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Sorry for the radio silence on my end. Just to clarify so it doesn't get wings the story seems to originate from NeoGAF where it seems they misunderstood an earlier post dealing with the aftermath of my father's passing from a few years ago as a current affair.

GitHub project was an old build that I haven't updated in a long time since I've been using a private repository for a while now. So I decided there was no real point in keeping it up.

The current hold up is basically trying to juggle working on this with my work life.

Every adult works, that's not a personal real life issue, it's life. Again, no dispute over the project thread getting locked 8 months later with the last update, if you can consider the above an update, being about two years ago and the update before that, 5 years ago where he said there was a minimum of 2 months of work left. SamIAm here who is the translator had posted about his ongoing translation a few times long before the thread lock too (two years ago being the last time he commented about progress, post #378, with newer posts being about other stuff he's done unrelated to Princess Crown). We've seen far more elaborate projects start and release (or just get abandoned) so many times since this began so yes, it's quite disappointing to see haters so against the idea of someone else taking up the mantle and actually releasing something to the community you hate and find unhealthy. I tried to be nice and not post against the developers, I just present the facts and you're coming hard and fast with accusations and insults and acting like there are daily posts hating on the developers of this, nobody is hating, this is all volunteer work, projects die all the time, it's fine, it just would be so nice if this game actually gets a release from any other group or individuals with the skillset that shouldn't feel threatened by people like you jumping on their backs for having the nerve to actually work on it. I just wish to see Princess Crown in a way most of the world can understand and play it. You reply as if the "updates" I mention just to be 100% honest and factual were yesterday. In truth, all we have to go on is 4 screenshots with English text from 2013. That's it.

Edit: um, yeah, seeing your reply to the other guy (and me too), you seem out of touch with reality. No, the last update wasn't less than a year ago, no it's not an update that its main thread got locked, it got locked for lack of updates in years and you were literally told the developer said he's not working on it via e-mail! 2019-2021 that you mention out of the blue has nothing to do with this, the project in discussion (supposedly) started in 2013 and it's 2024!

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		SamIAm		Mar 19, 2012
			I made a post in the help-wanted section of romhacking.net..., but I thought I should appeal here as well. If anyone can handle the hacking, I can handle all the Japanese. Princess Crown is a Saturn game that can and should have a proper translation done. Please do let me know if you are interested! Email me at samuel.innes at gmail, and let's do it!

		television2000		Mar 21, 2012
			Hi welcome to the boards, About Princess crown I agree it's a really beautiful game, finished it 100% with all characters many years ago. About the hacking it been done to games like Shining force 3 and Dragon Force 2 so it's very possible. Actually, I managed to extract the files for castlevania (that was due to hack Vandal Hearts on the Saturn and add english text to the game). I went very far with it and almost got it working but stopped (HDD crash then converted to a Mac). It's very doable and you can do it yourself as well. Hope you get it working and have fun doing it. All the best.

		Alex		Nov 18, 2023
			I know this isn't really the right place but I didn't know where else to post, I searched for any more suitable thread with "Princess Crown" as the topic. So anyway, some time ago the famous Princess Crown fan translation thread on romhackin... was finally locked (and there's been no progress report or dispute about it in the 8 months that followed, as the moderator did say it could be potentially reopened for such). I really hope that this means other talented folks may now choose this gem of a game to tackle next without getting accused of doing or attempting anything in poor form or bad taste by any devout followers that still hope that 10+ year project will eventually see the light of day. Fingers crossed that we'll live to see/play it translated!

		TrekkiesUnite118		Nov 19, 2023
			Juggling work and working on the project is dealing with personal real life issues. If I was the lead of the project I'd be pissed seeing people going around labeling the project dead just because they're not being spoonfed updates constantly. Stop acting entitled. The unhealthy relationship this community has with this game is absolutely insane.

		eadmaster		Sep 26, 2024
			hope you don't mind necroposting, but since this is not locked maybe i can add something constructive here: - i have the original cyberwarriorx's github repo here..., forked by me before it was closed, so github repartented to my account even if i've added nothing to it - an English translated script... is included here already - in the past I've tried myself to turn this into a partial/usable game patch, but i guess it is still missing some parts - i have this API... that is able to poke into Retroarch memory at runtime, so in theory i could check for the text shown in the dialogs, and send other commands to show a custom textbox. This could turn into a easy/cheap way to get translated text into the game (obviously it will only work with this emulator, but still better than nothing i guess). Atm i am looking for the right memory addresses to poke for the text dialogs, if you can help post here or via PM.

		eadmaster		Oct 21, 2024
			UPDATE2 : i was able to replace some text using the original eventeditor... by cyberwarriorx + inject a Latin alphabet into KANJI.BIN with crystaltile2 (font size is 12x12, 0x400 chars, original table...): I will update the github repo soon with the code changes i have made and some test patches: GitHub - eadmaster/pcrown: Princess Crown Translation GPL Edition

		Searcher		Oct 23, 2024
			This is very exciting! I look forward to more progress. Wish I had the technical expertise to help you.

		eadmaster		Oct 26, 2024
			I was able to reuse most of work done by CyberWarriorX and SamIAm, so i didn't start from scratch.

		Danthrax		Oct 26, 2024
			If you've already applied the patch, open up Track 1 in a hex editor and change the 07 to a 04 at these three locations: 0008F17C 0008F194 0008F1A8 That decreases the spacing between letters: Also, the patched game works in Mednafen version 0.9.48 (maybe others?) without a GUI as well as Yaba Sanshiro, but not Bizhawk or SSF. But if you convert the patched ISO back to a BIN (and change the CUE file to reflect that change) Bizhawk will run it. (SSF still won't.)

		Plombo		Oct 26, 2024
			What setup are you using to build this from source? src/CMakeLists.txt looks like it wants a specific MSVC build of Allegro, but this commit... suggests you're using MinGW, so I'm not sure where to start.