Jun 13, 2009 -- 5:38PM, BTHR Zero X wrote:

Actually They can Be done I always seem to get them when i Hold back for a couple of sec's the do a Half Circle to forward and Punch

Jun 16, 2009 -- 5:31PM, Canadian wrote:

Yeah, I thought it was half circle for red fireballs. Never seen Ken throw one though.

Could be entirely wrong though, haven't played 2 in ages.

You definitely confuse something here. The half circle motion is from SSF2 and SSF2T and there the red fireball is an actual special move for Ryu. But the original poster refers to an anomaly in the pre-SSF2 games where sometimes Ryu or Ken throw a red fireball instead of a blue one without any explanation. The red fireball from SF2, SF2CE and SF2T are something completely different than the one from SSF2 and SSF2T since the latter is an actual distinct special attack while the former is either a glitch or a built-in secret.

By the way, has anybody ever seen the computer AI in SSF2 and SSF2T execute Ryu's red fireball? I've never seen that. He always just uses the blue one when controlled by the computer.