Control Tips:
The combos aren't exactly as pictured there. To execute a combo you had to do a circular motion with the joystick. Ryu's hadoken is a quarter of a circle, from bottom to right (if you are on the left side). Most other combos follow the exact same pattern. It's extremely easy once you get it.
Fighting Tips:
Dhalsim is only good at a distance keep close.
Zangief is good at grappling so keep jumping.
Chunli jumps around all the time, wait until she is coming down and use a hook or something similar (every character has an effective move against aerial)
Ryu just loves to hadoken your face, but the hadoken is a move that leaves you just standing there unprotected for a good while. Get your timing right and jump over the hadoken to kick him in the face like the little bitch he is.
If you need more tips just ask.
Ok, just to make things clear, Street Fighter II is and always has been a strategy game more than a fighting game. Forget about combos, forget about the buttons (use only strong kick and punch) and focus on the f*cking timing. That's all there is. The AI is easy to beat, all the characters follow certain patterns and once you identify them you can kick their asses most of the time. If you are having difficulties with any character just ask for advice and I'll tell you how to beat them but stop complaining, for f*ck's sake. Fighting games in arcades used to be male rites of passage; that's why most guys these days are stuck in some kind of kidulthood, because they didn't get their asses handed to them on a daily basis until they developed some real skill.
To everyone who is complaining about difficulty: You suck. It's as simple as that. This was the standard difficulty for fighting games, it's not the programmers fault that you all are just a bunch of lazy unskilled brats.
You can use combos, the fact that there's no number popping on the screen displaying your number of hits doesn't mean you can't use combos.
Grow some balls.
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