Final Fantasy IV Advance Font Facelift

Original game : Final Fantasy IV Advance

Platform : GBA

Author : FlamePurge

Release date : 26 January 2019

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 0.1

Modifications : G, T

Downloads : 1340

ROM Information

Final Fantasy IV Advance (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It).gba
CRC32: 27F2BC67
MD5: 2FF590AA635590C2F8140C88CBB19025
SHA-1: B09D50D782B184C8641AEA6DD904AE46C3CC72E6
SHA-256: BFEE8D0E3B4637EF269242DE07BCAC1369EBA8BA9C0FF3892853B34933F755BF

Hack description

The 8×8 menu font featured in all retail releases of Final Fantasy IV Advance is far too slim. In fact, this small typeface is hard to read for some players. Dragonsbrethren's "European Font Improvement" patch sought to rectify this, but didn't alter the accented vowels or lowercase tilde n.

Therefore, this two-patch package was created to beautify the European version's original thin font, or alternatively widen it a little in the vein of FFV and VI Advance's US releases. Several characters in the 12x12 dialogue font were also raised vertically by one pixel to draw a shadow on their baselines.

Both patches also feature extremely minor text improvements in the English translation.

Contributions

Contributor	Type of contribution	Description

Reviews

Makes this port somehow playable.	T29	2022-06-24	Version 0.1
For some reason this port has a tiny font that it's barely readable. This patch makes the text somehow readable and eyes don't hurt that much.

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