HAVE YOU PLAYED THE FORBIDDEN STREET FIGHTER 2 GAME?!

[@thiagogita]

I grew up playing this game. In Brazil we call "Street fighter de rodoviaria" (Bus station Street Fighter).

[@TheCJRhodes]

prohibido jugar con rugal

[@HeavyGee84]

Same! Corner store street fighter

[@hamajisilva5734]

Vai brasil

[@oversipelio983]

Kkkkkkkkkk

[@pauloninjinha]

Eh Brasiiiiiil

[@Aerowind]

"You think Capcom got air SPD from Rainbow edition" Bro, rainbow edition is where soooo many things come from. Like, Chun's fireball originated in Rainbow edition. It's what created the idea of super moves and stuff like Akuma's air fireball. And above all, it's why Hyper Fighting was sped up. It's responsible for a ton of modern street fighter.

[@PikangsFutaba]

Yup, a big irony that a bootleg version managed to create fighting game standards that are used nowdays since Turbo Hyper Fighting in terms of Street Fighter 2, that's why despite how bad the game is (if you want to take it seriously of course, because is still great for laughs at the stupid things you can perform or suffer), it had created a big legacy as a whole.

[@caiosantos9715]

​@@PikangsFutabae a origem dessa obra de arte segue um mistério até hoje!! Será que não foi uma experiência secreta da própria Capcom para testar novas mecânicas? Aqui no Brasil fez muito sucesso (desculpe escrever no meu idioma mas sabemos que é possível traduzir instantaneamente)

[@mindcrome]

But Capcom was right to stop modders because it almost destroyed the game as well. Lots of ideas where taken from the Rainbow Hack. But it stopped people from playing as much as they where. But the the speed boost was really needed.@@PikangsFutaba

[@birdmanoo0]

I believe air tatsu came from Rainbow as well.

[@magusd20]

@@caiosantos9715 óbvio que Capcom não iria fazer isso e tbm não tem mistério sobre a origem. Simplesmente um grupo de Taiwan pirateou o jogo, já que o original era bem caro. Fizeram alterações na rom que agradaram muito aos fãs, restando a Capcom correr atrás do prejuízo, principalmente pela velocidade ( parafraseando um jogador pro da época que teve essa experiência: "Depois de passar a tarde jogando a pirata, jogar a original era como se os personagens estivessem de baixo d'água"). No Brasil os caras preferiam comprar chips piratas baratinhos em vez de investir em originais, então era bem comum uma versão desse rainbow no fliperama (não exatamente essa que o Justin jogou).

[@bidoofenshmirtzevilinc.4369]

This was the version of SF2 that I loaded on to my teachers computer in my programming class for an entire class of freshman to play on the display. My teacher was never at the class, and I was the only senior in the class so he'd put me in charge. I got bored and loaded up Rainbow Edition, and the freshman were on the floor laughing when they saw how broken the game was

[@radelta]

And everyone clapped

[@Brick_Eater_]

​@@radeltamfs when anything happens ever

[@memegazer]

@@radelta kzbin.info/www/bejne/d53OY5yufax_qtE

[@11buttnaked]

Maaaaaan, I wish..!!

[@expectafight]

No one EVER believed me about this damn game. I saw it one time, loaded on trash pentium back in the day. Also, the 10 count charge punch is instadeath with balrog

[@JackgarPrime]

So there are actually a bunch of different "rainbow editions", and one of them does cause the shoryuken to shopt out an entire wall of fireballs.

[@memegazer]

I grew up playing street fighter 2 and heard rummors about rainbow edition but brushed it off as an urban myth until I watched Whang!'s vid on it.

[@lordgenzo5654]

The Xiang Long edition is the one with the wall of fireballs after shotos DP and yoga flame with sagats one, overall its way more broken than rainbow edition

[@JackgarPrime]

@@lordgenzo5654 Honestly, I kind of lump all of them as "rainbows", and there were a couple different things that did specifically call themselves rainbow, as well.

