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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 08:51:03 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   ugh
   I think this font format (BNFR/JNFR) stores the glyphs as nine bits per line.

   that is a terrible, terrible number

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 08:54:50 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's also got this weird thing where it seems like every other glyph lines up with bytes.
     so you can see the B and the D, but the C is all messed up.

   • Craig P (craigp@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 09:08:25 JST Craig P

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     @foone One of the data formats we're forced to work with uses seven bits of seven bytes. Then uses the last byte to reconstruct the eighth bit of the first eight bytes.

     We don't... know why...

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 09:08:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Craig P

     @Craigp yikes

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 09:13:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     so the file has three chunks:
     IMG1, which contains the pixels.
     WID1, which is the widths/sizes? flags?
     and CMP1, which says which glyphs are in the file, but annoyingly it seems to be "what glyphs are in the file after the obvious ones"

     So like, it just assumes that 32-127 are always in there.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 09:17:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     anyway I think I'm gonna dump the CMP1 chunk and then abuse an emulator into giving me all the raw glyphs. it's easier than figuring out this format

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 09:59:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     so the US/europe version seems to have 394 glyphs, and the japanese version has 984.
     I think I'm only going to extract the former because I would need to know more japanese to even try the latter

     CaptainArcee :win: repeated this.
   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 10:52:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I finished dumping it and stuck it in the death generator:

     https://github.com/foone/SierraDeathGenerator/blob/master/games/nintendogs/nintendogs-font.png

   • biggestsonicfan (biggestsonicfan@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 13:11:15 JST biggestsonicfan

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     @foone Still waiting on the GameCom Castlevania generator 😩

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 13:55:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • biggestsonicfan

     @biggestsonicfan someday

   • Dionicio3 Skiddo :skiddo: (dionicio3@gay.skid.do)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 14:45:29 JST Dionicio3 Skiddo :skiddo:

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     • Dionicio3 Skiddo :skiddo:

     @foone hey, the actual NDS IPL stores fonts in a similar way (at least with a JNFR header). I've been trying to figure out what data belongs to what as it's just 3 different fonts right next to each other in a single file. I know you're probably busy, but I'd like *something* that allows me to rip the fonts from the firmware and have appropriate glyph mappings. If you can help me, please PM me either here or on Discord (@Dionicio3)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 14:45:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Dionicio3 Skiddo :skiddo:

     @Dionicio3 oh interesting. I bypassed extracting the glyphs myself by letting the game do it, but I can maybe help. Where can I find the JNFR file that you're talking about?

   • Dionicio3 Skiddo :skiddo: (dionicio3@gay.skid.do)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 15:25:05 JST Dionicio3 Skiddo :skiddo:

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     @foone that's the fun part, it's not in it's own file. you need to find a dump of the NDS firmware, then use a tool like fwunpack and dig through the extracted gui_data.bin

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 15:25:05 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Dionicio3 Skiddo :skiddo:

     @Dionicio3 cool. I'll look at it tomorrow!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 09:09:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Dionicio3 Skiddo :skiddo:

     @Dionicio3 I got around to looking at it: this isn't the same format. There's none of the sub-chunks, so what I learned can't really help. Sorry!

   • Dionicio3 Skiddo :skiddo: (dionicio3@gay.skid.do)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 09:09:58 JST Dionicio3 Skiddo :skiddo:

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     @foone awesome, thanks