Graphics
384×224
- Colors on screen
- 3,072
- Palette
- 65,536 colors
- Sprites
- 256
Capcom CPS-1
Also known as CPS · CPS-1 · Capcom Play System
- Capcom
- Arcade system
71 Capcom CPS-1 games, all playable free in your browser.
The CP System, later known as CPS-1, is an arcade system board that Capcom introduced in 1988. Rather than building a dedicated board for every title, Capcom placed game software on removable daughterboards, so operators could change games while keeping the core hardware. Development took about two and a half years and produced two custom graphics chips that Capcom called the CPS Super Chips.
- First released · Worldwide
- 1988
- Games in the library · all playable
- 71
TIMELINE
1988–1995
- WWWorldwide
- ENDDiscontinued
Games per release year
| Year | Games |
|---|---|
| 1988 | 2 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 2 |
| 1999 | 3 |
| 2000 | 4 |
| 2001 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 |
- Master SystemSega Master System: Oct 20, 1985 – 1996
- Atari 7800Atari 7800: May 1986 – 1992
- X68000Sharp X68000: Mar 28, 1987 – end not recorded
- PC EnginePC Engine / TurboGrafx-16: Oct 30, 1987 – Dec 16, 1994
- CPS-1Capcom CPS-1: May 13, 1988 – May 11, 1995
- GenesisSega Genesis / Mega Drive: Oct 29, 1988 – 1997
- PCE CDPC Engine CD / TurboGrafx-CD: Dec 4, 1988 – end not recorded
- Game BoyGame Boy: Apr 21, 1989 – Mar 31, 2003
- LynxAtari Lynx: Sep 1, 1989 – 1995
All 36 systems
- Atari 2600Atari 2600: Sep 1977 – 1992
- SpectrumZX Spectrum: Apr 23, 1982 – 1992
- ColecoColecoVision: Aug 1982 – 1985
- Atari 5200Atari 5200: Oct 1982 – May 21, 1984
- VectrexVectrex: Oct 1982 – Feb 1984
- NESNintendo Entertainment System: Jul 15, 1983 – Sep 25, 2003
- SG-1000Sega SG-1000: Jul 15, 1983 – Oct 1985
- MSXMSX: Oct 21, 1983 – 1993
- Amstrad CPCAmstrad CPC: Jun 21, 1984 – 1990
- Master SystemSega Master System: Oct 20, 1985 – 1996
- Atari 7800Atari 7800: May 1986 – 1992
- X68000Sharp X68000: Mar 28, 1987 – end not recorded
- PC EnginePC Engine / TurboGrafx-16: Oct 30, 1987 – Dec 16, 1994
- CPS-1Capcom CPS-1: May 13, 1988 – May 11, 1995
- GenesisSega Genesis / Mega Drive: Oct 29, 1988 – 1997
- PCE CDPC Engine CD / TurboGrafx-CD: Dec 4, 1988 – end not recorded
- Game BoyGame Boy: Apr 21, 1989 – Mar 31, 2003
- LynxAtari Lynx: Sep 1, 1989 – 1995
- Neo GeoNeo Geo: Apr 16, 1990 – 2004
- Game GearSega Game Gear: Oct 6, 1990 – Apr 30, 1997
- SNESSuper Nintendo: Nov 21, 1990 – Sep 25, 2003
- Sega CDSega CD / Mega-CD: Dec 12, 1991 – 1996
- CPS-2Capcom CPS-2: Sep 10, 1993 – Dec 22, 2003
- Neo Geo CDNeo Geo CD: Sep 9, 1994 – 1997
- 32XSega 32X: Nov 1994 – 1996
- PS1PlayStation: Dec 3, 1994 – Mar 23, 2006
- N64Nintendo 64: Jun 23, 1996 – 2002
- CPS-3Capcom CPS-3: Nov 21, 1996 – end not recorded
- NAOMISega NAOMI: 1998 – end not recorded
- GBCGame Boy Color: Oct 21, 1998 – Mar 31, 2003
- NGPCNeo Geo Pocket Color: Mar 19, 1999 – Oct 30, 2001
- PS2PlayStation 2: Mar 4, 2000 – Jan 4, 2013
- WonderSwanWonderSwan Color: Dec 9, 2000 – 2003
- GBAGame Boy Advance: Mar 21, 2001 – 2010
- OpenBOROpenBOR: 2004 – today
- TIC-80TIC-80: Mar 22, 2017 – today
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UNDER THE HOOD
Technical specifications
Processor
12MHz
- CPU
- Motorola 68000
- Core
- Motorola 68000
- Zilog Z80 — sound CPU · 3.58 MHz
- CPS Super Chip (×2) — custom graphics chips
Above: CPS-2 16 MHz
10 MHz on early boards; some later boards run at 12 MHz
Memory
64KB
- Main RAM
- 64 KB
- Video RAM
- 192 KB
- Z80 work RAM
- 2 KB
- PPU cache RAM
- 16 KB
Above: CPS-3 512 KB
Sound
- Chip
- Yamaha YM2151 + OKI MSM6295
Yamaha YM2151 FM synthesis (8 channels) at 3.579 MHz plus an OKI 6295 ADPCM sample chip at 1 MHz (7.576 kHz samples)
Media
ROM board
Family line
- This system
- Capcom CPS-1
- After
- Capcom CPS-2
THE STORY
About the CPS-1
The board pairs a Motorola 68000 main processor with a Zilog Z80 for sound, which is produced by a Yamaha YM2151 FM chip and an OKI ADPCM chip, and displays 384 × 224 pixels with up to 4,096 colors on screen. Its library includes Final Fight, Strider and Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. Its games were heavily bootlegged, a problem Capcom addressed with its successor, the CP System II.
Capcom stopped manufacturing the hardware on May 11, 1995, although new software kept appearing for several years, and ended technical support on March 31, 2015. A home version, the CPS Changer, was sold in Japan from November 1994.
- Games are stored on removable daughterboards, so one board can run many titles.
- Two custom 'CPS Super Chips' act as the graphics hardware; development took about two and a half years.
- 384 × 224 resolution with 4,096 colors on screen from 16-bit color (12-bit RGB plus 4-bit brightness).
- Home of Final Fight (1989) and Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991).
- The CPS Changer home version launched in Japan in November 1994 at 39,800 yen, bundled with Street Fighter II Turbo.
- YM2151 FM synthesis offers eight channels with four operators each.
THE LIBRARY
71 CPS-1 games on Back2OldGames
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Release years 1988–2003
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