Early to mid 2002 Super Monkey Ball 2 Number type face

Question

A typeface used for points in the baseball minigame. I tried unskewing it and scaling it to see if other font identifiers could process it, but no luck. Since the game released Nov 2002, this has to be within that year or before

Answer 1

So, looking at thinner font textures in the minigame (https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/460435488474529792/1211715148029362306/Screenshot_20240226-082611_Sheets.jpg) , I realized they were all in the same family. I loaded the thinnest one on LikeFont, a Chinese font finder, and found that it was from a Chinese Blog called "MOMO", with the font being MOMO Star Regular (MOMO星座体). Sadly, while I was able to find the family, the other weights, including Black Italic here, is lost, since the Blog site was down since 2015. Fontke managed to save the reg weight in 2010, otherwise this is effectively lost. Edit: It could also be RicoH's HG Bouquet font, though that lacks a heavy italicized weight