Capcom's printable Street Fighter IV training manual is awesome

by David Hinkle { Mar 2nd 2009 at 6:30PM }

Still not sure what the difference between a Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku and a Tatsumaki Sansora Kyaku is in Street Fighter IV? Well, Capcom has come to the rescue with a printable and totally free training guide. Originally distributed to video game reviewers, it's now available to all in PDF format and not only features character biographies and move lists, but a ton of awesome artwork, including the image you see above this block of text. It's well worth the $15 you'll have to shell out for a new printer cartridge when you're done, so head on over and print it out (Warning: PDF link).

Gallery: Street Fighter IV

Tags: capcom, fighter, fighting, strategy-guide, street-fighter-iv

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

FNG @ Mar 2nd 2009 6:34PM

27.2MB PDF. Nice.

FNG @ Mar 2nd 2009 7:08PM

Page 15 FTW!!!

FNG @ Mar 2nd 2009 9:20PM

I don't understand the problems some are having for downloading from the "print it out" link above. Just right click and save. Don't click and load into your browser then save...

InfinityPlusOne @ Mar 3rd 2009 9:36PM

Page 16 is even better. What exactly is Fei Long doing to Dan's ass... and why does it look like Dan is okay with it!?!

Roncore @ Mar 2nd 2009 6:47PM

I don't even have the game, and even I'm gonna print this out!

Anam @ Mar 3rd 2009 9:09AM

Same here. This is awesome!

(And depending on how awesome this training guide turns out to be, I might just buy the game.)

ice~ @ Mar 2nd 2009 6:55PM

It wont load!!! *hadoukens computer*

take that...

Deone @ Mar 2nd 2009 6:56PM

damn where'd you learn that? I mean since the PDF won't load and all...

Ghen @ Mar 2nd 2009 8:42PM

ctl+click

its a fake pdf link, its actually a zip file. screws up the browser if you're using an adobe plugin.

Deone @ Mar 2nd 2009 6:55PM

I wish they would have had this when I was whining about sucking at the game. I haven't seen it yet, but with that size I'm hoping it has stuff down to the frame rate info and all that. I'm definitely getting better. Hovering around 1000 BP's right now, which puts me in the top 40000. Of course I haven't got to fight anyone around my current BP's, but I'm ready to take the top guy.

You know, for the lesson.

Roto13 @ Mar 2nd 2009 6:56PM

I download it and it says it's broken. :(

Stormsurge @ Mar 2nd 2009 7:13PM

Seems like only 10 out of the 20-something MB gets downloaded before the file gets corrupted.

Moptimus Slime (Leader of the Taylor Swift Defense Force, Gobot in disguise) @ Mar 2nd 2009 7:19PM

Is it worth the fucking cheapness known as Seth, the fact that both Ken AND Zangief are broken as all fuck and need patched NOW, or any of the other bullshit CAPCOM seems to be getting away with?

ProTip: When almost half of a characters move are unblockable, when people on the web are making it a contest to see who can beat the game on the highest difficulty using only one hand, and when your final boss has supers that are UNGODDAMNBLOCKABLE and yet have SNK BOSS LEVELS OF DAMAGE, you need to patch that shit. When your gamebase relies heavily on tournament players and yet you have this shit going on, you need to patch that shit.

It reminds me of the first Pokemon TCG packs (yes I used to play Pokemon TCG, lets be adults here) when everyone's strategy was:

A. Get Charizard and use it repeatedly

B. Get Chansey and pray that it survives long enough to actually be useful

and you wanna know what happened? Wizards of the West Coast listened and within 6 months we got an expansion that contained a card specifically for kicking Charizard users in the nuts. Thats what SFIV needs

Sidenote: All Watchmen fans should check out this site
http://6minutestomidnight.com/

quite a few easter egg responses to be found

THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime) @ Mar 2nd 2009 7:22PM

When hasn't street fighter been broken? Have you ever played ken and ryu online? But yes, sounds as frustrating as always! OH! and before I forget TIGER!!!!

ice~ @ Mar 2nd 2009 7:43PM

PLEASE! Seth is a rigged POS i hate this game with a passion because of how frustrated it gets me, I'm quite good when i play with my main character but trying to beat seth with any other character is freaking IMPOSSIBLE, and thats me trying to do it on the EASIEST difficulty.

Siegvar @ Mar 2nd 2009 7:54PM

Wait, how is ken broken again? I haven't played against any good ken players nor do I play ken well, so I'm clueless here.

Zangief is pretty strong, but I didn't think he was broken.

I have nothing to say about seth either though seeing as I haven't unlocked him.

Ghen @ Mar 2nd 2009 8:45PM

Ken is actually not that great. Sagat is way better at throwing fireballs and has an easier ultra to connect, longer range.

And Seth's ultra is blockable. it just has a smaller window than, say, ryu's which has to travel the screen.

So all in all I'm calling BS.

Vcize @ Mar 2nd 2009 9:34PM

LOL at the Sagat player trying to say that Ken/Ryu are broken.

