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Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX. Version 1.12.3 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.
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Package summary
Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX
Project links
Commands and aliases
- zsdx
history
Project history and usage
The Legend of Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX is a free Zelda-style action RPG built with the Solarus engine. As a package, zsdx is both a playable fangame and a reference-sized example of a Solarus quest distributed through Unix package managers.
Project history
Mystery of Solarus DX sits in the Solarus project's origin story: Solarus began as a Zelda fangame effort and later became a reusable 2D action-RPG engine. The official Solarus game page presents Mystery of Solarus DX as one of the project's games and links it with Solarus documentation and walkthrough material.
The public GitLab project for solarus-games/games/zsdx was created on 2018-06-07, reflecting the move of the game's data and scripts into the modern Solarus Games source-hosting setup rather than the original early-2000s fan-project distribution path.
Adoption history
zsdx's audience is narrow but durable: Solarus players, Zelda fangame historians, and engine users who want a complete quest to inspect. Its inclusion in Homebrew makes the game easy to install as a packaged Solarus title instead of asking users to manually pair a quest archive with an engine build.
The game also functions as adoption material for Solarus itself. A complete quest with maps, scripts, assets, and walkthrough documentation is more persuasive for engine users than a minimal demo.
How it is used
Users launch the packaged `zsdx` command to play the quest. Developers and modders can study the GitLab project as a Solarus quest layout, including data files and Lua scripts used by the engine.
The official walkthrough is the practical user-facing documentation: it treats the package as a full game rather than a library or tool.
Why package nerds care
zsdx is package-nerd significant because it is game content packaged like a command-line program. It shows the awkward but useful boundary between an engine package and a quest/game-data package.
It is also a preservation case: package managers can keep a historically important open-source fangame installable even when its audience is much smaller than mainstream desktop games.
Timeline
- 2010s: Solarus grows from a Zelda fangame project into a reusable 2D action-RPG engine and game ecosystem.
- 2018-06-07: The solarus-games/games/zsdx GitLab project is created.
- 2020s: The official Solarus site continues to publish the game page and walkthrough for Mystery of Solarus DX.
Related projects
- Related projects include Solarus, Solarus Launcher, Zelda: Mystery of Solarus XD, Zelda: Return of the Hylian, and other Solarus quest projects.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 13 platform targets.
- Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.
Recommended review
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executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
zsdx | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version1.12.3
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://www.solarus-games.org/games/the-legend-of-zelda-mystery-of-solarus-dx
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.solarus-games.org/games/the-legend-of-zelda-mystery-of-solarus-dxnone confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:zsdx |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.12.3 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/zsdx |
| Homepage | https://www.solarus-games.org/games/the-legend-of-zelda-mystery-of-solarus-dx |
| Repository | https://gitlab.com/solarus-games/games/zsdx |
| Upstream docs | https://www.solarus-games.org/games/the-legend-of-zelda-mystery-of-solarus-dx |
| License | CC-BY-SA-4.0 AND GPL-3.0-only |
| Source archive | https://gitlab.com/solarus-games/games/zsdx/-/archive/v1.12.3/zsdx-v1.12.3.tar.bz2 |
| Dependencies | solarus |
| Build dependencies | cmake |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | zsdx |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment