/vr/ - Retro Games

Probably part of some development kit.

earliest instance i've seen her was on galaga or pacman, whatever came first

I find dev kit fonts fascinating, wish there was more info on it

searching 'console dev kit fonts' returns useless stuff

I want to know if Megadrive had a default font

>>2157384
Pac-Man, obviously. Galaxian came before Galaga.

I can't claim to know a whole lot about it, but my suspicion is that, since there were far fewer fonts at that time and they were painfully difficult to make for electronic use, that font was probably adopted as the standard for arcade games out of limited options.

Could've been because it was offered in formats that were most compatible with the hardware arcades used, could've been because someone got in on some arcade dev racket, who knows.

>>2157206
Theyre called 5x5 pixel fonts. Its not just a single type family its a way to emulate different kinds of typefaces in a 5x5 pixel format.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZQQAZpBvIw

>>2157454
was too lazy to look up

>>2157497
What the fuck are you talking about? They aren't 5x5 at all

>>2157502
The fact that you don't already fucking know means you're too young for this board.

>>2157497
>Theyre called 5x5 pixel fonts.
Are you retarded?

>>2157508
i wished, i dont give a shit either way
also ur full of shit most of the userbase are nes kiddies who never played that shit

>>2157512
Please, I'll show you the way out.
>>>/v/

>>2157384

If it's not a man or a woman, you must use the pronoun "it". It applies to chairs, dogs, and even fonts.

>>2157512
>>2157515

You're both faggots fuck off.

>>2157526
dont degrade the font. shes a beautiful font.

>>2157526
um wow if the font wants to be called a she it's her own damn business you literal shitlord

>>2157508
Wow, fuck off with this elitist shit.

>>2157206
This is weird. I was literally just searching for and downloaded this font yesterday. And now here this thread is.

>>2157508
Do want a Trivia Champ trophy or something, asshole?

>>2157508
Because you know the release date of every retro vidya/console/machine, right?
Stop being such an ass.

I always thought it was some sort of coincidence, like this was the best they could do with limited pixels, so every game looked like it had the same font.

>>2157526
>being this intolerant
Fonts can identify as her/his/xir or whatever they want without catering to your bigoted gender binary system.
god/goddess where's the trigger warning

>>2157507
>>2157509
The OP font is 8x8

That's why there are fonts like these, they're readable at very low resolutions.

Basically, the size you wanted your text determines what font you use at low resolutions since there's not much room for variety.

I'd guess that it's just from some really cheap and widely used character set rom.
Since then it's been copied pretty much everywhere.

>>2157526
Maybe in english, its a shitty language but everyone uses, like mlp.

>>2158140
>English is a shitty language
>Having this little understanding

>>2158151
How its going your bidet?

>>2157508
Fuck those other guys I agree with you.

>>2157512
Autism at its finest.
I'd be surprised if you knew what "NES" stands for.

>>2158324
non-employed shitposter

>>2158140
As an English speaker who is currently teaching himself French, fuck you. Arbitrary gender pronouns for inanimate objects is stupid as shit.

>>2158914
>having gender-specific pronouns at all

>>2158324
To be fair caring about an old computer font at all is pretty autistic in itself.

>>2158939
>he
>she
>his
>her

Yeah, we should get rid of those.

>>2158992
the chinese have.

>>2159009
I imagine that can lead to confusing conversations though, you'd have to constantly refer back to the subject everytime to say their version of "it" or whatever it is.

>>2158914
As a native French speaker, I can tell you it's easy for us to learn which pronoun applies to which item/concept.
As children, as far as we know this is the only way to do things, so it makes sense.
When I found out English speakers only use "it" when talking about anything that's not a person, I thought it was genius. It's so simple and convenient.
Translating pronouns from English to French can be a giant pain in the ass, while French to English is easy.

In other words, I can see how confusing and needless it might seem to non-native speakers. Even we get it wrong sometimes.

>>2159009
>>2159009
While spoken, he/she/it sound exactly the same. While written, they are different (他/她/它), but while most words that had a gender variation lost said variation over time, he/she/it actually remained (the difference being noticable only when written).

>>2159016
It's usually clear, but the subject does come back a lot, as you said.