Namco arcade font
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 7:23 pm
While, I'm at it ...
I've seen some demos and games on the Genesis that were using the classic Namco arcade font (e.g., from Pac Man). However, I did not find an SGDK "compatible" version, so I made one using the font files found here: http://www.zone38.net/font. The nice thing is that it also includes lower case letters.
Just in case anyone is interested, here are three versions as PNGs that you can directly import into SGDK:
To load one of them, in your resource file add:
and in you code:
For the gradient version you need to set a palette, or you can use the one from the PNG:
Have Fun!
I've seen some demos and games on the Genesis that were using the classic Namco arcade font (e.g., from Pac Man). However, I did not find an SGDK "compatible" version, so I made one using the font files found here: http://www.zone38.net/font. The nice thing is that it also includes lower case letters.
Just in case anyone is interested, here are three versions as PNGs that you can directly import into SGDK:
- Font_Namco.png (785 Bytes) Viewed 38774 times
- Font_Namco_Shadow.png (1.12 KiB) Viewed 38774 times
- Font_Namco_Gradient.png (1.34 KiB) Viewed 38774 times
To load one of them, in your resource file add:
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TILESET tileset_Font_Namco "Font_Namco.png"
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VDP_loadFontData(tileset_Font_Namco.tiles, 96, CPU);
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PALETTE palette_Font_Namco_Gradient "Font_Namco_Gradient.png"