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I couldn’t get the drum stuff done in the time I have but I DID add support for the beyond-8850 VA-76 keyboard which is basically a big improvement on the SC-8850. Any further updates either are custom patches (restoring nonstandard ones that sounded good) or improving certain patches. But I have less than a week of free time and a few medical appointments in my near future (also my dad had to go to the doctor yesterday) so it may not happen until I have more time, and my class schedule is a bit tighter now so don’t expect it soon. My update schedule is sporadic and the rest’s details or icing on the cake. Golfing the lily is at the stage we are at now

Polyphony would be the biggest problem though.

It’s up. It took me a while and that’s without the fatigue. I think I got everything besides Pick Scrape (was already attempted with disastrous results) and of course the 8850 exclusive drumkits (like Ethnic and Asia) which while theoretically possible would be extremely painful to synthesize the way I got the SC-8850 melodic patches done. Like, beyond the other things I did that I at one point or another considered too much of a headache to do. I don’t even know if I can exactly convert melodic into percussion. Also that’s only the beginning. It would be a mess involving hacking apart all the existing kit types and a few melodic patches. Also it by all means would have the absolute nastiest polyphony count. At least I already have the Tyros 4 Voice Kit and a few drum kits beyond GS. But doing a CR-78 kit using at best 808 samples… also no dance or jungle unless I do sine wave shenanigans (polyphony hell), and I’d have to do this several times… I only have a week of free time left before uni starts back up. This torture will likely be a spring or summer project to attempt, as well as fixing my other SF2s to where they need to be. I wanted to do it this Christmas but it was busy for me. For most situations you’ll be fine with this current release so you do not need to wait for the drum attempt. At least Room’s extra versions may be possible with parameters.

I when releasing a now-obsolete update forgot to enable downloads because of how quickly it became obsolete. I’m even now working on another update which adds MT32 support and a few more patches.

Either of the top 2, the bottom one is a work-in-progress balance fix. My main PC went out again so keep that in mind.

It’s called “128” and it’s where it should be

Yes! It was made to fit under 1GiB so that picky DAWs would work with it. You don’t even need to decompress it if you download the SF2!

I have some CMI IIx disk images and samples if you want. Some are special.

UnifontEX now supports Unicode 15.1

The December 12th, 2024 update even supports Unicode 15.1.

You’re welcome!

Also the February 2nd, 2024 update added tables like the VDMX table (which improves rendering on Windows and Linux Chrome/Edge), which may fix certain rendering quirks. I also have the font on Itch.io itself (as well as Github, SourceForge, OpenGameArt, and Archive.org) beyond just FontSpace.

Hello, creator of UnifontEX here:

This may just as well be the best use of UnifontEX I’ve ever seen. The retro terminal effect is just so fitting, and I like it. Good job!

This game is based on Bouncedown, a game I played on iOS fifteen years ago, and I love it!

Specifically the first cutscene theme.

Also it’s now fixed, and even better than before because the text does not go out-of-bounds.

Was the music changed for stylistic reasons? If it wasn’t a licensing issue, I recommend asking the composer of the old songs to publish them somewhere. I especially loved the chiptune one, but the orchestra track was good too. I know Splatoon’s OST showed the E3 tracks.

Also, the bug makes the text unreadable, because it essentially “cuts up” the characters. You could just use the old method if the game is set to Chinese or Japanese and the new mode for everything else, likely via IF statements.

The new text rendering engine breaks on Chinese and Japanese, especially in Chinese. Also did the music get changed?

Here’s what the Chinese looks like on the new version’s rendering:

And here’s what the Japanese text looks like in the new version’s rendering:

Here’s from the older version on Newgrounds:

Chinese:

Japanese:

Thank you for your reply! I welcome people using my content because I enjoy helping people. I wrote a long documentation about the font on its Github page (http://stgiga.github.io/UnifontEX ), and I DO mean long. It details stuff like use cases, notable characters/ranges supported, as well as some backstory on development. As with the itch.io version (and the other places I host it at besides Fontspace), there is a large selection of font formats available.

The chiptune instrument can be found here, and it is usable for both 8-bit and 16-bit music and sounds:

https://stgiga.itch.io/jummboxsoundfont

None of my projects cost money, and I honestly have basically no limits on what can be done with them. Just don’t be a bigot or use them in anything the average person would consider to be “nauseating”. Otherwise, go wild with my content. Oh and no, I didn’t spend years of my life making only two things. I think that’s the best way to put it.

Hello, creator of UnifontEX here: I absolutely LOVE this game, especially the general aesthetic of it. The music is AMAZING, and totally like the chiptune stuff I love (I’m also the maker of a libre chiptune instrument here on Itch and elsewhere).

The controls are a bit hard to master, but honestly, what I find most attractive about the game is the aesthetic. I give you full permission to do whatever you wish with UnifontEX. It also supports many more languages besides the ones here, and it even supports quite a lot of symbols, including emoji.

I’m finally glad people are using my content, and honestly, I find your game charming, and a great first use of the font.

Also the Flipnote-style intro is amazing!

You’re welcome!

I’m going to attempt uploading the uncompressed version directly here in the near future.

I would have put this on release announcements, but the question is whether it would go there or the other because it’s a fork… I don’t want to risk anything. Plus I had released it elsewhere in prior days so…

This post took me longer to write than the others.

ScummVM supports SoundFont loading, so you can make any General MIDI ScummVM games play in this bank. If you want to have some musical fun, you can play this as an instrument using a MIDI controller, regardless of whether it is a keyboard or not. Use whatever floats your boat.