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DChronos · 09-01-2007

tERROR, I don't think someone that has little to no interest in creating a font by hand would have interest in trying to use, let alone use the font they make with it. The font sizes are very small, so creating your own font is easy. You can't make a font in paint and then send the images into the M6... unless you have a tool to make fonts with from images. This tool only takes fonts you get that OTHER people have made and put them on, but I can guarantee that converting a font from one size to another of such a small size is going to make all the glyphs work. In fact, it won't. They will need some adjusting, so a creation to to view and edit the glyphs is a GOOD idea.

Now for those that actually have the interest to create a font only they themselves are gonna use anyway, more than likely, or those that are actually good at graphics design (me, for one), we would probably be very interested in making new M6 type fonts. I sure as hell would, and the best way to make a font of this size specifically for this device is to make one. Impoting is a great idea, but some fonts won't work too well with it, only basic fonts like arial that are clear and precise would work very well, as far as I can tell from dealing with small fonts.

I have one font style I would love to make, since it doesn't exist outside color images, and that's the Megaman X font. It's a font of that size, and is even a block style font that has a set width and height. There are tons of game fonts like that, too, that are small, and they would need to be made by a font creation tool that can make actual glyphs and save them as a FONT, not a picture, which I already got.

Anyway, for such small sizes, I think many people could get into messing with it, and if anything, if Asmo has a file with the default font for the M6 to load back up... well, I guess just reloading the resource would do that... then there isn't anything you can hurt by messing with a font template and changing some thing by hand to look the way YOU want them to.

Someone, please get a screenshot of a new font that's easy to see it's completely different, and thanks in advance!

Also, seriously... anything someone that would like to take on the task of making that edits to look and style of the graphics would kick ass. Maybe soon, we'll be able to adjust the sizes of some things to fix some things... such as the difference in height between characters in the browser and main menu which messes up selection bars, and the palcement of them.

I'm really waiting for the day someone finally cracks the M6.EBN file and finds out how to add their own new stuff. If people that could do that were here and had the passion XBOX 360 crackers have, then it would be done in a week. I just read read about a device some people have built that can read off the hard drive and flash teh firmware in the dvd drive in them.

09-01-2007	#9 (permalink)
DChronos Valued Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Middle of the U.S. Posts: 347	tERROR, I don't think someone that has little to no interest in creating a font by hand would have interest in trying to use, let alone use the font they make with it. The font sizes are very small, so creating your own font is easy. You can't make a font in paint and then send the images into the M6... unless you have a tool to make fonts with from images. This tool only takes fonts you get that OTHER people have made and put them on, but I can guarantee that converting a font from one size to another of such a small size is going to make all the glyphs work. In fact, it won't. They will need some adjusting, so a creation to to view and edit the glyphs is a GOOD idea. Now for those that actually have the interest to create a font only they themselves are gonna use anyway, more than likely, or those that are actually good at graphics design (me, for one), we would probably be very interested in making new M6 type fonts. I sure as hell would, and the best way to make a font of this size specifically for this device is to make one. Impoting is a great idea, but some fonts won't work too well with it, only basic fonts like arial that are clear and precise would work very well, as far as I can tell from dealing with small fonts. I have one font style I would love to make, since it doesn't exist outside color images, and that's the Megaman X font. It's a font of that size, and is even a block style font that has a set width and height. There are tons of game fonts like that, too, that are small, and they would need to be made by a font creation tool that can make actual glyphs and save them as a FONT, not a picture, which I already got. Anyway, for such small sizes, I think many people could get into messing with it, and if anything, if Asmo has a file with the default font for the M6 to load back up... well, I guess just reloading the resource would do that... then there isn't anything you can hurt by messing with a font template and changing some thing by hand to look the way YOU want them to. Someone, please get a screenshot of a new font that's easy to see it's completely different, and thanks in advance! Also, seriously... anything someone that would like to take on the task of making that edits to look and style of the graphics would kick ass. Maybe soon, we'll be able to adjust the sizes of some things to fix some things... such as the difference in height between characters in the browser and main menu which messes up selection bars, and the palcement of them. I'm really waiting for the day someone finally cracks the M6.EBN file and finds out how to add their own new stuff. If people that could do that were here and had the passion XBOX 360 crackers have, then it would be done in a week. I just read read about a device some people have built that can read off the hard drive and flash teh firmware in the dvd drive in them. __________________ I swim through a sea of stars, without looking back to shore... Faster than light, bending time. Forever. Wherever. ~R-Type Final M6 Skinning Templates \| M6 Skins List Last edited by DChronos : 09-01-2007 at 04:09 AM.