News:

11 March 2016 - Forum Rules

Main Menu

A nice, simple (and specific) question

Started by Spooniest, May 20, 2011, 08:25:27 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

Spooniest

Not trying to cause a backdraft here, but...

Is there a utility that will allow me to wholesale replace the font in a Super NES game (say Final Fantasy VI), or must I edit the DTE table manually?

I have looked through the utilities to find one, but I do not see one, unless I am suffering n00b blindness.
Yamero~~!

Jorpho

A nice, simple (and specific) question with a horribly generic and undescriptive subject line.   >:(

It's not even that specific.  Surely it goes without saying that different games will have fonts of different sizes stored in different ways and in different places, such that no general utility could exist?
This signature is an illusion and is a trap devisut by Satan. Go ahead dauntlessly! Make rapid progres!

Spooniest

Good morning to you, too.

Many of the font examples on the fonts page are shown using Final Fantasy VI's intro screen. This gave me the impression that there is a simple way to change out the font in that game, which happens to be what I'm interested in.

Relax. Breathe.
Yamero~~!

Lenophis

Quote from: Spooniest on May 20, 2011, 08:25:27 AMor must I edit the DTE table manually?
This will confuse people. The DTE and the font have nothing to do with each other.

The fixed-width font starts at C4/8000 and ends at C4/8FBF. It's very easy to find with a tile editor of some kind *cough*yy-CHR*cough*


https://ff6randomizer.codeplex.com/ - Randomize your FF6 experience!

Spooniest

If, in order to alter the font, I must change the tiles in the ROM manually, what are the font files in the font section used for?

Apologies again for the bald-faced banality of the whole thing, but as has already been expertly pointed out, I have no idea what I'm talking about. :D
Yamero~~!

KingMike

I'm not sure why it's such a popular test image, but I do know that one FF3 editor (I forget the name, but I believe it was by... Yousei? Yousai?) had an option to import any Windows .ttf font file in the game.
"My watch says 30 chickens" Google, 2018

Spooniest

Hm. FFed doesn't seem to want to load any of the versions of the American Final Fantasy III rom...oh well

I'm not convinced you're not having a bit of fun with me, though.  ;D
Yamero~~!

Lenophis

Stay away from FF3Ed. It has this 100% accurate method of corrupting your rom. Either open a clean one, change the font as you see fit, and copy that over to your working rom or just use a tile editor to change the tiles. By the way, FF3Ed only works with v1.0 of the rom, with a header of course.


https://ff6randomizer.codeplex.com/ - Randomize your FF6 experience!

Azkadellia

What about FF3USME? It does what Yousei's FF3ED does and more.
Current Projects: On hold indefinitely.
I do the Twitter thing now: https://twitter.com/MistressSaeko (expect lots of game streaming announcements)
Mistress of the RHDN Discord server.

Spooniest

FF3usME doesn't seem to have an option for simply changing the in-game font.
Yamero~~!

Azkadellia

Current Projects: On hold indefinitely.
I do the Twitter thing now: https://twitter.com/MistressSaeko (expect lots of game streaming announcements)
Mistress of the RHDN Discord server.

Spooniest

#11
I think I tried using it, but it says it requires .dll files that I don't have and can't seem to find on google. I had given up looking for them out of fear of having to reinstall my OS...again.

As I've said above, and I'll say again, I'm really not a hacker. I'm a writer. I'm only doing this because I want to rewrite the dialogue in the game. I'm kinda compu-tarded.

May 20, 2011, 04:13:02 PM - (Auto Merged - Double Posts are not allowed before 7 days.)

Just in case someone's looking for something to do, the error message FF3usME v6.7 is giving me is

"The procedure entry point wmemcpy_s could not be located in the dynamic link library MSVCR100.dll."

I haven't got the slightest idea what this means. :D
Yamero~~!

Azkadellia

He offers the needed DLLs on his site.
Current Projects: On hold indefinitely.
I do the Twitter thing now: https://twitter.com/MistressSaeko (expect lots of game streaming announcements)
Mistress of the RHDN Discord server.

Spooniest

:/

May 20, 2011, 04:18:04 PM - (Auto Merged - Double Posts are not allowed before 7 days.)

Ok, it's working. Thanks Azkadellia and all of you for being good neighbors!
Yamero~~!

Azkadellia

Current Projects: On hold indefinitely.
I do the Twitter thing now: https://twitter.com/MistressSaeko (expect lots of game streaming announcements)
Mistress of the RHDN Discord server.