Street Fighter II CE help

leonhart999

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Hello!

I am totally new to the arcade scene. I recently bought a Street Fighter II Champion Edition cabinet for cheap from a local place that is getting rid of its cabinet stock.

It's in great condition, everything works fine. The only thing is that it plays Hyper Fighting instead of CE. I understand that it's JAMMA, but since I am new to arcade cabinets I'm not quite sure how to make it run CE again. I am having difficulty finding guides about how to "remove" PCBs, if that's the right way to put it.

Sorry if I sound too noob, but I figured we all have to start somewhere and this looks like the right place. :D
 
Inside the game will be a big printed circuit board (PCB) with a ton of wires running to a connector on the edge. There will also be another smaller connector on the front with about a dozen wires on it. This big board is what makes it play the game. If you buy a Street Fighter II: World Warriors or Street Fighter II: Champion Edition pcb, you can just unplug the one you have in there, take the screws out of the side of the cabinet, screw your new one in place, and reconnect the two connectors. Turn the power back on, and voila! now it's a Champion Edition.

When they say "Remove" pcb's, they just mean physically removing the entire board assembly from the cabinet, putting a new one in, and turning it back on.

Jamma games are all wired the same, so you can just plug them into a cabinet and go. The two issues though are that some monitors are turned horizontally, like yours, and some are turned vertically, like "Ikari Warriors" or something. You can only play horizontal jamma games in your cabinet, because they display the same as Street Fighter does. If you play a vertical jamma game, it'll be sideways.

The other issue is that Jamma only supports 3 or 4 buttons; Street Fighter II is a 6 button game, so it's what's called "Jamma +". The + stands for the extra wires. If you put a Jamma + game in your cabinet, some of the buttons won't work because they're wired seperately, with a seperate connector. That's the 12 wire or so connector you have going to the front of your pcb. It's wired the same for the Street Fighter II games (or some of them), but if you switch to Mortal Kombat for instance, you'll have to rewire the buttons to make it work, or else your kick buttons won't be hooked up. The little wire set that plugs in a different spot to make this happen on each board is commonly called a "kick harness" for that reason.

Lots of games though use less than 4 buttons and would work in your cabinet, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Double Dragon, etc. literally 100's of games.
 
Hyper Fighting is the better game though. SF2 CE is slower and doesn't have as many moves per character. If you do want to convert it back to a champion edition board you will need to replace 3 EPROMS they are U21, U22 and U23. Steph at Hobby Roms should have the ones you need and can program them as well. Bob Roberts might have them as well. I bought a set of the SF2 HF eproms from Bob Roberts a while back.
 
I know HF came out after CE, but everything on my cabinet is original to CE so I wanted the game to go with it. ;)

Would it be easier to swap the EPROMS or buy a Champion Edition PCB and just swap that with the current PCB?
 
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I know HF came out after CE, but everything on my cabinet is original to CE so I wanted the game to go with it. ;)

Would it be easier to swap the EPROMS or buy a Champion Edition PCB and just swap that with the current PCB?

If you can find a PCB for sale then swapping out the PCB would be easiest. SF2 HF also used the same overlay and marquee bezel as SF2 CE so it's the same machine for the most part with the exception of the marquee.
 
The cabinet I got has a taller square marquee (instead of the normal rectangle marquee) so it's hard to find a Hyper Fighting marquee to replace it with. :\

Here's a pic of it:
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/1379/photo082e.jpg

I might print my own someday but for now it's gonna be CE. Other than that I just need to replace a couple of the buttons (as you can see the colors are a bit off) then it will practically be complete.

Thanks for the help! I'll try to find a CE PCB first, but if that doesn't work I'll contact Hobby Roms like you suggested. Thanks again
 
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