Choose a Victory Pose

After you defeat your opponent-but before the "k.O." symbol appears-hold the START button and one of the Punch of Kick buttons to choose from up to six different winning poses.  Not all characters have six poses, however.

Fight Against "Shin" (True) Akuma

Start a game in Arcade mode by choosing your character with a Punch button (or a Kick button if you're on the Player 2 side.) Play through seven matches without losing a round or using a continue, and get more that three "Perfect" victories. If you do this, "Shin" Akuma will appear before the eighth match as the final boss. If you lose to him, he will consider you to be inferior and he will not re-appear.

Mid-Level Bosses

Play through five battles in Arcade Mode without losing a round and win more than five rounds with Super Combo or Custom Combo finishes. After your fifth won, a new mid-level boss character will appear and there will be a short dialogue on the screen between the two fighters.

Play as Evil Ryu

At the character select screen highlight Ryu and hold Start for one second. Next move Right to Adon, Up to Akuma, Down to Adon, and Left to Ryu. Finally, hold Start and press any button.

Evil Ryu uses the same combos as the original Ryu, but his basic moves are different:

Teleport         Forward, Duck, Forward + all Punch buttons
Dragonpunch      Forward, Duck, Forward + Punch
Hurricane Kick   Half-Circle Backwards + Kick
Overhead Smash   Forward + Medium Punch

Play as Super Akuma

To play as Akuma in his Super Turbo outfit, do this:

1. Go to Akuma
2. Press Start then let go.
3. Go to Adon, Gen, Sakura, Rose, Sodom, Dan, Guy, Rolento, Sakura, Rose, Birdie, then back to Akuma
4. Press and hold Start then press either the punch or kick buttons.

Play as Super Chun Li

To play as Chun Li in her Super Turbo outfit, highlight Chun Li, then hold Start and press any attack button.

Play as the Original Dhalsim

To play as the original Dhalsim, do this:

1. Go to Dhalsim.
2. Press and hold Start.
3. While holding Start go to Zangief, Sagat, Charlie, and back to Dhalsim.
4. Press any punch or kick button to become Original Dhalsim.

Play as the Original Zangief

To play as the original Zangief, do this:

1. Go to Zangief.
2. Press and hold Start.
3. While holding Start go to Sagat, Sodom, Rose, Birdie, Charlie, Dhalsim, Ryu, Adon, Chun Li, Guy, Ken, and back to Zangief.
4. Press any punch or kick button to become Original Zangief.

Rapid Fire

At the character select screen highlight the character you want to use and press and hold the "L" and "R" shift buttons (one the top of the controller) and the start button at the same time. Select your fighter (while holding those buttons down) and continue to hold them until the match starts (and until the characters have done their little "intro". When it says "fight" release those buttons and you should have rapid fire with the individual "action" buttons.

Secret Characters in Vs. Mode

To access several secret characters in Versus mode, highlight any character, press START, then press any attack button.

Special Sakura

Choose survival mode. Go to Sakura hold Start and press Up, Left, Down, Left, Down, Right, Right, Down, Left, Left, Down, Down, Down, Right, Up, Up, Right. Then choose Ryu with any punch or kick button.

Turbo Mode

At the characther select screen put the highlighter on any characther of your choice and hold R and L Shift buttons and start for 5 seconds and choose the characther with and button.

Turbo Buttons

Go to Training or Versus mode. Press R + L + START when selecting your character and hold these buttons until the fight starts. You'll notice that if you hold Punch, you will punch repeatedly; hold Kick and you will kick repeatedly, etc. This doesn't work in the Arcade or Survival modes.