Kick harness
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The kick harness, also known as the extra harness or plus harness, is a set of additional connectors that allow arcade PCBs to have extra controls beyond what the JAMMA wiring standard allows. A JAMMA PCB supports up to 1 joystick and 4 buttons for 2 separate players. JAMMA boards that require this extra harness are called JAMMA+ or, alternatively, JAMMA plus.
The kick harness connects directly into the PCB, having its own ground loop and power connection. In the case of Capcom's CPS-2 board set, the kick harness is a 34-pin connector that plugs into the side of the 'A' Board.
The most commonly found kick harness is for the additional 6 buttons used in most fighting games, made standard by the Street Fighter series. Unlike JAMMA, kick harnesses are not standardized and even when PCBs require the identical additional controls the wiring will most likely be completely different. For instance, even though Street Fighter and Street Fighter II have the exact same buttons and they are both produced by Capcom, they use completely different pinouts (this is also due, in part, because they use separate PCB styles, namely CPS-1 and CPS-2, respectively).
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This page states that Street Fighter II uses cps-2. Street Fighter II actually uses cps1- it is super street fighter II that started using cps-2
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