most of the source books are written in Japanese expect for the eternal challenge book which was translate by Udon. The Translation isn't that good ( a lot of stuff is still mis Translate, but at lest it's kind of better than capcom of U.S.A Translation.)
info on balrog
Dislikes: Fish, Hard work, Math
Special Skill: Gambling
Likes: Women, Beer
Street Fighter Alpha 3. Balrog has joined the evil organization known as
Shadaloo and has worked his way up from the lower ranks [Official]. Most
likely, he spent SFA3 running errands for Bison, then was sent to terminate
Birdie. Balrog was never told why he had to terminate Birdie, but he soon
found out after he found him. Birdie, in an attempt to buy some time, told
Balrog about the Psycho Drives that he was seeking out. Wanting even more
power and money for himself, Balrog teamed up with Birdie and went looking
for the Psycho Drives, thinking it was a money making scheme (hehe). He
obviously wasn't very successful. After Charlie blew up the Shadaloo
Headquarters, Balrog regretfully remarks that he was never able to find the
Psycho Drive plans to make money. Birdie calls him an idiot, and says that
the Psycho Drives were a device in the Shadaloo headquarters. Balrog
realized to his horror that he didn't have his priorities straight, and
while he was searching for the Psycho Drives without knowing what they
were, they blew up right from underneath his nose. He then realizes even
more to his horror that Bison didn't get to pay him yet before blowing up.
Nooooo!!! [Conjecture based off in-game storyline].
Balrog took over Shadaloo, but due to
his incompetence, he lost all his power and money and turned into a bum,
and Shadaloo under his command basically self-destructed within a month
[conjecture based on in-game storyline]
His name was switched to Balrog for the US versions because Capcom
didn't want to get sued by Mike Tyson (for Mike Bison). Vega became
M. Bison (now Mister Bison) and Balrog became Vega due to this switch.
He's born in the slum streets, raised in a poor family. Such that for his
childhood, he did nothing but quarrel with the neighborhood brats every day.
Such that this was his dream. "Become the world's best boxer" is said to
be the dream. He would have dreamed of reaching for a living of large
sums of fight money.
His boxing style is surely a brawling style. From the time of childhood
it was a style soaked into his nature and body. In any case power is
everything. Inside work can what! go **** off. Boxing in its entirety isn't
for the poetry fellow. That's right. Power being that note, few miso brains
won't suffice.