The email contained both a machine-translated English version as well as the original Japanese version. The Japanese text in the email is as follows:

こんにちは、TYPE-MOONのkiyobeeと申します。
返事が遅くなり申し訳ありません。

予め言っておくと、この返信は公式のものではなく、あくまで私個人のものであることをご了承ください。

我々のゲームを楽しんでいただきありがとうございます。
また、多くの人たちに広げようとしてもらえることは大変ありがたいことです。

お困りの点があるとのこと、出来ればお力になりたいと思います。

「Fate/stay night」のスクリプトはShiftJISという日本語文字コードで作成されています。ShiftJISでは日本語と英語のみ表現出来るため、挑戦されているポーランド語には対応していません。そのため、不具合が発生していることが考えられます。

吉里吉里はUnicodeにも対応していますので、スクリプトを一度Unicodeに変換した後、本文を書き換えることで対応できるかもしません。挑戦してみてください。

私の英語読解力が低いため、正しく問題を認識していないようでしたら申し訳ありません。

貴殿のプロジェクトがうまくいくことをお祈りしております。

The following is an English translation, with comments by the translator in brackets:

Hello, I’m kiyobee, from TYPE-MOON.
I am sorry for the late response.

First, please be aware that this is entirely my own personal reply, and not an official response [on behalf of TYPE-MOON].

Thank you for enjoying our game.
I’m very grateful that you are trying to spread this game to lots of people for us.

I’d like to be able to help you with your problems if I can.

Fate stay/night’s script is written in a Japanese text encoding called ShiftJIS. Japanese and English are the only fully supported languages that will display properly in ShiftJIS, and Polish, the language you have been trying to get working, is not supported. Because of this, I’d imagine that problems can occur with Polish.

kirikiri [the Engine used in Fate/stay night] also supports Unicode, so perhaps you can first convert the entire script to Unicode and then change the text. Please give that a shot.

My English reading skills are not very good, so I apologize if I did not fully understand the problem.

I wish you the best of luck in your project.

Kiyobee (清兵衛) worked on the programming aspects of Fate/stay night and frequents the TYPE-MOON support BBS, helping users with technical issues such as games crashing.

Fate/stay night is one of the most famous visual novels of the decade, telling the story of the Holy Grail War, a fierce battle between seven magi and the Servants they control. It was released by TYPE-MOON on January 30, 2004, was sequeled by Fate/hollow ataraxia late 2005 and got an anime adaptation by Studio DEEN and Geneon in 2006. The game was later ported to the PS2 as Realta Nua. The Fate universe has seen several expansions in forms of novels, manga and fighting games.

mirror moon translator TakaJun started working on the script and images of Fate/stay night late 2005, working silently for a few months to see if translating the game would be feasible. At April Fools’ 2006 the project was officially announced, the joke being that it was actually true. It then took over a year until the Fate route patch could be released, translating the first of the game’s three routes to English. Two years after the official announcement the second version was released, adding the second route Unlimited Blade Works. Now, after a total of three years of work, all three routes are translated with the release of Heavens Feel.

Edit: Due to a nasty bug a new version was released (v3.1), but for the voiced version of v3.1 another small fix is required. See the official post for details.

This release comes after a flood of drama concerning the long period since the last release in May of 2007. However, amongst concerns that the release of the final route, Heaven’s Feel, if not this patch itself would be canceled or delayed further, mirror moon has gone on to publish it.

This translation, as with other mirror moon translations, have bug report forum threads (details at mirror moon’s website). The following downloads are available:

• Direct HTTP Download (US)
• Direct HTTP Download (EU)
• Direct HTTP Download (AU)
• Torrent Download
• Rapidshare Download
• Megaupload Download

See the official announcement for more details.

Meanwhile ArchDemon and Ryuusoul are working through the Melty Blood and Melty Blood: ReAct story mode scripts, refining the translations and inserting them into the game. Approximately 40% of the script is finalized, some programming work still remains and image editing is also not yet completed.

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Easter Egg Update: The editing of Tsukihime is almost done and TakaJun is currently translating day 8 of Fate/stay night.

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