SKFONT.CG

Font data is contained in SKFONT.CG. This is a raw bitmap file with no header or footer.

Tiles are comprised of 338 bytes. Each character is a 26 x 26 tile, with each tile being a 4-bit grayscale image—0 is transparent and F is opaque. The tile data is 26 bytes in 13 rows, with each byte representing two pixels defined by a nybble, stacked vertically. The upper pixel is contained in the right nybble and the lower pixel in the left nybble—e.g. the byte 0F represents a fully opaque pixel above a transparent pixel.

This repository contains Mr. SKFONT, a tile editor created in wxPython for the express purpose of editing SKFONT.CG. Instructions can be found in the Scripts/gui directory of this repository. Its interface is modeled after CrystalTile2, which was previously the only tile editor that was capable of viewing the data in SKFONT.CG, albeit in a limited fashion.

The contents of SKFONT.CG are written into memory at 8ccd7ec0. Tiles that will not be used for translation purposes can be reused arbitrarily (e.g. for custom code) and pointed to with offsets starting at this address.

Notable Locations

Some of the descriptions of the tiles at these locations may not be accurate, and instead are suggestions for what to use as replacements.

Location	Contents
0xC216	Numbers 0-9
0xCF4A	Upper-case letters A-Z
0xF19E	Lower-case letters a-z
0x548	Period .
0x3F6	Comma ,
0x7EC	Colon :
0x93E	Semicolon ;
0xA90	Question mark ?
0xBE2	Exclamation point !
0xFD8	Single quotation mark '
0x127C	Double quotation mark "
0x23A6	En dash –
0x24F8	Em dash —
0x264A	Dash -
0x30DA	Opening single quotation mark ‘
0x322C	Closing single quotation mark ’
0x337E	Opening double quotation mark “
0x34D0	Closing double quotation mark ”
0x66FC	Yen sign ￥
0x684E	Dollar sign $
0x6C44	Number sign #
0x6D96	Percent sign %
0x6EE8	And sign &
0x703A	Asterisk *
0x718C	At sign @
0x8D46	?!
0x8E98	!!
0x28998	The largest block of kanji begins at this address through the end of the file. This character, 亜, has the Shift-JIS codepoint 0x889F. These can be used for any purpose where simple text replacement isn't possible, such as map labels defined in scripts. Refer to this table starting at the second column at the 88 9e row.
0x11D5A4	Blank space.