sandwichdeer.bsky.social
He/him, 23 y.o., queer, taken 🏳️🌈
Furry, jack of all trades, master of none. I draw sometimes.
Solo game developer @wts-dev.bsky.social.
Did you see that cool bug earlier?
[aka paraK00PA on some platforms!]
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omg what a soft cutie
I love thembs
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oh I hadn't even thought about that lol
maybe this *is* the entire font and it's only used to display the scenario select + options page
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in any case, I hope this helps in some way 😭 it feels like you can juuust barely start to piece a plot together, but there's nothing that jumps out at me that would provide any clues as to this game's identity lol
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(edit cuz i can't change the original post)
that brings us to only 224 tiles, I miscounted
and I wasn't sure if the font was originally arranged this way or if it was one of the things that had been reassembled
I do still think there are probably more font characters stored separately
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This suggests that these might represent just a single bank of character graphics, and that the others that appear to be "missing" might be stored elsewhere
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also something to note - you mentioned that you'd rearranged some of these graphics
I think the little E shape represents the upper-left corner of 果, which appears later
and the upper-left corner of プ seems to have been sandwiched in with ー
rearranging these in gives you a nice even 256-tile block
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It's difficult to piece much more than that together
Most of these feel like they'd be shown in an introductory sequence describing the plot, but it almost feels like there are characters that should be here that are missing (note the absence of particles は and が for example)
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others, roughly in order of appearance
覇者 "supreme ruler"
命令, "decree"
果てしない, "endless"
戦, "war"
宇宙, "space"
方へ, roughly "in the direction of X"
文書 "document" - the character 秘 also appears earlier, which could hint at 秘密文書 "classified documents", but I can't find 密 anywhere
緊急 "emergency"
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From here, there are a few words we can piece together
選択, probably "options"
決定, "decision"
名前の登録, "name registration" (note that there are two の, one within the phrase and one stored elsewhere)
these three are terms I might expect to see on a settings menu
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I'm also under the assumption that they're stored roughly in the order they're used
If we look at the first two rows of characters it's fairly easy to piece together the sentence シナリオを選んで下さい, "Please select a scenario"
I've highlighted the relevant characters in the font
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I wouldn't consider myself fluent in Japanese at all, but I did notice some patterns in the 16x16 character graphics in the upper left of the greyscale image
There's a full 8x8 kana font under these, but it seems like they've only stored the 16x16 characters they'd need
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omg the bob haircut is really cute
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LOL
I've been messing with PC Engine stuff lately so maybe I'll give it a go
I need to start my blog back up sometime
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bwomp
www.pcengine.co.uk/HTML_Games/G...
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this has happened to me so many times it's absurd 😭
I used to worry about it a ton, but I think it's just kinda natural to (unintentionally) subconsciously borrow little musical ideas and bits and pieces of songs you enjoy, and that's okay
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commenting so I remember to check this out later
I love doing deep dives lol
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wow, rude 🐴