Sagat will get a nerf long before Ken/Ryu do.

Nadril @ Mar 2nd 2009 9:38PM

What's wrong with Zangeif and Ken? Granted tons of players play Ken, but he isn't that hard to deal with. And Zangeif, well, just stay away from him. Sure his throws do good damage but the 360 and 720 degree motions are a pain to pull off at times.

Also I haven't ran into the same frustration with Seth as everyone else here seems to. Granted when I started, yeah, he was a pain. For some characters I can certainly see him being more difficult than others (I've unlocked all the characters in the game though except for Seth himself) but it's not impossible. The key to remember is that on the easiest setting he sucks vs Focus attacks. If you can knock him down just keep chaining a focus attack. Also feel free to use an ultra almost whenever because he sucks at blocking attacks at the easiest setting.

The good thing about Seth is that it makes you think of ways to get past your characters weakness since Seth has almost all of the strong points of characters, just like a last boss should be. If you can deal with Seth than chances are you'll fare better online.

Anyways it's not like I'm amazing either. I'm hovering between 1000-1300BP now, and I main Sagat.

Vidikron @ Mar 3rd 2009 12:00AM

@ice~

Beating Seth on the easiest difficulty is easy with anyone if you know the proper technique. To open the match try and jump + HK and the crouch + HK to sweep him off his feet. Then charge your focus attack and release it just as he gets up. It will hit more often than not and then you can hit him again as he falls stunned (I usually do crouch + HK). Then charge the focus attack and hit as he gets up again. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes he will block and counter, just be patient and look for another opportunity to sweep him off his feet.

On the easiest setting, while trying to unlock characters, I was able to pull off a fair number of perfects against Seth with characters I have no clue how to properly use. Trust me, doing this you'll be able to beat him with anyone and get all the characters unlocked.

RehostThis @ Mar 2nd 2009 7:22PM

Can someone that actually got a hold of this PLEASE rehost it somewhere else?

THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime) @ Mar 2nd 2009 7:27PM

NO!

Ample Salty @ Mar 2nd 2009 7:33PM

http://rapidshare.com/files/204617335/SFIV_TM_SE_02252009_SML.pdf

RehostThis @ Mar 2nd 2009 7:38PM

Hollllllllla! You're the man/woman/robot. Thank you.

Roto13 @ Mar 2nd 2009 9:48PM

Thank you. :P

Kinsey @ Mar 2nd 2009 7:35PM

I had to goto the source article and then download the PDF if anyone else was having issues.

Ayman @ Mar 2nd 2009 11:20PM

Thats because the link is is in PDF.ZIP the problem is from here
when i went to the link it showed the zip
anyone who is downloading from here either change the root of the file to zip and then you can open it and take out the pdf

Whiskey Jak @ Mar 2nd 2009 7:35PM

It was saying that it is broken for me too, then I tried "right click - open in new tab" and it worked for some reason or they just repaired it or something.

Try it out.

Mezzo @ Mar 2nd 2009 7:58PM

i already printed it out it's very cool, I wish i was able to show it to you guys over here.

Ghen @ Mar 2nd 2009 8:48PM

The link above is just spam, has nothing to do with the article.

PSIJunkie @ Mar 2nd 2009 8:11PM

I wanna print this so badly but I'm afraid it'll waste all my ink. Will it all waste if my ink levels are below half?

Ghen @ Mar 2nd 2009 8:49PM

there's no way of knowing how much ink your particular printer uses.

PSIJunkie @ Mar 2nd 2009 9:00PM

Oh I see.

zuburi @ Mar 2nd 2009 8:23PM

I always love it when these review guides come out. It's fun to scan the paragraphs to find whole sentences that reviewers plagiarize verbatim for their magazines.

bluenocturnex @ Mar 2nd 2009 10:47PM

thanks!

mick @ Mar 2nd 2009 11:49PM

try it on easiest and with 1 round - this should help beat Seth.

everytime you knock seth over do a sweep kick (heavy) and repeat - this will work for round 1 wins

DEEZNUTZ @ Mar 2nd 2009 11:49PM

A tip for those of you who have Adobe Acrobat. You can export all the images from this file and print them separately, so you get clean pics without text, separate character art, etc.

Go to Advanced > Document Processing > Export all images

This doc is made up of a number of images over images, so its a great feature that allows you to see all the artwork separately.

Andy @ Mar 3rd 2009 11:23AM

Nice tip! 22 jpeg extracted...

Andy @ Mar 3rd 2009 11:24AM

Sorry, 253 jpegs => 8.33mb of images

Joseph @ Mar 3rd 2009 12:37AM

I miss the old days of drooling over manuals in my elementary school classroom.

DarkD75 @ Mar 3rd 2009 2:38AM

It's easy to unlock all the characters. Just as others have stated earlier you just need to jump hk and crouck hk all day long. Make sure you change the settings to 1 round and a 30 sec time limit. Akuma and Gouken are pretty sweet to play! Good Luck everyone!