displaying japonese text on libnds???
- Thread starter Deleted member 591971
- Start date
- Views 680
- Replies 4
You can, but not via "printf" or similar functions.
For future questions, please post in this thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/ds-i-noob-paradise-ask-questions-here.528133/
For future questions, please post in this thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/ds-i-noob-paradise-ask-questions-here.528133/
how do i print text then? my best guess is by using backgrounds or sprites but that is way too ineficcient.
the reason why i did not post this question on the "noob" paradise is because i feel like it just isn't a noob question but yeah thanks for the advise.
You could take a look at how other homebrew that support Japanese do it, such as TWiLight Menu++ or GodMode9i, both are based on the same code but GodMode9i was fairly heavily modified to A) automatically align to a grid and B) use GodMode9's FRF instead of NFTR.
Their code is GPL3 and the font code is relatively portable (I use it as a basis for most of my apps, like Wordle DS) and is fairly competent, it even supports BIDI text for languages like Hebrew and Arabic.
It is also possible to do a very limited version of Japanese with just the normal printf, using a custom font such as this, you can print the characters above ASCII fine, such as in this Example:
https://gist.github.com/Epicpkmn11/c7fe962bc04ad385a9761d6cc945939c
Their code is GPL3 and the font code is relatively portable (I use it as a basis for most of my apps, like Wordle DS) and is fairly competent, it even supports BIDI text for languages like Hebrew and Arabic.
It is also possible to do a very limited version of Japanese with just the normal printf, using a custom font such as this, you can print the characters above ASCII fine, such as in this Example:
https://gist.github.com/Epicpkmn11/c7fe962bc04ad385a9761d6cc945939c
Similar threads
- No one is chatting at the moment.
