Street Fighter II Complete Restoration with The 8-Bit Guy
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- Опубліковано 6 бер 2024
- David The 8-Bit Guy restores a Street Fighter II game in a Dynamo HS-1 cabinet for the Time Rift Arcade in Bedford, TX.
Street Fighter II changed the game. Literally. Released in 1991 by Capcom, it revolutionized the world of arcade fighting games and laid the foundation for the genre's global popularity. Featuring a diverse roster of characters, each with unique fighting styles and special moves, the game allowed players to engage in intense one-on-one battles. With its innovative mechanics, iconic characters like Ryu and Chun-Li, and competitive multiplayer gameplay, Street Fighter II became a cultural phenomenon and a cornerstone in the history of video games.
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Follow along as David The 8-Bit Guy restores the legendary Street Fighter II arcade. Coming soon to the Time Rift Arcade in Bedford, TX.
This was so much fun to watch!
Well done!
Looking forward to more arcade restoration videos!
I didn’t realize Time Rift is only going to be within an hour from where I live. I’ll gladly stop by and check the place out when it opens later this year
Oh my, just found this channel and now I've got a lot of videos to catch up on!
We're right up the road in Keller,we'll definitely be visiting when it opens.
YEAH STREET FIGHTER 2!
Can i buy a set of those graphics? Really wamma do the same to my cabinet.
This is the kind of stuff I miss on The 8-Bit Guy's channel.
@@mbs-thailand He did say on one of his previous videos that he wanted to keep the arcade stuff separate from his personal 8 bit guy stuff.
because the way the algorithm works now, if you post anything different on your channel it heavily affects the recommendations to your subscribers.
@@skunkwerkz777 well that I did not know. I thought it was just for the logistics of. I want to keep this kind of material on this channel and this kind of material on the other channel.
Because the viewer that wants to watch 8-Bit computer system videos may not want to watch him restoring arcade cabinets. So it makes sense to have two channels. One for the arcade and one for the computer stuff but I didn't know that about the UA-cam algorithm.
Learn something new everyday
@@skunkwerkz777 I still get recommended every video on 8-Bit Guy's channel but they're about the work he's doing on his home, the games he's programmed, etc.
Totally agree with this comment. This was a highly satisfying video.
I would definitely continue to plug this channel on the 8-bit guy channel. A lot of people are looking for more restoration videos there, and this really scratches the same itch!
100% agree.... oh and while we're at it, can you also nag him to make another 8-bit keys video? 😅
/me scratches neck Got anymore of them restore videos?
This channel would probably do better if they put the podcast episodes on a different channel.
I second , or better 'fourth' this!
@@Yarumasithe other day i was like "i havent seen any 8bit keys videos in forever" I looked and its been so long! sad.
"That's older than me"
Excuse me while I turn to dust.
Well, we all do eventually
Yeah… that hit home. I was already well into my career by then!
I cried.
What, what did he say was older than him?
@@marscaleb A coin from 2000.
When I heard you and your brother bought an arcade, I instantly knew you were going it to it the RIGHT way. Fixing up these cabinets and machines will make a huge difference with your customers.
That, and imagine if they had a little diner in there too. I went to a few arcades growing up, but they were only arcades in malls and of course the mall had its own dining area, but I wonder how many arcades were out there with their own little kitchen going on.
@@danieln.285 It's called chuck e cheese look it up.
4:00 - You have to display those tokens! Go down to the local coin shop and get one of those display frames you can hang on the wall, with all the round holes punched for quarters.
I agree 100% it would be so interesting
Great idea!
I'd suggest some kind of coin holder that'll let someone see both sides, set them up on a spinning platform or give each their own. Kinetic token display!
You're not kidding. Tokens have gotten very expensive!
Oh yeah, I'd love some sort of showcase of all the coins/tokens or weird finds like googly eyes!
As a tech for Aladdin's Castle back in the 80's , I appreciate the work you've invested in restoring these machines. Well done, sir, well done.
I've still got some old Aladdin's Castle tokens from last time I was there before they closed in my area.
I recently acquired an Aladdin's Castle Pinball Machine that was in the offices of Aladdin's Castle.
Aladdins Castle was my childhood arcade. I didn't know until very recently that it was a chain.
Did they make you put on those little ID tags back in the day? I'm assuming they were there for inventory control or authentication purposes, but surely they could've come up with something a little less destructive than screwed-in tags...
@@gordontaylor2815 Yes, they did. Not too 'destructive' for us, we has small wood screws (0.5" length) or double sided sticky tape.
I'm a 70's baby and thank you for keeping the arcade alive...🙂😊😁
I don't care if that side art isn't "original", I love what your brother did.
