Sorry for not being clear. I am trying to address 3 different audiences.
I repeated my earlier 'dingbats' experiment with a sealed Zune. Software only. Exact same results (boxes before, dingbats font after).
The only remaining work is to produce a firmware update tool that is easy to use for newbies, and a tutorial.
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To general Zune owners:
Yes, soon you will be able to display UNICODE song names on your Zune (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, dingbats). Custom fonts should also be possible.
No hardware modifications needed. No expensive ZIF adapters. No need to remove the Zune case.
Someone will provide a simple and free program that you will run on your Windows machine. It will copy over the font files for you (software only).
Keep checking the boards.
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To more technical audience:
The update software (part of ZUNE.EXE) will copy the font files to the system partition for you. This is not a general purpose access to the system partition. It is used to update the 3 BIN files as well as special files like TTF (true type fonts) and TTC (true type font collections). See the 'mtpusbfn' module in the firmware for more details.
So far we can only use the 4 special .TTC font collections since they are hard coded in the registry.
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And to hackers who have tried firmware updates already:
If you have a nearly-working update program, and you are looking for fame, please let me know. I have a working version, but it is quick-and-dirty and relies on a specific version of the ZUNE.EXE program.
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