Misc Others Does Metroid Prime use a scalable OTF/TTF Font?

mdtauk

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To anyone who has extracted the files from Metroid Dread, do you know if the game uses a scalable font for its UI - I see the same font used at multiple sizes in the UI, so I am assuming it does, as other games do. I don't play downloaded games, so am unable to do the key dumps and all that stuff - just to find the OTF or TTF file used for the text.

If anyone is able to help me out, it would be appreciated.
 

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Some exploring further, I think they are just different sized textures. BCTEX files, which don't seem to open in tools like EveryFileExplorer, Ohana and SPICA
 

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I have not pulled apart many Switch games but I would be surprised if it was TTF -- that is an Apple/Microsoft thing, and arguably a legacy one at that. I occasionally see some open formats used in games to dodge patent issues but that is usually more on the audio-video front than fonts, which tend to be quite custom.

Beyond that I would also be somewhat surprised if they implemented a full vector (vector being the generally used term for what you dubbed scaleable) format for fonts. As most games work at fixed resolutions they generally just spin off a few versions of a font with the characters they need (indeed can be characters for a region -- Japanese games not necessarily featuring the Roman/English alphabet, or at least a good one, and non Japanese not featuring Japanese characters) as a bitmap font. It is a fair bit of added processing power, especially if you get into sub pixel rendering which you kind of have to, for not a lot of gain.
 

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Splatoon2 and Breath of the Wild Switch, contain TTF and OTF fonts, all be it in a compressed sbotf/botf and sbttf/bttf formats, and I have seen it used in Mario Maker 2, within a ScalableFont.szs YAZ0 archive.

Anyway, Metroid Dread seems to have bfont files, with _20, _32, _32b, _52 suffixes, which leads me to believe these are the sizes. But then there are texture atlases stored elsewhere, as bctex files. I don't know how to convert these to something like PNG, so I can't do much with them.

But my initial question I think has been answered.
 

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