Street Fighter II Rainbow Edition: The Hack that changed everything!

This takes me back to my childhood

I was actually a huge fan of rainbow edition. And despite what anyone says, it was MASSIVE in the arcades, I remember being a kid and seeing WAVES of people of all ages wanting their turn on rainbow edition. My only question is this. WHY DID THEY ONLY MODIFY SF2 CHAMPION EDITION. Imagine how cool it would have been if they modified SUPER SF2.. With T hawk, Fei Long etc with new moves!!! Or SF3???? Maybe lawsuits, but it still hasn't technically been done to this day.

GO!!!! FIND CHRISTIAN!!! HE GOT HURT AFTER PLAYING THIS TYPE OF GAME.

They had a hacked SF2 machine in the Calgary Tower, probably about 1995 or so.

Zangief was the most fun to play. There was this couple in 1993 they were probably from Hong Kong the female was attractive she was like an android she didn't even respond to more attractive hispanic guys, anyways 8 is enough times 2 laker

This blew my mind when I saw it once at a Pizza Hut. I thought I imagined it until now.

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Just fixed up an SFII cab and in gameplay we found out it's a Rainbow edition lmao, this video was very informative

You mind me asking how much the kit cost ? The chips !

I remember coming home and telling my brother about this game... and he convinced me it was just a glitched unit... until I got older and found out this was an actual thing.... crazy.

Where can I get the emulator for this?

The arcade cabinet you have? Where did you get it? And how did you get that game on it? This is all new to me? I want to learn/ get one for my living room 😊

Omg! I remember this. I didn’t know it was called rainbow edition, I’ve been trying to get this for my home. Who can recommend how I can get this and a arcade into my home? I’ve looked at arcade1up but it got bad reviews. Please someone give me suggestions

I remember this hack its cool

This was the first arcade I ever played. It was at my Wal-Mart, and I would play while my mom shopped for groceries. I need to get a hold of one of these hacks to relive that game feel.

I am so glad I found this video. I played an SF Alpha that was clearly hacked because everything in this video was possible. It wasn't fun but I've always wondered what it was. Now I know. Ty

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When I was a kid we had a family friend who moved and gave us a Street Fighter 2 cabinet they had. It was a highlight of my childhood, and I’ve spent years trying to figure out why I could spam fireballs and change characters on it. Thank you for this video!

Actually, it wasn't just the game speed that carried into SF2 Turbo. Some characters got new moves directly inspired by this hack: Chun-Li was given a fireball, Ken and Ryu could do a hurricane kick in the air, Blanka got a vertical rolling attack, Dhalsim can teleport, I could go on. All of these went on to become integral parts of the characters' movesets. Also, this is debatably an inspiration for Akuma having an air fireball in Super Turbo.

I use to play one of this in pizza place back home, it's a crazy one

I used to jump up enough times to goup thru the ceiling 3 or 4 times and it was funny because the enemy could not hit you even when you were on the screen.

I'm glad to see Rainbow getting some love these days. But what some people may not quite understand as there's different rainbows hacks upon hacks. The World Warrior hacks were known as Quicken. Sometimes spelled a little differently and all it did was speed up World Warrior and gave it a few cool tricks. But they were different versions of that as well. I distinctly remember speaking with an operator back when this came out he got the Quicken because he didn't want to spend the money to buy a champion or later a hyper fighting. It gave the game a little life for a while but eventually everyone moved over to Champion and Hyper fighting

Hate this brocken stupid rainbow edition. Only true SF2 must be played.

Remember seeing this pop up.
Lots of kids at school where talking about it and where to find a machine running it.
Thought it was cool but did not like playing against another player, because someone picked Ken or Ryu you where done. But it changed the game for sure. Also think this is where Chung Li's fireball came from before SSFII. After playing a rainbow cabinet you really did not want to play basic World Warrior anymore. For real. It was too damm slow.

Also there where a ton of different hacked versions of the game. It was getting to the point you had trouble finding a machine that was not hacked.

8 year old me came across one of these in Buffalo NY at a mini golf spot. It was mind blowing and until now I was almost sure I dreamt it.

Very interesting, but I'd think Ryu's correct name pronunciation would be known by now.

I knew I wasn't crazy.

I remember when my local arcade put this on the big Big BIG BIG BIIIGGGG screen. Everyone was in awe at how crazy it was. My 1st and only time beating any arcade version of SF was this one. I spammed Guile's Sonic Boom the whole time.

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They had one at Burger King in Modesto, CA back in '92. It was a simpler time.

I remember seeing this in the arcades back then. Someone was using Sagat and there was a yoga flame that comes out from his feet whenever he does tiger uppercut which can KO an opponent in one hit if it hits. 😂

I played the Rainbow Edition in it's release Year. And still play, since I still have it's arcade until today. It's horrible. :D

No joke I can smell the arcade in my mind still

And now we're all 40 somethings feeling nostalgic...... yep. Sigh .......

Ryu is pronounced REE-OO not RY-OO Yeah it matters. Listen to the game man…. It’s Japanese remember he’s a Japanese character.

I played this version way back in Mexico 🇲🇽 city in a liquor store I thought it was broken then I was like this isn’t that bad. I can see where it transitioned into marvel v capcom

Great video man. I tried to make a SF2 video and talk about how amazing/impactful SF2 was but mine only has 3 views hahaha I love talking about this game cuz these young bucks don't realize just how insanely popular this fighting game was!

We had this in philly but it was called SF2 Red waves

I played this version first 1995 in Albania we had different edition, also the cabinet had only 3 button lk ,lp and hp , they where fun alot of fun also was another edition that u can teleport using back foward lp lk

What do I think about when I hear Street Fighter? I dunno, I guess smuggling floaties into tournaments so I can make it out of pools lol

I didnt know that rainbow version was a bootleg lmaooo i just found that out as a 40 year old man. That version was dope af. Have fire balls all on the screen. That was awesome. I used to play it at a Asian poolhall in Santa Ana ca. When i was 12. I miss those days.

i grew up in taiwan right around when the rainbow edition came out. It didnt have an official name obviously so the game is known in many different names. The game is so broken that people started saying "a quarter would last about 5 secs in this game". dragon punch comes with a tsunami of fireballs, sonic boom works like a cut fastball or curve ball and all other crazy stuff. Things were fun and weird and that was the golden age of arcade fighting games. There were 5 arcades of different sizes within 3 blocks of my house so needless to say business was good.

Oh I remember playing this game I played it on final burn alpha rainbow edition was the crazy drug in a good way and is busted

I love your channel, man but please don’t pronounce Ryu’s name as “Rye-You” 😂

Yeah, I remember when SF2 first came out and took the world by storm. Especially before MK was released to give it some competition. What I found funny, and actually a little annoying, was that every arcade always had just ONE machine per game. I was always thinking to myself, "should I let myself spend my precious quarters now and have a little bit of fun playing Rampage, or should I wait for the next hour to get to play a single game of what I want, knowing the current champ is going to destroy me?"

This made no sense to me - from the player's view all of the other games were a waste of space, basically furniture to rest your soda pop on while 80% of the people in the arcade were crowded around the SF2 machine, and from the arcades point of view, they were slowing their rate of quarters-intake.

Jumping through the ceiling and floor three to five times and doing guile air catch backbreaker through all 3-5 of those floors to take away 60% of your oponents health meter 😂😂😹😹😭😭⚰️⚰️💀💀💀💀. I used to spam that shit lol.

Best version. Only the OGs know all the moves.

Dope video