[@SuperArmus]

Yes I played that one. LMAO

[@rgm4646]

yep your right

[@leocorrea5935]

Back the day, this version was HUGE in Brazil. I mean, every arcade has one, and you could find one of those machines even on pubs or grocery stores. Each neighborhood has a name for this game. In mine, we called "Street Fighter 2,5", for an example. Later, with the social media gettin' popular, the name "Street Fighter de rodoviária" (bus station Street Fighter) became the standard in Brazil. ✌️

[@kevinsemidey2516]

There are a few different "Rainbow Editions." I probably played the same one as the person in your chat. In the version I played, Ken and Ryu threw 2 Hadokenst a time and they crisscrossed super slowly. You could fill the entire screen with Hadokens. Once the cpu block or got hit, it was an auto TOD combo or chip damage. DPs also threw out fireballs like he mentioned. Blanka threw fast ass sonic booms while doing electricity. Zangiel also threw out booms while doing lariat and he could SPD your shadow when he was multiple screens in the air. That was chessiest and most broken version of SF2 ever

[@agumike]

Don't forget about the legendary Tiger Flame. (Tiger Uppercut with Yoga Flame coming out of it)

[@doolioart3314]

My memory is foggy, but could Balrog cover the screen in hadoukens?

[@khhnator]

i think they wavy haduken is from the Snes hacked edition

[@sera404]

@@doolioart3314 Balrong could do fireballs (can't remember if hadoken or sonic boom) by just punching haha

[@doolioart3314]

@@sera404 It was definitely a hadouken, but I can't remember if he could spam those slow ones and fill the screen:)

[@LunatiqHigh]

There were multiple versions of Rainbow Edition. The PNE arcade in Vancouver beside the gambling vendors had about 4 or 5 Rainbow Edition machines and they were all slightly different. That's probably why you can't do the moves chat was talking about.

[@theshape3872]

Golden Dragon, Red Wave, Black Belt, Magic Turbo, and a laaarge etc Mexico was flooded with them on 1993-1996

[@manafbenayache1880]

It s not even a game it s a joke to me at least ! NB 30 years of fighting games so I m quite the expert here

[@KitDreamer]

I was on a school trip once and we had some spare time at wherever the hell were, and there was an arcade machine, this is back in the 90s, so my friends and i saw SF2 and was like "yooo, who wants a game?" So we loaded it up, and we're like "...wtf isn't championship edition for megadrive only??..." . It wasnt until we were playing some rounds that we realised something was.... VERY wrong lmao. Fireballs everywhere, changing characters, all by accident. It was wild. Most fun we'd ever had playing sf2. Best version ever.

[@MaddMountains]

They had one of these at a local pizza joint that had like 2 tables. Very tiny place but it was always packed because of the Street Fighter II machine. Funny thing is, people would always get butthurt over losses in the original machine, but with the hacked version, you can fill up the entire screen with projectiles and everyone would be too busy laughing and having fun.

[@fidelsolis6070]

Its funny playing a street fighter with game genie

[@ishma2100]

I remember this machine back in the days growing up in Harlem had to be 1994

[@hoodmistressreloaded]

You just described practically every laundromat, liquor store and donut shop here in Los Angeles that had a Street Fighter II Rainbow machine back in the day. I'm starting to think the machines brought in more money than the actual merchandise

[@MCastleberry1980]

This version was briefly at an arcade near my house. It's literally the type of game you'd tell kids at school about and they call you a liar lol

[@Soul93Taker]

Ah yes, Super Ultra Deluxe Dimension Shattering Street Fighter 2: Murder of Braincells.

[@darrengarcia1996]

We use to call it the "Turbo Chip" edition here in Trinidad. I wasted allot of money playing this lol

[@pwhite2966]

Grew up playing it at a bowling alley in New Mexico, where it was just called “the chip”.

[@kevinmalone4341]

So Claw is actually super broken in this. His normal jump is very fast and has a tight arc. And he can use his air throw against grounded opponents. Just keep jumping and throwing and you get so many double perfects. I think Chun Li has the air throw versus ground also.

