Around the same time as this, Razoola of CPS-2 Shock was getting close to decrypting the games that ran on Capcom's CPS-2 hardware. On the 3rd of January 2001 Dave released FinalBurn with support for Street Fighter Zero and CPS-2 emulation was born.

Over time as more games became XORed they were added to FinalBurn. Dave also added some earlier Sega games and some games from Capcom's CPS-1 hardware which is similar to CPS-2.

Capcom Sports Club running on Capcom CPS-2 hardware

Eventually the buzz end excitement around the emulator lead to Dave removing CPS-2 support before adding it back again and then stopping development. Eventually Dave released the source code and FinalBurn fans the world over were trying to add games and features.

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