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tedlipper opened this issue Apr 3, 2025 · 1 comment
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tedlipper commented Apr 3, 2025

I'm trying to get some ascii art based programs running on the switch. The font used for my laptops console and the switch's console are completely different however, so the brightness gradient is completely different.

I saw in this thread that the font was based off CP437 (the traditional IBM PC character set), but also noticed that there are some differences in the font.

I was pointed to the default_font.bin file but was unable to open that file in any useful way.

Is there a way that I can get access to the font file, preferably in .bmp format?

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SciresM commented Apr 3, 2025

The answer to this is almost certainly "convert the font bin to a bitmap yourself", since I doubt anyone here has any existing tools.

However, the simpler answer is that you might just want to write a test homebrew that prints every character once, and take a screenshot.

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