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B/W & B2/W2 Font Patch for FireRed
This patch will replace the big font in FireRed with the font used in the Gen 5 games (Black/White and Black 2/White 2). All 4 copies of the big font will be replaced. The small font will be left untouched.
This was a patch that I originally made in late 2021, which I didn't release. However, I lost that original version, due to my laptop starting to have problems in March 2023 that made it unusable. Due to that, I had to remake the patch from scratch.
Notes:
4 new accented characters have been added (ÃÕãõ), for Portuguese-language hacks, which weren't in the vanilla game (the only accented character used in the Portuguese language that is present in the vanilla game is Çç, which is used in the French language).
The new accented characters uses slots 2F, 30, 31 and 32 in the text table.
Uppercase accented characters (such as ÃÉÌÔÜÑ), except for Ç are slightly smaller, due to font height limitations.
Trying to leave them with their original height while keeping consistency with the position of the non-accented lowercase characters would result in the drop shadow of some characters (such as gpqy) being cutoff.
Screenshots:
New accented characters test:
For the curious: This phrase means "Balloons is the plural of the word balloon".
Credits:
Mayugaph (DeviantArt): Font rip (English characters only) - Used as reference
Filb.de: Screenshots used as reference for the German accented characters
PokéBip: Screenshots used as reference for the French accented characters
PkParaíso: Screenshots used as reference for the Spanish accented characters
No freespace or repointing is required, since the font graphics are uncompressed.
