Street Fighter II special moves translation help

[GameFreak]

I have SF2 but I have no idea how to do any of the special moves.
Is there a good SF website that might explain it in english?
I have never really played SF on any other systems. I'm sure if I did, I could figure this out. Is there any simple way to figure this out without having someone translate the whole manual for me? I can do the kicks and punches but every time I release the special move it is purely by accident.

[Mishran]

Replacementdocs.com has scanned manuals for many different titles on various platforms.
http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.6684 will take you to a download page for the manual to the Genesis version of SF2. All the moves are exactly the same.

[GameFreak]

Amazing! Thank you!

[Black Tiger]

Here ya go-

http://www.gamefaqs.com/arcade/583628-street-fighter-ii-champion-edition/faqs

[TheClash603]

Somehow this thread shocks me.  At first I thought it had to be a troll...

[GameFreak]

Somehow this thread shocks me.  At first I thought it had to be a troll...

You thought I was a troll because I never played the english versions of Street Fighter?

Replacementdocs.com has scanned manuals for many different titles on various platforms.
http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.6684 will take you to a download page for the manual to the Genesis version of SF2. All the moves are exactly the same.

The Genesis manual works perfectly. I'm playing it now. 

[SignOfZeta]

Somehow this thread shocks me.  At first I thought it had to be a troll...

You thought I was a troll because I never played the english versions of Street Fighter?

I can see how one would think that. Street Fighter II was the most significant game of the 90s. I've played so many fighting games on so many systems I can't remember when or how I actually learned "hadouken" for the first time. I've known every special in SFII for over half my life.

I can't imagine not knowing SFII by heart. It would be like never having seen Star Wars or something. Your entire perspective on games in general would be different, stunted, IMO.

[GameFreak]

Interesting perspective.
Everyone has a different point where they learn to do something. Some people learn before others. There was a time when even you didn't know how to do a hadouken...so what?

[TheClash603]

GameFreak, I guess the most important thing is that you know how to do the moves now.  SF2 is an absolute classic, and it still holds up today.

[SignOfZeta]

Interesting perspective.
Everyone has a different point where they learn to do something. Some people learn before others. There was a time when even you didn't know how to do a hadouken...so what?

Don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying your are an a$$hole for not knowing Street Fighter, I'm just trying to figure out how anyone could pass it over for the last 20 years, even if they wanted to. Did you just escape from The Truman Show or something?

[GameFreak]

Did you just escape from The Truman Show or something? 

 
hehehee
I spent my childhood playing Keith Courage and JJ&Jeff way too much and thinking it was cool at the time . however I was lucky enough to get to the arcade and dump quarters on titles like Double Dragon, Operation Wolf (gosh, I miss that vibrating uzi!), and 1943.

Yes I'm really liking SF2. This game will motivate me for sure to build a sanwa stick. It really needs a smooth operating joystick to master it.

...*ordering sanwa parts now*

[csgx1]

With so many iterations of Street Fighter out there, spread over the years you managed to avoid all of them?  

A bit shocking to me too since you're into PC Engine/Turbo Grafx which is sort of an obscure system that not everyone has heard of or even played.  

Well, good for you....I always say, better late then never.

[GameFreak]

I did try SF on xbox360 recently. The arcade stick was a little glitchy so I gave up instead of buying a new arcade stick or having it fixed. The only fighting game I played when I was younger was Art of Fighting arcade version. In the past I have only been into adventure platform games and also RPG games.

I was never into fighting games until recently.  Now that I'm older, it's harder to kick someones ass in reality, I can enjoy the game version more than I used to. That's probably why I'm recently getting back into sports game also. I never played sports video games when I was younger. I played real sports outdoors though. You can't be young forever.

[soop]

I thought the same as the others initially.

But I have to say, I'm slightly jealous that you're experiencing it for the first time, even with the passage of time taking the edge off of what was once cutting edge.

[csgx1]

...Now that I'm older, it's harder to kick someones ass in reality...

Lol, ain't that the truth.  Some of my friends used to get in real fights because of Street Fighter II.

I remember back in the '90 playing Street Fighter II for hours in the arcade with huge crowds huddled around a single cabinet.  A time when rows of quarters were placed on the cabinet that symbolized the next challenger in line.  Three hit combos were very impressive and fights would break out for using cheap techniques...like the "short, then throw" technique

Good times, and probably my most fondest memories with video gaming.