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Here's my westminster ripoff I made in 2006 to use in a DOS game i was making but never really got anymhere with it...

TmEE wrote:Here's my westminster ripoff I made in 2006 to use in a DOS game i was making but never really got anymhere with it...

that is a shame, any plans to pick the game back up and work on it some more? what type of game was it?

What's the point of this thread when there is already a large font collection on RHDN ?

WhoaMan wrote:that is a shame, any plans to pick the game back up and work on it some more? what type of game was it?

I was 15 or 16 at that time, making a nice sidescrolling run 'n' gun ended up being a too big bite. Software rendering ate a ton of CPU time, also will to continue

zzo38 wrote:Other possible fonts you might want to have available for use with NES/Famicom includes the Commodore 64 font

I don't have the full set converted, but if someone were to need only the parts that would be used in games like SMB, Zelda 1, or Wheel of Fortune, then I have it in NES tile format already, as part of some personal "C64 font hacks" that I've done to replace the Namco font with the C64 one.

Figure I'd provide the font I mangled, mentioned in this post.

Nice font, koitsu. The only real issue I have after studying it would be that thick crossbar on the H. I personally think it would mesh better with some of the other glyphs (B, E, F) if its bottom line were erased, making it one pixel thick. For NES usage, it's a nice "small-cap" font.

LocalH wrote:Nice font, koitsu. The only real issue I have after studying it would be that thick crossbar on the H. I personally think it would mesh better with some of the other glyphs (B, E, F) if its bottom line were erased, making it one pixel thick. For NES usage, it's a nice "small-cap" font.

It's not "my" font -- see the reference post for where it comes from. If someone doesn't like something about it, by all means they can do whatever they wish to it. :-)

I'd say it's a great font, but the way it's layed out is weird, why is the hiragana split in two speparate halves ?

Bregalad wrote:I'd say it's a great font, but the way it's layed out is weird, why is the hiragana split in two speparate halves ?

If it bothers you, you can go right ahead and "fix" it -- the CHR file is there, have fun! And be sure to voice your discontent to Atlus/Namco since Megami Tensei 2 has the same "weirdness"! ;-)

I think I have an hypothesis to explain this weird layout.
If the katakanas were originally stored at $b0 - $df, then it might have been in an effort to follow the first JIS standard. Then they fitted hiraganas and other symbols where there was room.

EDIT : Here is the CHR-File with the kana order touched up so it makes more sense. I also used the empty room to fit all 80 of the 1st grade kanjis. (they are not directly readable in the CHR file as they take all 8 pixels of height, but if you add some whitespace between them vast majority of them are very readable).

Here's a typeface I made for my military style games, feel free to use it! The small caps characters and some symbols are leftovers from another font.

Looks like the X g and j characters are messed up (you should probably shift the font 1 pixel higher ?)

Just ignore those small caps font, it's just a leftover from my attempt to do a DOS-like font... not sure where's the problem with the X, though...?

It does not read as a X.

Apparently you tried to compensate the lack of a vertical empty row by adding an horizontal empty row, but in my opinion it doesn't work and the X character isn't really recognizable any longer.