FINAL FANTASY – How to Make Mod for Font in Pixel Remaster Guide

How to mod fonts in Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters

This works on FF1, 2 and 3 at the moment, and the bundle files can be used in any FFPR version

TL;DR links

docs.google.com – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iP7FNcW41tRBBLKraahfyj5IcHaqS-_47tRVr_ivRYU
drive.google.com – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Og68J4AfI7UbzP6QX_tef3subhmS3R5b/view?usp=sharing (put in the StreamingAssets folder)

ko-fi.com – https://ko-fi.com/enfyve

discord.gg – http://discord.gg/bSnpVBV

Prerequisites

github.com – https://github.com/Enfyve/FFPR_FontTool/releases/latest
github.com – https://github.com/Perfare/AssetStudio/releases/latest(Optional)
github.com – https://github.com/nesrak1/UABEA/releases/latest(I recommend grabbing the nightly build)
Any hex editor (recommended HxD)

Decompiling the bundle

First start by using FFPR_FontTool to decrypt the font bundle file

Replacing a font asset

Export fonts using UABEA

Open the dumped file in your hex editor and copy the first 84 bytes (This is the header)

Taking note of the last 4 bytes, advance that many bytes in the file (the size will be little endian, so convert by swapping byte order, eg: 2C C9 00 00 becomes 00 00 C9 2C)
Everything after this is the footer

Open the candidate font in your hex editor and grab the file size:

Convert this to little endian and save for later (eg 00 00 2E B8 -> B8 2E 00 00)

In your new file, paste the header and modify the last 4 bytes with the new size

Paste in the target font, and the footer:

Import the new file over the existing ones

If done correctly, you should be able to select “View Data’ and a popup will display with the new file’s data without crashing. If the program crashes, the header/footer was copied incorrectly.

Select File > Save and then close the window and choose File > Save again and save the new font_XX.bundle file.

Encrypt bundle

Add an additional 32 bytes to the end of the file as padding

Encrypt the bundle and replace the file

Enjoy!

If this seems a little daunting and you just want a quick pixel font, I’ve already packaged one, you can get it drive.google.com – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Og68J4AfI7UbzP6QX_tef3subhmS3R5b/view?usp=sharing

You can also join our discord where we are actively modding other aspects of various FF games here: discord.gg – http://discord.gg/bSnpVBV

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