The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (GB)
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Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening" (1993) on the Game Boy.
This recreation includes the special/accented characters from the french and german releases of the game. In game, the characters with a diaeresis use an additional tile above them - in this recreation, the characters have been combined properly (and as a result, the height of the font overall is greater than 8px).
As an aside, this font was also used for the fan translation of "For frog the bell tolls" (aka "カエルの為に鐘は鳴る" / "Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru", 1992/2011).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Updated 9 July 2022 to include additional accented uppercase characters, and the star icon.
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Info:Created on 28th June 2018. Last edited on 9th July 2022.
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@zephram yeah, whenever i manage to find a very complete font in my research, i'm equal parts excited and terrified about the amount of work :)
oh crikey, i missed that reference completely even though i've been playing it recently (for the first time). then again, i now have the power bracelet anyway :)
Hi, I looked in the French version and I found other characters, like the "À" (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE), the "È" (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE), and the "Ó" (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE); can you add them? Thank you!
@verusca I just "sourced" the french and german versions, so will have a look
Sorry, I didn't specify how I got these characters: I replaced a random string in the ROM with every byte from 0x00 to 0xFF.
@verusca ah, I see. yeah, digging into the actual tiles, I don't see the uppercase accented ones, as they're made up of two tiles stacked vertically. I'll dig some more and use your screenshot there as reference, but: is there any chance there might be more such accented uppercases anywhere? Any uppercase with a circumflex accent etc?
@verusca sorted...worked out where the tiles were that make up the composite/accented characters, and backfilled all other uppercase accented ones
A nice Italic pixel font. I like you kept the original color palette on the demo pictures. 10/10
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