Pixelation
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: baccaman21 on April 23, 2008, 03:20:06 pm
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Hi all...
Just wondering if anyone had ever tried knocking up katakana/hiragana fonts in 8x8's?
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knocking up?
i'm sure some were pixelled for the gameboy etc, though i've never tried myself (don't have the same fascination with asia as many people...not that fascination is a bad thing, I'm taking Arabic next semester)
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I don't know much about japanese language, but I think if you need references, an old (NES, GB, GBA) japanese Zelda title (or the like, with much text) should provide enough inspiration. With a sprite / tile ripper you should be able to extract every needed character as reference.
Here's a link with some screenshots containing japanese text (http://itchstudios.com/psg/xexyz/turtle_game.htm) (Arne's Webpage)
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Hi Baccaman21 ;D
Did this for fun, good luck with your search.
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e199/sharprm/nihao2.gif)
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This one is quite nice, though it does not have uniform-width characters: http://www2.wind.ne.jp/maniackers/Hachipochi.html
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thnx chaps... much appreciated ;)
apologies for my lack of activity of late - new job = no time...
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I made a monowidth katakana one. I'll do the hiragana if anyone's interested, though that'll be a lot harder to squeeze into 8x8.
(http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/9930/kanawh4.png)
Edit: numbers and punctuation
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What did you reference? 'cause I can see several characters missing and non-existant characters in your sheet....
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Memory. What did I forget/add? atrkhmnswy, vd gbpnz, then the half-sized ones... i think that's all of them? ???
Edit: yeah, vis: http://www.saiga-jp.com/img/character/japanese_language/hiragana_katakana_list.gif (http://www.saiga-jp.com/img/character/japanese_language/hiragana_katakana_list.gif)
The ones I have that they don't are: va-vi-vu-ve-vo (a-i-u-e-o with the two dots) and half-size a-i-u-e-o; both of these are for constructing sounds not native to Japanese (such as "di," which is written de-small i).
Edit v: ahh, ok, fixing
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WA is missing.
Also there is no A, I, E O with ", only U.
And ideally you should put them in order, you know:
A I U E O
KA KI KU KE KO
SA SHI SU SE SO
TA CHI TSU TE TO
NA NI NU NE NO
HA HI FU HE HO
MA MI MU ME MO
YA - YU - YO
RA RI RU RE RO
WA WO N
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OK, fixed it up. :blind:
Edit: sigh. It's been too long since I studied Japanese. :durr:
(http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/8749/kanang1.png)
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Check your WA and U characters.. perhaps you got them mixed up..
Where's WA?
Why not make 1000 and 10,000 full height like 100?
10,000 is missing half a stroke.
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Practically, you are mixing U and WA.
For the record:
U= ウ
Wa = ワ
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Should be fixed, and I went ahead and did the hiragana as well. Hopefully I didn't mess those up. In other news, I hate the character for "po."
-Edited as per below.
(http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/4426/kanapq8.png)
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Uhm, you forgot "N" in hiragana.
The rest is fine, though Ba/Pa are a bit hard to read.