Recreation of the pixel font used for the menu and options screen in Konami's "Castlevania: Bloodlines" (aka "Castlevania: The New Generation", 1994) on the Sega Mega Drive. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
A thin proportional font, based on the title sequence of the Bitmap Brothers' "Chaos Engine" (1993).
Designed to be used aliased at a size of 9px (or multiples thereof).
Originally created in 2004 based on the Amiga version, and extended in 2012. Repackaged in 2022, with a small tweak to the exclamation, question, and quote marks, and the addition of the ampersand from the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and SNES versions.
Last (hopefully) final tweaks now 27/08/2022, fixing the "G", "V", "X", "1", "9", adding a copyright symbol, and tweaking the spacing and vertical position of some of the punctuation marks, referencing the SNES version some more.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Streets of Rage" (aka "Bare Knuckle", 1991) on the Sega Mega Drive. Only the characters used in the game have been included.
Minor update 2 Dec 2018: referring back to the actual tile set in the game's ROM, added the "?" and apostrophe, and corrected ":" and ";"
Recreation of the pixel font used for the intro cinematic and end credits in Konami's "Castlevania: Bloodlines" (aka "Castlevania: The New Generation", 1994) on the Sega Mega Drive. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Castlevania: Bloodlines (Menu)Recreation of the primary pixel font (used for the title screen and highscores) from Rainbow Arts/Factor 5's "Turrican" (1990) and "Turrican II" (1991) on the Amiga. Note the special characters mapped to "lightning" (U+2607), "skull and crossbones" (U+2620) and "black heart suit" (U+2665).
The same font - with a reduced number of special characters - was also used in "Mega Turrican" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and the first "Super Turrican" (1993) on the SNES.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Imagineering/Arc Developments' "The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants" (1991) on 16bit systems (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga, Atari, MS-DOS).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Megasoft/Sega's "Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master" (aka "The Super Shinobi II", 1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Note that, for visual consistency, the ";" character has been shifted one pixel lower. The game uses two different single quote characters, but only the most distinctive has been used.
For completeness, a custom ">" character has been added. Otherwise, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega/Western Technologies Inc.'s "X-Men" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive.
Note that the game uses two different exclamation marks - this recreation only includes the one that's consistent with the rest of the punctuation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Headgames/Sega's "X-Men 2: Clone Wars" (1995) on the Sega Mega Drive.
In the game, the characters use two separate shades of the same color to give a subtle antialiasing/slimming effect. In this recreation, this antialiasing has been removed, and the characters are all one solid color.
Also note that this is not a true monospace font due to the copyright symbol, which is double wide.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Delphine Software's "Shaq Fu" (1994) on the SNES. Identical to the pixel font from the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis version, but with a handful of additional special characters. This recreation also includes additional ";" and straight double quotes characters. Apart from that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from the Sega CD version of Konami's "Snatcher" (1994). With the exception of a few special characters ("=", "[", "]", "\", "|", "$") only the characters used in the game have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Virgin Games' "RoboCop versus The Terminator" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from Konami's "Castlevania: Bloodlines" (aka "Castlevania: The New Generation", 1994) on the Sega Mega Drive. This font is used for the map, level start/end messages, and boss names in the end titles. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the main pixel font from LJN/Software Creations' "Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage" (1994) on the SNES and Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the main pixel font from Acclaim/Software Creations' "Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety" (1995) on the SNES and Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large (16x16) pixel font from LJN/Software Creations' "Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage" (1994) on the SNES and Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from the european/north american release of Climax Entertainment/Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from the japanese release of Climax Entertainment/Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Compared to the european/north american release, the alphanumeric and punctuation characters are all shifted by one pixel to the left, and one pixel down. The "U" is also different, and the font lacks a lowercase.
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Shining Force (Small)Recreation of the small pixel font from the european/north american release of Climax Entertainment/Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is unusual, as each character not only comprises two tiles (for its height), but also features characters that are wider than the maximum 8px tiles. In the game's tile set, this was achieved by using a custom encoding, where a single tile contains the combined values for two horizontal tiles.
See this short Twitter thread for a little dissection of the tile set.
The width of each character is also variable and encoded in the bottom tile for each character. Unfortunately, I was unable to work out the logic behind the width information bits - so, for characters used in the game, the correct width was matched manually, and for any characters not encountered (yet) in any of the dialog boxes, I took an educated guess...
Due to the complexity of this encoding, I won't tackle the hiragana/katakana large font from the japanese release.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included
Recreation of the small pixel font from the european/north american release of Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force II" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from the japanese release of Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force II" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Compared to the european/north american release, the alphanumeric and punctuation characters are all shifted by one pixel to the left, and one pixel down. The font also lacks a lowercase.
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Shining Force II (Small)Recreation of the primary pixel font from Konami's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist" (aka "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder", 1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
The game uses a crisp, non-antialiased version of the same font used in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1989) and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time" (1991) arcade machines. The same font was also used in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time" (1992) Super Nintendo port.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the italic/slanted pixel font from Konami's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist" (aka "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder", 1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is used in the initial title crawl and in the dialogs/cutscenes. The same font was also used in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time" (1992) Super Nintendo port.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.