SamIAm and CyberWarriorX are no longer working on their English translation patch of Princess Crown, an Atlus action RPG released only in Japan exclusively for the Sega Saturn in 1997.
A message from SamIAm in the SHIRO Discord server reads:
“The Princess Crown translation project that CyberWarriorX and I were working on was not dead 18 months ago when eadmaster started using our stuff against our wishes. Even twelve months ago, we hadn’t given up, and we spent many weeks hurriedly tying up loose ends with the aim of getting our translation done first. But then we didn’t. CyberWarriorX and I didn’t contact each other for months after eadmaster’s final version was released. When we finally did, it was to admit that we were ready to abandon the project. Neither of us can find any joy in working on this thing any longer, and it is clear that time isn’t going to help. So let there be no mystery: Our translation project of Princess Crown really is dead now. God, what a terrible waste of time all of it was.”
The duo started their translation project sometime before 2014. That year, they made their work publicly available on GitHub seeking outside help. They kept working on the project themselves, later removing the GitHub page in 2020. In 2024, a patcher by the name of eadmaster posted a “v0.3” English patch. It was a fork of the GitHub code posted by the original team. Though eadmaster did not consult with SamIAm or CyberWarriorX, it is within his legal right to fork their project under the license it was originally posted under.
Right at the end of October of 2024, the original team posted a video showing their progress with the translation project.
Eadmaster finished his fork with help from others in the patching scene in 2025. It is a fully translated and playable English translation of the game. Its text builds from the translation SamIAm posted in 2014.
SamIAm has since made it known to SHIRO that he has revised the translation significantly since it was posted to GitHub, while CyberWarriorX focused on improving the text injection code. Per this recent message from SamIAm, it is evident the revised translation will not be released, though he has expressed interest in sharing the script if a PSP translation would like to use it:
SHIRO! has previously covered Princess Crown and the translation controversy, you can check out those articles here:
If anything changes or is updated in the future, we at SHIRO! will let you know.
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