a monumental story, you’ve transported me to my days at the laundromat. pockets full of quarters . I really enjoyed this arcade report. Who needs cable anymore 🤙.
I played one of these in a game shop/arcade in Worcester UK called 'Contozania' around 1992. I was about 8 years old so was starting to think i had imagined it. A detail of gameplay on this version, that didn't come up in this vid (but is implied) is that all the moves that require a 2 second directional charge had their charge time removed, so you could pull out a Sonic Boom as quickly as you could press L,R, Punch and then immediately do it again like 8 times. Thanks Whang, now i know i didnt just dream this
Where you can play Rainbow Six with Street Fighter characters? Woooow, big if true.
Yesssss!!! I remember older kids flooding the screen with Sonic Booms, and Zangief’s Corckscrew Piledriver not only having a vacuum effect but being done with a juggle effect... over & over until it would lapse from the top of the screen to the bottom. I remember, distinctly, my eyes bugging when some guy hit a looping piledriver that dropped for 3 full screens.
Street Fighter on acid.
You forgot the main thing. That if it wasn't for Rainbow edition. Chun Li wouldn't have never had a fireball.
What if that mullet is fantastic but I'm already subbed :(
Hey Justin it's cool to see someone from the neighborhood blowing up on UA-cam. I saw this video in my recommended list and recognized you right away. You probably don't remember me but when we were very young kids I used to come over and play video games at your house because our moms were friends. You got yourself another subscriber, man. Best of luck!
Do a video about the similarities between the original legend of Zelda and Sega's "golden ax warrior"
In Brazil we called these hacked roms as in "Bus Stop Edition" or "Bus Station Edition". They were hilarious. Fully bootlegged...
-Zangief could grab you regardless of where he was in the screen;
-Infinite jumping;
-Slow Hadoukens could fill the screen and you could force the AI to jump back into them...
No, MY DAD WORKS AT NINTENDO
My Grandpa co-founded Nintendo and is also best friends with Stan Lee.
I ran into a cabinet while on a camping holiday as a kid. We stayed at a campsite that had a kind of entertainment room building with bunch of older machines in it. I saw SFII and dismissed it as it had been out a while and I even had the Snes new challengers version at home by then. But when I looked closer I saw what was actually happening on screen it blew my mind as those ingrained unspoken rules of SF were being broken. It must have been out a while, I had just never encountered it at home. I think it was really the start of me liking the speed, the crazy over the top bullshit and balance that something like MvC leans towards. Like you I also rediscovered its actual name much later in life and found it it wasn't just some weird thing the guy that ran that campsite hacked together.
Some Hyper SF II boxes had SFIII on the cabinet.
Ahhhhhh damn, so much nostalgia!!!!!!
The arcade era, it was so good.
I was a SFII champ and a MK1 MK2 god!
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“Rainbow version is shit, and unplayable”
Loses to his friend the next day**
“We need to make a game more like Rainbow version”
Just cause it was shit doesn't mean it didn't have some good ideas.
I am from India, I can relate to your story, the way you discovered the game initially then finding it again after a decade on MAME, same thing happened with me. I am talking about year 1996-97, here in India we had lots of arcade shops but we never had dedicated Game specific machine (CAPCOM Street Fighter Machine) We had a custom Wooden White or Black Box with TV in slanted position custom fitted where Street Fighter versions kept on changing after a month or two. Back then we used to play a single game for 15 minutes by paying 1 Rupee, equivalent to 0.014 USD (in 1998 it 0.028 USD or 3 cents). It was damn cheap. I loved the Rainbow edition but i could never find it in PC era. I took me 20-30 different ROM experimentation to get hold of it again in 2009-10.
I never saw this in arcades but do you remember that pang game?' that was hella sick, I spent so much time on that lol. think it was called buster bros in the US
There was a bowling alley by me that had Buster Bros
haha, man I miss the 90s when arcade machines were everywhere.
Pang was boss .
Arkanoid was pretty addictive too .
Played that a lot with my brother on PC though it was not in arcades here in Pakistan... Never saw one... I have played both versions but I will remember it as PANG
I forgot all about Rainbow Edition until seeing this video. A local West Coast Video near where I grew up in New Jersey had one of these. I just assumed it was some sort of programming error or the damn thing fell off the truck or something.
Ready?
*FIGHT!!*
it is so freakin good to finally understand the history of these machines! A little mom and pop market up the road from my house always had a SF2 machine then one day they got a SF2CE put in right next to the old one. Only this machine was different... so glorious, so crazy, so much fun (I had no idea this wasn't the real version of the game)... Years later a friend and I started getting really into fighting games (around marvel 2 time) and I was talking about how weird CE is... he had no idea what I was talking about and thought i was making up stories for no reason! it took years before we found out that Rainbow Edition existed and I wasn't just a crazy person!