[Mango77x]

Summary

Kaneda's glyph sheets ship with MHForever: every character of the font at 8 times its size, one sheet per block of 256 code points (Latin with accents, stars, Japanese punctuation, kana, kanji, full-width forms), in fonts/hd-text/.

• Stored as greyscale: lossless, the grey is the coverage. The 89 sheets are 27 MB in all (98 MB as delivered in RGBA). The Windows archive grows from 125 to 151 MB.
• Loaded in the background:
  • Before, a sheet was decoded on the drawing thread and kept whole as RGBA, 64 MB each at 8x. A Japanese screen loading 36 of them would have held over 2 GB.
  • Now a sheet is decoded on a thread of its own when a glyph of its block is first wanted, straight to one byte a texel (decode_coverage), one at a time. The font draws the glyph meanwhile, and the text pages are drawn again once the sheet arrives.
  • Three sheets stay decoded; the glyphs taken from them are kept on their own, cut to their boxes.
• A player's pack can still bring its own sheets (looked for first). The build copies assets/hd-text/ whole; credits updated.

Testing

• All four regions build; 24/24 tests pass. The Windows archive carries the 89 sheets.
• Japanese release, character select (40 s headless, 1920x1080):

	Peak memory	Game speed
Glyphs from the font only	255 MB	30.0 fps
Sheets, decoded whole on the drawing thread (before)	413 MB
Sheets, this branch	330 MB	30.0 fps

• The dialog's kana and kanji drawn from the sheets sit in the same places as the font's.