For completeness, original options available in Japanese RPG Maker 2000/2003 are for selecting font in system tab:
- MS ゴシック
- MS 明朝
These fonts were the default Japanese system UI fonts since Windows 3.1, now known as MS Gothic and MS Mincho. Monospaced and with bitmaps at small sizes. Using half-width and full-width features, so for latin glyphs and other scripts used half-width. MS Gothic looked like a sans-serif font and MS Mincho like a serif font.
Don Miguel’s translation with Stifu contributions contained the mentioned RMG2000 and RM2000 in .fon format, RPG_RT font loader was working nicely with them, as occidental Windows 9x was not providing Japanese fonts by default, so they provided them and patched RPG_RT to use them, provided by the custom RTP installer.
I also did years ago a Windows-1252 version of RM2000 and RMG2000 used in the Spanish community, also with corrections for the bad widths defined in Stifu’s fonts, edited with Softy. They are probably similar to GSandSDS version, but I never compared them. Here they are:
fonts.zip (3.3 KB)