Japanese Saturn classic Princess Crown now finally fan translated

After more than a decade of work from several fan translation teams, Atlus’s beloved Sega Saturn classic RPG Princess Crown (1997) is finally translated into English. The final release of the translation is available to download now and patch into your digital copy of the Saturn game files that you mysteriously obtained.

As reported by Sega Saturn Shiro!, release candidates of the translation were made public at the start of this month of April 2025. On April 18th, the final version of the translation had been completed and put up on the Github page for the project. Before all that, though, a different group consisting of SamIAm and CyberWarriorX had began efforts to translate the game and uploaded an unfinished build in 2014, only to leave their efforts for the current team to eventually pick up and build upon last year, making this a rather special translation in and of itself.

If you love this classic game from the team who would, years later, bring you games like Dragon’s Crown and Unicorn Overlord, then you’ll want to check out this fan translation for sure, so head on in after the break for the download link.

You can download the fan translation patch from its Github page, which also has instructions for how to apply the patch yourself. They also have a dedicated online patcher that will work directly from your web browser without you needing to download the patch. More improvements will be made to iron out a few remaining minor bugs later on, so keep checking back for newer versions of the patch.

One of the translation team members, Paul Met, also made another separate optional patch to add in some extra QoL improvements, such as increasing the video resolution and adding transparency effects to text boxes. The online patcher can add those in along with the translation for you if you so desire. It’s also available to download from the Team Meduza website, along with similar improvement patches for many other popular Saturn games.

Have you played Princess Crown before? Do you own a copy to patch with this new translation? Are you fans of Vanillaware’s later games like the aforementioned Dragon’s Crown and Unicorn Overlord? (The latter has a demo, if you’d like to try it now.) Tell us all about it in the comments below.

Special thanks goes to our friends at Sega Saturn Shiro! for reporting this news and providing some extra info.