B/W Fonts

[whatever]

Hello,

Does anyone know which files in the B/W file system contains the fonts used in the game?

Did anyone ever extract them to usable bitmaps? I need them for a project you'll soon be learning about. :creep:

Thanks!

[Poryhack]

I forget the exact location but fonts in this gen are stored in the more standard Nitro format for fonts. Look for a NFTR (rftn) extension. There's a very good editor/viewer for them here but unfortunately there seems to be something slightly different about BW's NFTR files so they don't load.

[Andibad]

BW is used new format. I have that tools but is only pokemon games.

I was replace with typing ds. Result: oversize

[Kaarosu]

I was playing around with these at Sabre's request a couple of weeks back, http://lunabits.org/random/fontstuff.zip and http://lunabits.org/random/CMAP0.tbl.txt is where i stopped at but feel free to use them if you can

[whatever]

Kaarosu, thanks for that. Do you still know how to extract them?

Your BMPs are not 100% what I need, because the character width information is lost.

Check out the blue background box for "i" and "j", they indicate there's one pixel additional space on the right side:

This is the format I need the font in. Any further help is appreciated!

[Kaarosu]

yeah as I said I stopped cause I got side tracked, checked my logs for the size (12x15).

As for the method I used CrystalTile2, under tools it has an option called NTFR editor though sadly I do not recall what narc it was contained in

Edit:

As I hit post it came back to me somehow it's located in a/0/2/3

Edited April 26, 2011 by Kaarosu
just remembered

[whatever]

Thanks Kaarosu. Looks like they stored the font width information in a different way in this generation.

[whatever]

I found out how the font width is stored. There are three values right before the pixel data.

The first one defines how much spacing there is before a character. The second one defines how wide the character data actually is, the third one is for the complete width including pre-spacing and after-spacing.

For the small letter "i", these values are 00, 02, and 03.

[Kaarosu]

i'm sure others will find this info helpful, nice job and looking forward to see what your project will be