DTE (Dual Tile Encoding)


Certain platforms, after encoding the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation as single tiles, use what is left of their 255 possible character table entries as DTE (Dual Tile Encoding) and MTE (Multiple Tile Encoding) values.

In the case of DTE this means that some of the remaining hex values are assigned common "dual-tiles".

Example:

In Final Fantasy 2 (US) the following hex values are SOME of the dual-tiles representing common character pairs.

HEX TILE
... ...
8C  th
8D  he
8F  ou
92  er
93  in
... ...

If DTE is used extensively, it makes determining the encoding table very difficult because guesses would have to be made about how DTE is used.