Capcom CPS Changer: What's inside?

[NFG]

I picked up a CPS Changer the other day. Naturally the first thing I did was open it up and see what's inside. These pics as well as all the other irrelevant crap I like to babble on about can be found here:

http://nfg.2y.net/games/CPSChanger

[GaijinPunch]

Nice find (and info). I've always been a fair-weathered Capcom fan, being more than happy w/ CPS1 emulation, so never bothered hunting one of these down. Still a neat littel read though.

[koolkid13]

Its kinda ugly. They should have given it a nice rounded shell. That would be awesome :smt033

[AntiPasta]

So every CPS-Changer "cartridge" is in fact a full-fledged CPS1 board + game board? :O
Wouldn't it make more sense to stick in a CPS1 and switchable game boards instead of selling a Supergun as "console" and game systems as "cartridges" :smt014

[Yakumo]

Nice artical NFG. Interesting read indeed :smt023 I always wondered what was in those machines.

Yakumo

[devilredeemed]

So every CPS-Changer "cartridge" is in fact a full-fledged CPS1 board + game board? :O
Wouldn't it make more sense to stick in a CPS1 and switchable game boards instead of selling a Supergun as "console" and game systems as "cartridges" :smt014

I would have loved it if they had built up a bit more software - and I think its fucking cool they redid street fighter zero for this system (even if it was more limited) - one of the greatest fighting games evar.
Is thus possible to custom make carts based on CPS1 software, to play on these things?

[Baseley09]

Doesn't this play other jamma too??

I'm sure ive seen it running a Space Invaders '91 pcb, the pic is on Assembler.

[NFG]

Doesn't this play other jamma too??

Did you even read the article? Like the two paragraphs where it talks about how the JAMMA on this system differs from the normal JAMMA spec? Or this quote:

The CPS Changer can be used as a great home JAMMA playing system, except for two small flaws: The design of the JAMMA connector makes it difficult to connect to many PCBs, and the standard JAMMA audio is not handled well, so another method of connecting the audio is required.

[Alien Workshop]

Doesn't this play other jamma too??

Did you even read the article? Like the two paragraphs where it talks about how the JAMMA on this system differs from the normal JAMMA spec? Or this quote:

The CPS Changer can be used as a great home JAMMA playing system, except for two small flaws: The design of the JAMMA connector makes it difficult to connect to many PCBs, and the standard JAMMA audio is not handled well, so another method of connecting the audio is required.

Read! Why would I want to do something crazy like reading?

Seriously though, that was an interesting article NFG. The Changer has to be one of the weirdest systems ever released, wouldn't mind having one though.

[Baseley09]

Doesn't this play other jamma too??

Did you even read the article? Like the two paragraphs where it talks about how the JAMMA on this system differs from the normal JAMMA spec?

WTF, no way, I only like the pretty pictures :smt043

[Calpis]

So every CPS-Changer "cartridge" is in fact a full-fledged CPS1 board + game board? :O
Wouldn't it make more sense to stick in a CPS1 and switchable game boards instead of selling a Supergun as "console" and game systems as "cartridges" :smt014

CPS1 doesn't have A & B boards.

[NFG]

CPS1 doesn't have A & B boards.

It does, in the sense that the game ROMs are on a PCB removable from the mainboard.

[Calpis]

I know but could you purchase the game boards a la carte?