Street Fighter II: Championship, should Ryu be so tough?

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Street Fighter II: Championship, should Ryu be so tough?

With all the Street Fighter talk on the forums lately I have been playing a lot of SFII: Championship Edition on MAME (don't be hating on me). I always play Chun-li and what I find odd is my particular copy of the game always has me fighting Dhalsim first and then Ryu second. And Ryu is really really difficult to defeat. I mean, I play this exact same game on my iPhone in the Capcom Arcade Collection and I can get past Ryu most of the time with Chun-li.
Could either the copy of the game I am playing in MAME be some weird separate-them-from-their-quarters bootleg that operators always loaded in the machines? Or is Ryu supposed to be this hard as my second opponent?
 
You play SF2 on your iPhone? I always wondered how people do that. To me, accurate controls absolutely make or break fighting games. Without an arcade stick, or better yet and full sized arcade game, it isn't any fun to play fighting games. I can't imagine how you can pull off moves with a virtual controler.
 
In the arcade Ryu was the easiest character to beat. Wait for him to fireball (which he does a lot) jump in and throw him before he recovers. Just stand at a range where a jump will land you just behind him. You can perfect victory his ass my jumping and fierce throwing him. Guile works great for that, anyone will do Zangief, Honda, Blarog, and Sagat all need to be a little closer, so it is a tad more difficult.
 
In the arcade Ryu was the easiest character to beat. Wait for him to fireball (which he does a lot) jump in and throw him before he recovers. Just stand at a range where a jump will land you just behind him. You can perfect victory his ass my jumping and fierce throwing him. Guile works great for that, anyone will do Zangief, Honda, Blarog, and Sagat all need to be a little closer, so it is a tad more difficult.

Yep! In CE and HF Ken was always a threat to me. Because unlike Ryu he was all over the screen, the AI felt like a seasoned player who would bait you into his harsh attacks.

People argue who is stronger, and I say Ken hands down. Ryu's hurricane kick knocks you down, dragon punch is mostly 2 hits when fighting the AI and he has a easy pattern besides Sagat.

Ken's Hurricane kick sucks you in for multi hits and mostly connects with 3 hit dragon punches without the jump in fierce combo. He baits you way better then Ryu and seems like he is a bit faster too. There isn't a pattern other then wait for him to mess up and counter, and throw for good damage if you don't have combo strats.

If you try to be to aggressive/offensive you are going to have a hard time. Sagat is the easiest character other then Dalhsim, Chun Li Ryu.

Ken, Guile, Blanka, Bison were the hardest for me. And I'm talking AI on all platforms that I own. I'm not talking about characters in the right hands. Ken was raited the highest in CE and HF in most popular mags and fans back in the days.

I also have it on my itouch and it's hard because of the touch screen and what not. But It's something to do while I'm taking care of business.
 
All the AI in the CPS-1 SF2's is easy (and sucks) once you learn the patterns. You can practically walk Ryu into the corner at the beginning of most rounds. Once you're in his low roundhouse range, he'll pop something out. Time his fireballs to get in. If he does nothing, you do nothing. Eventually he'll random dragon punch or hurricane kick. Punish it. If he does jump roundhouse, low roundhouse just block it.

One character people think is ridiculous but is actually mad easy is Ken. If he is far away, he does two fireballs. If you do nothing he then either fireballs again or does forward jump, back jump. Then neutral jump twice. If you crowd him he starts jumping towards you trying to do cross up. Eventually when the round hits the mid point he'll start spamming hurricane kicks and uppercuts. Block and punish.

Gief...neutral jump roundhouse 99% of the round. :)
 
Thanks for the feedback, guys. So I guess my ROM is fine, SF:CE always had Dhalsim followed by a super tough Ryu no matter what machine?
I'll just have to perfect my spinning bird kick.
 
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