After 12 years, a seemingly abandoned fan translation for a lost Japanese action-RPG surfaced out of nowhere, but the original creators say it's "wildly obsolete"
Oct. 31, 2024“This kind of thing is widely considered to be disrespectful and poor etiquette in the game translation scene”
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Normally, the sudden release of a fan translation for a cult classic game would be a cause for celebration, but the launch of an English patch forSegaSaturn action-RPG Princess Crown has caused some ire in the community, as the original creators of the patch aren’t pleased that somebody’s taken up the torch in their apparent absence.
That’s why it was such a surprise last week when another modder called eadmaster suddenly published a Princess Crown translation based on CyberWarrriorX and SamIAm’s work toGitHub. It’s a very early build and has quite a few flaws - it’s got a fixed-width font that looks a bit awkward in places, it’s missing many minor pieces of translation, and it hasn’t been thoroughly bug tested. But it’s the only English version of Princess Crown you’re going to find out there.
The original creators aren’t happy to see their work brought back in this way, and following eadmaster’s release have posted a proper update video on their project while criticizing the derivative work.
In an interview with Saturn fansiteSega Saturn, Shiro!, eadmaster confirms that he didn’t contact the original team behind the patch. “Since they looked overwhelmed with requests in the past I didn’t try to contact them directly, I thought I would be just bothering them. So I’ve just posted some messages on these two forums announcing I was working on this.”
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A quick glance through theforum threadsandsocial media chatterthat have followed all this will tell you that the community’s pretty divided on who to support in all this, The original patchwasposted as an open-source project that anybody’s free to continue the work on, but equally eadmaster’s version of the patch doesn’t exactly present the original work in the best light. It seems, more than anything, people are frustrated that it’s taken this kind of drama to get any kind of update on the patch’s progress.
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