Recreation of the pixel font from the japanese release of Nintendo's "Zelda no Densetsu: Yume o Miru Shima" (aka "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening", 1993) on the Game Boy.
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.
Note that in the original, the "?" and "!" feature very subtle antialiasing. This has been "flattened" for this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of an unused (?) pixel font found in the ROM for Konami's "Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance" (2002) and "Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow" (2003) on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance.
This font includes a full set of katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, likely positioned after the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single (16px wide) glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font from Konami's "Akumajō Special: Boku Dracula-kun" (1990) on the Nintendo Famicom. It includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters.
Note that in the game, the dakuten and handakuten are rendered as a character on the preceding line, while this recreation includes characters with these diacritics in the correct position in the correct character codepoints themselves - for this reason, the characters themselves are taller than 8 pixels.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the secondary pixel font from Pack-in-Games/Nihon Bussan's "Die Hard" (1990) on the PC Engine/Turbografx-16. This font is used for the dialog boxes.
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned after 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.
Recreation of the pixel font from Technōs' "Nekketsu Kōkō Dodgeball Bu" (aka "Super Dodge Ball", 1988) on the NES/Famicom.
The latin characters differ from the North American release.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned next to their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Clone of AV07 Ration MGS2, minus some of the larger bonus codec characters which impacted the intended character height of the font.
This is a clone of AV07 Ration MGS2Recreation of the pixel font from Tokuma Shoten/Telenet Japan's "Valis" (aka "Mugen Senshi Valis", 1987) on the Nintendo Famicom.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana, as well as a handful of 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.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Presenting Bandai's Famicom Jump: Eiyuu Retsuden (aka Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden (or in translated) Famicom Jumo: Heroes History), Released in 1988 for the Famicom (or 1989). The font includes a complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. And It's Similar to Dragonball 3: Gokuuden, Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu, Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu Kanketsu Hen, Devilman, Dragon Ball: Daimaou Fukkatsu and Dragon Ball: Shenlong no Nazo (or in Translated: Dragon Ball: Mystery of Shenlong).
First time creating a Japanese Font! Yay!!!
This is a clone of Dragon Power (NES)Recreation of the pixel font from Bandai's "Dirty Pair: Project Eden" (1987) on the Nintendo Famicom/NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana 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.
The game also includes a handful of katakana characters. As they were only limited to the few characters used on the start screen, these have been omitted. Otherwise, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Shouei System/Toei Animation's "Fist of the North Star" (aka "Hokuto no Ken 2: Seikimatsu Kyūseishu Densetsu", 1987) on the NES/Famicom.
The font includes an almost complete set of katakana characters. The missing glyphs have been added here, trying to keep the same style. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned next to their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Apart from the few katakana additions, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sunsoft's "Ufouria: The Saga" (aka "Hebereke", 1991) on the NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana 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.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Make Software/Capcom's "DuckTales 2" (1993) on the NES/Famicom.
This font includes the katakana characters from the japanese release. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned to the right of 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.
Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link" (1987) on the NES.
This font includes a full set of katakana characters. In the tile set, 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.
Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "DuckTales" ("Wanpaku Duck Yume Bouken", 1989) on the NES/Famicom.
Now includes the katakana characters from the japanese release. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned to the right of 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 DuckTales (NES)Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's original "Zelda no Densetsu: The Hyrule Fantasy" (1986) on the Famicom Disk System.
This font includes a full set of 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 Zelda no Densetsu 1: The Hyrule Fantasy (CRT)Recreation of the pixel font from Data East's "Captain America and The Avengers" (1991) on the NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana 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.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's cartridge re-release of "Zelda no Densetsu: The Hyrule Fantasy" (1986), renamed/numbered as "Zelda no Densetsu 1: The Hyrule Fantasy" (1994), on the Famicom.
The re-release uses that same alphanumeric characters of the North America/Europe release of "The Legend of Zelda" (1987), but otherwise all characters remain the same. Note that the dakuten is used in the initial story screen as a double-quote character (which oddly is also the case in the North America/Europe version, even though these have a separate double-quote character).
This font includes a full set of 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.
Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "SonSon II" (1989) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
This font includes a full set of hiragana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned after the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single (16px wide) glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Wai Wai World" (1988) on the Nintendo Famicom.
The original was only released in Japan, and contains a complete set of katakana, with a handful of latin characters (used mostly on the start screen). This recreation includes additional characters to complete the set of uppercase latin characters.
In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten for the katakana are separate tiles, and positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Apart from these changes, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
A combined recreation of the pixel fonts from the German, French, Italian, and Spanish versions of Nintendo/Game Freak/Creatures' "Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow" (1998) on the Game Boy.
Beyond the extra accented/special characters and the inverted exclamation and question marks, the most notable difference to the English version is a modified lowercase "m", a different "é", and the inclusion of "+" and "&".
Note that the "Pokédollar" character has been mapped to the regular "$" sign. The arrows are mapped to "Black Right-Pointing Triangle" (U+25B6), "White Right-Pointing Triangle" (U+25B7), and "Black Down-Pointing Triangle" (U+25BC).
The tile set also includes custom characters that combine letters with apostrophes (e.g. for dialog that includes something like "I'm ...", there is an actual glyph with "'m"). These have not been included in this recreation.
The font has been slightly expanded to include some of the missing accented uppercase/lowercase characters. Apart from that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow (English) (GB)Recreation of the pixel font from Technōs/CSG Imagesoft's "Super Dodge Ball" (1988) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Nekketsu Kōkō Dodgeball Bu (Famicom)Recreation of the pixel font from The Game Kitchen/Team17's "Blasphemous II" (2023).
Expanded slightly to complete the accented characters. Otherwise, only the characters used in the game have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Quintet/Enix's "Terranigma" (1995) on the SNES.
This recreation has been slightly expanded to include additional accented characters that weren't in the German, Spanish, or French translation.
Beyond these, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.