There is one tile sets stored in the application to be able to play the game with only the application file when disk size need to be saved
Most of other tile sets are stored in a DLL placed in the application directory.
The Irina Allegrova fan club version has only one resident font and no DLL fonts.
Starting with version 1.14 you can design and use you own tile sets.
You can look at the few external tile sets provided with SHISEN-SHO.
External tile sets are 8 bit (256 colors) bitmap files.
Tiles are placed in six rows of nine tiles.
Any tile has ONE pixel added on the left and bottom side.
Consider bitmaps provided with the game as sample. The bitmap size must not be too large. The WALTE256.BMP file provided is too large to work properly on most systems. I recommend using the TEMPLATE.BMP file to draw your own design over it.
First place your bitmap in the SHISEN-SHO directory.
Go to the file menu and press ôManage tile setsö
In the Manage tile sets dialog press add to select your bitmap file.
Then edit the dialog to set a name for your tile set and put your name in the author name field.
Adjust the color for the tile set right side color.
You will be able to change this later if tests are not good.
Press OK to write your tile set data to the application tile set list (SHISENTS.LST)
Go to the file menu and press ôManage tile setsö
Use next / previous button to select the desired bitmap and press ôdeleteö to remove it from the list.
This will not remove the bitmap from the application directory.
Go to the file menu and press ôManage tile setsö
Use next / previous button to select the desired bitmap and change Red, green blue component colors Then press OK to save the value.