Font Based Character Recognizer for Japanese games - Looking for fonts!

[baka-neko]

Hello,

I've made a free software that detects visually any Japanese text in a running game and copies it to the clipboard. It is then possible to use a 3rd party software such as Translation Aggregator to display the furiganas (Kanji readings) or even a translation!

The requirement is to provide a profile for each game including a pixel perfect matching font.

The font is a collection of .bmp files + an UTF8 .txt file, that should look like this:





FBCR works well with PC games as most use standard fonts like MS Gothic / MS Mincho, but for console games the font need to be extracted from the ROM or BIOS - though multiple games can use the same font.

I'm looking for help extracting fonts. I've started building the font for Surging Aura on MegaDrive just from screenshots, but it is very tedious and would be hard to complete like this. I think that extracting the font from the ROM would be faster and more complete. Can anyone help?

I'm also interested in the Dragon Knight series on the NEC PC-Engine CD. I believe that the font is in the BIOS, but have no idea how to extract it.

Of course, feel free to try my software with any game that you like. I would love to build a font collection covering many untranslated games!

Download and more information on the official website:
neko.works/FBCR

Here's a few usage example: