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Title: This NES emulator for PSX has a very familar font/colors combination
Post by: cwpab on 18:04, 25 April 25
(https://ia802306.us.archive.org/1/items/imbnes-1.3.4/Screencap.png)

Apparently this was popular around 2000, when I was already renting and copying PSX games myself and mostly playing multiplayer. (Also, my house started having a PC again that year, so I could emulate the NES there if I wanted).

Still, it would have been cool to play this around 97-99, in the PSX glory days (part of the dark era of 1995-2000 where my house didn't have a PC).

Another cool thing would be to have this running on a PSX emulator inside another emulated console, like the Dreamcast. (Bleemcast was never released except from a leaked beta, but a new PSX emulator for Dreamcast in the works: see this (https://twitter.com/falco_girgis/status/1800567359469768752?t=uYBv3EIwCpwCfumG2qZ-7w&s=19) and this (https://twitter.com/falco_girgis/status/1800567359469768752?t=uYBv3EIwCpwCfumG2qZ-7w&s=19))
Title: Re: This NES emulator for PSX has a very familar font/colors combination
Post by: ZorrO on 19:03, 25 April 25
This font looks exactly like PC CGA DOS.

First at top:
https://damieng.com/blog/2011/03/27/typography-in-16-bits-system-fonts/
Title: Re: This NES emulator for PSX has a very familar font/colors combination
Post by: cwpab on 21:05, 25 April 25
Hmmmmm... Maybe it's a coincidence? I googled "allan blonquist" and he seems to be an american guy that later became a game programmer.

But I suspect the combination of blue background, yellow letters and that particular, low-res font (on the PSX!) must be a CPC reference. Perhaps the new team that finished his job was British.

(Perhaps the font is CGA, but it looks like the Amstrad CPC mode 1 font for Locomotive Basic... Maybe the CPC used this CGA font, created previously?).
Title: Re: This NES emulator for PSX has a very familar font/colors combination
Post by: Gryzor on 08:17, 26 April 25
Well, it does say "It MIGHT be NES'. Maybe it's a 464 :D
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