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Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha (English restoration)

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Download and instructions at arcadepatches.com
Current version: rc2 (October 11, 2026)​

Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha is the updated Alpha 2. Its Asian release plays in English, but it shortened the story, gave Evil Ryu Ryu's ending, and replaced Japan's hundreds of win quotes with a few random lines per fighter.

This brings back the full Japanese script in English, keeping Capcom's wording wherever it says the same thing. It restores the arcade Zero 2 Alpha; the same English restoration is also in the English builds of Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold.

What's in it​

  • Every story and ending page, in English and in Japan's order.
  • Evil Ryu's own ending, including his narration and his scene with Akuma.
  • All 452 Japanese win quotes, picked by opponent and remaining health. Hold buttons and a direction at the winning K.O. to pick one yourself.
  • English place names on the next-stage map.
  • Red blood, with a REGULATION operator setting for white blood, off by default.
  • Birdie's third victory pose, Dan's ending voice and a Manual guard panel that explains itself.
  • Japan's computer opponents, two-player damage and factory settings, including the Manual or Auto guard choice.
  • Capcom's later fixes for Charlie's Sonic Boom and Chun-Li's Kikoken.

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Ryu faces Akuma in the scene the English script cut.

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Evil Ryu has his own win quotes.

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The Manual guard panel explains itself.​

New in rc2​

  • The next-stage map names the place you're headed, in English, as in Japan.
  • Hold buttons and a direction at the winning K.O. to pick your win quote, as in Japan.
  • Computer opponents and two-player damage now follow the Japanese version.
  • A new REGULATION operator setting switches the blood to white; it's off by default.
  • Factory settings now match Japan, including the Manual or Auto guard choice at the select screen.
  • Dan's ending has his spoken line, and Charlie's Sonic Boom and Chun-Li's Kikoken get Capcom's later fix.
The set has new checksums, so rebuild it with the rc2 kit. Earlier versions are on the changelog.

Getting it running​

  • You need your own Asian Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha romset, sfz2al, merged, split or non-merged, as a .zip, a .7z or a folder. No game data is hosted.
  • The IPS kit builds the English restoration for MAME and HBMAME. The HBMAME set is sfz2alr.
  • On MiSTer, use the stock romset and the MRA kit with Jotego's jtcps2 core. It appears under _Arcade/_Arcade Patches/_Restorations/_Asia. Split sets also need qsound.zip.
  • MAME reports checksum warnings for the patched files. That's expected, and the game plays normally.
Full instructions are on the project page.

This is a release candidate. Bug reports and suggestions are welcome right here. Tell me which build you ran and what you saw.
 
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