Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold

Zero 2 Dash, rebuilt for CPS-2 hardware

Game

Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold / Zero 2 Dash (2006 PlayStation 2 anthology revision)

Hardware

Capcom CPS-2

Version

rc3

Updated

2026-09-17

The four builds

About

Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold, known as Zero 2 Dash in Japan, was the console revision of Alpha 2 that added Cammy as a playable fighter, first on PlayStation and Saturn and in final form in Capcom's 2006 PlayStation 2 anthology. It was never released on arcade hardware. This project rebuilds the anthology's edition as a real CPS-2 game.

It is a faithful reconstruction, not a remix. It starts from the original arcade Zero 2 Alpha program and restores the anthology's changes piece by piece: Cammy, her graphics, the audio, and the endings, each one checked against the PlayStation 2 original. Four regional builds are provided, shown below. The English builds also carry the full Japanese script, newly translated: every story and ending page, Evil Ryu's own ending, and all 452 win quotes.

This is a release candidate. All four builds are complete and verified against the reference. The 4 MB builds have been run and accepted in MAME, and the 8 MB builds are verified by content and checksum.

What's included

• Cammy restored as a playable fighter, with her graphics, palettes, voice, sound effects, win poses, and ending
• Shin Akuma selectable: press Start five times on Akuma at player select
• The revised title, presentation, and staff-credit screens for each region
• In the English builds, the full Japanese script in English: every story and ending page, Evil Ryu's own ending, and all 452 win quotes, plus red blood and Birdie's missing victory pose
• Four regional builds: USA (Alpha 2 Gold), Europe (Alpha 2 Dash), Japan (Zero 2 Dash), and an English Asia (Zero 2 Dash)
• 4 MB builds for real hardware and stock MAME, plus 8 MB builds carrying Cammy's full audio for HBMAME and MiSTer

New to the roster

How it's distributed

Each build is put together on your own machine from files you already own. You need:

• your own PlayStation 2 anthology disc image: Street Fighter Alpha Anthology, or Street Fighter Zero — Fighter's Generation for the Japan set
• your own arcade Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha romset: sfz2al, plus sfz2alj for the Japan set

A small tool reads the revised game from your PlayStation 2 disc image, combines it with your arcade Zero 2 Alpha romset, and writes out the finished CPS-2 build.

Two sizes of each build are produced. A 4 MB set stays within original CPS-2 limits and runs on real hardware and stock MAME. An 8 MB set carries Cammy's complete voice and sound-effect audio, more than an original board could hold, for HBMAME and MiSTer (Jotego's jtcps2 core).

The builds

Download

Tools updated 2026-09-20. Game version unchanged.

Merged, split and complete archives and extracted ROM folders are accepted. Use --rompath /path/to/roms (repeatable) and --check to verify arcade inputs before rebuilding from your disc. 7z needs installed 7-Zip; ZIP does not.

The kit is our reconstruction code and a short list of byte patches. Everything else is rebuilt on your machine from files you already own.

What you supply

• your own PlayStation 2 anthology disc image: Street Fighter Alpha Anthology, or Street Fighter Zero — Fighter's Generation for the Japan set
• your own arcade Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha romset: sfz2al, plus sfz2alj for the Japan set

How to build

unzip sfa2-gold-rc3-kit.zip -d sfa2-gold
cd sfa2-gold
python3 apply.py --iso "Street Fighter Alpha Anthology.iso" \
                 --romset sfz2al.zip --region us --out-dir out

Release history

rc3 (2026-09-17)

• The English builds (USA, Europe and Asia) now carry the whole Japanese script in English. Every story and ending page is back, in the Japanese order, including scenes the English version cut short.
• Evil Ryu has his own ending again, with his narration and his scene with Akuma, instead of borrowing Ryu's.
• All 452 win quotes from the Japanese game, in English, picked by opponent and remaining health the way the Japanese game does it, and centered on screen. Cammy keeps her four Gold quotes.
• Story, ending and quote text is translated from the Japanese. Where Capcom's English said the same thing, it's kept.
• Red blood on hits in the English builds, as in Japan.
• Birdie's third victory pose is back; the English builds showed another pose in its place.
• The Manual guard panel on the select screen now explains itself. It appears when the operator turns on Auto Guard.
• Every set has new checksums, so rebuild them with the rc3 kit.

rc2 (2026-08-27)

• Fixed a sprite corruption that appeared during the attract sequence.
• Polish improvements to the title screens across all four regions.
• All four builds are rebuilt and set checksums have changed, so rebuild your sets with the rc2 kit.

rc1 (2026-08-25)

• First public release.

Related projects

• Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha, the same English restoration on the arcade Zero 2 Alpha, without the Gold additions
• CPS+, pair these sets with the arranged Saturn soundtrack on MiSTer, using the Gold Arrange MRAs in the CPS+ kit, which load them directly

Notes

• The 8 MB builds hold more QSound audio than an original CPS-2 board supports, so they run only on HBMAME and MiSTer, not real hardware.
• This is a fan reconstruction, unaffiliated with Capcom. The kit ships no code or data from the anthology or the arcade game. The sets are built from discs and roms you already own.