Ah, Street Fighter 2... THE reason I restored an arcade cabinet myself! Love the arcade stuff!
The purple moulding was a really good choice!
"Hey, that's older than me" I got a new gray hair just listening to this
This is so cool. I always wanted an arcade machine but now that I’m an adult, I realize how much skill is needed to keep these things fresh. I didn’t know about why so many SF 2 cabinets looked differently.
An inexpensive 40" wide plexiglass heater/bender would be a good addition to your shop. With that, you could have added wrap-around plexi on the control panel to avoid the uncomfortable edge. Even a sanded and flame-polished edge can be uncomfortable on the wrist and palm after a few minutes of playing.
Yeah there were a lot of things that were not done well or efficiently as far as the cabinet goes. I am assuming this guy is more of an electric wizard than a craftsman.
@@NONO-hz4voI don't agree. A lot more care was taken with this mod/refurb than was taken with 90% of the conversions that happened when the original kit was released. Between Dave & Mike, they've got more than enough craftsmanship to go around, in addition to the electronics background you suggested. Bottom line is that this is their cabinet, so they can do what they want. For me, it was a great watch.
Clicked like even before the video even loaded.
SFII was my childhood passion.
SF2 Turbo was better and played faster than SF2 tho.
Duuuude! You get to just, work with your hands, taking this apart and putting it together, getting to see the clean and finished result of your effort?!
Duuude, you are living the LIFE!! How do you even get to spend the time doing something so gratifying?
It must be very rewarding to see people playing a game you’ve restored!
Don't know who will say that it's not an original artwork, but the cabinet looks so amazing. It's a beautiful machine!
The coin and token collection would make a great display in the arcade.
Feel like this is a step in the right direction for David. Really happy with how well he appears to be doing and you can tell he's enjoying it. Keep up the great work.
Always been a big fan of David and his restoration work. I'm glad he gets to do that more for the arcade
Awesome restoration David. I'm 43 today and I must say, Street Fighter II holds a special place in my childhood. Glad to see this legendary arcade game live on.
I'm so glad someone is doing this, because A. I sure don't want to lol, B. I don't want these old, cool arcade machines to get junked, and C. because the restoration process is so interesting. Great video everyone!
I'd really love more arcade cab restoration videos! Great work
Reminds me of my old days of working for Leisure and Allied (Main Australian Arcade chain of Timezone) working as a field technician. When SF2 came out it spend ages converting machines over (usually old TNMT or Simpsons machines). Some sites had up to 6 conversions. Hated the game but loved the experience. (one of the plus sides was getting prototype pinballs from Williams but thats another story)
I'm really enjoying this restoration content. It reminds me of your retrobrite videos, the original reason I began watching your channel.
I bet that the Commander X16 would benefit for a impressive Street Fighter II port.
The trickiest problem is that 32 byte memory window between VRAM and System RAM. You either shrink the characters to roughly Double Dragon relative size (32 pixels high on average), or else settle for 30 Hz frame rate(or slower) and/or at least 32 second load times between matches. Oh, if only there was another processor on the VERA board to babysit the blanking cycles, leaving more clock cycles for the 65C02 to load tiles and sprite frames into VRAM...
Wohooo - even more nice to watch with the excellent backtrack by Anders. Very very nice job done here (love that mancave)!
Dear God! This machine was the heaven on earth for me in the 90’s. MK, Street Fighter, Top Gear, Captain Commando, Cadillac and Dinossaurs and much, much more were a happy piece of my childhood. We lived in a small city in Brazil and me and my friends did almost incredible things to play them. Those were amazing years when we were just kids.
Wishing you guys the very best with this new business! I plan to visit when I am back in TX.
Great memories of watching my classmate Max playing this brilliantly during lunch breaks from SAE in Holloway Road, London UK in 1991. *Ayuken!*
Amazing restoration! You guys did such a professional and high-quality restoration of this cabinet that I see it as what the standard for Street Fighter II cabinets would have looked like if they weren't a kit game. I love the work you guys did so much, I come back and watch the whole video three times each week! It really is awesome.
Fantastic work! Turned out beautiful. I love these restoration videos!
I really appreciate the attention to detail you guys put into everything. That machine looks fantastic.
David - thank you so much for sharing! Love seeing you guys on this journey and wish you much success. Please plug this channel & link on 8 Bit Guy….. like many others I had to dig to find this and as fans, we want you to be successful and these videos scratch the repair itch. Thanks again!
Love Street Fighter. That was my go to game in my teens. Other fighting games came along, but none of them had the special place in my heart like Street Fighter 2.
