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Recreation of the main proportional pixel font from Ape Inc./Hal Laboratory's "EarthBound" (1994) on the SNES.
Note the superscript double zeroes have been mapped to "horizontal ellipsis" (U+2026).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
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I think this should be my heading as well: "Earthbound" ..been in the FS-astroplane for far too long.
Anyway, there seems to be no stopping you, ain't it? I wonder what your process is for gathering source material for all these recreations?! Do you extract a font from eproms or are you digging within a running game for fonts?
@Sed4tives my process is a mix ... for arcade games, I peep through the tiles in MAME. for console games, I try to find the fonts in the VDP/Tile viewer options in Bizhawk. Some games are particularly stubborn though, so I have to sometimes open the rom file itself in a separate tile viewer (Binxelview) (that was the case for this one, as the characters weren't showing up in the regular video memory viewer in Bizhawk). For PC/Amiga/Atari games, I often have to resort to simply playing the games, taking lots of screenshots, and hoping that I capture all possible characters (so I'm often very grateful for things like high-score entry screens, or load/save screens where I can freeform a text entry to try and see any characters I may have missed).
Beyond that, it helps that I have no life :) and that I do love playing old games and that I'm always on the lookout for things that I might have missed during my childhood...
@Sed4tives - To echo Redux's techniques: for video arcade games, I use MAME (screenshots, high scores entries & ROM tiles); for PC games, screenshots and load/save screens. For certain PC game brands (think Sierra or LucasArts), there are resource viewers available.
Yeah I get it, basically whatever means are available and most practical probably.. I can imagine the kind of rewarding feel u guys must get when truly having to play a game and that at some point you run into a screen that shares a lot of characters. (Easter Egg-like axionzz)
I share a similar addiction with synthesizers. As a hardcore pro-audio gear collector and amateur/hobbyist electro engineer I often have to be inside of the equipments, and for some useless crazy reason many manifacturers leave tiny hidden easter-eggs inside their products. Once I found out about this it has been a all out treasure hunting.. lol
Here is a collection of such 'Easter Eggs' inside electronic devices... so addictive, lol
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