I'm in the middle of working on Samurai Shodown RPG (in between work on seemingly-endless Ys projects). I've got a script dump, reinsertion setup, all that jazz. I need, however, to work on the font, and FEIDIAN seems like it would be a massive help, since I'm going to have to do a double-font (16x16 masquerading as 8x16) in order for the text to fit, and obviously, if I can get it work through FEIDIAN, it'll make life much, much simpler. I'm no hacker, so the technical side of things is a bit alien to me. What's thoroughly puzzling me is how to create the pattern. The game uses basic SMS format tiles, 4bpp planar. 16 colors (though the font itself only uses 10 of those available). The font is flipped left-to-right, and row-interleaved. Here's a picture of it as seen in Tile Molester.
 

 
The background is part of the font tiles themselves.
 
Here's how it looks without the interleaving.
 

 
Might anyone be able to provide me some insight as to how the pattern should be arranged? I'm quite thoroughly confused, as the docs seem to assume more knowledge of the font's structure than I have. I've put together the custom definition with the palette in place, and the following options:
 
define("COLOR_DEPTH","16"); // Sixteen Color (Four Plane)
$tile_width = 16;
$tile_height = 16;
$pat_size = 32;
$order = "planar""";
 
The pattern, however, is a mystery. Help? Please?

That is exactly what row-interleaved means as far as I know. Also, I've never really figured out how to work FEIDIAN with more than one color so I can't really help you there.

We need a generic bmp inverting program that flips tiles. I remember this problem with black matrix 00 too. A tool like that would come in really handy.

Okay, if anyone's actually paying attention, I edited the "sakura.php" preset that I got from the FEIDIAN website to the following:

define("COLOR_DEPTH","16"); // Sixteen Color (Four Plane)
$tile_width  = 16;
$tile_height = 16;
$pat_size    = 4;
$order = "planar""";
$plane1 = "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA""";
$plane2 = "BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB""";
$plane3 = "CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC""";
$plane4 = "DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD""";

And the correct palette in place.

Here's the result I get:


Obviously, much closer to the real thing... but still backward and with that weird 8-pixel column.  Anyone have any ideas on how to fix those two items?  If I can get that, then I should be able to get everything flawlessly!

Pleeeeease... *begging*

It doesn't make a difference. I added sixteen letters to each plane, it's still the same.

Care to share how you got it dumped correctly?

There's around what, 1100 pairs or something. There's enough space.

As for how we got it dumped, D himself helped us out. It's pretty complicated and I don't really remember how to do it.

     Reminds of the plan Dave S. had for BGC before we ended up hacking the font routine - but that only had about 512 16x16 characters.