[@KaosMasterX]

Oh rainbow sf2 Always loved this one, it included Old Old Sagat, which was the best Sagat variant out of all sf2

[@jonathancadle1261]

The corner store across the street had this when I was growing up. I was told it was Hyper Fighting 😅😂

[@Cyhawkx]

The original rom was based on Hyper fighting and modified many versions just said Hyper Fighting with no indication it was anything else.

[@TC1Z2L3]

The machine at the Skating Rink around here said "Hyper Fighting" on it too.

[@epicbasedman]

How did u feel when playing the real sf2thf

[@jonathancadle1261]

@@epicbasedman disappointed, tbh. I was like "why can't Ryu throw curvy fireballs in mid-air? I thought this was Hyper Fighting" :D

[@broncoramfan]

Rainbow edition caused many fights at high school. I remember one version that the projectiles went up n down on the screen. I know these that Justin was playing were tracking if the other character jumped but version I remember fireballs automatically went up n down

[@AShadowPuppetry]

Yes! I recall fireballs doing that when I played it in Mexico

[@SagatTheMuayThaiKing]

I remember the version that two fireballs would come out and move up and down opposite ways.

[@nicktronson2977]

I remember this one edition where Zangief has 2 yoga flames shooting out of his boots on both sides when he does the spinning lariat. And when you did the spinning lariat in the air and you were right above your opponent, you just spin the arcade stick in circles and mash fierce and Zangief would SPD your opponent while they were standing right below you.

[@Default_Dave]

"Blackbelt Edition" was the version we had at our local arcade in Portsmouth, UK

[@hivebrain]

There was one of those at my local Laser Quest.

[@Khaos969]

Hahaha you know “black belt edition” 🇬🇧

[@Khaos969]

@@hivebrainlaser quest … where in s London?

[@hivebrain]

@@Khaos969It was in Sheffield.

[@Default_Dave]

@@Khaos969 Yeah man, I seem to recall it was in an arcade called Jackpot.

[@shoken4421]

Justin needs to play the really busted rainbow hack,you'll know you have the right version when the sf title is rainbow colored ,that version has the shoryu fireballs

[@whateybify]

Oh nah, Justin, you GOT to troll smug with this. It is MANDATORY! 😂😂😂😂

[@frankbauerful]

Was about to write the same. 👍

[@whateybify]

@@frankbauerful LMAO

[@nicktronson2977]

Street Fighter 2 "With The Greatest of Ease" Edition.

[@dedheddred1773]

I believe Smug may have done a video on this already.

[@sebastianrodriguezescalona7598]

I would like to watch Smug suffering the randomness of this game lol

[@feiwong3634]

We had this bootleg cabinet where i live back in 1994, you could use the 1player button to change the character midbattle, we called it Rainbow Sf2.

[@Skrueger999]

Justin @ 3:31: I can punish that Bison @ 3:32: I can punish that

[@SagatTheMuayThaiKing]

That happened at exactly the same time as I read this comment.

[@TheLlc-y2t]

If you land a piledriver after climbing the screen, you are going to fallback all the screens

[@stunningsalman]

Yeah I remember.

[@diecastdug9343]

And if you go up through enough screens, and SPD as time runs out, it will lock the game in a falling-through-all-the-screens loop.

[@kjb379]

I'm man enough to admit that I was startled by Vega crawling on air. 😂

[@ocabj]

Back when this showed up at a local burger joint in 1992/1993, we called it Street Fighter 2 Plus or Plus Plus. Not sure why it got that name locally, but that's how it was referred to in my area of SoCal. I never new it was "Rainbow Edition" until just recently when more videos popped up in my youtube feed about it.

[@SkateSoup]

One of these bootlegs was the first sf2 I played. They had one at this pizza spot down the way from my friend's house. We played the hell out of that thing that summer. When I got into full sized machines a bunch of years later, I went a little ham and was going to put a switcher together with different variants and have backlit bittons that would change with the type that was active. Sadly never found the time to finish it and then lost the cabinet I was working on to flood damage. I've got at least one of the regular rainbow edition boards, a red wave board, and a rainbow edition that wasn't in mame last time I checked a bunch of years ago. I need to pull those out and check against the current mame set, and send it to the mame guys if it still isn't in there. There were some known distributors of the hacked rom chips that made it around, but there were a bunch that were done by random people back then so there's a ton of variants.

