I doubt anyone but me cares about this, but Yuji Oshimoto, who worked on PiCTOBiTS’ art direction (and helped design Tingle RPG as well), is also the man behind famous bitmap typeface set 04. You can download 04 and his other fonts for free at Oshimoto’s site linked above. He also has several interactive bits worth playing with there.

If you own a DSi but still haven’t bought PiCTOBiTS, you really should! It’d be a great way to end Tetris’ 25th anniversary, playing this excellent puzzle descendant.

See also: The Dark Spire font patch, Our PiCOPiCT review

[Via Mtpfreak]

tags / yuji oshimoto / fonts / 04 / art style / skip / pictobits / dsiware / ec

I noticed this negligible issue in Retro Game Challenge, but it popped up again in The Dark Spire, which released last week. The typeface Atlus used for most of the first-person RPG’s text has scrunched up Ms and Ws — again, it’s a minor annoyance.

Gukid cared enough about it, though, to hack a fix that replaces the Ms, Ws, and punctuation. As usual, you’ll need a copy of The Dark Spire’s ROM to apply the patch, one that we advise you to acquire through legal methods.

It’s interesting to see someone clean up these issues, however trivial they might seem to others . Apparently, there are several other DS games wiith the same problem:

• Air Traffic Chaos
• Avalon Code
• The Dark Spire
• Retro Games Challenge
• Suikoden Tierkreis

Buy: The Dark Spire ($27.99)

See also: Five game-changing hacks, patches

tags / atlus / the dark spire / hack / patch / fonts / ec / ukid / gukid