Capcom re-releasing Street Fighter II SNES

[FilthyRear]

http://kotaku.com/capcom-is-re-releasing-street-fighter-ii-on-a-snes-cart-1798645758

So which one of you autistic collectard faggots are going to waste your money on this shit?

 

[shinerthebock]

My favorite part is the warning that it will catch your SNES on fire.

 

[Fox1]

Maybe I'm seeing something that's not there, but:

Is it me or does that board look exactly like the Street Fighter II Alpha pcb on the SNES except with the sides cut off? Something here is odd.. (open the 30th anniversary pic in a different window to see a bigger version)

 

[F4U57]

Wanted for a second, then realised I already own the game in multiple formats for multiple consoles (which is a completely other issue). WILL FUCKING NOT BUY IT!

 

[Beelzebub]

Haha, $100? Yeah this is fucking stupid. Totally marketing to the YouTube shelf queen crowd, with more money than brains. Also you gotta love the warning where it says using the cartridge in your SNES may result in a fire.

 

[Mr. Mort]

I'm a huge Street Fighter fan, and I have no interest.
That's enough. This shit is out of control. If I want to re-live playing this game, I have the original cart lying around somewhere, and if I didn't, I could pick one up for less than $5.
This is just a cash-grab directed at shelf-collectors. Fuck off.

 

[Cousin_Itt]

Was capcomreally sitting on that many sfii snes boards after all these years

 

[ChuChu Flamingo]

lol not turbo or super

 

[RAZO]

Collectards are lining up as we speak.

 

[Colorado Rockie]

$100 is insulting even for Iam8bit seeing as how complete copies on ebay go for around $30-40.

 

[madman]

I'm sure fagits and flippers are buying this in the hopes they get one of the random glow in the dark carts. This shit is insane.

 

[GutsDozer]

Fucking utterly ridiculous.

 

[Lets Gekiga In]

Whoever owns the Alien vs Predator video game license needs to team up with Capcom and re-release the arcade AVP. That would be a better use of Capcom's time.

 

[Day_Man]

I hope this doesn't sell. It will open the flood gates for more crap like this.

 

[madman]

I hope this doesn't sell. It will open the flood gates for more crap like this.

LRG already did that.

 

[Day_Man]

Yeah, LRG is horrible. Tomorrow some lame ass youtuber will post a video about this and it will all sell out.

 

[SpamYouToDeath]

$100 is insulting even for Iam8bit seeing as how complete copies on ebay go for around $30-40.

Manufacturing stuff is expensive. Getting someone to burn ROMs (no way it's a mask for 6000 units), mold the plastic cases, print and assemble the boards, package everything, etc. could easily get up in that ballpark. Not to mention the actual license - Capcom is used to selling games on disc/digital now, where the marginal cost is next to nothing.

 

[Fox1]

Manufacturing stuff is expensive. Getting someone to burn ROMs (no way it's a mask for 6000 units), mold the plastic cases, print and assemble the boards, package everything, etc. could easily get up in that ballpark. Not to mention the actual license - Capcom is used to selling games on disc/digital now, where the marginal cost is next to nothing.

It's 1 of 2 things:

1) They found a bunch of old stock and decided to repackage it

2) They bought a bunch of the $7 SNES games and put them in new cart shells

Instant profit. I highly doubt they made new pcbs. For SNES it's a little bit more complicated then make a new pcb, there are custom chips on many of these boards.

 

[madman]

It's 1 of 2 things:

1) They found a bunch of old stock and decided to repackage it

2) They bought a bunch of the $7 SNES games and put them in new cart shells

Instant profit. I highly doubt they made new pcbs. For SNES it's a little bit more complicated then make a new pcb, there are custom chips on many of these boards.

Unlikely Capcom (or anyone) had thousands of carts laying around. There are plenty of ways to release these games today. Even the Jaguar has new releases on custom PCBs using modern flash chips. I doubt they are burning thousands of EPROMs for this release, I'm guessing they are using flash chips that are readily available.

 

[SpamYouToDeath]

For SNES it's a little bit more complicated then make a new pcb, there are custom chips on many of these boards.

One of the Homebrew Channel guys reversed the CIC back in 2010; there's supposedly a PIC implementation floating around free. Aside from that, SF2 is just a plain Mask ROM.

 

[madman]

One of the Homebrew Channel guys reversed the CIC back in 2010; there's supposedly a PIC implementation floating around free. Aside from that, SF2 is just a plain Mask ROM.

Yup, this is one example if you wanted to make a game using EPROMs: http://retrostage.net/index.php/product/snes-megarom-2-0/

I believe Eli at Piko Interactive mentioned he uses custom SNES boards w/flash memory as well for his releases.

 

[theMot]

More stupid shit to leave on shelves and collect dust.

They should at least use the opportunity to put a couple of extra characters in the game, even a different stage or two...Be lazy, just make the boss characters playable perhaps.

 

[ggallegos1]

lol not turbo or super

This is what gets me. Why not release the best version of the three, but instead they release the bare bones SF2.

 

[ShootTheCore]

I'm sure it's just a cheap flash chip thrown on a basic board - I doubt the board shown through the transparent shell is what'll ship. Manufacturing cost for the entire package can't be more than a few bucks. Big time collectard $$$ profit for Iam8Bit.

 

[oliverclaude]

It's 1 of 2 things:

1) They found a bunch of old stock and decided to repackage it

That would be my guess, that's how the CPS Changer was born -- though it had no "glow-in-the-dark" qualities to offer.