Recreation of the main pixel font from the Japanese version of Nihon Falcom's "Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished: Omen" (aka "Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished", "Ys: The Vanished Omens", 1987) on the Sega Master System.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Note that the original font also included a small error, where a pixel from や (U+3084, hiragana letter Ya) is mistakenly added to the right of も (U+3082, hiragana letter Mo). This mistake is included in this recreation as well.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Technōs/Acclaim's "Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone" (aka "Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones", 1991) on the NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Note that the Japanese version uses a different/thin exclamation mark. This recreation only includes the bold version of the exclamation mark used in the European and US versions.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "SD Snatcher" (1990) on the MSX2.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the game's tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are stored in a separate tile. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph. The dakuten and handakuten are not 8 pixels wide, and when used in game, they only take up as much width as necessary, making the Japanese text variable width/proportional. The latin characters, however, are all monospaced.
The game also includes a large number of Japanese idiographs. These have not been included in this recreation.
Except for the idiographs, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Irem's "Kaiketsu Yancha Maru 2: Karakuri Land" (1991) on the NES.
Despite being a Japan-only release, the game only has a partial/incomplete set of hiragana, and only a handful of katakana characters.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.