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[potatohead]

This thread rules!

[sometimes99er]

Well, I don't know why I didn't stop when I got to the 100 mark, but it's a bit of fun, and I guess I should be able to use the resource later. Here's 1986 KiKi KaiKai (Mysterious Ghost World) arcade by Taito.

[potatohead]

I'm glad you are doing it. Just used a few characters outta the collection today for a micro-game project. This is such a great resource! The TI graphics info was a good, interesting read as well. There are so many little, bizzare graphics trade-offs made in the old machines. Fun to know about.

[sometimes99er]

Always nice to know when someone finds this thread a tiny bit interesting, fun or useful.

This is Legendary Wings arcade by Capcom from 1986 added as font 0242.

[sometimes99er]

Ooh, I love this one. Ninja Masters arcade by ADK from 1996.

[sometimes99er]

Shadow Dancer arcade by Sega from 1989.

[sometimes99er]

See post #209.

Edited by sometimes99er, Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:04 PM.

[Opry99er]

Very informative and great work!!! That's a pretty cool setup you've got running there.... I liked the Cyber Run font as well. Very.... Cyber-ish....

[sometimes99er]

Classic99 now offers 16K VDP dump including 8 bytes of VDP registers. The latter tells us where to find the character patterns within the 16K VDP.

The process of extracting graphics (256 characters, not full bitmap), is simply to enable "Scroll Lock" (it's likely on your keyboard), and then press F10 (Dump RAM).

This video then demonstrates Limelight 1.4. Again the fonts/graphics saved can be used with utilities like Magellan, CartographPC and Grapefruit.

Edited by sometimes99er, Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:06 PM.

[OLD CS1]

What program do you use to capture your screen videos?

[sometimes99er]

OLD CS1, on Fri Feb 4, 2011 5:16 PM, said:

What program do you use to capture your screen videos?

Camtasia Studio 5

[sometimes99er]

This one should be from Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman by UEP Systems. Published 1999 for PlayStation.



Oh - fits 40 column mode too.

Edited by sometimes99er, Thu Apr 21, 2011 3:37 AM.

[sometimes99er]

Dig Dug II was mentioned with this one, but I was unable to confirm with images from different platforms, spinoffs and remakes.

[sometimes99er]

Gotta expand the Pineapple utility with the ability to search for pattern. First exact match or best match.

[OLD CS1]

I snagged this from the "Angry Birds" J2ME game. Can you use it?

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[sometimes99er]

Thanks. The font looks very nice. It requires 16x16 pixels for characters to fit. I've included a few 8x16 and 16x8 in the collection since you can experiment with these, although not in a straight forward manner, with the pineapple utility. I can't shoehorn a 16x16 into it, without some heavy redesign. The font you presented is non proportional (fixed size), which is good for now, 10 characters wide and 8 characters high, that's 80 characters. Each character takes 4 character patterns, so the set, as is, would require more than the standard 256 characters available with GM1 (ordinary graphic mode).



I have an unfinished demo or input for game laying around codenamed "big scroller". It only features uppercase, digits and limited punctuation in both 8x8 and 16x16 (takes up an awful lot of character patterns anyway). Scrolling 16x16 pixel characters (for short messages) looks very cool even at 8 pixel speed (has to update in sync with the frame update to be good).

[sometimes99er]

I like fontstruct.com !

I think it's relatively easy and intuitive to design an 8-bit font and create a TrueType font (typically ttf file extension). Excellent for PDF manuals, Flash retro games, utilities and much more.

[sometimes99er]

16 fonts added making it a total of 264 fonts.

[sometimes99er]

One more ...

[sometimes99er]

One more font added ...