[@eggmancorp]

Rainbow Edition. Now here's a word I haven't in awhile. Bro took me bacck to my childhood when we use to hear urban legends from the Arcades with that word. Wow!

[@Thelgow]

The rainbow edition in my arcade was even jankier. Gief could keep climbing with the lariat/jumps, but if you were aligned vertically with the opponent you could spd them, then it would travel down through every screen you climbed up. Also all fireballs spawned 2, that would fly across the screen in a zigzag/DNA strand pattern. No charge time required. Guile could have 12+ booms on the screen, swaying up and down. Worst, Balrogs dash punch toss 2 fireballs, did 50%. Round start, no need to charge, b,f+hp, b,f+hp, win with 99 seconds on the clock.

[@rcblazer]

I've seen a few different versions of Rainbow Edition that had different moves and such. I remember playing one where Chun-Li's Spinning Bird Kick was lower to make it look like she was spinning across the ground on her head. It was hilarious and dumb, and tons of fun!

[@d12kiem7]

Chun Li can shoot fireballs during lightning kick and do spinning bird kick at different levels like Zangief's spinning lariat.

[@MrVomora]

I remember playing this as a child at the pier arcade in Redondo Beach, CA. The closest thing I got to this version at home was SF2 on the Super Nintendo. A game genie code would allow Ryu to do fireballs in the air.

[@brettmiller2583]

holy shit... I remember this version being on an arcade machine at a video rental store near my house when I was a kid! matches were crazy af to watch

[@bahmat]

I think Street Fighter 2 Koryu is the one you're looking for if you want Ken/Ryu to blast fireballs whenever they do Shoryuukens.

[@Phos9]

The dp also shooting fireballs is from, IIRC, Kouryu edition, with its infamous “Life is too short to be little” attract mode message

[@truindividual]

I streamed this game on Twitch. Everyone was like "What in all the hell is this?" I couldn't stop laughing at how fun and broken this is. I wish there was a game like this that came out today where the premise is "IF everything is broken, then it is balanced."

[@dragoslove]

It's called Kyanta.

[@danknstein6504]

check out Ultra Fight da Kyanta 2 if you have steam, it's free and i promise you will be able to run it. That game is a crime against humanity lmao

[@yeahmemia]

​@@dragoslove they aren't ready for the truth yet

[@phabiorules]

Wasn’t that DNF duel?

[@dragoslove]

@@yeahmemia Yeah, I'm not a kyanta fan, but I don't know that anyone can claim that it isn't "balanced" around making broken characters.

[@carloslint9914]

There was this Quake 3 mod called Maximum Overkill where all crazy stuff went on like machigun launching rockets instead of bullets and you start with 400 health + health regen and stuff, it was bloody fun. We used to called it "Quake 3 de rodoviária" in a homage to this SF2 version, which in Brazil was called "Street Fighter de rodoviária" (Bus station SF2)

[@overdose0074]

Fun fact, this game led to the creation of Turbo Street Fighter

[@patrickoakley7890]

My local laundromat had this version, of all the places. Way back in 1992. It was hilarious. Zangief doing Lariats in mid air, Guile throwing back to back to back to back Sonic Booms, etc.

[@FreedomDiaries1]

Rainbow Edition is a amazing. It pushed Capcom to make SF2T and changed the series.

[@DanKojak]

About 20 years ago in an arcade in Busan, I played this or a similar but different version of this. Zangief's jump-lariat-airjump worked the same as here, and the air SPD had no vertical distance checking, only horizontal distance checking, so from three or four screens up, as long as you were lined up close to where the opponent was, you can grab them and then drop them through the screen multiple times before hitting ground.

