Recreation of the primary pixel font (used for the title screen and highscores) from Rainbow Arts/Factor 5's "Turrican" (1990) and "Turrican II" (1991) on the Amiga. Note the special characters mapped to "lightning" (U+2607), "skull and crossbones" (U+2620) and "black heart suit" (U+2665).
The same font - with a reduced number of special characters - was also used in "Mega Turrican" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and the first "Super Turrican" (1993) on the SNES.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font (used for the title screen and highscores) from Rainbow Arts/Factor 5's "Turrican" (1990) and "Turrican II" (1991) on the Amiga. Note the special characters mapped to "lightning" (U+2607), "skull and crossbones" (U+2620) and "black heart suit" (U+2665).
The same font - with a reduced number of special characters - was also used in "Mega Turrican" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and the first "Super Turrican" (1993) on the SNES.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Turrican / Turrican IIRecreation of the pixel font from Virgin Games' "RoboCop versus The Terminator" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the thin secondary pixel font from Game Freak's "Pulseman" (1994) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is used in the options screen and the bonus arcade games.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from the european/north american release of Climax Entertainment/Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Supersonic Software/Codemasters' hybrid adventure/platform game "Cosmic Spacehead" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Shiny Entertainment's "Earthworm Jim" (1994) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from SCi Games's "Super SWIV" (1992) on the SNES / "Mega SWIV" on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from SCi Games's "Super SWIV" (1992) on the SNES / "Mega SWIV" on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the main pixel font from Bullfrog's "Syndicate" (1994) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Compared to the Amiga/Atari ST/PC version, the console version is monospaced, with wider characters that make better use of the 8×8 tiles.
Compared to the SNES version, there are differences in the "M" and "W", the chopped-off "Z" has been corrected, and the punctuation marks and arrows are different.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from the conversion of The 8-Bit Guy's "Attack of the PETSCII Robots" (2021) for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
The main difference to the original C64 version are the punctuation and accented/special characters.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Delphine Software's "Shaq Fu" (1994) on the SNES. Identical to the pixel font from the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis version, but with a handful of additional special characters. This recreation also includes additional ";" and straight double quotes characters. Apart from that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from Wolf Team/Telenet/Riot's "Valis: The Fantasm Soldier" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is used primarily in the intro cinematic.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Copya System/Seibu Kaihatsu's "Raiden Trad" (aka "Raiden Densetsu", 1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
For the most part, it is identical to the original arcade version, but with subtle tweaks to the "J", "O", the exclamation mark, and with fewer special characters/punctuation marks.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of RaidenRecreation of the pixel font from Adrenalin Entertainment/Playmates Interactive Entertainment's "Doom Troopers - The Mutant Chronicles" (1995) on the SNES and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from Factor 5/Kaiko/Neon Studios' "Turrican 3"/"Mega Turrican" (1993).
The Mega Drive and Amiga versions differ slightly in terms of punctuation and special characters. This recreation mashes up the two versions and normalises the differences - picking the Mega Drive version's punctuation and the Amiga version's copyright symbol and additional special characters.
The Amiga version only includes the "ü" and "ö", while the Mega Drive version includes the "ä" and "ü" - but with a different position for the umlaut. In this recreation, I included both variants (as upper- and lowercase), and expanded them to the full set of umlaut characters used in German.
Beyond that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the main coloured variant of the small pixel font from Factor 5/Kaiko's "Turrican 3" (1993) on the Commodore Amiga.
This variant is used for the intro cinematic, the start screen, and the highscore page. A different shading - very similar to the colour version of "Mega Turrican" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, but not exactly the same - is used in the level end screens, and the end credits use an outlined white version.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
As with the monochrome version, this font has been slightly expanded to include special characters present in "Mega Turrican", and to complete the characters with umlauts (in two separate variations). The punctuation characters have been harmonised between the two versions as well.
Beyond that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Turrican 3 / Mega TurricanRecreation of the main coloured variant of the small pixel font from Factor 5/Neon Studio's "Mega Turrican" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This variant is used for the intro cinematic and end credits. Otherwise, the game uses the classic "Turrican/Turrican II" (1990) font.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
As with the monochrome version, this font has been slightly expanded to include special characters present in "Turrican 3" (1993) on the Commodore Amiga, and to complete the characters with umlauts (in two separate variations). The punctuation characters have been harmonised between the two versions as well.
Beyond that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Turrican 3 (Intro/Highscore Shading) (Colour)Recreation of the small pixel font from the european/north american release of Climax Entertainment/Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is unusual, as each character not only comprises two tiles (for its height), but also features characters that are wider than the maximum 8px tiles. In the game's tile set, this was achieved by using a custom encoding, where a single tile contains the combined values for two horizontal tiles.
See this short Twitter thread for a little dissection of the tile set.
The width of each character is also variable and encoded in the bottom tile for each character. Unfortunately, I was unable to work out the logic behind the width information bits - so, for characters used in the game, the correct width was matched manually, and for any characters not encountered (yet) in any of the dialog boxes, I took an educated guess...
Due to the complexity of this encoding, I won't tackle the hiragana/katakana large font from the japanese release.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included
Recreation of the pixel font from Technōs/Software Creations/Flying Edge's "Double Dragon 3: The Arcade Game" (aka "Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone", 1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the colour pixel font from The Bitmap Brother's "Gods" (1991) port on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Note that in the game, there is also a separate set of 0-9 numbers used for the score counter. This recreation only includes the slightly "cut off" letters and numbers used on the title screen, status messages, and high-score screen.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Activision's "Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure" (1994) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and the SNES.
The font is the same between the two platforms, with the exception of punctuation characters - this recreation combines the best characters of both version.
Beyond that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Activision's "Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure" (1994) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and the SNES.
This recreation uses the special OpenType SVG (TTF+SVG) format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
The font is the same between the two platforms, with the exception of punctuation characters - this recreation combines the best characters of both version.
Beyond that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Pitfall: The Mayan AdventureRecreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Streets of Rage" (aka "Bare Knuckle", 1991) on the Sega Mega Drive. Only the characters used in the game have been included.
Minor update 2 Dec 2018: referring back to the actual tile set in the game's ROM, added the "?" and apostrophe, and corrected ":" and ";"
Recreation of the pixel font from Raising Hell Software/Psygnosis' "Wiz 'n' Liz: The Frantic Wabbit Wescue" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Technōs/Leland Interactive Media's "Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls" (1994) on the SNES.
The same font is used on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and the Atari Jaguar, but the SNES version is the most complete with punctuation characters.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls (SNES)