(WIP) XCOTA TAG V5.2: 2-on-2 tag game, 4 players, Gambit, Rogue, Marrow

Video interview with YasonX at    • Morphus Making Mahvel Madness!! (Feat. Mor...   X-Men: Children of the Atom (CPS2, 1994) rebuilt as a two-on-two tag game in the Marvel vs. Capcom mold: pick two fighters a side, tag, cancel a hit into your partner's entry, call a paid timed Duo so both partners fight at once, fire a team super, and in the Special edition play four people on one machine with Gambit, Rogue, Sabretooth and Marrow on the roster. What's in V5.2: Two picks a side on the game's own select screen; MP+HK tags, and your partner comes in with an attack Tag cancel: land a hit, tag, and the partner continues the combo Timed Duo (quarter circle back + MP+HK at Level Max): both partners on screen with their own TIME bars, X-Powers free while the clock runs Team super (quarter circle forward + MP+HK) for the ten original fighters: both X-Powers at once Secret fighters selectable: Juggernaut and Magneto in both editions, Akuma in Special Two-player edition: 13 fighters, with MvC1's Gambit (gait, cards, staff, Royal Flush) in Akuma's slot; runs on the ordinary cores for Fightcade, MAME and RetroArch Special edition: 17 fighters in three rows (Akuma stays; Gambit, Rogue, Sabretooth and Marrow join), four players (ports 1+3 against 2+4), a matching RetroArch core for Windows x64 and Apple silicon CPU challenge in the two-player edition: the CPU funds and calls its own Duos on Normal and Harder Native stage collapses, K.O. hand-offs, on-stage results and the victory screens all run as the game does them The 1:42 chapter is a schematic, not a photo: the original A-board and B-board, where the authored code sits in the program ROMs, how the donor art reaches the sprite renderer, and the Special core's emulator budget (an emulation setting, not a hardware overclock). The Special edition's extra members are virtual storage of the expanded emulator profile, not extra chips. Download: morphus56k.com/blog/xmcota-two-on-two-tag-teams. You need your own clean X-Men: Children of the Atom (Euro 950331, xmcota.zip and xmcota.key) and Marvel vs. Capcom (Euro 980123) sets; the Special builder also takes a supported X-Men vs. Street Fighter set and MVC2; nothing from any game is distributed. Photosensitivity warning: bright flashes from the game's supers and fast cuts. On our own frame-by-frame check against the general flash rule of ITU-R BT.1702 (not a certified test) no second has more than one large-area flash; if flashing light affects you, please take care. Chapters 0:00 Four players 0:08 XCOTA TAG V5.2 0:15 Tag cancel, team super 0:26 The paid Duo 0:34 Royal Flush, and the imports 1:02 The originals, the bosses, Akuma 1:24 CPU challenge 1:42 Inside the board 1:58 Four fighters, one screen 2:43 K.O. 2:52 Morphus56K Music: "Long Stage of History" by morphus56k. Narration: morphus56k, and an ElevenLabs voice (Mike). CPS2 schematic from the release's member map; chip roles as FinalBurn Neo and MAME read them. X-Men: Children of the Atom (C) Capcom 1994. XCOTA TAG is a fan mod, not affiliated with or endorsed by Capcom or Marvel. Every game shot is the released V5.2 running in FinalBurn Neo's libretro core with ordinary inputs at the game's own 59.63 Hz, shown at 60 fps; nothing is sped up, and every combo is one continuous take.