Same here, alternatives were King of Fighters '95, Fatal Fury 2 and Samurai Shodown at the arcades in my youth.
I died when :
“-It’s dated from the year 2000
- Hey, that’s older than me 😂”
Sounds recent af to me
that’s about as old as me lol
Lol. 2000 was awesome. Had my first really expensive meal at a French restaurant. No Y2K bugs either.
@@pobleme too, I'll be 24 this year, just a few more months left.
And that's the last time it may have been used. It was created around 1990-1992
Always a pleasure to see you guys work
Really sweet video! All the exact same good vibes as old school 8 Bit Guy videos. Would love to see more.
Wonderful to see you and the guys' enthusiasm really coming through in these Time Rift videos! Such a great project.
I'm a little disappointed that after all of the great work on this fantastic restoration , Cammy is still not in the game 🤣
This is exactly the type of video that the main channel needs more of. Good stuff!
Awesome, you guys have a sawstop! Those things are so awesome, and are a literal finger saver 😂
This was your best video in years! More of these please. Such great memories playing this arcade original back in the early 90's. I remember being absolutely blown away by it.
This entire endeavor feels like a passion project. I wish I could be involved in something like this. What an epic reward and outcome from where you started with this one machine. Thanks for sharing your journey with the new arcade!
That was a thoroughly enjoyable watch! Fascinating to see the huge printer in action and how you mount the vinyl stickers afterwards.
I like those labels, Jab, Strong, Fierce and Short, Forward and Roundhouse.
ROAD HOUSE!!!
I have no idea why this was recommended to me but I’m loving this.
The fact you don't know who the 8-bit guy is but love this type of content is sad.
Hell Yes... This is my Christmas.
These videos teach me so much. I haven’t even bought an arcade machine yet, but I feel prepared to restore one soon. Thank you so guys so much. You have some amazing tips and tricks.
I used to work for a sign shop around 10 years ago in my 20's where I created posters or signage via Adobe Illustrator and installed them by applying them onto doors/windows [which required pinpoint accuracy w/ measurements] using a squeegee or w/in fixtures such as acrylic/plexiglass and one of the very beneficial tips I learned along the way was that if you really wanted to "remove" any leftover sticky adhesive from smooth, shiny surfaces, ALWAYS use fire lighter fluid b/c it never fails... You're welcome.
Man, the 8 Bit Guy can literally do anything - kind of jealous
it warms my heart that someone out there is restoring these cool machines! thank you
What an amazing restoration guys. The Arcade machine looks beautiful now. I wish I had room in my home to have one.
As a fellow person that used to restore and repair old video and pinball games, this was fun to stroll down memory lane. Thanks!!
The artwork for the sides is so good
It's more a carpenter or sign maker work than a electrical restoration, but it's not your fault, the electronics were almost in mint condition. The results are really awesome, and the magic touch was the purple T-mold. Simply delightful.
This machine is the physical embodiment of "radical". Turned out excellent!
WOWW, Dave, you guys did a GREAT job on that facelift, it looks SO MUCH BETTER!
From someone who does not have a single DIY bone in his body, it was so satisfying to watch you restore my favourite childhood arcade game. It really was a great job. Only thing it was missing was the bezel around the screen, but great work nonetheless 🇬🇧
God the rough 80s/early 90s arcade speakers and flickering CRT on that first boot was a religious experience 🙏🏽
Awesome job on that old machine. It turned out beautiful. I really like the vinyl graphics you added. Look forward to other restorations.
This is phenomenal work. I wish arcades around here put as much care and attention into their restorations.
Thanks David for bringing back a whole lot of fun memories of my time working in arcades here in Wellington New Zealand. I would suggest for the Street Fighter 2 cabinet you make a control sheet of basic combo moves and place it under the plexiglass below the monitor. We used to have that on all fighting games.
Pretty much my favourite arcade game of all time. SF2CE. The resto looked great! Done right.
My favourite arcade of all time!. I spent quite a bit of cash back in the day on this. Where I played, 95% of games where hosted in a generic type of cabinet: three buttons and joystick for each of two players. All games where hosted in this type of cabinet and there were like 40 of them. In the case of SF2, I was never able to use the other three buttons as the original SF2 had six. All we got then was two type of punches and one kick, but I managed to beat the game consistently after a lot of time and 25ptas coins!. The memories!. Thanks.
Hi ! You're so smart street fighter! Quite an amazing project! Cheers!
What a great restoration. There is some Street Fighter 2 artwork that has the special moves on it, that would really help anyone playing it in the arcade.
