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Joe Musashi
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Namco arcade font

Post by Joe Musashi » 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:

Font_Namco.png
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Font_Namco_Shadow.png
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Font_Namco_Gradient.png
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To load one of them, in your resource file add:

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TILESET tileset_Font_Namco "Font_Namco.png"
and in you code:

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VDP_loadFontData(tileset_Font_Namco.tiles, 96, CPU);
For the gradient version you need to set a palette, or you can use the one from the PNG:

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PALETTE palette_Font_Namco_Gradient "Font_Namco_Gradient.png"
Have Fun!

danibus
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Re: Namco arcade font

Post by danibus » Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:44 am

Thanks ,very hepful.

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Re: Namco arcade font

Post by Sik » Thu Dec 31, 2020 6:13 am

Nitpick: technically it originates from Atari (specifically Quiz Show, though it took a couple of games or so until most characters settled down, particularly 0, 3, 4 and W, and even then most games would still tweak some character).
Sik is pronounced as "seek", not as "sick".

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Re: Namco arcade font

Post by Joe Musashi » Thu Dec 31, 2020 6:07 pm

Yup, I have seen it even on black and white Atari machines like Dominos (1977), but I did not know Quiz Show is considered to be the first one to use it (https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=quiz- ... il&id=3345)

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