[@Ricardo-vt5hs]

Kouryu Edition is even crazier than this one. They mixed Sagat's uppercut with yoga flame and that's awesome

[@AbominusRules]

i went to this vegan resturant a month or two back. first time there. they had a separate "room" where the bar was with additional booths and whatnot. i was looking around at all the cool artwork and pictures and thats when i noticed in the corner of the room, a SF2 cab. it already had a free credit on it, so i hit the button and chose Ken, my normal go to for SF2. first fight, shit started going crazy! i was like WTF IS GOING ON??? it was that moment that i realized someone had put Rainbow on there instead. it sure is bonkers!!

[@felipenascimento83]

The version with hadoukens during shoryukens is called "Koryu"

[@channel-nv9xc]

I hear it's what inspired the gameplay Capcom developed in the Capcom/Marvel family of games the same way the EGM Sheng Long hoax inspired Akuma

[@ghostspider7619]

Street fighter de rodoviária is legendary ❤❤ This game is so perfect lol

[@Kastagaar]

Our local game shop had a cabinet of this where I grew up and it was such enjoyable trash. My favourite thing was using sonic boom to multijump Guile about 6 screens up and then grab the opponent (because height doesn't matter as long as you're on the same vertical) for a air knee drop that took about 5 seconds to land. Very satisfying. My nemesis was Chun-li, whose low spinning bird kick made her 100% invincible for the entire fight.

[@Yoloslides]

They put this in the local laundromat in my neighborhood back in the early 90s lmao. Imagine paying a quarter to have 100 sonic booms thrown at you .....i guess things haven't changed much huh

[@m.burdelis]

This hack actually inspired Capcom to make the Turbo versions of Street Fighter and later the mechanics of the Marvel series (Marvel Super Heroes, X-men, X-men vs SF, etc)

[@AidenWarren]

It was cota

[@maxm17]

Chun Li was dangerous in the version I played. She'd fly across the screen while doing multi kick. If you didn't avoid it, there was no escaping

[@ryanyork9956]

My friend and I played this version in the arcade in Hong Kong back in like 94. That was our introduction to the world of bootleg games! We also bought a bootleg version of Mortal Kombat II that would let you do fatalities any time during the match.

[@LemonRush7777]

I sort of remember being able to grab people from the air by aligning shadows in one of those SF2 Hacks with Gief.

[@faboo2001]

Oh man, I remember seeing a "Rainbow Edition" at a donut shop near my home. As hilariously entertaining as it was, I couldn't even beat the first CPU opponent due to how crazy it was.

[@fedupwthu]

They had this at the local movie rental store.

[@Hdelapaz]

My local pizzeria had this and random food spots in PR 😂 I really thought it would come out on snes

[@Shiirow]

people dont realize rainbow isnt just one edition, there are custom rainbows all over the place and things are different. the one I played the shoryuken did shoot hadouken, and Guiles jab sonic boom went up and down the height of characters sprite slowly and you could fire as many as you like to create an impenetrable wall of sonic booms.

[@carloszagal1934]

I grew up playing the various versions of SF2 that would be released over the course of the 90s. I loved it, I was bad at it, but I still had a blast. I had a lot of fun when HD remix came out for the 360/PS3 in the late 2000s. But I always heard murmurs from various family members about this crazy edition of SF2. You can change characters, crazy fireballs, and crazy movement speed. Luckily, my hometown pizzeria had a cabinet. And it was SF2 Rainbow edition. Seeing it is one thing, but playing it is as gnarly as it gets. Stupid jank, so broken, but I had a great time playing. Love the content JWong, keep em coming!

[@JDDK28]

The best part about this was getting to the end with your best character, but then changing to another character to get the last hit on Bison so you could see the different endings. Cause you’d never beat the game legit with other characters.

[@batmanxgr]

Man!! I was playing this in 1992/1993 in Compton!!! Old news

[@hoodmistressreloaded]

Crazy... I played this once at a laundromat in Inglewood around that time. Thought the game was on crack or something

[@EriknocTDW]

I love how the claw flies off Vega-Bison (Dictator) when you flash kick him @9:26. 😃

[@Nanogrip]

I remember seeing a modded SF2 arcade where Ryu and Ken's dragon punch would take nearly half length of the screen while shooting out two fireballs. Guiles twin sonic booms would crisscross, Balrog's special punch moves would also give out 2 fireballs. Was nuts.

