Selecting which tilesets to use in a game

To select tilesets for a game, choose Select tilesets... from the Game menu. The Select tilesets dialog will then be displayed (see Figure 1 below). You may wish to check out which Kana and Kanji are in each tileset.

Figure 1. The Select tilesets dialog

The Kanji in each tileset are numbered using the JWM coding system, with 20 Kanji in each set (the range of codes in a particular tileset are displayed when you run the mouse over its checkbox). The JWM coding system basically follows the grading system used by the Japanese Ministry of Education, so you can just start off by selecting tileset 1 and working upwards from there if you want to gradually learn all the Kanji.

Note: If you select any Hiragana or Katakana tilesets, all tiles displayed in a game will be Kana (ie. no Kanji will be used, even if they were selected). Thus, if you wish to use Kanji tilesets, make sure all Kana checkboxes are unchecked.

To clear all selected tilesets, press the Clear button.

240 Kanji are included in the normal installation of Kanji Safari, which comprise tilesets 1 to 12 on the Select tilesets dialog. Please come to our website at www.lavasoft.com to download free additional tilesets for Kanji Safari, which will be released periodically in the future. These additional tilesets will allow you to select tilesets 13 to 24 on the Select tilesets dialog, ultimately making 480 Kanji available in total.

If you need more than 480 Kanji in total, please consider purchasing Japanese WordMage. JWM includes the full Kanji Safari game (as well as a range of powerful Japanese applications such as a wordprocessor and dictionary) and can be expanded up to 1945 Kanji (the full Jouyou set). Please visit the Lava Software website for more information, or read the JWM datasheet.pdf document in the 'Docs' folder.