diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/cegui/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/cegui/default.nix
index 1e884b3d8a81..0a1fd07e2508 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/cegui/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/cegui/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 { lib
 , stdenv
 , fetchFromGitHub
+, writeShellScript
 , cmake
 , ogre
 , freetype
@@ -13,7 +14,7 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   pname = "cegui";
-  version = "unstable-2023-03-18";
+  version = "0-unstable-2023-03-18";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "paroj";
@@ -47,6 +48,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   passthru.updateScript = unstableGitUpdater {
     branch = "v0";
+    # The above branch is separate from the branch with the latest tags, so the updater doesn't pick them up
+    # This is what would be used to handle upstream's format, if it was able to see the tags
+    # tagConverter = writeShellScript "cegui-tag-converter.sh" ''
+    #   sed -e 's/^v//g' -e 's/-/./g'
+    # '';
+    hardcodeZeroVersion = true;
   };
 
   meta = with lib; {