I’ve been wondering how to unlock every SF4 character, and my two cohorts were clueless about it too (as demonstrated in our most recent podcast), so I did some old-fashioned sleuthing. Not being one to let valuable information go to waste, here are the results of my searching:
Beating the game with the characters on the left unlocks the characters on the right:
Ryu = Sakura
Sakura = Dan
C. Viper = Cammy
Chun-Li = Gen
Abel = Fei-Long
M.Bison = Rose
Seth: beat the Arcade mode with every character (but not Gouken or Akuma, I think).
Gouken and Akuma are trickier. Here is a guide, straight from Capcom.
Russ Crandall:
Tyler Miller:
Steve McKay:
Giang Cao:
Sweet HeyZeus! I will never unlock Gouken or Akuma. Those conditions to meet are frakin’ crazy.
Yeah, but it doesn’t say anything about difficulty level – shouldn’t be too much trouble on Very Easy.
Do you know if it has to be on medium difficulty or higher? The CAPCOM site doesn’t say so I’m guessing no.
I’ve got everyone except Seth by playing on easiest, and I’m not sure I want his cheap-bitch-ass.
Yeah he sucks. I hate his stupid “suck you into my stomach and shoot you out move.”
And the fact that he does that annoying non-stop teleport every time he knocks you down, so you can’t block when you’re getting back up. What an ass!