[@Average_Brad]

Ran into a version of one of these cabinets in the wild as a kid back in the early 90's. Was on vacation in Omaha Nebraska and only played it once. As an adult I had convinced myself it was a dream or something 'cause I'd never seen it since and no one I talked to about it had ever seen anything like what I described.

[@davidkham6211]

You hit Guile so hard he turned black! Lmfao

[@paulsingleton7105]

half the machines in our towns were this version

[@eraticfx]

Ryu suppose to do fireball when he uppercut, but this is a different version. It's funny how he just discover this and I played it many years ago, even the game genie version, but it's funny I never discovered the zangief trick going off screen like that lol

[@foxmcleod]

Yep, Rainbow does not have the shoryuken fireballs. It's another version called Koryu

[@dylanarcher827]

On most of the hacked SF2 versions you can teleport - hold down heavy punch and heavy kick, and if you release them at the right moment you will teleport. You can also teleport the computer player by pushing those buttons on the P2 side!

[@tarekmoneimsaid]

This is the bootleg that "inspired" Street Fighter 2 Turbo and all future versions. They were mindblown to discover that the faster gameplay was actually a major draw :D

[@anthonybille4069]

Back when I was younger, this SF2 version (and other versions) were in a few select arcades, we even had them in Deli's and Video Rentals. They were so much fun.

[@plutoburn]

I grew up in the arcades in Taiwan where the rom hack started. There were many versions, the first one I saw was relatively mild, the only big difference is you can do moves in the air. Second iteration you can change characters on the fly and fireball start to track you and moves in general go across the screen. Then the crazy ones came out where 8 or 10 fbs comes out with your DP.

[@maraxus141414]

@jwonggg I agree, this is broken... LEVEL 1 kind of broken... Here's LEVEL 2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYSwmY2Xe9N9ncU and here's LEVEL 3 kzbin.info/www/bejne/o33df5d4jLKtY9E I hope you can review the 2 other game modes or something... Cheers!

[@gustavofc9131]

Here in Brazil used to find always one of these in the stores. There was a time when the majority were these "forbidden". But I recall ryu and Ken throwing 2 halogens at the same time, instead they kept oscillating in zigzag, like as a sinusoidal movement. Also, shoryukens used to go in diagonal direction. They're were not straight upside.

[@scoobydoobydoooo]

Oh my god, it's mind blowing to see this because I wasn't sure if my memory of this was some sort of hazy dream. The family were on a ferry going from France back to UK. Typically, my brother and I, we'd always go straight to the arcade machines while having nothing to do. Both of us were watching people playing this version of street fighter and we were hella confused (we're both little boys so we didn't know much about games aside from playing them). We were both like "huh how come Ryu is doing a flying hadouken?" Even a few years ago we both brought it up in a conversation and were confused about what we saw. Now after all this time I know it's a .... 'rainbow edition' (wtf)

[@keenanvanaalst9865]

i remember when this first came into the arcade when i was a kid. it was fucking crazy. love this game. zangief was so fun umping in the air then doing his spin then jumping again till you go threw the floor and can grab from anywhere and they cant hit you . there is more then 1 version of rainbow edition though. other versions added fireballs to moves on alot of characters and other stuff.

[@rothencorvos]

with a player with whom you can upload screens at least 6 times, for example zangief who is the easiest to upload screens, when you get to the fifth or sixth screen you can do the hammer grab and he will do the grab and you will see the cartwheel effect, it looks very attractive, it can be done with guile, with the medium fist grip...it's easy You jump and then the double lariat with the 3 fist buttons, jump and again 3 fist buttons, like this until you go up 6 screens, then you try to grab the opponent with the spinning piledriver. and it will start to fall on the screens that you uploaded and it will do the cartwheel effect...

