So I've been working on ripping the script from Brandish 2, which, in all probability, nobody is all that interested in.  However, I've noticed that it's hard as hell to find a nice, user friendly utility that can view a font that isn't 8x8.  Having tried to use feidian to no avail because I'm a PHP retard, apparently, I decided to work some magic with OpenOffice.

Yes, OpenOffice Calc.  It's MS Excel, but free.

What I whipped up this evening takes a text copy of a decent chunk of raw hex data from a ROM and displays it as 12x12 characters, blown up to a visible size.  The bytewise offset of the tile data can be moved around on the fly, so you never have to run it twice.  Unless you want to view more tiles than your computer has memory for, which is not my problem.

Could anyone use something like this?  I can modify it to view any 4n by 4m font.  No guarantee that I will.

Also, to avoid double posting, does anybody know anybody that likes Brandish and knows Japanese?

It *should* work in Excel; everything I've ever saved in OpenOffice has come out exactly the same in its MS Office equivalent, except for goofy arrow size changes in PowerPoint.  If it doesn't - well, OpenOffice is free.

I'll throw in some documentation (though it's mostly self-explanatory, I think) and maybe clean it up a bit, then upload it when I get back from work tonight.

If I upload this, can I make updates?  I'm already adding a section that goes from text to hex and vice versa (I'm really, really lazy!) and I'm thinking about just going all the way and making it into a hex editor.  It's not that the utilities here aren't any good... I just find one quirk in each program I try that makes it inefficient or unsuitable for my particular project.

Sorry this has taken so long; I've been adding stuff as I need it, but now that my script is all finished, I'll probably have some time to polish it up so that it's usable to people other than me.  Anybody know where I can get it hosted for free?