ROM Hack NFTR Editor

[DarthNemesis]

This is a font preview and editor utility for NFTR files.

Download NFTRedit v1.9 (.NET Framework 2.0 required)

Currently supported features:
* Preview text in the game's font (Shift_JIS, Unicode, raw hexadecimal, or a user-defined encoding)
* View and edit a character map of all tiles (graphics, width/offset, etc.)
* Import and export a bitmap of all tiles for use with your graphics editor of choice
* Change tile dimensions
* Copy and paste individual characters

Planned future features:
* Add/remove characters

What other features would you guys like to see?

 

[Heran Bago]

Oo! Importing/Exporting to font files would be amazing, but damn hard.

 

[DarthNemesis]

Importing/exporting what?

Pretty easy to dump all the images.

 

[psycoblaster]

dunno if it would work but how about a font size editor???
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[DarthNemesis]

There's no way to scale up a pixel font automatically and still have the image look good or figure out the spacing, but you could maybe build a new font with the same mappings as the old one...

 

[Noitora]

A width table editor would be awesome as It'd let us do VWFs easier.
I really love you for doing this!

 

[kazumi213]

Really interesting tool DarthNemesis.

Quite some time ago I started dealing with NFTR files and managed to get font dumps like the one in your picture using a combination of CrystalTile 2, a LZ77 decompressor and feidian. In example this is the dump I got for one of the NFTR files in the Pokemon D/P ROMs:

I dumped all other NFTR files I found on D/P, but I'm pretty sure they don't contain all possible displayed characters in-game. In example all my dumps are missing the "zz" glyph you can pick on the "enter character name" screens. Maybe you could suggest where should I look for, other than NFTR files.

What did you use to dump the font?

Other question: Once I get one of those BMP dumps, how can I turn it into a Windows font? Need them to be 2-byte fonts? Basically I don't know what to do next after getting the font BMP

 

[DarthNemesis]

I dumped all other NFTR files I found on D/P, but I'm pretty sure they don't contain all possible displayed characters in-game. In example all my dumps are missing the "zz" glyph you can pick on the "enter character name" screens. Maybe you could suggest where should I look for, other than NFTR files.Where'd you find NFTR files? I see font.narc, which would be a good place to start looking.

What did you use to dump the font?The NFTR file specification, as best I could understand it from some Chinese websites, and C#.
CODEint numCols = 20;
int numRows = (int)Math.Ceiling(1.0 * table.Tiles.Length / numCols);
Bitmap dump = new Bitmap(numCols * table.MaxWidth, numRows * table.MaxHeight);
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(dump);
g.Clear(BackColor);
for (int i = 0; i < table.Tiles.Length; i++)
{
ÂÂÂÂint x = (i % numCols) * table.MaxWidth;
ÂÂÂÂint y = (i / numCols) * table.MaxHeight;
ÂÂÂÂg.DrawImageUnscaled(table.Tiles, x, y);
}
g.Dispose();
Clipboard.SetImage(dump);

QUOTE(kazumi213 @ Sep 15 2008, 03:41 AM)

Other question: Once I get one of those BMP dumps, how can I turn it into a Windows font? Need them to be 2-byte fonts? Basically I don't know what to do next after getting the font BMP

Sorry, I've never looked into anything like that.

 

[Noitora]

I don't know about the others but am really looking forward to your NFTRviewer!
Also with that you can view nftr files quickly without running a game.

 

[javad]

Looks intersting, i can't wait for it!!!

 

[kazumi213]

Thanks DarthNemesis

I think the fastest way to find NFTR files inside NDS ROMs is by opening them with a hexeditor, then search for the string "RTFN" (start of a NFTR file). This way I located 9 occurrences in Pokemon D/P (I didn't try the Korean version).

The first match is at a too low offset, probably in one of the ARM bins or just an "index entry" (not sure whether this makes sense, I mean no "extractable" file was on that range).

The next four matches are inside a LZ77 compressed file called "data/utility.bin". I worked with these NFTR files after uncompressing them.

Last four matches are exact copies of the previous ones and are inside "dwc/utility.bin". This second utility.bin is the same as the previous one too.

Of course I noticed font.narc, but it doesn't contain NFTR files. Something useful could be there, but it probably requires dealing with tiles

. You seem very skilled at this. If you can inspect it a bit and write about your findings it would be much appreciated.

 

[BlueFlame90]

looks good. It would be really helpful for all the people who make translations.

 

[DarthNemesis]

utility.bin is a self-contained file that's included in many different games. It contains the wireless settings screens, so its NFTR files have nothing to do with Pokemon. I'm betting that the Pokemon font isn't in NFTR format.

 

[Noitora]

Anyway if you want to take a look at utility.bin's content yourself you can do so with crystaltile2

 

[DarthNemesis]

A width table editor would be awesome as It'd let us do VWFs easier.

Done. There's a download link in the first post.

 

[psycoblaster]

now how can you make this better XP
DarthNemesis, you are GREAT

Dunno what there is left to add - but I look forward to your updates

 

[psycoblaster]

when I click on character map, an error message comes out

Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

 

[DarthNemesis]

Which font file? I'll try it out.

 

[ChaosBoi]

Does this work for any game with the NFTR file or is it only some for now? Might come in handy for me in the future since I'm just starting out.

 

[psycoblaster]

the font file for Ys DS.