[@BroMorris0341]

This brought back MAD memories. ...Back as a young buck with my friends playing this at the bowling alley. It was the "P+11" edition on the arcade for us. ...Still the best hack of SF to date My go to was Sagat. Tigers filled the entire screen if you crouch tiger, stand tiger and jump tiger.

[@npc5983]

5:25 and 9:34 you sure noticed Zangi becomes invincible when over 1 screen high. But what you missed is that, from that state, you still can SPD your opponent: in rainbow Zangii can SPD in the air after air lariat, but there is a catch: the game will just check if Zangi is near the opponent only from the horizontal axis. So, even if you go up like 10 screens, you can simply make sure Zangui is horizontally near the opponent (which is easy as you become invincible after being one screen higher). If you keep spamming the 3 punches from lariat and then input 360, negative edge will complete the SPD input and Zangui will grab the opponent regardless of being screens higher. And to the worst: Zangui grabs the opponent AND GO DOWN ALL THE SCREENS HE'S GONE UP lol. Check it out, you will see how fun it is the result 😃. I think it is funny US doesn't know much about Rainbow Edition: in the country where I was raised those were spread all over, and as a matter of fact, it was easier to find rainbows than vanilla. My real first with a version abiding to the rules came just with the release of Special Champion Edition, for the Genesis: to this day I remember my disappointment when picking up Ken and performing a tatsu as it was way slower and with fewer hit on Genesis than what I was used to in the arcades that I was used to 🤣.

[@Nelson_Win]

You finally played the Rainbow Edition. It's so hilarious. You feel like you have mastered Street Fighter.

[@BigBossBr4z1l]

This game was very popular in my country back in the day. There's more than one version by the way. Some of them let you change character during the round by pressing start and some don't. It's very broken but was a lotta fun when i was very young. The first time i played this SF was by accident. I didn't knew it was like that. I thought it would be the original SF 2. Played it in a local store that used to sell fruits and vegettables (yeah that's crazy like this SF lol).

[@johnstone5158]

The mechanic to deal with all the crazy stuff was the teleport. An instant 1frame teleport which lets you choose between far, near, or close. Any character can use it.

[@jaypudaruth8080]

I remember growing up and there were loads of crazy SF2 versions I remember nightmare edition, black belt edition to name a few

[@albertoandrade978]

I love this game, you can press both shorts, or both mediums and hold them for a couple of seconds and they teleport. Both fierce and roundhouse and they teleport right in front of them.

[@ScreenshotCB]

Justin, bro, you have no idea how long ive been trying to find what this game was ( not actively searching) . Got to the point where I thought I was tripping remembering Blanka throwing multiple hadoukens. They had this specific arcade machine at a movie theater in Upper Manhattan back in the late 90s.

[@ShaneDouglas713]

4:15 *Vega's Invisible Cage Climb* 🧗‍♂️

[@AegisKHAOS]

There absolutely was a version where Shoryuken did fireballs. I believe it was called the White Belt or Black Belt Edition. Also remembered seeing Blanka turn into Ryu when he does his bite hold. There he would do a shoryuken in place of the hold. And Ken's tatsu was stupider than Ryu's if you get caught. Since it doesn't knock down, you eat a million hits and likely get dizzy afterwards.

[@__1201]

I saw it first in a Pawn Shop when it was released in 1992. Seeing several projectiles on the screen at once was wild to me as a nine year old since I was so used to the vanilla version.

[@Yusukeleon]

There is another ridiculous version almost everyone can Hadouken & cover at least half of the screen.

[@Zebra66]

There was a point where all cabs were converted to SF2 it was so popular. I remember playing this on cabs with 1 button or trying to play with nothing but a steering wheel and pedals. With rainbow I completed it with Guile using the racing wheel to do sonic booms. After going on vacation to Spain I am convinced that nobody told that country about the kick harness.