Back in the early 00's when arcades started shutting down, I picked up around 20+ cabs for around $150 - $200/each. I had Street Fighter II, Street Fighter II CE, Street Fighter II Rainbow Edition, Mortal Kombat 1 & 2, Tekken 3, Marvel vs Capcom, Final Fight, Power Stone, etc... I ended up moving and rather than trying to bring all the machines with me, I ended up selling them (I did make a decent profit - for the time anyway). I wish I had kept them though. Luckily I still have a complete in box US Neo Geo Gold AES system (with paperwork & flyers) a long with a bunch of Neo Geo AES CIB titles. I'm never getting rid of the Neo!
I remember seeing one of those games in the 90s at our local Putt-Putt golf. The owner of the business decided to write down some of the combos and put it on a piece of paper underneath the plexiglass.
I can't speak on how original that is, but it's certainly authentic and respectful. Well done! It's looking cracking.
That's freaking awesome. Old 80-90s arcade games
Just discovered this channel. How cool and professional are these refurbishments! I have a friend who built their own arcade cabinet and a cocktail one as well. They spent months working on both and a small fortune in resources.
The control panel decal looks rad, but the one that came with the machine being a reference to the stage select was so neat.
That looked amazing at the end.. Brought back many happy childhood memories...
props for keeping the MAS-stick and buttons, those were a classic staple
Yeah those slender sticks were the best. Made pulling off the special moves easier than with the ball top sticks.
Man I miss going to the arcade playing for hours, watching you turn it on after dusting it off was great!
That was a very satisfying restoration to watch. Brings back to my local arcade days.
Magnificent work
Thank You for your dedication
Long live the video Game history
Growing up in the 80's, I was absolutely an arcade rat. This is content I can 100% relate to! Thanks!
My favorite arcade game was Congo Bongo. I wasted so many quarters on that game for about a year at the convenience store across the street.
Since i used to live in your area and its subject relevant. I must say RIP Tornado Terry. So many memories.
Thanks UA-cam for the recommendation. Needed more 8 bit guy videos.
You are incredibly skilled at restorations!
Street Fighter II came out when I was 13 and it was a HUGE deal when it came out for almost everyone my age. Pretty much everyone my age played it and though I was never all that good at it, I played it and it's successors (Champions edition, Turbo, Super, Super Turbo and the like) many hundreds of times over those 3 or 4 years the game was often seen in arcades. It can arguably be the single most important arcade game of the 1990s and possibly even the most influential arcade game of all time. It's very difficult to overstate just a big of a deal Street Fighter II was when it was released into arcades and how much of a cultural impact it was to teenagers who played it back then.
What an AWESOME video! Thank you for sharing the restoration of this arcade cabinet!
Aladdin's Castle was my home away from home. Super memories. Love this channel.
I worked at an Aladdin's Castle around 2000-2002. It was great, I can barely even call it a job looking back on it. Those were the days!
Absolutely love the restoration! I miss my machines I owned before moving to Los Angeles and taking the time to restore them was always fun :)
The only advice/change I would suggest is to put a bezzle graphic on. These games usually had some graphics around the monitor to both break up the large black void, and to hold info on combo moves and such. Really makes the machine feel complete and given all you already did, wouldn't be a huge amount of work. Especially since you want this open to the public. Aside from that, awesome work and can't wait to see more!
Such a satisfying video, and the cabinet looks beautiful, well done and long live Street Fighter 2!
Very excited for the arcade to open! I live in Bedford and will visiting often. Great video!
The control label light trick was honestly brilliant - gonna have to remember that one
The mention of Aladdin's Castle took me back. I think there's still some tokens around my parents' house.
As a tech enthusiast, I watch these kind of restoration videos because I like to get a job or open my own repair shop doing just this; whether if it's arcades, pinball, or desktop PCs.
As far as this arcade goes, you did a great job restoring it. It was a dusty piece of junk in the beginning, but then you made it like factory new. Great job!
That's amazing, the attention to detail just makes a shabby cabinet come back to life! I'm amazed that the crt still has a decent picture. Obviously retired from service a long time ago...
As soon as that intro music kicked in the ancient neurons in my brain fired off like never before.
Hi David, i just wanted to say I'm really enjoying TimeRiftArcade channel.
I never knew you worked on Arcades David! I come from your main channel and this just randomly showed up. It looks so satisfying and fulfilling to fix these old Cabinets. I wish I could do something this awesome!
Thank you so much for this channel. I'm in the process of designing and building a few of my own cabinet from scratch, and these videos have not only answered many questions I've been wondering about, but also shed some points on some of the more nuance things I never really have any thought. Thank you so much!
I apparently missed you guys opened an arcade... and now I have a reason to visit Texas!
yay!