[@anotherjester]

You need to play the koryu version. That's the shoryuken with 7 hadoukens

[@NewGamePlusTCG]

I used to LOVE Street Fighter Two Hyper Rainbow edition. Used to do light fireballs through the screen backflips up and up an up …

[@halfdane]

I loved this in the arcade. I discovered that Zangief could do his Lariat in air, jump, do it again, rinse repeat. I would do that and go from the top of the screen though the bottom of the screen, and keep going. I would then do his SPD and laugh as I dropped through the screen 4 to 6 times, thinking it would do massive damage when it hit the ground. Never did extra damage, but it looked hysterical doing it.

[@vginsprdsobepr9698]

We had this game in every arcade place all over Puerto Rico. I remember spamming Chun-Li’s lightning kick which would toss out several Sonic Booms forcing the opponent to block and loose by chip damage. Zangief could win by landing one hit them avoiding the enemy by endlessly glitching up off the screen.

[@SapinskiMath]

So here's the thing. Rainbow Edition ha so many hacks that people have programmed into it that no two versions are the same. In the one that used to be in my bowling alley, you had the extra speed, the character swaps, charge-free sonic booms, psycho crushers, etc, and non-homing projectiles that oscillated up and down as they went across. Might have had air specials, too, don't remember. Admittedly tamer than other versions for me. But some versions do give bonus fireballs on certain specials like lightning leg, hundred hands and the shoryuken. Bottom line, you have to really play different versions and see what people did, you can't judge all of RE off just one game file.

[@romelpapag7631]

In the version we played, rising uppercut of ryu throws atleast 10 very fast homing hadouken. Ken rising uppercut is going horizontal and spin kick can go in all direction you like, like a helicopter. XD

[@Zenocide]

The first time I saw this version of Street Fighter II was at a laundry mat in Long Beach California while visiting family in the late 90s. It was just right across from their apartments. My young self didn't even know what to think of it other than, "wow the CPU is even cheaper than ever!!!!"

[@wannytiggah]

I wonder WHAT version were you playing. There's: Rainbow Edition sets 1, 2, and 3 (sf2rb, sf2rb2 and sf2rb3 respectively), then all the "M" series (from sf2m1 to sf2m9), Koryu Edition / "Xiang Long" (sf2koryu), etc. - In the original Rainbow you could do air grabs (with the opponent being on the ground). So it was amusing to go up many screens with Zangief using the Lariat, and then do an SPD to the opponent and see it go down through all of that. - sf2koryu is one of the versions where Ryu and Ken shoot Hadokens with the Shoryuken. It's notorious for having the "WARNING USE IN TAIWAN ONLY" screen upon inserting a coin. - Here one of the most common hacked versions in beach arcades was M7. With Balrog shooting Hadokens with the fist, ChunLi with an obnoxiously long Whilwind kick that did more CHIP damage than normal, etc.

[@IcyTorment]

Back before Hyper came out, I used to play SF2 Accelerator in the Georgia Tech student center. It had lots of interesting quirks. They had it on a machine with a gigantic screen. I believe they kept it there until it was replaced with the first Mortal Kombat.

[@EricSanchezChi]

They were all over Chicago laundrymats and grocery stores. We just called it 'Street Fighter Magic'. Never heard 'rainbow' edition. My dad who was an electrician would also sell modded SF boards of this version. good old days.

[@cheapspace]

I remember when I was a kid my school had a mini “fair” that had a trailer with a bunch of arcade games and this street fighter was one of them. No matter what I told my friends ( they didn’t go to my school) wouldn’t believe there was a version like this in fact this is the first time seeing it since then.

[@ShinM.]

If you ever lived in Hawaii and went to UH Manoa then you know that they had this version in an arcade box at the Game area they had near the food court area. It was absolutely insane when I first played it because I had no idea it was that version, and my friend was switching characters mid-match and shooting waves of fireballs. It was brutal.

[@dogie61]

I played this when I was a kid as well. I do know that there were diferent versions of SF Rainbow. I played a more waky version. The one I had zangief would have yoga flame coming from his feet during lariat. He would also do the teleport through floor thing during SPD.

[@crissy4346]

Yeah I played something like this back in the day, before Hyper fighting came out, a few of the Champion edition machines were "modded" to do stuff like this. It was freaky